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  1. The first fully CGI character is nearly 40 years old (2024) (screenrant.com)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by teleforce 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Norad Tracks Santa (noradsanta.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by gadiyar 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Saadia Gaon (wikipedia.org)
    ×0.99 | 1 points by marysminefnuf 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.79 | 1 points by Mindless2112 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Fun Library Kiosk and Novel Web-Based Display of Web Pages (archive.org)
    ×0.83 | 1 points by richardatlarge 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
    ×0.80 | 1 points by donatzsky 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Sweden Steps Up Efforts to Reverse the Decline in Cash Usage (cashessentials.org)
    ×0.77 | 1 points by walterbell 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025 (tom7.org)
    ×0.72 | 1 points by tobr 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Vulgar Script: The Alliance Against Open AI (jaco-bro.github.io)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by jaco-bro 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Salmon Recipe (waveinscriber.com)
    ×1.62 | 2 points by vitalnodo 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. UK police forces lobbied to use biased facial recognition technology (theguardian.com)
    ×0.71 | 1 points by hn_acker 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Memory: Agents Learn (ashpreetbedi.com)
    ×0.63 | 1 points by gmays 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.50 10 #8 | 8 points by AmbroseBierce 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Whales, beards, mules and VIPs: the secret world of professional gambling (theguardian.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by PaulHoule 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ambicular: Bring your Christmas melody to life (ambicular.com)
    ×0.48 | 1 points by lovegrenoble 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Datafun – functional language that generalizes Datalog (rntz.net)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.11 | 2 points by akrulino 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard (altgr-weur.eu)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by tokai 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: JadeStage [I built the platform I wish existed ] (jadestage.com)
    ×0.92 | 2 points by dialloDojo 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: What happens when AI doesn't need human tools?
    ×1.62 29 | 3 points by SuboptimalEng 44 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. France Is Bacon (stevestewartwilliams.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by delichon 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Teardown of Sharge Pixel 140 GAN Charger (S2) (chargerlab.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by teleforce 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Amjad Taha, Muslim Brotherhood Maxxing and the Emirati Dysinfluencer Factory (marcowenjones.substack.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by subliminalpanda 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Dollars in Sales over the Weekend (flyingstart.co)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by lbyaus 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Breakthrough Listen Observations of 3I/Atlas with the Green Bank Telescope (arxiv.org)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by bikenaga 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Rust the Process (amalbansode.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by quadrophenia 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients (oneusefulthing.org)
    ×1.08 | 2 points by gmays 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Graphonym – Your acronyms, defined and connected (graphonym.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by Phillip98798 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. In the Age of AI, Your App Is Falling Behind (medium.com)
    ×1.63 22 | 3 points by vgb3766 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Why Use Ed(1) (thechases.com)
    ×1.67 21 | 3 points by mghackerlady 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. SlicerVM: Deploy Firecracker MicroVMs via YAML or API (slicervm.com)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by handfuloflight 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. KC3: Programming language for meta-programming with an embedded graph database (kc3-lang.org)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by rapnie 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×6.58 1 #2 | 161 points by basilikum 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US drops plan to deport Chinese national who exposed Xinjiang abuses (apnews.com)
    ×3.05 49 | 6 points by perihelions 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV (nytimes.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. GNU C Language Introduction and Reference Manual, Edition 0.1 (May 2025) [pdf] (gnu.org)
    ×2.06 31 | 4 points by lioeters 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. ShareTechnote (sharetechnote.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by jsrcout 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Social Collections: Find your friends social media handles (collections.social)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by wyall 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Faster Rust Builds on Mac (nnethercote.github.io)
    ×1.53 7 | 3 points by ushakov 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)
    ×2.21 2 #1 | 105 points by snvzz 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. 2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)
    ×0.99 | 2 points by nickswalker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Regulating Algorithmic Content Distribution and Moderation by Online Platforms (rstreet.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Re: Question about LuaJIT v3.0 status (freelists.org)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by radiator 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken." (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
    ×2.85 41 | 5 points by f0r3st 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Visualizing File Formats for Fun (telkins.com)
    ×0.39 | 1 points by trevor-e 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI Courtroom to settle arguments with your family this X-mas (thecourthouse.ai)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by conaire 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TOPS-10 in a Box (2011) (filfre.net)
    ×0.78 43 | 6 points by exvi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Show HN: In-app messaging for modern SaaS (that doesn't cost $$$/mo) (cueflow.so)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by nishmarka 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Where Will AI Dissent Go in 2026? (unite.ai)
    ×1.00 | 2 points by 50kIters 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack (justfuckingusecloudflare.com)
    ×2.91 81 | 26 points by MyNameIsTito 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. The Concept of Bias: A Baseline Mechanism for Efficient Intelligence (theminddeveloper.github.io)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by TheMindDev 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Zelda: Twilight Princess Has Been Decompiled (timeextension.com)
    ×1.01 | 2 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Would an AI die to save you? (twitter.com/kradleai)
    ×1.62 4 | 3 points by goog2012 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Modern Rust and llama.cpp running on 20-year-old PowerPC Macs (Tiger/Leopard)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by AutoJanitor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
    ×1.02 10 | 4 points by ray__ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: What is your primary operating system?
