Hacker News on Sunday, 14 December 2025

Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies(ftm.eu)

570 points by Fnoord 10 months ago | 338 comments

Follow the Money investigative article on European health data being sold to a US company run by former Israeli intelligence officers.

Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’(thenewstack.io)

409 points by MilnerRoute 10 months ago | 222 comments

The New Stack article reporting Adafruit's criticism that Arduino's new rules are incompatible with open source, and Arduino's defense of the changes.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

400 points by david927 10 months ago | 1313 comments

A monthly Ask HN thread for December 2025 where Hacker News users share the projects and ideas they are currently working on.

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system(borretti.me)

355 points by thomascountz 10 months ago | 156 comments

Blog post introducing hashcards, a local-first spaced repetition app that stores flashcards as plain Markdown files and schedules reviews with FSRS.

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS(martinalderson.com)

343 points by jnord 10 months ago | 343 comments

Martin Alderson blog post arguing that AI coding agents are reducing demand for SaaS products as companies can cheaply build their own software.

Elevated errors across many models(status.claude.com)

309 points by pablo24602 10 months ago | 149 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem(trigger.dev)

239 points by nkko 10 months ago | 147 comments

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2(ufried.com)

232 points by BinaryIgor 10 months ago | 102 comments

GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over(johnjames.blog)

212 points by johnjames4214 10 months ago | 193 comments

JSDoc is TypeScript(culi.bearblog.dev)

197 points by culi 10 months ago | 234 comments

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras(twitter.com)

196 points by jeudesprits 10 months ago | 98 comments

Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac(old.reddit.com)

192 points by tamnd 10 months ago | 154 comments

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web(cybercultural.com)

189 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 114 comments

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms(cam.ac.uk)

164 points by teleforce 10 months ago | 73 comments

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away(mathstodon.xyz)

141 points by ColinWright 10 months ago | 121 comments

Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion(vitaut.net)

134 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 19 comments

Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads(carolinacloud.io)

130 points by bojangleslover 10 months ago | 69 comments

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited(macrumors.com)

128 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 115 comments

GNU recutils: Plain text database(gnu.org)

126 points by polyrand 10 months ago | 35 comments

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?(1393.xyz)

119 points by rdgthree 10 months ago | 69 comments

Compiler Engineering in Practice(chisophugis.github.io)

117 points by dhruv3006 10 months ago | 25 comments

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System(typeframe.net)

111 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 36 comments

Baumol's Cost Disease(en.wikipedia.org)

108 points by drra 10 months ago | 107 comments

Stop crawling my HTML – use the API(shkspr.mobi)

107 points by edent 10 months ago | 110 comments

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?(codemanship.wordpress.com)

96 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 130 comments

“You should never build a CMS”(sanity.io)

95 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 61 comments

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation(hcn.org)

92 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 44 comments

Bye, Mom(aella.substack.com)

86 points by reducesuffering 10 months ago | 20 comments

Show HN: A pager(udp7777.com)

83 points by keepamovin 10 months ago | 33 comments

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)(calteches.library.caltech.edu)

80 points by rramadass 10 months ago | 76 comments

An Implementation of J (1992)(jsoftware.com)

78 points by ofalkaed 10 months ago | 32 comments

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils(github.com)

78 points by maxloh 10 months ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails(github.com)

77 points by klevo 10 months ago | 11 comments

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes(boringsql.com)

74 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 41 comments

Lean theorem prover mathlib(github.com)

73 points by downboots 10 months ago | 3 comments

Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)(github.com)

73 points by linkdd 10 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL(github.com)

70 points by atgreen 10 months ago | 2 comments

Advent of Swift(leahneukirchen.org)

68 points by chmaynard 10 months ago | 20 comments

Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory(fsf.org)

67 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 4 comments

Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch(fil-c.org)

67 points by nullbyte808 10 months ago | 19 comments

Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry"(simonwillison.net)

61 points by planckscnst 10 months ago | 46 comments

History of Declarative Programming (2021)(shenlanguage.org)

59 points by measurablefunc 10 months ago | 17 comments

Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment(github.com)

59 points by triska 10 months ago | 15 comments

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca(abseil.io)

56 points by ckennelly 10 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities(castiching.com)

53 points by jackzhuo 10 months ago | 33 comments

Surface Tension of Software(iamstelios.com)

53 points by i8s 10 months ago | 30 comments

Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers(rushter.com)

52 points by f311a 10 months ago | 34 comments

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020)(blog.jafma.net)

51 points by rcarmo 10 months ago | 13 comments

Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review(jamanetwork.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 39 comments

My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent(blog.kestrelsnest.social)

48 points by fortyseven 10 months ago | 35 comments

Generative Optogenetics(darpa.mil)

46 points by birriel 10 months ago | 12 comments

Modern SID chip substitutes [video](youtube.com)

46 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 3 comments

Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)(edutopia.org)

45 points by CharlesW 10 months ago | 41 comments

Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things(github.com)

45 points by n3t 10 months ago | 10 comments

The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video](youtube.com)

43 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 3 comments

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments(nytimes.com)

41 points by 7402 10 months ago | 33 comments

How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents(friendlybit.com)

40 points by simonw 10 months ago | 18 comments

Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?(fi-le.net)

39 points by fi-le 10 months ago | 33 comments

More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast(cnn.com)

34 points by Bender 10 months ago | 8 comments

Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute(science.org)

32 points by XzetaU8 10 months ago | 2 comments