Hacker News on Wednesday, 31 December 2025

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades(latimes.com)

654 points by ValentineC 9 months ago | 499 comments

Los Angeles Times business article reporting Warren Buffett stepping down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after six decades.

I canceled my book deal(austinhenley.com)

583 points by azhenley 9 months ago | 326 comments

Blog post by CMU professor Austin Henley explaining why he canceled his book deal for a book on challenging programming projects.

Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame(monogame.net)

480 points by haunter 9 months ago | 204 comments

MonoGame blog post announcing ConcernedApe, the Stardew Valley developer, as a new sponsor of the open-source C# game framework.

Tell HN: Happy New Year

408 points by schappim 9 months ago | 195 comments

A Tell HN thread wishing the community a happy new year, with commenters posting greetings from their locations.

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.(exopriors.com)

357 points by Xyra 9 months ago | 123 comments

Landing page for Exopriors Scry, a tool giving Claude arbitrary SQL and vector-algebra search over indexes of arXiv, Hacker News, LessWrong and other sources.

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups(smokingonabike.com)

344 points by coldpie 9 months ago | 384 comments

Blog post arguing that while browsers once blocked pop-up ads, modern websites have reintroduced pop-up style overlays that browsers no longer block.

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf](ece.uvic.ca)

316 points by tosh 9 months ago | 95 comments

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere(helsinki.fi)

243 points by lrasinen 9 months ago | 263 comments

The rise of industrial software(chrisloy.dev)

222 points by chrisloy 9 months ago | 160 comments

Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy(physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

218 points by Luc 9 months ago | 295 comments

Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died(obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)

212 points by spankibalt 9 months ago | 62 comments

Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke(monash.edu)

196 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 43 comments

Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system(mod.gov.il)

195 points by fork-bomber 9 months ago | 382 comments

LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop(discourse.llvm.org)

195 points by pertymcpert 9 months ago | 91 comments

The compiler is your best friend(blog.daniel-beskin.com)

180 points by based2 9 months ago | 121 comments

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year(theguardian.com)

172 points by belter 9 months ago | 221 comments

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers(reuters.com)

172 points by lossolo 9 months ago | 83 comments

On privacy and control(toidiu.com)

171 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 94 comments

Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)(queue.acm.org)

170 points by nithssh 9 months ago | 134 comments

The most famous transcendental numbers(sprott.physics.wisc.edu)

158 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 101 comments

Google Opal(opal.google)

153 points by gmays 9 months ago | 97 comments

2025 was a disaster for Windows 11(windowscentral.com)

140 points by speckx 9 months ago | 173 comments

How AI labs are solving the power problem(newsletter.semianalysis.com)

137 points by Symmetry 9 months ago | 211 comments

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris(kywch.github.io)

135 points by a1k0n 9 months ago | 31 comments

Sirius DB(sirius-db.com)

132 points by manoji 9 months ago | 17 comments

UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space(bbc.co.uk)

131 points by vekerdyb 9 months ago | 71 comments

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)(redbook.io)

130 points by teleforce 9 months ago | 13 comments

Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina(bbc.com)

130 points by rmason 9 months ago | 42 comments

When square pixels aren't square(alexwlchan.net)

128 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 58 comments

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline(foodmedcenter.org)

128 points by azinman2 9 months ago | 97 comments

A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector(siliconjunction.wordpress.com)

128 points by jensgk 9 months ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind(github.com)

114 points by rafinha 9 months ago | 17 comments

Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

101 points by Mgtyalx 9 months ago | 83 comments

Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays(myembeddedstuff.com)

100 points by edent 9 months ago | 7 comments

Love your customers(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

95 points by chmaynard 9 months ago | 29 comments

Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling(github.com)

83 points by bdcravens 9 months ago | 24 comments

Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure(reuters.com)

81 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 78 comments

Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side(chipsandcheese.com)

76 points by ingve 9 months ago | 9 comments

2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?(xam.dk)

74 points by based2 9 months ago | 104 comments

PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review(blog.pypi.org)

73 points by miketheman 9 months ago | 24 comments

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision(science.org)

73 points by QueensGambit 9 months ago | 17 comments

One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics(youtube.com)

71 points by msephton 9 months ago | 23 comments

Who invented the transistor?(people.idsia.ch)

68 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 71 comments

Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API(carimbo.games)

66 points by delduca 9 months ago | 72 comments

Using AI generated images to get refunds(wired.com)

61 points by MattSayar 9 months ago | 59 comments

The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest(thephd.dev)

60 points by ingve 9 months ago | 26 comments

OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History(wsj.com)

53 points by megacorp 9 months ago | 37 comments

Odoo: Open-Source ERP(github.com)

51 points by stein1946 9 months ago | 39 comments

The Showa Hundred Year Problem(dampfkraft.com)

45 points by polm23 9 months ago | 18 comments

Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF(sergiocipriano.com)

45 points by sergiocipriano 9 months ago | 9 comments

The Economics of Duke University(dontaylor13.substack.com)

40 points by paulpauper 9 months ago | 15 comments

Shipping at Inference-Speed(steipete.me)

40 points by xngbuilds 9 months ago | 38 comments

LLMRouter: An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing(github.com)

38 points by simonpure 9 months ago | 6 comments

Torch.ts – building PyTorch in TypeScript from scratch to learn(github.com)

36 points by 13point5 9 months ago | 7 comments

How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video](youtube.com)

33 points by zdw 9 months ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices(quickclip.space)

30 points by imgopaal 9 months ago | 37 comments

3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices(blog.arduino.cc)

29 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 3 comments

S&P500 Priced in Gold(pricedingold.com)

26 points by jcartw 9 months ago | 22 comments

L1TF Reloaded(github.com)

26 points by Fnoord 9 months ago | 1 comments