Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

Netflix acquires Warner Bros. in a $82.7 billion deal, combining iconic franchises and libraries. The acquisition creates a stronger entertainment industry with more choice and value for consumers.

Cloudflare was down

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

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Cloudflare experienced a 25-minute outage on December 5, 2025, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic due to a bug in its rules module. The issue was caused by a change to its body parsing logic to mitigate a React Server Components vulnerability.

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

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Netflix uses AV1, a modern open video codec, to deliver high-quality streaming to its members, achieving 30% viewing share and reducing bandwidth consumption. AV1's superior compression efficiency and features like HDR and film grain synthesis enhance the streaming experience, with AV2 on the horizon to further improve streaming capabilities.

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

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BMW PHEV owners face high costs due to over-engineered diagnostic procedures and expensive replacement parts. This results in unnecessary waste and increased CO2 footprint.

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law

A secretive alliance of 11 US-based multinational enterprises, including Chevron and ExxonMobil, is working to dilute the EU's human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The companies are using lobbying and PR tactics to influence EU institutions and governments to serve their interests.

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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Gemini 3 Pro is a multimodal model that excels in document, spatial, screen, and video understanding with state-of-the-art performance. It can accurately detect and recognize text, tables, math formulas, and figures in real-world documents.

UniFi 5G

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The UniFi 5G Max lineup delivers a sleek, powerful 5G internet experience with easy deployment and flexible placement. It offers dual SIM capabilities, ultra-low latency, and WAN flexibility with UniFi routing policies and SLAs.

Most technical problems are people problems

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A company had significant technical debt due to outdated code and lack of unit tests. A project to port Windows-only modules to Linux only addressed symptoms, not the underlying people problems that created the debt.

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

A new technique has been discovered that allows for complex interactive clickjacking attacks and multiple forms of data exfiltration by using SVG filters to run logic and provide visual output. This technique can be used to create convincing attacks such as fake captchas, input boxes, and even QR codes that can be used to exfiltrate data.

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

Recent outages occurred at companies that adopted Vibe coding, but the issue appears to be resolved. The downtime was stressful for users of pirate sites, but tolerable for mainstream services like Crunchyroll.

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional

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Kenya's high court declared unconstitutional a seed law that restricted farmers from sharing indigenous seeds. The ruling allows farmers to preserve and share seeds without fear of imprisonment or fines.

Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit

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MetaComputing offers an ARM-based mainboard that can be installed in the Framework Laptop 13 or mini PC case, providing 8 performance cores and an ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU. The MetaComputing ARM AI PC Kit costs $549 for the base model and $999 with a Framework Laptop 13.

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

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This study found that vaccinated individuals aged 18 to 59 years had a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to unvaccinated individuals over a 4-year period. The results suggest that COVID-19 vaccination is safe and does not increase the risk of long-term mortality.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

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The US State Department is instructing staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking or content moderation, citing "censorship" of Americans' speech. Critics say this policy is incoherent and unconstitutional, as it conflates trust and safety work with censorship.

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication

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A research article on glyphosate's safety has been retracted due to academic integrity issues. The study was written by Monsanto employees under the names of listed scientists.

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

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The author emphasizes the importance of defensive programming in Rust, where the compiler is used to enforce rules and prevent bugs from occurring in the first place. By following specific patterns and best practices, developers can write more robust and maintainable code that is less prone to errors and easier to understand.

Jolla Phone Pre-Order

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Jolla Phone is an independent European Linux phone with a price of 499-699 €. Pre-orders are required to bring the phone into production, with refunds if the 2,000 goal is not met.

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.

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Bausch & Lomb's prescription dry eye drug Miebo costs $800+ in the US, but its European counterpart EvoTears is available OTC for $20.

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia

HZ vaccination appears to have a beneficial effect on reducing new dementia diagnoses and deaths due to dementia, with a 3.1 percentage point reduction in new MCI diagnoses and a 29.5 percentage point reduction in deaths due to dementia over 9 years. The effect of HZ vaccination was larger among women than men, with significant reductions in new MCI diagnoses and deaths due to dementia among women.

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]

Researchers from the University of Zurich and others found that increased national advertising expenditure is linked to lower life satisfaction in European countries. This relationship holds even after adjusting for various factors, suggesting that high levels of advertising may negatively impact societal well-being.

Making RSS More Fun

The user created a hobby project called Time Waster Pro, a browser extension that serves random small websites to users, allowing them to upvote or downvote content. The goal is to provide a simple, ad-free experience that promotes discovery of niche content.

Why we built Lightpanda in Zig

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The author chose Zig for Lightpanda due to its simplicity and performance, preferring it over C++ and Rust for the project's specific needs. They appreciate Zig's explicit memory management, comptime metaprogramming, and C interoperability, which fit well with the project's requirements.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Here's a 2-sentence summary of the user's input in plain text format without any Markdown formatting.

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee selected seven groundbreaking papers that highlight advances in various machine learning topics, including diffusion models, self-supervised reinforcement learning, and neural scaling laws. The papers address critical challenges in AI, such as the Artificial Hivemind effect, mode collapse, and the need for improved RL paradigms to unlock novel reasoning abilities in LLMs.

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case

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A California judge has tentatively sided with Software Freedom Conservancy in its GPL case against Vizio over SmartCast TVs, pending a final outcome. The case involves Vizio's failure to provide source code for Linux and other software licensed under GPL and LGPL.

Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

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The author chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle due to its exceptional quality, philosophy, and simplicity. Zig's favorable ratio of expressivity to language complexity and its approach to safety made it the best choice for TigerBeetle's needs.

Framework Sponsors CachyOS

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CachyOS has released its seventh update with improved accessibility, mkinitcpio changes, and more. Key updates include Orca and espeak-ng support, mkinitcpio systemd hook, and Bcachefs integration.

