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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers 364 by AkshatJ27 | 158 comments on Hacker News.

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service 373 by birdculture | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame 419 by haunter | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” 386 by lifeisstillgood | 394 comments on Hacker News.

Go away Python 381 by baalimago | 346 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite 387 by keepamovin | 134 comments on Hacker News. Community, All the HN belong to you. This is an archive of hacker news that fits in your browser. When I made HN Made of Primes I realized I could probably do this offline sqlite/wasm thing with the whole GBs of archive. The whole dataset. So I tried it, and this is it. Have Hacker News on your device. Go to this repo ( https://ift.tt/3kHZltB ): you can download it. Big Query -> ETL -> npx serve docs - that's it. 20 years of HN arguments and beauty, can be yours forever. So they'll never die. Ever. It's the unkillable static archive of HN and it's your hands. That's my Year End gift to you all. Thank you for a wonderful year, have happy and wonderful 2026. make something of it.

Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings 375 by 1970-01-01 | 659 comments on Hacker News.

Google is dead. Where do we go now? 347 by tomjuggler | 306 comments on Hacker News.

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA 310 by vismit2000 | 187 comments on Hacker News.

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder 426 by haunter | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB 420 by quesomaster9000 | 96 comments on Hacker News. How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations with a distinct personality. -- The extreme constraints nerd-sniped me and forced interesting trade-offs: trigram hashing (typo-tolerant, loses word order), 16-bit integer math, and some careful massaging of the training data meant I could keep the examples 'interesting'. ...

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief 412 by vitosartori | 313 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English 397 by josharsh | 191 comments on Hacker News. I built a CLI tool that lets you do common video/audio operations without remembering ffmpeg syntax. Instead of: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos" -loop 0 output.gif You write: ff convert video.mp4 to gif More examples: ff compress video.mp4 to 10mb ff trim video.mp4 from 0:30 to 1:00 ff extract audio from video.mp4 ff resize video.mp4 to 720p ff speed up video.mp4 by 2x ff reverse video.mp4 There are similar tools that use LLMs (wtffmpeg, llmpeg, ai-ffmpeg-cli), but they require API keys, cost money, and have latency. Ez FFmpeg is different: - No AI – just regex pattern matching - Instant – no API calls - Free – no tokens - Offline – works without internet It handles ~20 common operations that cover 90% of what developers actually do with ffmpeg. For edge cases, you still need ffmpeg directly. Interactive mode (just type ff) shows media files in you...

Gpg.fail 422 by todsacerdoti | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert 464 by Vincent_Yan404 | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole 433 by ossa-ma | 134 comments on Hacker News.

Exe.dev 426 by achairapart | 279 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/MviJX6S https://ift.tt/oZnjrld https://ift.tt/z2Qnser

Floor796 487 by krtkush | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system 440 by pranshuparmar | 86 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately wonder why it exists, who started it, and what is keeping it alive right now. witr traces a process, service, or port back to its origin and responsibility chain and explains it in a way that’s quick to read, especially when you’re debugging under pressure. This is v0.1.0. It’s intentionally small and focused. Feedback, criticism, and edge cases are very welcome. Repo: https://ift.tt/mhJtoCS

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors 412 by pabs3 | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI 451 by signa11 | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out 476 by birdculture | 263 comments on Hacker News.

I sell onions on the Internet (2019) 349 by sogen | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] 343 by lioeters | 119 comments on Hacker News.

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study 375 by thunderbong | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator 386 by hugs | 110 comments on Hacker News. i started the selenium project 21 years ago. vibium is what i'd build if i started over today with ai agents in mind. go binary under the hood (handles browser, bidi, mcp) but devs never see it. just npm install vibium. python/java coming. for claude code: claude mcp add vibium -- npx -y vibium v1 ships today. ama.

Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal 325 by samsep10l | 111 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN I built CineCLI — a cross-platform terminal app to browse movies, view details, and open torrents directly in your system torrent client. Features: - Search movies from the terminal - Rich UI with ratings, runtime, genres - Interactive & non-interactive modes - Magnet handling via system default client - Linux/macOS/Windows support - No ads, no tracking GitHub: https://ift.tt/3jkobew PyPI: https://ift.tt/zmRVvYe Would love feedback from terminal + Python folks

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 415 by radimm | 160 comments on Hacker News.

Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers 446 by yellow_lead | 230 comments on Hacker News.

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability 406 by pretext | 222 comments on Hacker News.

It's Always TCP_NODELAY 428 by eieio | 154 comments on Hacker News.

US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified 393 by rbanffy | 322 comments on Hacker News.

CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally 341 by rbanffy | 285 comments on Hacker News.

Ruby website redesigned 413 by psxuaw | 173 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 425 by seinvak | 157 comments on Hacker News.

I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone 421 by firefoxd | 383 comments on Hacker News.

Mullvad VPN: "This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt." 391 by janandonly | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Logging Sucks 442 by FlorinSays | 146 comments on Hacker News.

