Hacker News on Monday, 29 December 2025

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn(theocharis.dev)

1122 points by JeremyTheo 10 months ago | 978 comments

Personal blog post by Jeremy Theocharis recounting a Deutsche Bahn train journey gone wrong, which he likens to being kidnapped, and the 1.50 EUR compensation he received.

Google is dead. Where do we go now?(circusscientist.com)

980 points by tomjuggler 10 months ago | 778 comments

A Circus Scientist blog post arguing that Google is no longer useful and asking where creators and small businesses should turn next.

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder(gog.com)

822 points by haunter 10 months ago | 502 comments

GOG blog post announcing the store is being acquired by its original co-founder and explaining what the change means for users.

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%(electrek.co)

627 points by coloneltcb 10 months ago | 702 comments

Electrek article reporting that a Tesla 4680 battery supply partner wrote down its deal by 99%, signaling a collapse in the 4680 supply chain.

You can make up HTML tags(maurycyz.com)

514 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 171 comments

A short blog post explaining that you can use made-up HTML tag names like <cool-thing> instead of divs with classes, and style them with CSS.

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB(github.com)

457 points by quesomaster9000 10 months ago | 101 comments

GitHub repository for Z80-μLM, a 2-bit quantized character-level language model that runs as a 40KB CP/M .COM binary on a Z80 processor.

Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings(screenrant.com)

390 points by 1970-01-01 10 months ago | 685 comments

Screen Rant article reporting that the Stranger Things creators urge viewers to turn off TV picture settings like motion smoothing before watching the premiere.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

List of domains censored by German ISPs(cuiiliste.de)

367 points by elcapitan 10 months ago | 141 comments

CUIIListe.de page listing domains blocked by German ISPs under the CUII (Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet) copyright clearing body.

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux(loss32.org)

322 points by akka47 10 months ago | 411 comments

Project page for loss32, a proposed Linux desktop distribution built around running Win32 software and a Windows-like userland via Wine/ReactOS components.

ManusAI Joins Meta(manus.im)

297 points by gniting 10 months ago | 193 comments

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year(zeitgeistofbytes.com)

275 points by alexcos 10 months ago | 186 comments

AI is forcing us to write good code(bits.logic.inc)

272 points by sgk284 10 months ago | 201 comments

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need(linuxdaw.org)

258 points by prmoustache 10 months ago | 114 comments

You can't design software you don't work on(seangoedecke.com)

258 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 93 comments

Five Years of Tinygrad(geohot.github.io)

254 points by iyaja 10 months ago | 127 comments

Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code(balajmarius.com)

244 points by balajmarius 10 months ago | 183 comments

All Delisted Steam Games(delistedgames.com)

231 points by Bondi_Blue 10 months ago | 102 comments

Staying ahead of censors in 2025(forum.torproject.org)

212 points by ggeorgovassilis 10 months ago | 237 comments

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast(github.com)

208 points by drpaneas 10 months ago | 47 comments

Static Allocation with Zig(nickmonad.blog)

201 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 95 comments

Demystifying DVDs(hiddenpalace.org)

193 points by boltzmann-brain 10 months ago | 17 comments

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement(reuters.com)

189 points by taubek 10 months ago | 72 comments

Huge Binaries(fzakaria.com)

175 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 81 comments

The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves(matduggan.com)

173 points by sagacity 10 months ago | 108 comments

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs(nilch.org)

167 points by UnmappedStack 10 months ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything(github.com)

167 points by austinbaggio 10 months ago | 195 comments

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes(thehugheslectures.info)

158 points by gnubison 10 months ago | 35 comments

When someone says they hate your product(getflack.com)

155 points by jger15 10 months ago | 113 comments

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM(arstechnica.com)

154 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 148 comments

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating(theguardian.com)

150 points by beardyw 10 months ago | 148 comments

GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene(gdimayhem.temari.fr)

144 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 36 comments

My First Meshtastic Network(rickcarlino.com)

143 points by rickcarlino 10 months ago | 64 comments

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior(gaultier.github.io)

140 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 85 comments

LLMs Are Not Fun(orib.dev)

114 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 59 comments

Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)(skerritt.blog)

110 points by wahnfrieden 10 months ago | 14 comments

Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones(businessinsider.com)

110 points by zdw 10 months ago | 61 comments

Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read(shepherd.com)

106 points by bwb 10 months ago | 24 comments

Parsing Advances(matklad.github.io)

91 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 11 comments

AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes(alec.is)

86 points by arm32 10 months ago | 84 comments

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M(web3isgoinggreat.com)

84 points by ilamont 10 months ago | 16 comments

What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf](ufv.ca)

81 points by robertvc 10 months ago | 12 comments

Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop(teodordyakov.github.io)

81 points by TeodorDyakov 10 months ago | 77 comments

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets(mijofr.github.io)

81 points by jfil 10 months ago | 12 comments

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf](cia.gov)

78 points by dvrp 10 months ago | 79 comments

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio(spectrum.ieee.org)

72 points by montroser 10 months ago | 7 comments

Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)(audio-database.com)

69 points by anigbrowl 10 months ago | 24 comments

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI(gist.github.com)

68 points by austinbirch 10 months ago | 12 comments

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy(interlaye.red)

64 points by fsmunoz 10 months ago | 33 comments

Self-hosting is being enshittified(troubled.engineer)

61 points by StrLght 10 months ago | 44 comments

EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay(independent.ie)

59 points by seanieb 10 months ago | 32 comments

The Late Arrival of 16-Bit CP/M(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

58 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 6 comments

Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

58 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 13 comments

Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD(gardinerbryant.com)

51 points by Ariarule 10 months ago | 47 comments

Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary(pubs.usgs.gov)

49 points by greesil 10 months ago | 15 comments

How Smell Guides Our Inner World(quantamagazine.org)

46 points by anarbadalov 10 months ago | 12 comments

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'(bbc.com)

41 points by febed 10 months ago | 10 comments

USPS announces changes to the postmark date system(nstp.org)

39 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 52 comments

Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs(old.reddit.com)

38 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 21 comments

Which Humans? (2023)(osf.io)

37 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 19 comments