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Show HN: Hacker News Christmas Colors Browser Extension

https://github.com/FreedomBen/hacker-news-christmas-colors-browser-ext
2•freedomben•2h ago
I love the look of HN on Christmas Day, but I never feel like I get quite enough of it in just one day. To rectify this catastrophic problem, I created a browser extension to give me the Christmas HN experience from the day after Thanksgiving until the first work-day of the new year.

I also added a fun "extra festive" mode that enhances the festivity level of the site beyond it's normal look. I love it, but I expect it to be controversial :-D

It's pretty easy to `git clone` and install it (instructions for Firefox and Chrome in the README.md). I haven't put it in the extension stores as I have no idea if anybody else would want it, but if it turns out there are dozens of us[1] that want to use it, I will do so.

Goal is to fully support Firefox and Chrome (as I'm a Firefox user primarily), though I haven't found a way to get the Christmas tree animated gif to load in Firefox so that one part doesn't currently work. I tried all kinds of hacks to convert the tree into an animated svg, and even generate new ones, and they are laughably horrible. I'll continue to look and try stuff but for now at least it will just display the alt text on Firefox.

Settings are accessible by clicking on the extension in the menu or tray.

[1]: A nod to the iconic Dr. Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development

BA fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/13/british_airways_fears_a_future/
2•zeristor•4m ago•0 comments

Sloot Digital Coding System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
1•rmason•4m ago•0 comments

Will Larson Reflects on Staff Engineer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBPtGtMY8bE
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Protect Earth creates and restores woodlands, meadows, and hedgerows in the UK

https://www.protect.earth
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Codewave

https://github.com/techdebtgpt/codewave
1•handfuloflight•11m ago•0 comments

IBM: What if quantum computing is as fundamental as the origin of zero?

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/is-quantum-computing-as-fundamental-as-origin-of-zero
3•donutloop•12m ago•0 comments

UK doubles down on its quantum bet

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-doubles-down-quantum-physics-computing-bet-starmer/
1•donutloop•13m ago•0 comments

From sci-fi to reality: Researchers realise quantum teleportation using tech

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/462587-from-sci-fi-to-reality-researchers-realise-quantum-tel...
2•donutloop•13m ago•0 comments

Stacked Diffs on GitHub

https://twitter.com/jaredpalmer/status/1999525369725215106
2•pryz•14m ago•1 comments

Long Covid involves activation of proinflammatory and immune exhaustion pathways

https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2...
2•bookofjoe•15m ago•0 comments

RAMageddon is coming for your smartphones and laptops

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/worsening-ram-crisis-starting-to-impact-smartphones-a...
1•walterbell•17m ago•0 comments

Securing Coolify Cluster with Tailscale

https://taner-dev.com/articles/securing-coolify
2•morenatron•19m ago•0 comments

MicroEMACS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS
1•doener•20m ago•0 comments

Liberal-coded economic policies lose support in polls when proposed by Trump

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-democratic-policies-midterms-polling/
4•alephnerd•20m ago•1 comments

Developers have canceled nearly 2k power projects this year – report

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4530351-developers-have-canceled-nearly-2000-power-projects-this-ye...
1•thelastgallon•22m ago•0 comments

The <time> element should do something

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/14/the-time-element-should-actually-do-something/
1•todsacerdoti•25m ago•1 comments

Google's Advent of Agents

https://adventofagents.com/
2•shubham_saboo•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: In-browser data exploration toolkit

https://github.com/Datakitpage/Datakit
2•parsabg•29m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Linux-rs Project

https://mateolafalce.github.io/2025/The%20Future%20of%20the%20Linux-rs%20Project/TheFutureoftheLi...
1•lafalce•31m ago•1 comments

Muslim hero risked his own life to save others

https://ahmedelahmed.com
2•dorongrinstein•31m ago•3 comments

Anthropic Outage for Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4/4.5 across all services

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
50•pablo24602•35m ago•30 comments

Ozymandias

https://blog.engora.com/2025/12/ozymandias.html
2•Vermin2000•35m ago•1 comments

The Plan Is the Program

https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/the-plan-is-the-program
1•herbertl•36m ago•0 comments

AI will transform science. Just not the way you think

https://ischemist.com/writings/long-form/will-ai-transform-science
1•hiddenseal•38m ago•0 comments

My Battle with Datetimes in Prod

https://www.datacompose.io/blog/fun-with-datetimes
1•tccole•38m ago•1 comments

Distropack now supports TAR archives aside from RPM DEB and PKG

https://distropack.dev/Blog/Post?slug=introducing-tar-package-support-simple-distribution-without...
1•segfault0x23•41m ago•1 comments

Job security in the age of AI? Get a state license – any state license

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/15/job-security-state-license
3•bookofjoe•42m ago•0 comments

Rethinking a Mathematical Notation for Possible LLM Applications

https://ursaxza.substack.com/p/a-hole-new-word
1•ursAxZA•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Carolina Cloud – 1/3 the cost of AWS for data science workloads

https://carolinacloud.io/
2•bojangleslover•45m ago•0 comments

Avoiding Fallback and Cold Paths

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
1•fanf2•46m ago•0 comments