Hacker News on Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite(hackerbook.dosaygo.com)

667 points by keepamovin 9 months ago | 201 comments

Hacker Book, a browser-based offline archive of Hacker News (2006–2025) served as sharded SQLite files queried via WebAssembly.

Netflix Open Content(opencontent.netflix.com)

620 points by tosh 10 months ago | 121 comments

Netflix's Open Content site offering open source test titles (documentary, live action, animation) for prototyping video and audio technologies.

A faster heart for F-Droid(f-droid.org)

507 points by kasabali 9 months ago | 206 comments

F-Droid blog post announcing donation-funded replacement of its core server hardware and how the new server impacts the project.

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026(economist.com)

439 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9 months ago | 621 comments

An Economist leader article arguing that OpenAI's cash burn will be a key question about an AI investment bubble in 2026.

Non-Zero-Sum Games(nonzerosum.games)

417 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 185 comments

Homepage of Non-Zero-Sum Games, an illustrated "world-help" website and podcast exploring cooperative, win-win game theory ideas.

Go away Python(lorentz.app)

374 points by baalimago 10 months ago | 339 comments

Blog post on lorentz.app about using Go programs as executable scripts via a shebang line instead of Python; screenshot shows only the site's landing header.

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service(it-notes.dragas.net)

365 points by birdculture 9 months ago | 87 comments

Blog post on IT Notes describing how FediMeteo, a fediverse weather service, runs on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS serving thousands of followers.

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers(vptdigital.com)

332 points by AkshatJ27 9 months ago | 143 comments

Blog post on how the Honey browser extension allegedly detects testers to alter its behavior, likened to Dieselgate; the page returned a 503 error.

A Vulnerability in Libsodium(00f.net)

323 points by raggi 9 months ago | 47 comments

Blog post by Frank Denis, libsodium's author, describing a vulnerability found in the libsodium cryptographic library.

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”(lemonde.fr)

280 points by lifeisstillgood 10 months ago | 242 comments

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts(hsu.cy)

263 points by firexcy 10 months ago | 152 comments

No strcpy either(daniel.haxx.se)

244 points by firesteelrain 10 months ago | 125 comments

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network(subseacables.blogspot.com)

203 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 55 comments

Hacking Washing Machines [video](media.ccc.de)

197 points by clausecker 10 months ago | 42 comments

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface(public-sans.digital.gov)

192 points by mhb 10 months ago | 75 comments

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig(github.com)

191 points by lulzx 9 months ago | 76 comments

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo(kasava.dev)

186 points by benbeingbin 9 months ago | 169 comments

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives(blog.adafruit.com)

186 points by ptorrone 9 months ago | 138 comments

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control(arxiv.org)

184 points by dpflan 9 months ago | 201 comments

HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden(mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)

182 points by _____k 10 months ago | 151 comments

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs(github.com)

178 points by teekert 10 months ago | 37 comments

Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming(codecrafters.io)

174 points by vitaelabitur 9 months ago | 49 comments

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems(ethz.ch)

173 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 52 comments

Approachable Swift Concurrency(fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com)

173 points by wrxd 10 months ago | 92 comments

Sabotaging Bitcoin(blog.dshr.org)

166 points by zdw 9 months ago | 162 comments

Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years(phys.org)

158 points by bikenaga 9 months ago | 48 comments

Win32 is the stable Linux ABI(loss32.org)

141 points by krautburglar 10 months ago | 108 comments

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels(github.com)

137 points by ignoramous 9 months ago | 118 comments

Attention Is Bayesian Inference(medium.com)

128 points by samwillis 9 months ago | 27 comments

What Happened to Abit Motherboards(dfarq.homeip.net)

115 points by zdw 10 months ago | 72 comments

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby(charm-ruby.dev)

113 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 17 comments

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video](media.ccc.de)

112 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 5 comments

MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025(mongodb.com)

102 points by plorkyeran 10 months ago | 41 comments

From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video](media.ccc.de)

99 points by anigbrowl 9 months ago | 13 comments

Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)(keithburgun.net)

96 points by vector_spaces 10 months ago | 46 comments

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years(popularmechanics.com)

93 points by rmason 9 months ago | 42 comments

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V(mwilczynski.dev)

90 points by michalwilczynsk 10 months ago | 8 comments

Experiments with Ableton-MCP(jhurliman.org)

85 points by jhurliman 10 months ago | 15 comments

Slop Is Slop(daringfireball.net)

72 points by JumpCrisscross 10 months ago | 48 comments

Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety(bloomberg.com)

65 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 months ago | 34 comments

U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks(tomshardware.com)

60 points by robotnikman 9 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM(github.com)

58 points by ImPrajyoth 9 months ago | 32 comments

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US(computerworld.com)

54 points by CrankyBear 9 months ago | 36 comments

Language Gives Authority to Weak Ideas(hichvg.substack.com)

50 points by chvgchvg 10 months ago | 37 comments

Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers(axios.com)

44 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 36 comments

India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy(dw.com)

39 points by guptadeepak 9 months ago | 27 comments

Beating myself at chess(log.schemescape.com)

37 points by zdw 10 months ago | 19 comments

The Legacy of Undersea Cables(blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)

35 points by teleforce 10 months ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

35 points by sirnicolaz 10 months ago | 30 comments

Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections(lottocracy.org)

30 points by egghack 9 months ago | 28 comments

Shock Wave Formation Simulator(kousen.github.io)

28 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 4 comments

Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In(wsj.com)

26 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun(cookie.engineer)

26 points by cookiengineer 9 months ago | 12 comments

Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

25 points by EGreg 9 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words(tidy.baby)

25 points by brgross 10 months ago | 6 comments

Raindrop-Powered Generator Using Carbon Fiber Composites(en.sedaily.com)

24 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 1 comments

MH370 vanished in 2014.New search aims to find answers families desperately want(abc.net.au)

24 points by evolve2k 10 months ago | 7 comments

You Need to Ditch VS Code(jrswab.com)

23 points by kugurerdem 10 months ago | 29 comments

The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains(sderosiaux.substack.com)

17 points by chtefi 10 months ago | 24 comments

2025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year(e360.yale.edu)

16 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 4 comments