The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2025

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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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Size of Life neal.fun · eatonphil · 10 Dec 2025

2.6k pts 277 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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Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com · ryanvogel · 2 Dec 2025

2.2k pts 1.1k 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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Backing up Spotify annas-archive.li · vitplister · 20 Dec 2025

2k pts 701 comments

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Tell HN: Merry Christmas basilikum · 24 Dec 2025

2k pts 429 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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Ghostty is now non-profit mitchellh.com · vrnvu · 3 Dec 2025

1.3k pts 289 comments

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How uv got so fast nesbitt.io · zdw · 26 Dec 2025

1.3k pts 459 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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GPT-5.2 openai.com · atgctg · 11 Dec 2025

1.2k pts 1.1k 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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Calendar neatnik.net · twapi · 28 Dec 2025

1.1k pts 133 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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Floor796 floor796.com · krtkush · 27 Dec 2025

1.1k pts 119 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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alpr.watch alpr.watch · theamk · 16 Dec 2025

915 pts 443 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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Cloudflare was down cloudflare.com · mektrik · 5 Dec 2025

832 pts 532 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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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org · mhb · 3 Dec 2025

829 pts 584 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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10 Years of Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org · SGran · 9 Dec 2025

817 pts 349 comments