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Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
146•medv•2h ago•59 comments

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning

https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
48•tsenturk•1h ago•11 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
131•lioeters•4h ago•38 comments

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-d...
152•nickrubin•1h ago•67 comments

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
153•hugs•4h ago•64 comments

Steam Store Is Offline

https://steamstat.us/
9•DetectDefect•27m ago•1 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html
26•ravenical•4d ago•10 comments

When Compilers Surprise You

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang
180•brewmarche•8h ago•81 comments

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•1h ago

Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide

https://techlife.blog/posts/build-your-own-100tb-nas-2025-complete-truenas-storage-guide/
7•tsenturk•1h ago•2 comments

A faster path to container images in Bazel

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img/
47•malt3•6d ago•18 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html
63•todsacerdoti•6h ago•57 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
1326•Aissen•1d ago•509 comments

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
29•helsinkiandrew•3d ago•6 comments

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdc...
51•bookofjoe•2h ago•11 comments

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds...
128•zeristor•13h ago•97 comments

Quake's Player Speed (2017)

https://rome.ro/quakes-player-speed-1
37•klaussilveira•1d ago•1 comments

I'm returning my Framework 16

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
106•YorickPeterse•9h ago•177 comments

Avoid Mini-Frameworks

https://laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171/
100•laike9m•10h ago•77 comments

The dawn of a world simulator

https://odyssey.ml/the-dawn-of-a-world-simulator
6•olivercameron•4d ago•0 comments

Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40593353
23•simonebrunozzi•3d ago•17 comments

Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots

https://pantograph.com/blog/building-a-preschool-for-robots.html
28•agajews•1d ago•4 comments

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery

https://postech.ac.kr/eng/research/research_results.do?mode=view&articleNo=43617&title=Anode-Free...
92•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•44 comments

Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison

https://litexlang.com/doc/How_Litex_Works/Litex_vs_Lean_Set_Theory_Examples
12•litexlang•5d ago•3 comments

Rack makes Pion SCTP 71% faster with 27% less latency

https://pion.ly/blog/sctp-and-rack/
10•mosura•3h ago•0 comments

Your inbox is a bandit problem

https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox/
59•zdw•2d ago•56 comments

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

https://blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs/
161•Anon84•12h ago•120 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb
64•laurentlb•5d ago•11 comments

Looking for Decent Conversation?

72•kmstout•2h ago•10 comments

Lessons from the PG&E outage

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world
127•scoofy•20h ago•110 comments
Open in hackernews

Looking for Decent Conversation?

72•kmstout•2h ago
If you have fond memories of misspending entirely too much of your youth on web-based message boards, or you would like to misspend more of your nights and weekends on them now, Google has you covered. Simply add

  inurl:viewtopic.php
to any query, and most, if not all, of your results will be discussion threads on boards running atop phpBB. Similarly, using

  inurl:"index.php?topic="
seems to get Simple Machines fora, and

  inurl:showthread.php
will unearth vBulletin fora. You can also combine them, like so:

  croissant AND (inurl:viewtopic.php OR inurl:showthread.php OR inurl:"index.php?topic=")
Happy holidays, and good hunting.

Comments

davedx•2h ago
There must be a vbulletin version too!
FergusArgyll•2h ago
And if you do find an old php message board, absolutely do not add

  ?topic=../../../../etc/passwd
wheybags•25m ago
My first php script was a file upload server for a lan party. Luckily nobody tried to upload a file named ../index.php, because I realized afterwards that it would have worked :p
6510•18m ago
I've just tried it on mine but nothing fun happened. What is suppose to?
chistev•1h ago
I posted this 23 days ago -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511

I've been enjoying past discussion threads on HN, currently in 2012.

Interesting conversations about how Facebook would fail back then, lol, and about how Bitcoin would not be as valuable as it is today. Who would have known?

Great site, this.

stackghost•1h ago
HN is (in)famous for being bad at predicting success or failure, cf. Dropbox.

Lots of very intelligent people here but, no offense to anyone, this is the last place I'd come to get product advice.

thekevan•58m ago
That's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive.

BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf.

Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product.

It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.

chistev•56m ago
Lol. It's not a HN thing. I think humans just suck at predicting the future when that future involves the actions of other humans. Too many variables.

If you had read old discussion threads you'd never know Facebook would be the behemoth it is today.

samyar•12m ago
Hn is the place where smart ppl give you feedback. I have benefited in many ways from hn.
DetectDefect•36m ago
I would love to see an effort to amass these corpora of knowledge into zim files for offline consumption, similar to stackoverflow et al.

https://library.kiwix.org