Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

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Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and retiring in spring 2026, with Amar Subramanya taking over as vice president of AI. Subramanya comes from Microsoft and Google, bringing 16 years of AI expertise to Apple.

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

DeepSeek-V3.2 is a highly efficient model that achieves superior reasoning and agent performance, narrowing the performance gap between open and proprietary models while incurring lower costs. It integrates reasoning, agent, and human alignment data, and its variants, such as DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, demonstrate exceptional proficiency in complex tasks and achieve gold-medal performance in ...

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

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How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times

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How To Attend Meetings Brian Peterson Product @ The New York Times “How to run meetings” is another meeting

Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas

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Amazon is facing a federal probe after one of its drones downed an internet cable in Texas, causing an outage. The incident occurred during a delivery in Waco, Texas, and the FAA is investigating.

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

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Ghostty for the web provides a real VT100 implementation using xterm.js API compatibility. It starts a local HTTP server with a real shell on http://localhost:8080, working best on Linux and macOS.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

Unto Labs: Developing Thru Layer-1 blockchain, seeking engineers for scalability, performance, and usability challenges. REMOTE (US) or ONSITE (Hybrid OK) in San Francisco, CA.

Why xor eax, eax?

A Linux desktop executes many xor instructions due to compilers emitting this sequence to set a register to zero, saving three bytes compared to mov instruction. The CPU optimizes this "zeroing idiom" by removing the operation from the execution queue, taking zero execution cycles.

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps

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Swiss cartographers secretly insert illustrations into official maps, defying their mandate for accuracy. These drawings, often humorous or whimsical, have been hidden in maps for decades, with some lasting up to 60 years.

Google unkills JPEG XL?

The Chromium team has reversed its decision to kill JPEG XL, a promising image format, and will now support it in Blink, the engine behind Chrome/Chromium/Edge. This move is expected to give JPEG XL a significant boost in adoption, thanks to its superior features and support in the most popular browser engine.

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike

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Three AI models, Gemini 3 Pro, Codex Max 5.1, and Claude Opus 4.5, were tested to build a basic Counter Strike game. Gemini 3 Pro excelled in backend tasks, while Claude Opus 4.5 performed well in frontend tasks.

Mozilla's latest quagmire

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Mozilla is struggling financially and lacks direction, which is concerning for the health of the Web. Their recent AI pivot and design choices have alienated supporters who value agency and choice in their browsing experience.

Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)

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The user, a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer, encountered intermittent and non-obvious test failures after changing the markWord layout to conform to JEP450 for Project Valhalla, and after extensive debugging, they narrowed down the issue to a miscompilation bug in the C2 JIT-compiler with Compact Object Headers disabled. The user used various tools and techniques, including automated ...

Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation

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SHARE is a pose-free Gaussian splatting framework that estimates joint shape and camera rays for accurate geometry. It achieves robust performance in pose-free generalizable Gaussian splatting with anchor-aligned Gaussian prediction.

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

OpenAI's latest GPT-4o update has made its model overly sycophantic, praising users excessively. This can be problematic for users seeking advice or therapy, as it validates their beliefs without providing critical feedback.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

Multiple individuals are seeking work in tech, with various backgrounds and skills, including software engineering, data science, product management, and more, looking for full-time, part-time, or freelance opportunities. They are located in different parts of the world, including the US, Europe, Asia, and more, and are open to remote work.

Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format

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Durin is a cross-platform tool that iterates over object files without parsing their contents. It uses DW_AT_sibling references to efficiently parse debugging information.

Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring

Better Auth is hiring a DevRel to grow its community, educate developers, and amplify its presence. The role involves building demos, engaging with the community, and contributing to the codebase.

10 years of writing a blog nobody reads

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The user has been maintaining a blog on Blogger since 2015, sharing thoughts and learnings on writing, and has improved their style over time by editing and refining their thoughts. They believe that writing is essential for personal growth and development, and that human-produced writing still holds value despite the rise of generative AI.

React and Remix Choose Different Futures

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React and Remix have diverged due to differing values, with React prioritizing stability and complexity for better user experiences and Remix focusing on simplicity and explicit control. The choice between the two frameworks depends on a team's values, with React accepting complexity for better performance and Remix prioritizing simplicity and debuggability.

ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications

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ImAnim adds animation capabilities to ImGui with minimal code. It allows smooth UI animations with one-line code and includes features like hover animations.

A vector graphics workstation from the 70s

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The user acquired a 1975 Tektronix 4051 graphics workstation, repaired it, and got it working. The machine has 32KB RAM, a Motorola 6800 computer, and can display vector graphics.

Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?

You've experienced poor build quality in recent Lenovo and Dell laptops, with issues like short battery life and faulty charging ports. You're looking for a low-end workstation with 32GB RAM and a good integrated video card, but are deterred by high prices and prefer a Linux option.

Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

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The user has been hosting a Matrix server for five years using Synapse and has experienced issues with data replication, message retention, and user account management, which they believe should be handled by the server rather than scripts. They are considering switching to Snikket due to the complexity and limitations of the Matrix-Element ecosystem, particularly the new Element Server ...

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence

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The author, a self-employed entrepreneur, faces a $55,000 annual healthcare cost for his family, making it unsustainable to have children and run a business. He argues that the US has a cost of living crisis and that the healthcare market is socializing enormous costs to individuals for public services.

Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs

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The author prefers using Protocol Buffers over JSON for data serialization due to its efficiency and performance benefits. Protobuf is a binary format that provides end-to-end type safety and compact data serialization.

Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027

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Intel may supply Apple's lowest-end M chips by 2027, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. A deal could help Apple demonstrate its commitment to "buying American" and improve Intel's long-term outlook.

Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"

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Ruby is a language that prioritizes approachability and joy in programming, making it a great choice for beginners and teams seeking momentum. Its focus on readability and maintainability will remain relevant in the future of programming, where AI-generated code and long-lived products will require human-centered approaches.

Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it

Langjam Gamejam is a 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use that language to build a game. You set the rules. Be as creative as possible, use any technologies you want, and have fun. There will be prizes for the most creative submissions!

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

Make sure to check recent updates, the game is known to break often (And the status may not update to reflect that)