Hacker News on Friday, 5 December 2025

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros(about.netflix.com)

1670 points by meetpateltech 10 months ago | 1285 comments

Netflix press release announcing its acquisition of Warner Bros; the captured page shows a CloudFront 403 error instead.

Cloudflare is down(cloudflare.com)

763 points by mektrik 10 months ago | 470 comments

Cloudflare's homepage returning a bare 500 Internal Server Error page during a Cloudflare outage.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025(blog.cloudflare.com)

755 points by meetpateltech 10 months ago | 548 comments

Cloudflare blog post by Dane Knecht describing the Cloudflare service outage that occurred on December 5, 2025.

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI(blog.google)

541 points by xnx 10 months ago | 277 comments

Google Keyword blog post describing Gemini 3 Pro's vision capabilities across document, spatial, screen and video understanding.

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond(netflixtechblog.com)

528 points by CharlesW 10 months ago | 270 comments

Netflix TechBlog post describing how the AV1 video codec has grown to power about 30% of Netflix streaming across Android, TVs, and other devices.

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive(evclinic.eu)

416 points by mikelabatt 10 months ago | 477 comments

EV Clinic blog post on recovering a 2021 BMW PHEV iBMUCP after a crash fault, criticizing costly, unrepairable safety fuse design that generates waste.

Most technical problems are people problems(blog.joeschrag.com)

380 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 281 comments

Blog post on the Helmet Hair blog arguing that most technical problems in software teams, such as accumulated technical debt, are really people problems.

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law(somo.nl)

368 points by saubeidl 10 months ago | 208 comments

SOMO investigation into how US fossil fuel companies are lobbying to weaken the EU's corporate sustainability due diligence rules on human rights and climate.

UniFi 5G(blog.ui.com)

348 points by janandonly 10 months ago | 281 comments

Ubiquiti blog post announcing the UniFi 5G Max lineup of 5G internet devices for home and business networks.

Leaving Intel(brendangregg.com)

319 points by speckx 10 months ago | 186 comments

Brendan Gregg's blog post announcing his resignation from Intel and summarizing his work there on AI flame graphs, eBPF, and cloud strategy.

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks(lyra.horse)

314 points by spartanatreyu 10 months ago | 45 comments

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust(corrode.dev)

308 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 84 comments

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

286 points by bakigul 10 months ago | 141 comments

Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter(reuters.com)

270 points by NaOH 10 months ago | 153 comments

Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit(notebookcheck.net)

269 points by woodrowbarlow 10 months ago | 131 comments

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional(apnews.com)

266 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 77 comments

When a video codec wins an Emmy(blog.mozilla.org)

259 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 65 comments

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication(lemonde.fr)

218 points by isolli 10 months ago | 205 comments

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality(jamanetwork.com)

213 points by bpierre 10 months ago | 198 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

212 points by proberts 10 months ago | 277 comments

Making RSS More Fun(matduggan.com)

204 points by salmon 10 months ago | 97 comments

Emacs is my new window manager (2015)(howardism.org)

204 points by gpi 10 months ago | 77 comments

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.(statnews.com)

190 points by geox 10 months ago | 181 comments

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia(cell.com)

183 points by Archelaos 10 months ago | 117 comments

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'(npr.org)

179 points by seattle_spring 10 months ago | 114 comments

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox(genomicpress.kglmeridian.com)

179 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 120 comments

Why we built Lightpanda in Zig(lightpanda.io)

173 points by ashvardanian 10 months ago | 122 comments

Microsoft Download Center Archive(legacyupdate.net)

171 points by luu 10 months ago | 26 comments

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf](andrewoswald.com)

170 points by anigbrowl 10 months ago | 148 comments

Jolla Phone Pre-Order(commerce.jolla.com)

166 points by jhoho 10 months ago | 137 comments

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case(fossforce.com)

164 points by speckx 10 months ago | 17 comments

Frank Gehry has died(bbc.co.uk)

164 points by ksajadi 10 months ago | 57 comments

Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation(tigerbeetle.com)

157 points by cratermoon 10 months ago | 66 comments

Cloudflare Is Down(cloudflare.com)

148 points by wonderfuly 10 months ago | 44 comments

Framework Sponsors CachyOS(discuss.cachyos.org)

147 points by d3Xt3r 10 months ago | 128 comments

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards(blog.neurips.cc)

142 points by ivansavz 10 months ago | 22 comments

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript(github.com)

118 points by W4G1 10 months ago | 31 comments

Typewriter Plotters (2022)(biosrhythm.com)

114 points by LaSombra 10 months ago | 8 comments

Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust(lonami.dev)

108 points by hu3 10 months ago | 23 comments

Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples(nasa.gov)

105 points by jnord 10 months ago | 39 comments

Perpetual futures, explained(bitsaboutmoney.com)

103 points by sirodoht 10 months ago | 61 comments

Fizz Buzz in CSS(susam.net)

89 points by froober 10 months ago | 21 comments

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again(prestonbyrne.com)

79 points by parliament32 10 months ago | 27 comments

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred from Using 'Io' Name(macrumors.com)

71 points by thm 10 months ago | 43 comments

A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)(blog.42yeah.is)

68 points by Fraterkes 10 months ago | 37 comments

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video(smithsonianmag.com)

68 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 10 comments

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out(newsweek.com)

67 points by zerosizedweasle 10 months ago | 57 comments

Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void(askmike.org)

62 points by askmike 10 months ago | 49 comments

WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons(commons.wikimedia.org)

62 points by netule 10 months ago | 15 comments

Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription(en.wikipedia.org)

61 points by teleforce 10 months ago | 22 comments

Netflix in exclusive talks to buy HBO(cnn.com)

60 points by mikeweiss 10 months ago | 55 comments

Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix(bloomberg.com)

60 points by mfiguiere 10 months ago | 138 comments

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included(zellij.dev)

54 points by ndr 10 months ago | 44 comments

My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes(astralcodexten.com)

52 points by nvader 10 months ago | 37 comments

How can I read the standard output of an already-running process?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

50 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 24 comments

How Brussels writes so many laws(siliconcontinent.com)

41 points by amadeuspagel 10 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds(pbnj.sh)

41 points by bhavnicksm 10 months ago | 12 comments

Word spacing(en.wikipedia.org)

39 points by doener 10 months ago | 35 comments

Fast trigram based code search(github.com)

38 points by cv_h 10 months ago | 4 comments

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules(reuters.com)

36 points by pogue 10 months ago | 26 comments