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December 5, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #773

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#Favorites


Advent of Code 2025
//adventofcode.com comments→

All it takes is for one to work out
//alearningaday.blog comments→

Writing a good Claude.md
//humanlayer.dev comments→

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
//snoutcover.com comments→

Paged Out
//pagedout.institute comments→

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
//entropicthoughts.com comments→

10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
//flowtwo.io comments→

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
//lesswrong.com comments→

Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
//stratechery.com comments→

#Ask HN


Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?

What open source projects are you grateful for?

#Show HN


Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release //tegabrain.com comments→

Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras //github.com comments→

We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor //github.com comments→

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker //objectiveunclear.com comments→

Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites //yandori.io comments→

I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions //finfam.app comments→

Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later //onlyrecipeapp.com comments→

#Code


Django 6 //docs.djangoproject.com comments→

Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language" //robbyonrails.com comments→

Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line //github.com comments→

Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street //github.com comments→

#Data


Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file //pocketbase.io comments→

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres //pglite.dev comments→

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset //clickhouse.com comments→

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite //andersmurphy.com comments→

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 //cybertec-postgresql.com comments→

#Design


Penpot: The Open-Source Figma //github.com comments→

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle //fxrant.blogspot.com comments→

Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps //eyeondesign.aiga.org comments→

AI generated font using Nano Banana //constanttime.notion.site comments→

Vanilla CSS is all you need //zolkos.com comments→

Swatchify – CLI to get a color palette from an image //james-see.github.io comments→

#Books


Learning music with Strudel //terryds.notion.site comments→

Python Data Science Handbook //jakevdp.github.io comments→

Ask HN: What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? //news.ycombinator.com

#Working


The Junior Hiring Crisis //people-work.io comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

High-income job losses are cooling housing demand //jbrec.com comments→

Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? //economist.com comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill //nber.org comments→

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? //reason.com comments→

What will enter the public domain in 2026? //publicdomainreview.org comments→

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost //nbcnews.com comments→

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long //conwaylife.com comments→

We're learning more about what Vitamin D does //technologyreview.com comments→

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero //johndcook.com comments→

#Watching


The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary //thinkinggamefilm.com comments→

There is No Quintic Formula //youtube.com comments→

Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay //youtube.com comments→

My car charger can boil water really fast //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Anthropic acquires Bun //bun.com comments→

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out //bleepingcomputer.com comments→

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race //theverge.com comments→

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business //investors.micron.com comments→

#Fun


Boing //boing.greg.technology comments→

Multivox: Volumetric Display //github.com comments→

Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder //microlandia.city comments→

Playtiles: The Pocket-Sized Gaming Platform //get.playtil.es comments→

Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees //frozenfractal.com comments→

Cloth Simulation //cloth.mikail-khan.com comments→

I built a website for games that catch my eye //alistof.games comments→

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