Hacker News on Thursday, 11 December 2025

GPT-5.2(openai.com)

1125 points by atgctg 10 months ago | 988 comments

OpenAI platform documentation page on using GPT-5.2, covering its improvements, features, and migration guidance for the GPT-5 model family.

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video](youtube.com)

581 points by walterbell 10 months ago | 382 comments

A YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi arguing that the iOS keyboard is broken and causes typos on iPhones.

Patterns.dev(patterns.dev)

561 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 126 comments

Patterns.dev is a free online book and resource on design, rendering, and performance patterns for building web apps with vanilla JavaScript or modern frameworks.

French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video](youtube.com)

412 points by gbugniot 10 months ago | 226 comments

YouTube video of Intermarché's 'Conte de Noël' Christmas advert from the French supermarket chain.

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?(louplummer.lol)

393 points by speckx 10 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post on Living Out Loud asking readers about the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them.

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free(riviantrackr.com)

373 points by doctoboggan 10 months ago | 563 comments

Cloudflare 521 error page shown in place of a RivianTrackr article on Rivian's custom silicon, R2 lidar roadmap, hands-free driving, and autonomy platform.

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools(larr.net)

373 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 482 comments

A blog essay arguing that software developers name tools after random nouns and mythology instead of descriptive names, citing Stallman's EmacsConf 2022 talk.

Litestream VFS(fly.io)

333 points by emschwartz 10 months ago | 80 comments

Fly.io blog post introducing Litestream VFS, a SQLite virtual filesystem feature for Litestream replication.

UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16(alecmuffett.com)

326 points by nvarsj 10 months ago | 323 comments

Alec Muffett blog post criticizing a UK House of Lords amendment that would prohibit providing VPN services to children under 16.

Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components(react.dev)

324 points by sangeeth96 10 months ago | 204 comments

React team blog post disclosing two new denial-of-service and source code exposure vulnerabilities in React Server Components, found while probing the React2Shell patch.

Craft software that makes people feel something(rapha.land)

315 points by lukeio 10 months ago | 164 comments

An SVG is all you need(jon.recoil.org)

308 points by sadiq 10 months ago | 127 comments

Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI(cnbc.com)

300 points by tiahura 10 months ago | 249 comments

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content(theguardian.com)

267 points by ta988 10 months ago | 186 comments

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora(openai.com)

247 points by inesranzo 10 months ago | 470 comments

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)(jeffhuang.com)

239 points by simonebrunozzi 10 months ago | 149 comments

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards(victorpoughon.github.io)

220 points by fouronnes3 10 months ago | 102 comments

Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative(github.com)

214 points by waleedlatif1 10 months ago | 46 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1(libroot.org)

205 points by libroot 10 months ago | 132 comments

Things I want to say to my boss(ithoughtaboutthatalot.com)

197 points by casca 10 months ago | 167 comments

A “frozen” dictionary for Python(lwn.net)

178 points by jwilk 10 months ago | 137 comments

Days since last GitHub incident(github-incidents.pages.dev)

176 points by AquiGorka 10 months ago | 100 comments

The Cost of a Closure in C(thephd.dev)

174 points by ingve 10 months ago | 69 comments

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence(whitehouse.gov)

172 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 230 comments

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS(wiki.csswg.org)

157 points by OuterVale 10 months ago | 103 comments

Midjourney is alemwjsl(aadillpickle.com)

139 points by aadillpickle 10 months ago | 48 comments

Vibe coding is mad depressing(law.gmnz.xyz)

137 points by dirtylowprofile 10 months ago | 70 comments

GPT-5.2(openai.com)

125 points by meetpateltech 10 months ago | 37 comments

From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work(paradedb.com)

112 points by philippemnoel 10 months ago | 19 comments

The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void(suggger.substack.com)

109 points by Suggger 10 months ago | 126 comments

We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification(eff.org)

91 points by heavyset_go 10 months ago | 24 comments

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop(exclav.es)

89 points by gsf_emergency_6 10 months ago | 31 comments

High Performance SSH/SCP(psc.edu)

89 points by gslin 10 months ago | 60 comments

Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment(blog.system76.com)

87 points by onnnon 10 months ago | 31 comments

VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO(dfarq.homeip.net)

81 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 40 comments

An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions(arxiv.org)

80 points by rapnie 10 months ago | 43 comments

Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense(github.com)

68 points by DoctorFreeman 10 months ago | 39 comments

Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation

64 points by cschlaepfer 10 months ago | 34 comments

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It(404media.co)

63 points by markatlarge 10 months ago | 36 comments

Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio](linuxunplugged.com)

53 points by teekert 10 months ago | 39 comments

Deprecate like you mean it(entropicthoughts.com)

52 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 134 comments

The History of Xerox(abortretry.fail)

52 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 11 comments

How geometry is fundamental for chess(lichess.org)

52 points by fzliu 10 months ago | 20 comments

Understanding carriage(seths.blog)

51 points by herbertl 10 months ago | 13 comments

Notes on Sorted Data(amit.prasad.me)

51 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 7 comments

Creating C closures from Lua closures(lowkpro.com)

50 points by publicdebates 10 months ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Rust server(npmjs.com)

47 points by soham_byte 10 months ago | 25 comments

Confuse some SSH bots and make botters block you(mirror.newsdump.org)

47 points by Bender 10 months ago | 19 comments

Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles(1517.substack.com)

44 points by areoform 10 months ago | 13 comments

Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target

41 points by bmadduma 10 months ago | 39 comments

Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds(theguardian.com)

40 points by robtherobber 10 months ago | 25 comments

Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data(nautil.us)

40 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 9 comments

Be Careful with GIDs in Rails(blog.julik.nl)

39 points by julik 10 months ago | 17 comments

Pop Goes the Population Count?(xania.org)

37 points by hasheddan 10 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: I built a WebMIDI sequencer to control my hardware synths(simplychris.ai)

37 points by simplychris 10 months ago | 14 comments

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?(newyorker.com)

31 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent

25 points by sanketsaurav 10 months ago | 7 comments

A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)

23 points by kruuuder 10 months ago | 3 comments

Two new RSC protocol vulnerabilities uncovered(nextjs.org)

20 points by 0xedb 10 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library(github.com)

20 points by carsenk 10 months ago | 7 comments