Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-18

  1. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google - 475 comments 883 points
  2. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press - 748 comments 862 points
  3. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’ www.finalroundai.com - 452 comments 857 points
  4. Tell HN: HN was down news.ycombinator.com - 295 comments 527 points
  5. Coursera to combine with Udemy investor.coursera.com - 285 comments 474 points
  6. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images www.docker.com - 62 comments 302 points
  7. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice www.jaist.ac.jp - 62 comments 289 points
  8. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero blog.jakesaunders.dev - 198 comments 283 points
  9. How SQLite is tested sqlite.org - 73 comments 265 points
  10. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote www.404media.co - 140 comments 239 points
  11. AI’s real superpower: consuming, not creating msanroman.io - 163 comments 228 points
  12. OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer obsproject.com - 41 comments 204 points
  13. Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems fy.blackhats.net.au - 179 comments 164 points
  14. TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps? noyb.eu - 77 comments 155 points
  15. FCC chair suggests agency isn’t independent, word cut from mission statement www.axios.com - 146 comments 145 points
  16. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell news.ycombinator.com - 85 comments 140 points
  17. Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data www.bleepingcomputer.com - 76 comments 132 points
  18. Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it www.pcgamer.com - 138 comments 125 points
  19. Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video www.zeit.de - 48 comments 122 points
  20. TLA+ Modeling Tips muratbuffalo.blogspot.com - 29 comments 117 points
  21. Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT openai.com - 66 comments 114 points
  22. The State of AI Coding Report 2025 www.greptile.com - 93 comments 112 points
  23. US threatens EU digital services market access twitter.com - 123 comments 110 points
  24. Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability www.phoronix.com - 120 comments 108 points
  25. Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? archive.strongtowns.org - 121 comments 103 points
  26. American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. www.washingtonpost.com - 45 comments 91 points
  27. AI Isn’t Just Spying on You. It’s Tricking You into Spending More newrepublic.com - 59 comments 90 points
  28. Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE mdisec.com - 23 comments 88 points
  29. Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else? news.ycombinator.com - 2 comments 84 points
  30. Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust pypi.org - 2 comments 78 points