Hacker News on Friday, 19 December 2025

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest(dosaygo-studio.github.io)

1146 points by keepamovin 10 months ago | 263 comments

A parody of the Hacker News front page where story titles are rewritten to be cynically 'honest' about what each link really is.

CSS Grid Lanes(webkit.org)

703 points by frizlab 10 months ago | 213 comments

WebKit blog post by Jen Simmons introducing CSS Grid Lanes (display: grid-lanes), the new standard for masonry-style layouts on the web.

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters(garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)

681 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 155 comments

Homepage of Garage, an open-source S3-compatible distributed object store designed for self-hosting outside datacenters.

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks(kdpcommunity.com)

586 points by captn3m0 10 months ago | 289 comments

Kindle Direct Publishing community announcement about new eBook download options for readers, including ePub and PDF for DRM-free titles, coming in 2026.

GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust(mullvad.net)

575 points by km 10 months ago | 121 comments

Mullvad VPN blog post announcing GotaTun, a Rust WireGuard implementation forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun, rolled out to Android with other platforms planned.

Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels(noclip.website)

416 points by ivmoreau 10 months ago | 53 comments

Noclip.website is a browser-based viewer for exploring 3D video game levels; the captured page shows a WebGPU-unsupported browser message.

What makes you senior(terriblesoftware.org)

356 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 174 comments

A Terrible Software blog post discussing what actually makes a software engineer senior.

LLM Year in Review(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

324 points by swyx 10 months ago | 121 comments

Andrej Karpathy's blog post reviewing major developments in large language models during 2025, dated December 19, 2025.

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy(evilsocket.net)

323 points by sibellavia 10 months ago | 104 comments

Blog post by Simone Margaritelli detailing reverse engineering of the TP-Link Tapo C200 camera, finding hardcoded keys, buffer overflows and privacy issues with AI assistance.

8-bit Boléro(linusakesson.net)

307 points by Aissen 10 months ago | 43 comments

Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes(lorendb.dev)

274 points by LorenDB 10 months ago | 144 comments

Graphite is joining Cursor(cursor.com)

254 points by fosterfriends 10 months ago | 242 comments

You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser(dos.zone)

243 points by Alifatisk 10 months ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python(coe.psu.ac.th)

242 points by Andrew2565 10 months ago | 24 comments

TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse(techdirt.com)

236 points by lateforwork 10 months ago | 204 comments

FPGAs Need a New Future(allaboutcircuits.com)

218 points by thawawaycold 10 months ago | 137 comments

Tiled Art(tiled.art)

216 points by meander_water 10 months ago | 12 comments

2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results(ads.apple.com)

206 points by punnerud 10 months ago | 194 comments

Rust's Block Pattern(notgull.net)

195 points by zdw 10 months ago | 98 comments

CUDA Tile Open Sourced(github.com)

185 points by JonChesterfield 10 months ago | 92 comments

Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan(thebignewsletter.com)

178 points by connor11528 10 months ago | 129 comments

Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say(washingtonpost.com)

173 points by anigbrowl 10 months ago | 217 comments

Cursor Acquires Graphite(graphite.com)

162 points by timvdalen 10 months ago | 104 comments

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project(github.com)

160 points by mikece 10 months ago | 58 comments

A better zip bomb (2019)(bamsoftware.com)

159 points by kekqqq 10 months ago | 54 comments

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data(news.mcmaster.ca)

149 points by XzetaU8 10 months ago | 6 comments

Believe the Checkbook(robertgreiner.com)

149 points by rg81 10 months ago | 68 comments

Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code(pckf.com)

138 points by deevus 10 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait(dosaygo-studio.github.io)

128 points by keepamovin 10 months ago | 52 comments

Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere(science.nasa.gov)

120 points by taubek 10 months ago | 32 comments

Prepare for That Stupid World(ploum.net)

117 points by speckx 10 months ago | 65 comments

Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model(huggingface.co)

112 points by dvrp 10 months ago | 19 comments

PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract(statepress.com)

111 points by heavyset_go 10 months ago | 33 comments

Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations(alexschapiro.com)

108 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 51 comments

Is Proton leaving Switzerland?(techradar.com)

105 points by _tk_ 10 months ago | 45 comments

Making Google Sans Flex(design.google)

97 points by meetpateltech 10 months ago | 71 comments

Performance Hints (2023)(abseil.io)

94 points by danlark1 10 months ago | 32 comments

Kernighan's Lever(linusakesson.net)

89 points by xk3 10 months ago | 39 comments

How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX(github.com)

81 points by nill0 10 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams(netrinos.com)

75 points by pcarroll 10 months ago | 43 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky(spitfirenews.com)

69 points by malshe 10 months ago | 57 comments

Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer(unsolicited-opinions.rudism.com)

69 points by speckx 10 months ago | 80 comments

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall(arstechnica.com)

69 points by sipofwater 10 months ago | 44 comments

We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis(playbookatlas.com)

68 points by jp8585 10 months ago | 66 comments

map::operator[] should be nodiscard(quuxplusone.github.io)

59 points by jandeboevrie 10 months ago | 53 comments

Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability(openai.com)

58 points by mfiguiere 10 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile(demoscope.app)

57 points by admtal 10 months ago | 35 comments

AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details(overclock3d.net)

57 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)(github.com)

57 points by moh_quz 10 months ago | 29 comments

The scariest boot loader code(miod.online.fr)

56 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 4 comments

Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast(github.com)

53 points by vortex_ape 10 months ago | 16 comments

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job(terriblesoftware.org)

53 points by antfarm 10 months ago | 44 comments

Buteyko Method(en.wikipedia.org)

52 points by rzk 10 months ago | 33 comments

Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas(astroimagery.com)

51 points by kianN 10 months ago | 4 comments

SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA(docs.kernel.org)

48 points by tambourine_man 10 months ago | 13 comments

Building a Transparent Keyserver(words.filippo.io)

48 points by noident 10 months ago | 18 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4(tomshardware.com)

47 points by walterbell 10 months ago | 39 comments

The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia(bayareacurrent.com)

45 points by counteroptimize 10 months ago | 35 comments

The Coffee Warehouse(scopeofwork.net)

40 points by NaOH 10 months ago | 36 comments