Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-19

  1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access dl.acm.org - 169 comments 1567 points
  2. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack gist.github.com - 295 comments 748 points
  3. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net - 563 comments 706 points
  4. Classical statues were not painted horribly worksinprogress.co - 277 comments 587 points
  5. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? daringfireball.net - 424 comments 511 points
  6. Please just try HTMX pleasejusttryhtmx.com - 409 comments 500 points
  7. GPT-5.2-Codex openai.com - 234 comments 443 points
  8. Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach www.techradar.com - 258 comments 405 points
  9. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts github.com - 133 comments 374 points
  10. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social - 314 comments 362 points
  11. After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up e360.yale.edu - 285 comments 334 points
  12. 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 www.jeffgeerling.com - 106 comments 314 points
  13. How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips www.japantimes.co.jp - 307 comments 295 points
  14. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem claude.com - 143 comments 256 points
  15. Slowness is a virtue blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com - 81 comments 239 points
  16. How getting richer made teenagers less free www.theargumentmag.com - 274 comments 218 points
  17. AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs www.coderabbit.ai - 159 comments 199 points
  18. FunctionGemma 270M Model blog.google - 49 comments 191 points
  19. Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates www.jack.bio - 165 comments 159 points
  20. Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net - 63 comments 152 points
  21. How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick kibty.town - 31 comments 142 points
  22. AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything kottke.org - 10 comments 141 points
  23. Most parked domains now serving malicious content krebsonsecurity.com - 51 comments 133 points
  24. GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners price increase postponed pricetimeline.com - 1 comments 133 points
  25. What is an elliptic curve? - 2019 www.johndcook.com - 13 comments 130 points
  26. RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD www.freebsd.org - 75 comments 124 points
  27. T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models blog.google - 22 comments 123 points
  28. The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range vividmaps.com - 29 comments 119 points
  29. Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals www.euronews.com - 132 comments 111 points
  30. Valve is running Apple’s playbook in reverse www.garbagecollected.dev - 141 comments 109 points