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power 381 by lpage | 174 comments on Hacker News.

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips 459 by artninja1988 | 589 comments on Hacker News.

GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust 576 by km | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 546 by captn3m0 | 279 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-5.2-Codex 554 by meetpateltech | 300 comments on Hacker News.

Classical statues were not painted horribly 495 by bensouthwood | 245 comments on Hacker News.

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter 549 by MrAlex94 | 320 comments on Hacker News.

I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero 550 by jakelsaunders94 | 334 comments on Hacker News.

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo 583 by recvonline | 883 comments on Hacker News.

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' 725 by birdculture | 414 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed 629 by meetpateltech | 291 comments on Hacker News. Docs: https://ift.tt/Vdr0Pyf Developer Blog: https://ift.tt/eu0zX6C... Model Card [pdf]: https://ift.tt/ceJNuSy Gemini 3 Flash in Search AI mode: https://ift.tt/8YkZOAM... Deepmind Page: https://ift.tt/cD5PUNq

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? 641 by pabs3 | 567 comments on Hacker News.

No Graphics API 452 by ryandrake | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions 447 by nklow | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions 482 by kevin-david | 559 comments on Hacker News.

alpr.watch 475 by theamk | 227 comments on Hacker News.

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me 381 by florian_s | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide 341 by bikenaga | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial 361 by onemoresoop | 300 comments on Hacker News.

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS 305 by jnord | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order 279 by t-3 | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's 285 by thecsw | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C 313 by pizlonator | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union 324 by simjue | 354 comments on Hacker News.

The Tor Project is switching to Rust 343 by giuliomagnifico | 254 comments on Hacker News.

SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns 354 by upmostly | 106 comments on Hacker News.

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt 374 by guiand | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case 365 by nobody9999 | 256 comments on Hacker News.

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why 369 by nafnlj | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free 370 by doctoboggan | 547 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-5.2 377 by atgctg | 279 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/F6rcAxO System card: https://ift.tt/vI3LNsp...

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri 374 by italophil | 645 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/Qv8IuBo

In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution 452 by Brajeshwar | 476 comments on Hacker News.

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration 680 by speckx | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 615 by OsrsNeedsf2P | 340 comments on Hacker News.

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 576 by chirau | 934 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/Lheqwr7 https://ift.tt/7NuhIvV https://ift.tt/PTgSJlr... ( https://ift.tt/f3g64Od )

Size of Life 591 by eatonphil | 100 comments on Hacker News.

10 Years of Let's Encrypt 422 by SGran | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI 416 by pember | 198 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? 464 by embedding-shape | 280 comments on Hacker News. As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with "I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ....". While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort of comments should be welcomed on HN or not. Some examples: - https://ift.tt/2mCsKaw - https://ift.tt/f3n05zI - https://ift.tt/HB3Nbaq Personally, I'm on HN for the human conversation, and large LLM-generated texts just get in the way of reading real text from real humans (assumed, at least). What do you think? Should responses that basically boil down to "I asked $LLM about $X, and here is what $LLM said:" be allowed on HN, and the guidelines updated to state that people shouldn't critique it (similar to other guidelines currently), or should a new guideline b...

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now 585 by keepamovin | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab 352 by embedding-shape | 84 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst 379 by robin_reala | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products 369 by mohi-kalantari | 310 comments on Hacker News.

The fuck off contact page 428 by OuterVale | 176 comments on Hacker News.

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory 412 by Alifatisk | 142 comments on Hacker News.

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions 373 by puttycat | 259 comments on Hacker News.

Perl's decline was cultural 335 by todsacerdoti | 384 comments on Hacker News.

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 378 by ementally | 98 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries 385 by mystraline | 213 comments on Hacker News.

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches 392 by akyuu | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode 401 by hliyan | 367 comments on Hacker News.

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond 479 by CharlesW | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership 494 by ibobev | 229 comments on Hacker News.

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months 501 by zekrioca | 398 comments on Hacker News.

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres 510 by dsego | 103 comments on Hacker News.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long 504 by nooks | 200 comments on Hacker News.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js 579 by rayhaanj | 236 comments on Hacker News.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files 756 by bearsyankees | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm 600 by evolve2k | 528 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/oFYgxUk

Everyone in Seattle hates AI 528 by mips_avatar | 512 comments on Hacker News.

Ghostty is now non-profit 446 by vrnvu | 88 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race 430 by goplayoutside | 510 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model 423 by vessenes | 151 comments on Hacker News.

Anthropic acquires Bun 541 by ryanvogel | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Mistral 3 family of models released 432 by pember | 142 comments on Hacker News.

A Love Letter to FreeBSD 417 by rbanffy | 302 comments on Hacker News.

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 430 by jmsflknr | 229 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] 467 by pretext | 200 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/ZrV9iNS https://ift.tt/Hln8O4a

Why xor eax, eax? 432 by hasheddan | 166 comments on Hacker News.