Hacker News on Saturday, 6 December 2025

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches(grapheneos.social)

727 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 339 comments

A Mastodon post from the GrapheneOS account claiming it is the only Android OS shipping full security patches; the page rendered blank when captured.

4 billion if statements (2023)(andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)

590 points by damethos 10 months ago | 164 comments

A blog post that tongue-in-cheek implements an even/odd check using 4 billion generated if statements, inspired by a viral TikTok screenshot of beginner code.

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video](youtube.com)

543 points by zdw 10 months ago | 117 comments

YouTube video from Big Island Video News showing an enormous lava fountain at Kilauea on Dec. 6, 2025 that destroyed a monitoring webcam.

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop(tinycorelinux.net)

492 points by LorenDB 10 months ago | 219 comments

Homepage of The Core Project, Tiny Core Linux, a highly modular minimal Linux distribution with an optional small FLTK/FLWM graphical desktop.

Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode(old.reddit.com)

456 points by hliyan 10 months ago | 411 comments

Reddit r/LegalAdviceUK post about a schizophrenic woman who hospitalised herself after mistaking a smart fridge advertisement for a psychotic episode; page blocked.

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)(anders.unix.se)

439 points by turrini 10 months ago | 217 comments

Blog post comparing desktop screenshots from well-known Unix developers like Brian Kernighan taken in 2002 and again in 2015.

The past was not that cute(juliawise.net)

393 points by mhb 10 months ago | 483 comments

Blog post by Julia Wise on her Otherwise blog arguing that the past romanticized by cottagecore aesthetics was harsher than its idealized image.

Perl's decline was cultural(beatworm.co.uk)

351 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 396 comments

Blog post arguing that Perl's decline stemmed from its conservative, reactionary community culture rather than technical shortcomings, from a former mod_perl developer.

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM(telefoncek.si)

332 points by ementally 10 months ago | 92 comments

Blog post describing the discovery of an undocumented microphone on Sipeed's NanoKVM, a Chinese hardware KVM switch, and its security implications.

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries(ynetnews.com)

324 points by mystraline 10 months ago | 179 comments

Mastodon post by Fedi.Tips claiming YouTube uses AI to alter creators' videos without permission and recommending creators also post to PeerTube.

Autism's confusing cousins(psychiatrymargins.com)

321 points by Anon84 10 months ago | 290 comments

A Psychiatry at the Margins Substack post by Awais Aftab on the differential diagnosis of conditions that resemble autism in socially awkward or unusual people.

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched(haveibeenflocked.com)

277 points by pkaeding 10 months ago | 194 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)(info.arxiv.org)

257 points by el3ctron 10 months ago | 124 comments

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal(mooreslawisdead.com)

232 points by pabs3 10 months ago | 187 comments

Wolfram Compute Services(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

207 points by nsoonhui 10 months ago | 110 comments

OMSCS Open Courseware(sites.gatech.edu)

204 points by kerim-ca 10 months ago | 78 comments

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy(dmitry.gr)

183 points by dmitrygr 10 months ago | 27 comments

VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III(vcmi.eu)

177 points by eamag 10 months ago | 24 comments

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness(kcl.ac.uk)

172 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 94 comments

Touching the Elephant – TPUs(considerthebulldog.com)

168 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 49 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder(petapixel.com)

168 points by shinryuu 10 months ago | 41 comments

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade(dmz.rs)

150 points by ubavic 10 months ago | 20 comments

Amazon EC2 M9g Instances(aws.amazon.com)

137 points by AlexClickHouse 10 months ago | 60 comments

CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years(cleantechnica.com)

137 points by thelastgallon 10 months ago | 189 comments

Cryptids(wiki.bbchallenge.org)

117 points by frozenseven 10 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard(github.com)

114 points by kaipereira 10 months ago | 31 comments

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'(bbc.com)

110 points by 1659447091 10 months ago | 12 comments

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf](usap.gov)

106 points by SheinhardtWigCo 10 months ago | 23 comments

Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models(arxiv.org)

104 points by mirrir 10 months ago | 52 comments

Nook Browser(browsewithnook.com)

102 points by ray__ 10 months ago | 82 comments

Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf](gwern.net)

98 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 34 comments

Why Speed Matters(lemire.me)

86 points by gsky 10 months ago | 29 comments

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters(economist.com)

84 points by marojejian 10 months ago | 32 comments

Catala – Law to Code(catala-lang.org)

76 points by Grognak 10 months ago | 44 comments

Octo: A Chip8 IDE(github.com)

72 points by tosh 10 months ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?

70 points by hodgesrm 10 months ago | 36 comments

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?(honest-broker.com)

69 points by paulpauper 10 months ago | 44 comments

Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London(londonist.com)

61 points by zeristor 10 months ago | 21 comments

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe(cam.ac.uk)

61 points by gmays 10 months ago | 9 comments

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)(ffd2.com)

60 points by embedding-shape 10 months ago | 10 comments

I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy(ud2.rip)

56 points by vmfunc 10 months ago | 21 comments

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea(openstreetmap.org)

56 points by shortrounddev2 10 months ago | 4 comments

Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer(til.andrew-quinn.me)

50 points by hiAndrewQuinn 10 months ago | 38 comments

Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself(irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie)

49 points by arthurz 10 months ago | 38 comments

Yadea is coming to the Western market(newatlas.com)

45 points by breve 10 months ago | 62 comments

PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly(github.com)

39 points by pykello 10 months ago | 2 comments

Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds(bbc.com)

39 points by petermcneeley 10 months ago | 95 comments

Distributed ID formats are architectural commitments, not just data types(piljoong.dev)

36 points by mnahkies 10 months ago | 8 comments

Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser(github.com)

36 points by keepamovin 10 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager(github.com)

35 points by Aperocky 10 months ago | 13 comments

Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models(drscotthawley.github.io)

33 points by rundigen12 10 months ago | 1 comments

EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act(dw.com)

31 points by vincvinc 10 months ago | 18 comments

Dynamic Pong Wars(markodenic.tech)

31 points by rendall 10 months ago | 8 comments

Science Communications on YouTube(blogs.memphis.edu)

31 points by azhenley 10 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels(apps.apple.com)

29 points by keini 10 months ago | 15 comments

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis(bbc.com)

27 points by jnord 10 months ago | 30 comments

Kicking Robots(harpers.org)

27 points by Hooke 10 months ago | 6 comments

Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"(nautil.us)

26 points by fleahunter 10 months ago | 37 comments

Very Important People(dirt.fyi)

26 points by gmays 10 months ago | 11 comments

The Gamma Language(lair.masot.net)

26 points by RossBencina 10 months ago | 4 comments