    ×0.94 | 2 points by chistev 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Betty Reid Soskin, oldest-ever US national park ranger, has died (latimes.com)
    ×1.02 | 2 points by NaOH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Cats-effect: I/O Integrated Runtime Concept (github.com/typelevel)
    ×0.42 | 1 points by dustingetz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The AI capability measurement gap – Joel Becker, METR [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.43 | 1 points by swyx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale (github.com/timescale)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by flyaway123 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Workers across the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases in 2026 (cbsnews.com)
    ×1.55 8 | 3 points by geox 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. A linear imageboru for My Little Pony art (derpibooru.org)
    ×0.95 | 2 points by Psychoshy_bc1q 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.26 6 #9 | 28 points by dhashe 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. FileKit.dev – New Thumbnail Component and Multi Upload Support (filekit.dev)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by georgealbert 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High (raptitude.com)
    ×0.98 | 2 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.46 25 #56 | 12 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Hacking a Java Minecraft server with memory overflows using in-game mechanics (youtube.com)
    ×1.35 3 #68 | 6 points by jblazevic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. South Korea Passes Strictest Disinformation Law in Any Democracy (koreaherald.com)
    ×2.74 25 | 6 points by agentifysh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×3.18 28 #34 | 47 points by DetectDefect 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. 89 years ago, an SF-to-Hawaii flight changed the world forever (sfgate.com)
    ×1.44 12 | 3 points by Stratoscope 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Deep metatranscriptomic sequencing data of wastewater from Los Angeles 2023–2024 (nature.com)
    ×0.41 | 1 points by ano-ther 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Indiegogo suppressing indie journalists exposing israel (youtube.com)
    ×3.39 61 | 13 points by proshno 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Groq and Nvidia Licensing Agreement (groq.com)
    ×1.35 4 #49 | 9 points by hasheddan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Golfing Is Not Rowing (taylor.town)
    ×1.59 14 | 3 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf] (vpri.org)
    ×1.37 8 #90 | 5 points by fanf2 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Building Embeddable Widgets with Phoenix Channels (zarar.dev)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by recroad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Early retirement calculator that models a full 50-years(for retiring young) (earlyretirementrunway.com)
    ×0.45 | 1 points by minviex 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Spec Kit: Spec-driven development with AI, a new open-source toolkit (github.blog)
    ×0.44 | 1 points by pretext 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Bignum Bakeoff: The Coding Competition You've Probably Never Heard Of (youtube.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by 112233 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Enable Compression for SSH (2013) (gidblog.com)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by exvi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The Pentagon and AI Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China's Batteries, Badly (nytimes.com)
    ×2.29 3 | 4 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Five pre-training tricks from Character AI (twitter.com/simon_mo_)
    ×0.46 | 1 points by tzury 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Show HN: AI that chose its name and designed its own website (Next.js 14) (guerrillasocialclub.com)
    ×0.97 | 2 points by cipherexp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Collect memories, not things. Until memories start fading (marekdlugos.com)
    ×0.47 | 1 points by MarekDlugos 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor (slatestarcodex.com)
    ×1.09 | 2 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. A man hunting the spies in your smartphone (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.47 22 #77 | 8 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?
    ×1.16 19 | 3 points by inshard 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Gravity coupling matches the 128-bit integer limit to 6 ppm
    ×1.01 | 2 points by albert_roca 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects?
    ×1.64 21 | 3 points by akkad33 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Equira – Track Stocks, Crypto, Gold and Real Estate in One Dashboard (apple.com)
    ×1.04 | 2 points by Equira 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???