Hacker News on Monday, 15 December 2025

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me(marcusolang.substack.com)

700 points by florian_s 10 months ago | 436 comments

Substack essay by Kenyan writer Marcus Olang' arguing that his formal writing style, shaped by Kenyan education, is wrongly mistaken for ChatGPT output.

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges(news.bloomberglaw.com)

599 points by nreece 10 months ago | 732 comments

Bloomberg Law news article reporting that iRobot, maker of the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy with control passing to its Chinese supplier and lender Shenzhen PICEA Robotics.

“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number(ericdaigle.ca)

556 points by e_daigle 10 months ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Eric Daigle describing how the MAGA-themed Freedom Chat messaging app, marketed as super secure, leaked users' phone numbers.

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?(english.elpais.com)

509 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 844 comments

El País English article on whether AI and automation should be taxed as tech giants announce layoffs tied to the AI race.

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices(thebignewsletter.com)

473 points by connor11528 10 months ago | 115 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on an unsealed FTC complaint alleging Pepsi and Walmart colluded so shoppers paid higher food prices everywhere except Walmart.

Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial(bbc.com)

380 points by onemoresoop 10 months ago | 349 comments

BBC News article reporting that pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was convicted in his high-profile national security trial.

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150(wired.com)

372 points by sacred-rat 10 months ago | 590 comments

Wired article reporting that Ford is discontinuing the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup in favor of a hybrid version.

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES(relaxing.run)

358 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 150 comments

A blog post reverse engineering the aircraft carrier landing sequence in the NES game Top Gun, giving the exact altitude, speed, and alignment requirements.

Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide(mlive.com)

356 points by bikenaga 10 months ago | 269 comments

MLive investigative article about U.S. farmers with Parkinson's disease who blame exposure to a deadly but legal pesticide, likely paraquat.

Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres(andyatkinson.com)

336 points by pil0u 10 months ago | 370 comments

Blog post by Andrew Atkinson arguing against using random UUID version 4 values as primary keys in PostgreSQL, covering performance issues and alternatives.

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet(reuters.com)

335 points by divbzero 10 months ago | 239 comments

Reuters news report on a JetBlue flight that avoided a mid-air collision with a US Air Force jet; the capture shows only a device verification screen.

Unscii(viznut.fi)

304 points by Levitating 10 months ago | 47 comments

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates(community.letsencrypt.org)

287 points by schmuckonwheels 10 months ago | 224 comments

Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop(blog.vaxry.net)

287 points by LorenDB 10 months ago | 211 comments

SoundCloud has banned VPN access(old.reddit.com)

269 points by empressplay 10 months ago | 181 comments

Rob Reiner has died(hollywoodreporter.com)

252 points by RickJWagner 10 months ago | 141 comments

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)(jsomers.net)

238 points by bschne 10 months ago | 117 comments

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable(johnlian.net)

233 points by jlian 10 months ago | 113 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models(research.nvidia.com)

228 points by ewt-nv 10 months ago | 43 comments

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets(arborium.bearcove.eu)

212 points by zdw 10 months ago | 42 comments

Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted(techpowerup.com)

210 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 184 comments

It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs(benjojo.co.uk)

197 points by pavel_lishin 10 months ago | 99 comments

Umbrel – Personal Cloud(umbrel.com)

197 points by oldfuture 10 months ago | 108 comments

Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512(ashvardanian.com)

189 points by ashvardanian 10 months ago | 71 comments

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century(hpjansson.org)

185 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 29 comments

The appropriate amount of effort is zero(expandingawareness.org)

173 points by gmays 10 months ago | 98 comments

Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers(andrewmccalip.com)

169 points by flinner 10 months ago | 226 comments

US Tech Force(techforce.gov)

164 points by purple_ferret 10 months ago | 225 comments

Read Something Wonderful(readsomethingwonderful.com)

155 points by snorbleck 10 months ago | 29 comments

John Varley has died(floggingbabel.blogspot.com)

147 points by decimalenough 10 months ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases(github.com)

146 points by MaxTeabag 10 months ago | 26 comments

We are discontinuing the dark web report(support.google.com)

142 points by satertek 10 months ago | 43 comments

The Whole App is a Blob(drobinin.com)

136 points by valzevul 10 months ago | 74 comments

A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave(arxiv.org)

123 points by bikenaga 10 months ago | 147 comments

A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock(questdb.com)

105 points by bluestreak 10 months ago | 18 comments

$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres(planetscale.com)

104 points by ksec 10 months ago | 58 comments

We Put Flock Under Surveillance: Go Make Them Behave Differently [video](youtube.com)

103 points by huvarda 10 months ago | 26 comments

Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico(ewpratten.com)

99 points by ewpratten 10 months ago | 10 comments

CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System(capros.org)

99 points by gjvc 10 months ago | 39 comments

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions(github.com)

97 points by CafeRacer 10 months ago | 53 comments

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive(phys.org)

95 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 10 months ago | 59 comments

Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite(rkblog.dev)

95 points by geekman7473 10 months ago | 42 comments

Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets(science.org)

93 points by toomuchtodo 10 months ago | 32 comments

United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure(liveandletsfly.com)

91 points by makaimc 10 months ago | 80 comments

Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon(techradar.com)

84 points by Krontab 10 months ago | 63 comments

From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries(abc.net.au)

73 points by speckx 10 months ago | 14 comments

Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold(aval.bearblog.dev)

69 points by diginova 10 months ago | 27 comments

Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling(bbc.com)

65 points by haunter 10 months ago | 171 comments

Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device(atredis.com)

62 points by speckx 10 months ago | 5 comments

MIT Missing Semester 2026(missing.csail.mit.edu)

61 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 31 comments

Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio](maintainable.fm)

58 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?

58 points by hussein-khalil 10 months ago | 89 comments

Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf](clemens.endorphin.org)

57 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know(simedw.com)

55 points by simedw 10 months ago | 15 comments

Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses(pluralistic.net)

51 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 27 comments

Australia's Social Media Ban Was Pushed by Gambling Ad Agency(techdirt.com)

47 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 7 comments

Google discontinuing their dark web report(support.google.com)

42 points by ortusdux 10 months ago | 6 comments

The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996)(nytimes.com)

42 points by ChadNauseam 10 months ago | 29 comments

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry(bloodinthemachine.com)

38 points by thm 10 months ago | 14 comments

Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo(abc7.com)

37 points by lxm 10 months ago | 13 comments