Hacker News on Friday, 26 December 2025

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI(skyview.social)

1337 points by christoph-heiss 10 months ago | 1594 comments

A Skyview viewer page for a Bluesky thread in which Rob Pike posts a strongly worded criticism of generative AI; the post content had not loaded yet.

How uv got so fast(nesbitt.io)

1179 points by zdw 10 months ago | 405 comments

Blog post by Andrew Nesbitt examining the design decisions and packaging standards that make the uv Python package installer much faster than pip.

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out(nesbitt.io)

742 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 426 comments

Andrew Nesbitt's blog post arguing that package managers like Cargo repeatedly use git repositories as registry databases and run into scaling problems.

Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”(twitter.com)

474 points by rishabhaiover 10 months ago | 511 comments

An X (Twitter) post by Andrej Karpathy reflecting on feeling behind as a programmer amid rapid AI-driven changes; the post content did not load.

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub(twitter.com)

468 points by merlindru 10 months ago | 155 comments

An X (Twitter) post from the FFmpeg account about issuing a DMCA takedown on GitHub; the post content did not load in the capture.

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations(nhmu.utah.edu)

438 points by astronads 10 months ago | 263 comments

Natural History Museum of Utah article on a newly identified hallucinogenic mushroom from Yunnan markets, known locally as Jian shou qing, that causes fairytale-like visions.

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system(github.com)

436 points by pranshuparmar 10 months ago | 82 comments

GitHub repository for witr, a Linux CLI tool that traces a process, service, or port back to its origin and explains why it is running.

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL(old.reddit.com)

431 points by davisr 10 months ago | 190 comments

A Reddit r/linux post claiming an insulin pump controller runs the Linux kernel while violating the GPL; the page loaded as a Reddit network-policy block.

Exe.dev(exe.dev)

420 points by achairapart 10 months ago | 273 comments

Landing page for exe.dev, a service offering SSH-accessible virtual machines with persistent disks and sudo access.

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time(joannabregan.substack.com)

409 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 245 comments

A Substack post by Joanna Bregan ranking children's toys by the ratio of playtime to clean-up time, from a parent's perspective.

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors(sfconservancy.org)

355 points by pabs3 10 months ago | 112 comments

Software Freedom Conservancy blog post by Bradley M. Kühn on an undisclosed bug in Abbott's FreeStyle Libre glucose monitors linked to seven patient deaths.

Always bet on text (2014)(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

329 points by jesseduffield 10 months ago | 164 comments

A 2014 blog post by Graydon Hoare arguing that text is the most powerful and durable communication medium; the capture shows a Dreamwidth captcha page instead.

Animated AI(animatedai.github.io)

289 points by frozenseven 10 months ago | 25 comments

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI(imgur.com)

279 points by signa11 10 months ago | 196 comments

LearnixOS(learnix-os.com)

247 points by gtirloni 10 months ago | 98 comments

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

244 points by kwar13 10 months ago | 347 comments

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models(github.com)

223 points by meander_water 10 months ago | 41 comments

I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

222 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 208 comments

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests(community.openai.com)

201 points by Valid3840 10 months ago | 111 comments

MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming(minimaxi.com)

200 points by 110 10 months ago | 71 comments

Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"(simonwillison.net)

196 points by nabla9 10 months ago | 115 comments

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)(johndcook.com)

195 points by tzury 10 months ago | 53 comments

Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics(github.com)

173 points by nateb2022 10 months ago | 28 comments

T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types(type-ruby.github.io)

156 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 120 comments

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8(miguelcarranza.es)

154 points by ridruejo 10 months ago | 119 comments

Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines(github.com)

133 points by isitcontent 10 months ago | 25 comments

Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML(rubymamistvalove.com)

129 points by michaelsbradley 10 months ago | 47 comments

Microtonal Spiral Piano(shih1.github.io)

113 points by phoenix_ashes 10 months ago | 17 comments

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode(nullprogram.com)

107 points by rcarmo 10 months ago | 15 comments

Drawing with zero-width characters(zw.swerdlow.dev)

107 points by benswerd 10 months ago | 30 comments

A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash(blog.nawaz.org)

107 points by BeetleB 10 months ago | 117 comments

Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago(acadlisp.de)

106 points by holg 10 months ago | 32 comments

Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"(odin-lang.org)

104 points by ksec 10 months ago | 60 comments

High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects(smithsonianmag.com)

101 points by mhb 10 months ago | 92 comments

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.(en.kaigaiiju.ch)

98 points by kibitan 10 months ago | 50 comments

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith(catalinionescu.dev)

97 points by cionescu1 10 months ago | 41 comments

C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer(zelang-dev.github.io)

83 points by thetechstech 10 months ago | 13 comments

Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript(github.com)

80 points by radeeyate 10 months ago | 21 comments

ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0(railsatscale.com)

76 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 25 comments

MongoBleed(github.com)

75 points by gpi 10 months ago | 10 comments

How I think about Kubernetes(garnaudov.com)

66 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 38 comments

When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions(miod.online.fr)

65 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 15 comments

Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways(github.com)

64 points by nullandkale 10 months ago | 7 comments

Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf](douira.dev)

62 points by HeliumHydride 10 months ago | 21 comments

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)(blog.lidskialf.net)

59 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 12 comments

ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'(politico.com)

57 points by standardUser 10 months ago | 46 comments

Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment(ibrahimcesar.cloud)

56 points by ibrahimcesar 10 months ago | 29 comments

Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster(folklore.org)

53 points by maayank 10 months ago | 52 comments

Codex vs. Claude Code (today)(build.ms)

52 points by gmays 10 months ago | 38 comments

What If Heavy Files Felt Heavy?(shiveesh.com)

50 points by shiveeshfotedar 10 months ago | 35 comments

Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969(catalog.archives.gov)

49 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 5 comments

I built a quiet site for finding ambient albums while working(ambientmusic.com)

49 points by developvr 10 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands(github.com)

45 points by kenryu 10 months ago | 45 comments

Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs(nakedcapitalism.com)

45 points by indigodaddy 10 months ago | 13 comments

Graph Algorithms in Rayon(davidlattimore.github.io)

40 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 0 comments

C/C++ Embedded Files (2013)(4rknova.com)

40 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 36 comments

My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup(nuon.co)

40 points by realsharkymark 10 months ago | 20 comments

The First Web Server(dfarq.homeip.net)

39 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience(tempblog-psi.vercel.app)

38 points by beerd 10 months ago | 37 comments

Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations(sandordargo.com)

31 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 7 comments