Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-16
- I’m Kenyan. I don’t write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me marcusolang.substack.com - 404 comments 638 points
- “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number ericdaigle.ca - 266 comments 559 points
- Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial www.bbc.com - 426 comments 414 points
- Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide www.mlive.com - 305 comments 397 points
- Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES relaxing.run - 155 comments 360 points
- Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres andyatkinson.com - 394 comments 345 points
- Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices www.thebignewsletter.com - 93 comments 336 points
- 8M users’ AI conversations sold for profit by “privacy” extensions www.koi.ai - 95 comments 302 points
- Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 www.wired.com - 487 comments 300 points
- Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop blog.vaxry.net - 230 comments 293 points
- Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Certificates community.letsencrypt.org - 224 comments 287 points
- Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable johnlian.net - 112 comments 230 points
- It seems that OpenAI is scraping - certificate transparency logs benjojo.co.uk - 99 comments 201 points
- US Tech Force techforce.gov - 268 comments 194 points
- Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo’s eReaders quill-os.org - 64 comments 194 points
- JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet www.reuters.com - 79 comments 173 points
- Umbrel – Personal Cloud umbrel.com - 93 comments 161 points
- Sharp apple.github.io - 37 comments 160 points
- Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century hpjansson.org - 24 comments 132 points
- A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave arxiv.org - 156 comments 131 points
- We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently - video www.youtube.com - 46 comments 126 points
- We are discontinuing the dark web report support.google.com - 38 comments 126 points
- $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres planetscale.com - 65 comments 125 points
- Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions github.com - 67 comments 122 points
- Ideas aren’t getting harder to find asteriskmag.com - 58 comments 106 points
- Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon www.techradar.com - 102 comments 105 points
- United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure liveandletsfly.com - 98 comments 98 points
- Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets www.science.org - 32 comments 90 points
- MIT Missing Semester 2026 missing.csail.mit.edu - 65 comments 87 points
- The appropriate amount of effort is zero expandingawareness.org - 55 comments 87 points
December 16, 2025 ∙