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December 19, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #775

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. //Charles Dickens

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Issue #775 // 2025-12-19 // View in your browser

Quick programming note - no issue next week. Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and wishing you a wonderful New Year's! – kale

#Favorites


Simulate your financial future and start 2026 off on the right path
//projectionlab.com sponsored

alpr.watch
//alpr.watch comments→

Thin desires are eating life
//joanwestenberg.com comments→

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
//simonwillison.net comments→

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
//martinalderson.com comments→

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
//relaxing.run comments→

Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch
//github.com comments→

30 years of
tags

//artmann.co comments→

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
//technicshistory.com comments→

Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment
//github.com comments→

Fizzy Design Evolution: A Flipbook from Git
//zolkos.com comments→

#Ask HN


How can I get better at using AI for programming?

What Are You Working On?

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

#Classifieds


Photo Palettes - Find color inspiration in the everyday //photopalettes.com

Diamond or Dud – Discover and vote on a new stock weekly //assetroom.net

Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. The cloud for developers who ship. Sevalla. $50 free credit //sevalla.com

Cooking for the holidays? Preserve and share memories with Grandma's Recipes //grandmasrecipes.app

🎅 Gift a classified ad to yourself

#Show HN


Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system //borretti.me comments→

AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns //algodrill.io comments→

A pager //udp7777.com comments→

Learn Japanese contextually while browsing //lingoku.ai comments→

I built a fast RSS reader in Zig //github.com comments→

#Code


Announcing the Beta release of ty //astral.sh comments→

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? //stephenramsay.net comments→

Please just try HTMX //pleasejusttryhtmx.com comments→

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code //blog.tymscar.com comments→

#Data


SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns //dbpro.app comments→

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts //github.com comments→

How SQLite is tested //sqlite.org comments→

Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases //github.com comments→

Advent of SQL – A Daily SQL Puzzle Calendar Inspired by Advent of Code //dbpro.app comments→

#Design


Classical statues were not painted horribly //worksinprogress.co comments→

GNU Unifont //unifoundry.com comments→

Unscii //viznut.fi comments→

Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source //omgubuntu.co.uk comments→

Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop //jgthms.com comments→

A brief history of Times New Roman //typographyforlawyers.com comments→

#Books


2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web //cybercultural.com comments→

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class //nytimes.com comments→

Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles //matthematics.com comments→

ML Systems Textbook by Havard //mlsysbook.ai comments→

#Working


AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' //finalroundai.com comments→

Working quickly is more important than it seems //jsomers.net comments→

US Tech Force //techforce.gov comments→

I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do? //world.hey.com comments→

#Learn


Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access //dl.acm.org comments→

Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice //jaist.ac.jp comments→

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips //japantimes.co.jp comments→

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof //quantamagazine.org comments→

#Watching


Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now //youtube.com comments→

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? //youtube.com comments→

The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation //youtube.com comments→

Hear Bach's Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments //openculture.com comments→

#Startup News


Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges //news.bloomberglaw.com comments→

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo //blog.mozilla.org comments→

Coursera to combine with Udemy //investor.coursera.com comments→

A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote //404media.co comments→

#Fun


Rats Play DOOM //ratsplaydoom.com comments→

Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels //noclip.website comments→

My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings //drawize.com comments→

A TSP game I wanted for 10 years - built in 4 hours //graphhopper.com comments→

Type to Race – a cyberpunk typing game (TypeRacer × Subway Surfers) //typetorace.com comments→

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