Hacker News on Saturday, 27 December 2025

Floor796(floor796.com)

983 points by krtkush 10 months ago | 114 comments

Floor796 is an ever-expanding interactive animated artwork depicting a huge space station floor filled with pop-culture references; the screenshot shows tiles still loading.

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole(ossa-ma.github.io)

509 points by ossa-ma 10 months ago | 159 comments

Blog post arguing Nvidia's $20B deal for Groq's assets and hiring of CEO Jonathan Ross exploits an antitrust loophole to avoid merger scrutiny.

Say No to Palantir in the NHS(notopalantir.goodlawproject.org)

490 points by _____k 10 months ago | 169 comments

Good Law Project campaign page urging people to email officials opposing Palantir's involvement in NHS data systems.

Gpg.fail(gpg.fail)

426 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 282 comments

Placeholder page for gpg.fail, apparently a disclosure site about GnuPG vulnerabilities, showing only the message "brb, were on it!!!!".

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English(npmjs.com)

390 points by josharsh 10 months ago | 190 comments

npm package page for ezff, a CLI tool that translates plain-English commands into common ffmpeg video and audio operations using regex matching.

What you need to know before touching a video file(gist.github.com)

333 points by qbow883 10 months ago | 202 comments

A GitHub Gist guide explaining common beginner mistakes and essential concepts for novice video editors and encoders working with video files.

Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views(github.com)

325 points by SG- 10 months ago | 167 comments

GitHub repository for Apple's ml-sharp, a model for sharp monocular view synthesis that turns a single 2D photo into 3D views in under a second.

Publishing your work increases your luck(github.com)

296 points by magoghm 10 months ago | 112 comments

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

281 points by montalbano 10 months ago | 107 comments

Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans(shanethegamer.com)

271 points by erhuve 10 months ago | 138 comments

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop(devblog.qnx.com)

257 points by transpute 10 months ago | 147 comments

White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center(pbs.org)

245 points by Teever 10 months ago | 123 comments

OrangePi 6 Plus Review(boilingsteam.com)

182 points by ekianjo 10 months ago | 155 comments

Toll roads are spreading in America(economist.com)

174 points by smurda 10 months ago | 500 comments

Pre-commit hooks are broken(jyn.dev)

168 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 128 comments

USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994(wolfstreet.com)

163 points by stevenjgarner 10 months ago | 156 comments

Pokémon Team Optimization(nchagnet.pages.dev)

161 points by nchagnet 10 months ago | 60 comments

James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies(fordauthority.com)

161 points by NaOH 10 months ago | 163 comments

Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure(blog.phronemophobic.com)

159 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 14 comments

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi(ninakalinina.com)

154 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 37 comments

Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%(blog.drjoshcsimmons.com)

145 points by joshcsimmons 10 months ago | 96 comments

Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation(techcrunch.com)

144 points by fcpguru 10 months ago | 195 comments

Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot(streaming.media.ccc.de)

138 points by aberoham 10 months ago | 17 comments

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32(exquisite.tube)

136 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 26 comments

Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)(brendangregg.com)

124 points by gudzpoz 10 months ago | 33 comments

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video](youtube.com)

119 points by schmuckonwheels 10 months ago | 22 comments

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)(quantamagazine.org)

97 points by tzury 10 months ago | 34 comments

Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?(ohadravid.github.io)

96 points by gavide 10 months ago | 30 comments

CEO of Health Care Software Company Sentenced for $1B Fraud Conspiracy(justice.gov)

94 points by healsdata 10 months ago | 71 comments

Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)(statnews.com)

93 points by rajlego 10 months ago | 39 comments

Splice a Fibre(react-networks-lib.rackout.net)

92 points by matt-p 10 months ago | 41 comments

Contact the ISS(ariss.org)

91 points by logikblok 10 months ago | 25 comments

Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life(popularmechanics.com)

91 points by QueensGambit 10 months ago | 34 comments

Public Domain Day 2026(web.law.duke.edu)

80 points by rolph 10 months ago | 12 comments

So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video](youtube.com)

79 points by ingve 10 months ago | 9 comments

RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast(hoffman.home.blog)

78 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 3 comments

We Automated Federal Retirements(ndstudio.gov)

76 points by caseysoftware 10 months ago | 54 comments

More dynamic cronjobs(george.mand.is)

76 points by 0928374082 10 months ago | 21 comments

Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave(linkedin.com)

75 points by canucker2016 10 months ago | 20 comments

VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"(code.visualstudio.com)

74 points by michidk 10 months ago | 38 comments

An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil(wsj.com)

69 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 66 comments

How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)(monthlyreview.org)

68 points by bryanrasmussen 10 months ago | 35 comments

The Dangers of SSL Certificates(surfingcomplexity.blog)

67 points by azhenley 10 months ago | 85 comments

Concurrent Hash Table Designs(bluuewhale.github.io)

59 points by signa11 10 months ago | 8 comments

This PNG shows a different version when loaded in Chrome than in Safari(lr0.org)

53 points by lr0 10 months ago | 34 comments

CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me)(slashgeek.net)

53 points by nomilk 10 months ago | 37 comments

Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.(nytimes.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 46 comments

The battle to stop clever people betting(economist.com)

46 points by zoenolan 10 months ago | 37 comments

7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG"(keshikan.net)

44 points by anigbrowl 10 months ago | 7 comments

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet(arstechnica.com)

40 points by taubek 10 months ago | 9 comments

New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings(reuters.com)

39 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 39 comments

Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video](youtube.com)

39 points by xqcgrek2 10 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer

38 points by DGrechko 10 months ago | 19 comments

NMH BASIC(t3x.org)

38 points by AlexeyBrin 10 months ago | 1 comments

A Century of Noether's Theorem(arxiv.org)

38 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 6 comments

Simple 3D Packing(github.com)

37 points by matroid 10 months ago | 5 comments

Cleartext signatures considered harmful(gnupg.org)

36 points by derleyici 10 months ago | 5 comments

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)(gutenberg.org)

34 points by thomassmith65 10 months ago | 12 comments

A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting(rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com)

33 points by LorenDB 10 months ago | 6 comments