Hacker News on Saturday, 20 December 2025

Backing up Spotify(annas-archive.li)

1656 points by vitplister 10 months ago | 551 comments

Anna's Archive blog post announcing a ~300TB torrent backup of Spotify metadata and music files, including 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files.

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files(jmail.world)

1379 points by lukeigel 10 months ago | 325 comments

Jmail is a Gmail-style web interface for browsing Jeffrey Epstein's emails released by Congress, part of a parody Google-like app suite for the Epstein files.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres(pierce.dev)

635 points by pavel_lishin 10 months ago | 373 comments

A blog post on pierce.dev arguing that self-hosting PostgreSQL is a reasonable alternative to managed database services.

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized(newyorker.com)

464 points by thm 10 months ago | 64 comments

New Yorker press-room announcement that the magazine's entire historical archive has been fully digitized.

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power(lists.nanog.org)

461 points by lpage 10 months ago | 199 comments

NANOG mailing list post reposting a NIST notice that the Boulder atomic time scale failed during a power outage, affecting its Internet Time Service NTP servers.

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud(theregister.com)

404 points by saubeidl 10 months ago | 344 comments

The Register reports Airbus plans to tender a contract to move mission-critical workloads to a sovereign European cloud, rating its chance of finding a provider at 80/20.

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates(a1k0n.net)

402 points by a1k0n 10 months ago | 65 comments

Blog post describing demoscene-style entries for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: ~4000-gate ASIC designs outputting VGA video and audio without CPU or memory.

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does(servury.com)

390 points by ybceo 10 months ago | 252 comments

A blog post from Servury arguing that privacy has become a marketing term and that true anonymity must be built into system architecture; page showed a Cloudflare check.

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title(bbc.com)

302 points by 1659447091 10 months ago | 116 comments

OpenSCAD is kinda neat(nuxx.net)

298 points by c0nsumer 10 months ago | 231 comments

Claude in Chrome(claude.com)

296 points by ianrahman 10 months ago | 166 comments

Programming languages used for music(timthompson.com)

283 points by ofalkaed 10 months ago | 95 comments

Skills Officially Comes to Codex(developers.openai.com)

282 points by rochansinha 10 months ago | 125 comments

Charles Proxy(charlesproxy.com)

280 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 102 comments

Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study(facs.org)

277 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 417 comments

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN(hn-wrapped.kadoa.com)

258 points by hubraumhugo 10 months ago | 135 comments

Big GPUs don't need big PCs(jeffgeerling.com)

256 points by mikece 10 months ago | 116 comments

Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One(outofdesk.netlify.app)

189 points by ggauravr 10 months ago | 84 comments

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?(shkspr.mobi)

188 points by sedboyz 10 months ago | 17 comments

Reflections on AI at the End of 2025(antirez.com)

183 points by danielfalbo 10 months ago | 278 comments

You have reached the end of the internet (2006)(hmpg.net)

171 points by raytopia 10 months ago | 48 comments

Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links(support.google.com)

166 points by radley 10 months ago | 111 comments

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)(apalrd.net)

150 points by mahirsaid 10 months ago | 286 comments

The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All(thompson2026.com)

150 points by NickForLiberty 10 months ago | 97 comments

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool(github.com)

143 points by simonpure 10 months ago | 24 comments

Build Your Own React(pomb.us)

142 points by howToTestFE 10 months ago | 14 comments

Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture(lists.debian.org)

129 points by cbmuser 10 months ago | 37 comments

Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation(github.com)

121 points by bj-rn 10 months ago | 54 comments

What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?(brooker.co.za)

121 points by charleshn 10 months ago | 104 comments

A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London(ianvisits.co.uk)

115 points by zeristor 10 months ago | 82 comments

The Polyglot NixOS(x86.lol)

114 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 39 comments

Contrails Map(map.contrails.org)

111 points by schaum 10 months ago | 49 comments

The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?(pcworld.com)

105 points by taubek 10 months ago | 198 comments

MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory(github.com)

105 points by taylorsatula 10 months ago | 43 comments

Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video](youtube.com)

90 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 35 comments

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory(math.columbia.edu)

78 points by jjgreen 10 months ago | 109 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy(qntm.org)

77 points by ravenical 10 months ago | 25 comments

The dawn of a world simulator(odyssey.ml)

70 points by olivercameron 10 months ago | 43 comments

Anatomy of US inequality(nber.org)

62 points by hhs 10 months ago | 22 comments

Lessons from a year of Postgres CDC in production(clickhouse.com)

60 points by saisrirampur 10 months ago | 6 comments

The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward(possiblywrong.wordpress.com)

59 points by possiblywrong 10 months ago | 18 comments

SIMD City: Auto-Vectorisation(xania.org)

56 points by brewmarche 10 months ago | 14 comments

Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4(abhamra.com)

55 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 3 comments

Prototaxites(astrobiology.com)

54 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 7 comments

Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address(support.claude.com)

40 points by behnamoh 10 months ago | 29 comments

TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components(github.com)

38 points by ravenical 10 months ago | 49 comments

Mathematicians don't care about foundations (2022)(matteocapucci.wordpress.com)

37 points by scrivanodev 10 months ago | 26 comments

AI will make our children stupid(thecritic.co.uk)

36 points by binning 10 months ago | 28 comments

Space Math Academy(space-math.academy)

35 points by dynamicwebpaige 10 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input(github.com)

35 points by Sevii 10 months ago | 12 comments

Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings(nuforc.org)

31 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 13 comments

More databases should be single-threaded(blog.konsti.xyz)

29 points by lawrencechen 10 months ago | 18 comments

I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man(github.com)

29 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 9 comments

Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping(squoze.net)

24 points by zdw 10 months ago | 2 comments

An exploration of playing three generations of windows games on macOS(carette.xyz)

21 points by LucidLynx 10 months ago | 4 comments

Understanding the Northern Lights(historytoday.com)

17 points by benbreen 10 months ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this?

15 points by electrodisk 10 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Chart Preview – Preview environments for Helm charts on every PR

15 points by chartpreview 10 months ago | 1 comments

Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM(meyerweb.com)

14 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 0 comments

Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app)(github.com)

7 points by Gerome24 10 months ago | 2 comments