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December 12, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #774

Creativity is the art of finding a new route to a known destination. //Simon Sinek

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#Favorites


Size of Life
//neal.fun comments→

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
//about.netflix.com comments→

Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
//bruno-simon.com comments→

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
//reuters.com comments→

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
//repebble.com comments→

Is it a bubble?
//oaktreecapital.com comments→

Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
//alexsci.com comments→

Making RSS More Fun
//matduggan.com comments→

Craft software that makes people feel something
//rapha.land comments→

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
//jeffhuang.com comments→

Useful patterns for building HTML tools
//simonwillison.net comments→

#Ask HN


Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?

What Are You Working On?

#Show HN


Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA //alpranalysis.com comments→

I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s //withdocket.com comments→

Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative //github.com comments→

A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones //k-keyboard.com comments→

Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager //github.com comments→

Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams //fanfa.dev comments→

#Code


Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 //anders.unix.se comments→

The highest quality codebase //gricha.dev comments→

Django: what’s new in 6.0 //adamj.eu comments→

Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices //anandchowdhary.com comments→

Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig //github.com comments→

#Data


GPT-5.2 //openai.com comments→

Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch) //github.com comments→

DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing //sql-flow.com comments→

You gotta push if you wanna pull //morling.dev comments→

#Design


Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help //blog.jim-nielsen.com comments→

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude //j0nah.com comments→

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS //wiki.csswg.org comments→

GitHub no longer uses Toasts //primer.style comments→

Manual: Spaces //type.today comments→

#Books


Patterns.dev //patterns.dev comments→

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf] //usap.gov comments→

Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong //simonsfoundation.org comments→

Ask HN: Modern C# book for experienced developers? //news.ycombinator.com

#Working


Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden //andyljones.com comments→

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer //lalitm.com comments→

Most technical problems are people problems //blog.joeschrag.com comments→

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? //martinalderson.com comments→

Things I want to say to my boss //ithoughtaboutthatalot.com comments→

How to Get Hired in 2025 //tonsky.me comments→

#Learn


The universal weight subspace hypothesis //arxiv.org comments→

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation //science.org comments→

Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows //phys.org comments→

#Watching


Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam //youtube.com comments→

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken //youtube.com comments→

Powers of Ten //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices //office365itpros.com comments→

IBM to acquire Confluent //confluent.io comments→

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free //riviantrackr.com comments→

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora //openai.com comments→

#Fun


Typewriter Plotters //biosrhythm.com comments→

Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 //oldvcr.blogspot.com comments→

FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels //apps.apple.com comments→

An endless scrolling word search game //endless-wordsearch.com comments→

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