Frank Gehry has died

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Frank Gehry, a renowned architect, has died at 96. He was known for his avant-garde style and iconic designs like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

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Scientists discovered sugars essential for biology, a gum-like substance, and dust from supernova explosions in asteroid Bennu samples. These findings provide clues on the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life, supporting the "RNA world" hypothesis.

Leaving Intel

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I resigned from Intel to accept a new opportunity. I contributed to AI flame graphs, cloud strategy, and customer meetings during my 3.5 years at Intel.

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

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Britain's Ofcom is threatening to expand a probe into 4chan, a US company, after refusing to pay fines. The US is considering a GRANITE Act to protect Americans from foreign censorship, inspired by Ofcom's letters.

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out

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Public patience with AI-generated media is wearing thin due to concerns over its impact and authenticity. The technology is seen as benefiting only the richest technologists, with many questioning its actual value and potential harm.

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

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WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons

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Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void

You're a blogger who misses the old web and is trying to revive your blog with minimal design and no trackers, despite the challenges of competing with social media. You're using AI code tools to simplify your blog software.

Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'

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Detainees at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration jail were subjected to cruel treatment including being shackled in a metal cage and denied water. Amnesty International calls for the facility's closure and an end to mass detention, citing human rights abuses and medical neglect.

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name

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A US appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against OpenAI and Jony Ive's new venture from using the name "io" for their products due to a likelihood of confusion with AI startup iyO's name. The case now returns to a district court for a preliminary injunction in April 2026.

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

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Brown rats have been observed hunting bats in Germany, using their whiskers and air currents to detect prey. This behavior could harm local bat populations and potentially spread diseases to humans.

Fizz Buzz in CSS

The user is asking for the smallest CSS code to print the Fizz Buzz sequence. They provide a four-line CSS solution but mention that it can likely be further minimized.

Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Netflix is in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's film studios and HBO Max for a potential $5 billion deal.

Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources

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Netflix submitted the highest bid for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets at $28 per share, surpassing Paramount's offer of around $27 per share. The bidding war has intensified, with Paramount's attorneys expressing concerns about the auction process and hinting at a potential hostile takeover.

Perpetual Futures

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Perpetual futures (perps) in crypto allow for high-leverage trading, simplifying exchanges' business of blowing out losing traders. However, this comes with risks, including automatic deleveraging (ADL) and potential losses for exchanges and market makers.

Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble

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Banks are lending heavily to AI companies while hedging their bets with credit derivatives to protect against potential defaults. The cost of insuring debt against default has risen sharply, with Oracle and Microsoft credit default swaps trading at high spreads.

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

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A terminal workspace with batteries included

How Brussels writes so many laws

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The EU's governing coalition, spanning multiple parties and institutions, has produced around 13,000 acts between 2019 and 2024. This speed and productivity come from incentives for producing legislation, not exercising vetoes.

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules

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Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds

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A minimal pastebin for code snippets
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Zoekt is a text search engine for source code with fast substring and regexp matching. It supports searching individual or multiple repositories with a rich query language and ranking results based on code signals.

SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B

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Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery

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A Gmail hack attack is locking users out of their accounts by changing their age to 10 and adding them to a family account under the attacker's control. Google is looking into the issue and advises users to double-check associated phones and numbers, set up recovery information, and use a Google passkey to prevent account compromise.

Why we can’t quit Excel

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The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

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Multithreading library provides robust concurrency primitives like thread-pool architecture, Mutexes, Read-Write Locks, and Condition Variables for JavaScript. It abstracts away WebWorkers complexities, allowing developers to write multi-threaded code.

Tesla Model Y named worst car for reliability in Germany's major TÜV report

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Tesla's Model Y ranked worst for reliability in its age group in Germany's TÜV Report 2026 with a 17.3% failure rate. Main issues include suspension components and brake discs, with EVs like Mini Cooper SE and Audi Q4 e-tron performing better.

Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?

I was writing a blogpost on Medium and I noticed errors, tried to open LinkedIn? down. tried downdetector? down. Claude.ai is also down Yep, just went back up and then down again. Let's not put all eggs in one basket...

H-1B Workers Now Required to Make Social Media Profiles Public

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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MIT engineers developed an ultrasonic device to recover water from atmospheric water harvesting materials in minutes, not hours, by vibrating water molecules out with high-frequency waves. The device can recover water 45 times more efficiently than heat-based designs.

The Debug Adapter Protocol is a REPL protocol in disguise

You created nluarepl, a Neovim Lua interpreter REPL using the Debug Adapter Protocol, and hprofdap for inspecting Java heap dumps. The DAP protocol allows for structured data modeling and completion, and nluarepl implements log points and variable definition location finding.

Show HN: SerpApi MCP Server

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The SerpApi MCP Server is a hosted service that integrates with search engines for data extraction, requiring an API key for connection. It supports various search parameters and result types, with examples provided for local development and testing.

The time has come to declare war on AI

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Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI

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Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI, raising awareness to its misuses in society, including biased AI applications, surveillance, and manipulation of public opinion. AI is used in various concerning ways, such as facial recognition, predictive policing, and social media propaganda, highlighting the need for preventive technology and ethical considerations in AI development.

Mobile GPUs and Tile-Based Rendering

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Mobile GPUs use tile-based deferred rendering to conserve power and memory bandwidth due to limited resources. This approach splits rendering into geometry processing and fragment processing phases, reducing memory traffic and enabling efficient rendering on mobile devices.

Turning 40

The author reflects on 40 years of life, highlighting lessons learned such as being decent, admitting mistakes, and focusing on personal growth. Key takeaways include prioritizing family, staying discreet online, and treating work as a financial relationship, not a personal one.