The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2025
We track 1,254 stories from December 2025, averaging 302 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 78 stories. Together they drew 228,983 comments, 183 per story on average.
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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
dosaygo-studio.github.io · keepamovin · 9 Dec 2025
3.3k pts
965 comments
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What an unprocessed photo looks like
maurycyz.com · zdw · 28 Dec 2025
2.5k pts
409 comments
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
dl.acm.org · Kerrick · 18 Dec 2025
2k pts
239 comments
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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
about.netflix.com · meetpateltech · 5 Dec 2025
1.8k pts
1.4k comments
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
hey.paris · parisidau · 13 Dec 2025
1.8k pts
1k comments
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Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]
archive.org · lawlessone · 23 Dec 2025
1.7k pts
549 comments
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Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
jmail.world · lukeigel · 20 Dec 2025
1.6k pts
363 comments
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Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
skyview.social · christoph-heiss · 26 Dec 2025
1.6k pts
1.8k comments
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Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
github.com · Aissen · 23 Dec 2025
1.5k pts
569 comments
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Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
dosaygo-studio.github.io · keepamovin · 19 Dec 2025
1.4k pts
321 comments
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Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
theverge.com · tortilla · 16 Dec 2025
1.3k pts
642 comments
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Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
theocharis.dev · JeremyTheo · 29 Dec 2025
1.2k pts
1k comments
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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
bbc.co.uk · rajeshrajappan · 25 Dec 2025
1.2k pts
282 comments
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
gist.github.com · hackermondev · 18 Dec 2025
1.2k pts
433 comments
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Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
blog.google · meetpateltech · 17 Dec 2025
1.1k pts
580 comments
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AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
finalroundai.com · birdculture · 17 Dec 2025
1.1k pts
532 comments
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Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
theregister.com · Brajeshwar · 3 Dec 2025
1.1k pts
614 comments
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Google is dead. Where do we go now?
circusscientist.com · tomjuggler · 29 Dec 2025
1k pts
838 comments
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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
theguardian.com · vinni2 · 23 Dec 2025
1k pts
780 comments
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DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
huggingface.co · pretext · 1 Dec 2025
982 pts
465 comments
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Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
embedding-shape · 9 Dec 2025
980 pts
462 comments
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Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
theverge.com · evolve2k · 2 Dec 2025
978 pts
854 comments
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI
jonready.com · mips_avatar · 3 Dec 2025
967 pts
1.1k comments
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Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
lwn.net · rascul · 10 Dec 2025
962 pts
800 comments
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Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
reuters.com · chirau · 9 Dec 2025
960 pts
1.5k comments
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2025: The Year in LLMs
simonwillison.net · simonw · 31 Dec 2025
940 pts
599 comments
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Maybe the default settings are too high
raptitude.com · htk · 25 Dec 2025
937 pts
321 comments
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Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
infosec.press · pabs3 · 17 Dec 2025
933 pts
821 comments
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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
heise.de · OsrsNeedsf2P · 10 Dec 2025
902 pts
486 comments
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India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
reuters.com · jmsflknr · 1 Dec 2025
900 pts
733 comments
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History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
github.com · iamwil · 18 Dec 2025
897 pts
421 comments
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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
tegabrain.com · dmitrygr · 1 Dec 2025
888 pts
370 comments
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GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
gog.com · haunter · 29 Dec 2025
871 pts
559 comments
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Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
etsc.eu · saubeidl · 3 Dec 2025
860 pts
724 comments
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
simonwillison.net · simonw · 18 Dec 2025
859 pts
658 comments
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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
businessinsider.com · nabla9 · 2 Dec 2025
857 pts
954 comments
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Thin desires are eating life
joanwestenberg.com · mitchbob · 16 Dec 2025
855 pts
270 comments
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Announcing the Beta release of ty
astral.sh · gavide · 16 Dec 2025
854 pts
179 comments
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Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
blog.jim-nielsen.com · ArmageddonIt · 8 Dec 2025
846 pts
333 comments
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
ankursethi.com · speckx · 10 Dec 2025
845 pts
349 comments
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No Graphics API
sebastianaaltonen.com · ryandrake · 16 Dec 2025
845 pts
183 comments
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8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
koi.ai · takira · 16 Dec 2025
832 pts
246 comments
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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
404media.co · chaps · 22 Dec 2025
827 pts
471 comments
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AI will make formal verification go mainstream
martin.kleppmann.com · evakhoury · 16 Dec 2025
827 pts
434 comments
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Mistral 3 family of models released
mistral.ai · pember · 2 Dec 2025
826 pts
236 comments
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Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
alexschapiro.com · bearsyankees · 3 Dec 2025
821 pts
288 comments
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OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
theverge.com · goplayoutside · 2 Dec 2025
819 pts
930 comments
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