Hacker News on Monday, 22 December 2025

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves(404media.co)

737 points by chaps 10 months ago | 448 comments

404 Media article reporting that Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras were exposed to the internet, letting reporters track themselves through the feeds.

US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified(arstechnica.com)

503 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 408 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the US government halted construction on all offshore wind projects, citing classified Department of Defense concerns.

Claude Code gets native LSP support(github.com)

481 points by JamesSwift 10 months ago | 305 comments

The CHANGELOG.md file in Anthropic's claude-code GitHub repository, listing release notes for Claude Code versions including 2.0.74.

The Illustrated Transformer(jalammar.github.io)

468 points by auraham 10 months ago | 85 comments

Jay Alammar's illustrated blog post explaining the Transformer neural network architecture and its self-attention mechanism with visual diagrams.

It's Always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)

446 points by eieio 10 months ago | 160 comments

Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm is outdated and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled to avoid latency issues in distributed systems.

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability(z.ai)

404 points by pretext 10 months ago | 217 comments

Z.ai research blog post announcing GLM-4.7, a language model with improved agentic coding, terminal tasks, and UI generation, with benchmark results.

Lua 5.5(lua.org)

380 points by km 10 months ago | 121 comments

Lua.org versions page section describing the Lua 5.5 release of the Lua programming language.

If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)(gregmckeown.com)

343 points by TheAlchemist 10 months ago | 195 comments

A 2014 blog post by Greg McKeown arguing that people should deliberately design their own careers or others will decide their priorities for them.

Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors(spectrum.ieee.org)

327 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 91 comments

IEEE Spectrum feature on HistoSonics applying its tumor-liquifying ultrasound histotripsy technology to pancreatic cancer.

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut(jeffgeerling.com)

326 points by jtokoph 10 months ago | 142 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post explaining how a multi-day power cut at NIST Boulder caused its ensemble clock to drift 5 microseconds from UTC.

Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom(reason.com)

307 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 154 comments

Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts(koi.ai)

291 points by sohkamyung 10 months ago | 183 comments

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

285 points by adevilinyc 10 months ago | 101 comments

Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases(blog.kierangill.xyz)

284 points by kierangill 10 months ago | 114 comments

The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300(dfarq.homeip.net)

263 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 166 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook(gchandbook.org)

259 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 42 comments

One year of keeping a tada list(ducktyped.org)

248 points by egonschiele 10 months ago | 75 comments

Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video](youtube.com)

236 points by SamInTheShell 10 months ago | 148 comments

Debian's Git Transition(diziet.dreamwidth.org)

221 points by all-along 10 months ago | 98 comments

The Algebra of Loans in Rust(nadrieril.github.io)

211 points by g0xA52A2A 10 months ago | 102 comments

Project Vend: Phase Two(anthropic.com)

178 points by kubami 10 months ago | 80 comments

The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice(bbc.com)

177 points by 1659447091 10 months ago | 89 comments

Text rendering hates you (2019)(faultlore.com)

175 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 72 comments

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal(willmcgugan.github.io)

174 points by nikolatt 10 months ago | 49 comments

A year of vibes(lucumr.pocoo.org)

158 points by lumpa 10 months ago | 93 comments

Build Android apps using Rust and Iced(github.com)

149 points by rekireki 10 months ago | 72 comments

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine(nytimes.com)

142 points by karakoram 10 months ago | 140 comments

Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot(enzom.dev)

139 points by emadda 10 months ago | 83 comments

One million (small web) screenshots(nry.me)

132 points by squidhunter 10 months ago | 18 comments

Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems(github.com)

132 points by nateb2022 10 months ago | 33 comments

Paperbacks and TikTok(calnewport.com)

128 points by zdw 10 months ago | 80 comments

Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center(space.com)

117 points by troglo-byte 10 months ago | 100 comments

Archiving Git branches as tags(etc.octavore.com)

117 points by octavore 10 months ago | 43 comments

Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)(arxiv.org)

112 points by marojejian 10 months ago | 21 comments

US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat(sciencebusiness.net)

108 points by xqcgrek2 10 months ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems(worldsbacklog.com)

103 points by anticlickwise 10 months ago | 25 comments

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me(eiratansey.com)

102 points by robin_reala 10 months ago | 82 comments

Your Supabase Is Public(skilldeliver.com)

95 points by skilldeliver 10 months ago | 44 comments

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape(nytimes.com)

92 points by tintinnabula 10 months ago | 20 comments

Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position(en.agcm.it)

88 points by amarcheschi 10 months ago | 87 comments

What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)(straightdope.com)

88 points by titaniumtown 10 months ago | 116 comments

Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died(comicbook.com)

85 points by superpupervlad 10 months ago | 43 comments

Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler(docs.python.org)

85 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 3 comments

ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16(ym2132.github.io)

84 points by Two_hands 10 months ago | 15 comments

The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make?(programaudioseries.com)

83 points by I-M-S 10 months ago | 18 comments

Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)(cnas.fandom.com)

83 points by Pikamander2 10 months ago | 24 comments

State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA(latimes.com)

80 points by connor11528 10 months ago | 37 comments

Your inbox is a bandit problem(parentheticallyspeaking.org)

72 points by zdw 10 months ago | 61 comments

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core(nytimes.com)

71 points by Hooke 10 months ago | 14 comments

There Is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security(itsfoss.com)

70 points by abdelhousni 10 months ago | 39 comments

86Box v5.3(86box.net)

68 points by chungy 10 months ago | 1 comments

AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools(forbes.com)

67 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 59 comments

Well being in times of algorithms(ssp.sh)

65 points by articsputnik 10 months ago | 46 comments

Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking(mentaleap.ai)

65 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 5 comments

Inverse Parentheses(kellett.im)

64 points by mighty-fine 10 months ago | 50 comments

Hybrid Aerial Underwater Drone – Bachelor Project [video](youtube.com)

56 points by nhma 10 months ago | 28 comments

I know you didn't write this(ammil.industries)

56 points by cjlm 10 months ago | 50 comments

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years(theguardian.com)

55 points by hackerbeat 10 months ago | 35 comments

The Origins of APL (1974) [video](youtube.com)

53 points by ofalkaed 10 months ago | 11 comments

Henge Finder(hengefinder.rcdis.co)

51 points by recursecenter 10 months ago | 10 comments