Hacker News on Sunday, 28 December 2025

What an unprocessed photo looks like(maurycyz.com)

2361 points by zdw 10 months ago | 393 comments

Blog post showing a raw, unprocessed camera sensor image of a Christmas tree and explaining the processing steps needed to turn it into a normal photo.

Calendar(neatnik.net)

985 points by twapi 10 months ago | 116 comments

A printable single-page calendar from Neatnik that shows every date of 2026 on one sheet of paper, with an overlay explaining how to print it.

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert(substack.com)

781 points by Vincent_Yan404 10 months ago | 347 comments

A Substack memoir about growing up in a classified Chinese atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert, a city known as "404" that was never on maps.

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML(htmhell.dev)

677 points by soheilpro 10 months ago | 254 comments

An HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 article by Aaron T. Grogg on replacing JavaScript functionality with native HTML features.

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief(eclecticlight.co)

381 points by vitosartori 10 months ago | 280 comments

An Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley looking back at the past year of Mac and macOS developments with disbelief.

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise(npr.org)

295 points by geox 10 months ago | 447 comments

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA(quantamagazine.org)

280 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 171 comments

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should(marekfiser.com)

260 points by iliketrains 10 months ago | 156 comments

Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free(scratchapixel.com)

258 points by theusus 10 months ago | 27 comments

Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling(stanislas.blog)

257 points by angristan 10 months ago | 110 comments

Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years(github.com)

243 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 150 comments

MongoBleed Explained Simply(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)

235 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 105 comments

If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app(blog.jgc.org)

216 points by jgrahamc 10 months ago | 123 comments

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python(pysdr.org)

210 points by kklisura 10 months ago | 11 comments

Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains(medicine.yale.edu)

192 points by amichail 10 months ago | 115 comments

Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo(en.andros.dev)

173 points by andros 10 months ago | 51 comments

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?(newstatesman.com)

158 points by nis0s 10 months ago | 145 comments

Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer(ucsf.edu)

143 points by mrtnmrtn 10 months ago | 37 comments

Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure(blog.rastrian.dev)

138 points by rastrian 10 months ago | 136 comments

No, it's not a battleship(navalgazing.net)

137 points by hermitcrab 10 months ago | 183 comments

C++ says “We have try... finally at home”(devblogs.microsoft.com)

126 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 134 comments

Spherical Cow(lib.rs)

120 points by Natfan 10 months ago | 16 comments

62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line(ny1.com)

120 points by eatonphil 10 months ago | 75 comments

A new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube's feed may consist of AI slop(kapwing.com)

118 points by aquir 10 months ago | 107 comments

All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video](media.ccc.de)

111 points by Kyro38 10 months ago | 48 comments

Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server(dialtone.live)

101 points by rickcarlino 10 months ago | 47 comments

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512(dolphin-emu.org)

97 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 9 comments

Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024)(lib25519.cr.yp.to)

91 points by INGELRII 10 months ago | 40 comments

Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain(kenklippenstein.com)

89 points by eh_why_not 10 months ago | 107 comments

A super fast website using Cloudflare workers(crazyfast.website)

85 points by kilroy123 10 months ago | 63 comments

Remembering Lou Gerstner(newsroom.ibm.com)

85 points by thm 10 months ago | 40 comments

World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia(en.wikipedia.org)

71 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 17 comments

Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis(idc.com)

70 points by naves 10 months ago | 75 comments

Miri: Practical Undefined Behavior Detection for Rust [pdf](research.ralfj.de)

67 points by ingve 10 months ago | 9 comments

Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021)(grossack.site)

63 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 0 comments

ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform(github.com)

61 points by pretext 10 months ago | 5 comments

How to complain (2024)(outerproduct.net)

60 points by ysangkok 10 months ago | 11 comments

2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf](pewresearch.org)

60 points by randycupertino 10 months ago | 70 comments

Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source(nature.com)

57 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 16 comments

Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses(voratiq.com)

57 points by m-hodges 10 months ago | 40 comments

Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee(arxiv.org)

54 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 11 comments

Build Software. Build Users(dima.day)

53 points by dinerville 10 months ago | 14 comments

Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine(github.com)

53 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 4 comments

Chain Flinger(nealstephenson.substack.com)

52 points by roomey 10 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Pion SCTP with RACK is 70% faster with 30% less latency(pion.ly)

51 points by pch07 10 months ago | 5 comments

Fast CVVDP implementation in C(github.com)

43 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 8 comments

Hacker News Made of Primes(dosaygo-studio.github.io)

43 points by keepamovin 10 months ago | 23 comments

Deathbed Advice/Regret(hazn.com)

43 points by paulpauper 10 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames(boxinsertdesigner.com)

41 points by Rabidgremlin 10 months ago | 13 comments

Rust errors without dependencies(vincents.dev)

41 points by vsgherzi 10 months ago | 63 comments

C –> Java != Java –> LLM(observationalhazard.com)

37 points by WoodenChair 10 months ago | 38 comments

Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

36 points by jeanlucas 10 months ago | 29 comments

Manus AI 100M USD ARR(manus.im)

36 points by ms7892 10 months ago | 35 comments

The PGP Problem (2019)(latacora.com)

33 points by croemer 10 months ago | 36 comments

Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)(unilad.com)

33 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 36 comments

Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?

31 points by adriancooney 10 months ago | 34 comments

The Prison of Financial Mediocrity(twitter.com)

31 points by zuhayeer 10 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor(hn-ph.vercel.app)

30 points by salebanolow 10 months ago | 16 comments

List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents(github.com)

30 points by bschaatsbergen 10 months ago | 5 comments