Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-27
- Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social - 1609 comments 1349 points
- How uv got so fast nesbitt.io - 251 comments 743 points
- Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out nesbitt.io - 348 comments 607 points
- FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub twitter.com - 150 comments 450 points
- My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL old.reddit.com - 164 comments 384 points
- Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations nhmu.utah.edu - 174 comments 346 points
- I’m a laptop weirdo and that’s why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com - 260 comments 272 points
- Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness” simonwillison.net - 201 comments 268 points
- Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system github.com - 37 comments 263 points
- ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests community.openai.com - 151 comments 228 points
- LearnixOS www.learnix-os.com - 83 comments 207 points
- Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? news.ycombinator.com - 281 comments 203 points
- Always bet on text - 2014 graydon2.dreamwidth.org - 74 comments 168 points
- How Lewis Carroll computed determinants - 2023 www.johndcook.com - 42 comments 163 points
- Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago acadlisp.de - 35 comments 115 points
- A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash blog.nawaz.org - 122 comments 114 points
- High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects www.smithsonianmag.com - 101 comments 108 points
- Unix “find” expressions compiled to bytecode nullprogram.com - 15 comments 108 points
- Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 - Xtensa in 700 lines github.com - 20 comments 104 points
- Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith catalinionescu.dev - 46 comments 101 points
- QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop devblog.qnx.com - 43 comments 99 points
- Exe.dev exe.dev - 53 comments 96 points
- ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ‘What is it for?’ www.politico.com - 78 comments 94 points
- T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types type-ruby.github.io - 57 comments 93 points
- Drawing with zero-width characters zw.swerdlow.dev - 29 comments 89 points
- ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 railsatscale.com - 27 comments 85 points
- Codex vs. Claude Code - today build.ms - 89 comments 83 points
- Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment ibrahimcesar.cloud - 46 comments 82 points
- Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster www.folklore.org - 95 comments 75 points
- How I think about Kubernetes garnaudov.com - 50 comments 73 points
December 27, 2025 ∙