HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (acm.org)

    2031 points · HN #46313991

  2. 02

    We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)

    1167 points · HN #46317098

  3. 03

    Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (theverge.com)

    1268 points · HN #46294456

  4. 04

    GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com)

    589 points · HN #46316367

  5. 05

    Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)

    859 points · HN #46313297

  6. 06

    Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)

    586 points · HN #46316409

  7. 07

    How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (japantimes.co.jp)

    470 points · HN #46316907

  8. 08

    Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem (claude.com)

    289 points · HN #46315414

  9. 09

    Classical statues were not painted horribly (worksinprogress.co)

    631 points · HN #46311856

  10. 10

    Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop (jgthms.com)

    455 points · HN #46290349

  11. 11

    Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice (jaist.ac.jp)

    498 points · HN #46306894

  12. 12

    Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) (jsomers.net)

    271 points · HN #46270918

  13. 13

    Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) (github.com/vivienhenz24)

    373 points · HN #46294144

  14. 14

    Please just try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com)

    616 points · HN #46312973

  15. 15

    OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer (obsproject.com)

    313 points · HN #46305428

  16. 16

    Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

    485 points · HN #46307973

  17. 17

    Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles (arstechnica.com)

    372 points · HN #46240855

  18. 18

    T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models (blog.google)

    153 points · HN #46317657

  19. 19

    Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates (jack.bio)

    197 points · HN #46313379

  20. 20

    Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach (techradar.com)

    417 points · HN #46311355

  21. 21

    After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up (yale.edu)

    351 points · HN #46310976

  22. 22

    I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016) (snellman.net)

    165 points · HN #46292937

  23. 23

    Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT (openai.com)

    191 points · HN #46306456

  24. 24

    Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 (egyptianhieroglyphs.net)

    169 points · HN #46309407

  25. 25

    Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (meta.com)

    223 points · HN #46292266

  26. 26

    Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? (daringfireball.net)

    562 points · HN #46313061

  27. 27

    TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps? (noyb.eu)

    235 points · HN #46307500

  28. 28

    What is an elliptic curve? (2019) (johndcook.com)

    139 points · HN #46309571

  29. 29

    Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL (theregister.com)

    200 points · HN #46308893

  30. 30

    FunctionGemma 270M Model (blog.google)

    226 points · HN #46316533