Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

698 Fnoord 2025-12-14 12:15:09 UTC ftm.eu Llama Share 417

Zivver, a Dutch data security company, was sold to Kiteworks, an American company with Israeli intelligence links, putting European citizens' sensitive information at risk. Experts warn that the takeover poses serious security concerns due to invasive US laws and potential data misuse by Israeli intelligence.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

437 david927 2025-12-14 16:55:25 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 1443

The user is working on multiple projects including a webapp for local history, a meta framework for building full-stack libraries, and a research project called Next Arc Research that uses AI to analyze companies and predict market trends. They are also developing their own static site generator, a USCIS form-filling tool, and a daily puzzles website, among other projects.

Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

435 MilnerRoute 2025-12-14 18:18:34 UTC thenewstack.io Llama Share 248

Arduino's new Terms and Conditions following Qualcomm's acquisition have sparked debate over open principles, with Adafruit criticizing restrictions on reverse engineering and user data handling. Arduino defends its changes, saying they only apply to cloud applications and do not affect open source hardware.

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

407 jnord 2025-12-14 23:48:37 UTC martinalderson.com Llama Share 386

Software agents are changing the SaaS landscape by making it easier for companies to build internal tools, reducing demand for simpler SaaS tools. This shift could lead to a decline in SaaS valuations and profitability.

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

397 thomascountz 2025-12-14 16:55:29 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 193

Hashcards is a local-first spaced repetition app that uses Markdown files in a Git repo for flashcards, allowing for easy editing and version control. It aims to provide a frictionless experience for creating and editing flashcards, using an advanced scheduler and a simple UI.

Elevated errors across many models

320 pablo24602 2025-12-14 21:53:13 UTC status.claude.com Full Share 155

Between 13:25 and 14:43 PT today, Claude Opus 4.5 and Sonnet models experienced degraded availability. A network routing misconfiguration caused traffic to backend infrastructure to be dropped, preventing requests from completing. The misconfiguration has been reverted and service is fully restored. We’re conducting a review to improve our detection and prevention of similar issues.

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

262 nkko 2025-12-14 10:07:00 UTC trigger.dev Llama Share 182

Trigger.dev was compromised by Shai-Hulud 2.0, a sophisticated npm supply chain worm, through an engineer's compromised laptop. The incident was contained within 4 minutes, but it highlighted the need for improved security measures, including branch protection and OIDC for npm publishing.

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

256 BinaryIgor 2025-12-14 13:19:15 UTC ufried.com Llama Share 120

The user continues discussing Lisanne Bainbridge's paper "The ironies of automation" and its relevance to AI-based automation, highlighting the need for humans to make quick decisions under stressful conditions and the importance of designing user interfaces that support human operators in detecting problems. The user also discusses the training paradox, where human operators need to be ...

Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac

255 tamnd 2025-12-14 23:23:00 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 214

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GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over

253 johnjames4214 2025-12-14 17:13:30 UTC johnjames.blog Llama Share 232

Author suggests that GraphQL's benefits are often overhyped and it may not be necessary in many enterprise settings due to its complexity and extra configuration requirements, ultimately resulting in it being a net negative. Author concludes that GraphQL is niche and often solves a narrow problem while introducing new issues, making it not bad but not necessary for many applications.

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

233 jeudesprits 2025-12-14 13:04:34 UTC twitter.com/awnihannun Full Share 121

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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

207 cdrnsf 2025-12-14 21:05:13 UTC cybercultural.com Llama Share 141

Two student projects, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, used collaborative filtering to bring music recommendations and social networking to the internet in 2002. They pioneered the social web, allowing users to discover new content and communities by following others.

JSDoc is TypeScript

207 culi 2025-12-14 19:42:53 UTC culi.bearblog.dev Llama Share 274

Rich Harris explained that Svelte's move to JSDoc comments was not anti-TypeScript, but rather a stronger commitment to TypeScript. JSDoc is essentially TypeScript without the build step, offering the same benefits with a sometimes clunkier syntax.

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

201 teleforce 2025-12-14 16:09:44 UTC cam.ac.uk Llama Share 91

The University of Cambridge launched the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) to track the cost of buying fake social media accounts globally. The study found that verifying fake accounts is cheapest in the US and UK, but prices spike in countries before national elections.

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

163 akyuu 2025-12-14 16:13:55 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 152

Apple released iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2 with new features, bug fixes, and security improvements addressing over 20 vulnerabilities. Apple recommends updating devices as soon as possible to prevent exploitation of known bugs.

GNU recutils: Plain text database

160 polyrand 2025-12-14 19:08:57 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 49

GNU Recutils is a set of tools for accessing human-editable text databases called recfiles. It provides a rich set of utilities for shell scripts and command line use.

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?

160 ArmageddonIt 2025-12-14 12:18:59 UTC codemanship.wordpress.com Llama Share 221

Physicist Enrico Fermi's question about the lack of visible extraterrestrial civilizations may have parallels in the current software industry where numerous claims of easily generated code and products fail to yield tangible results. This mismatch between expectation and reality remains unaddressed.

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

156 ColinWright 2025-12-14 13:45:41 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 144

An AirTag was lost on a flight from London and has traveled over 29,000 miles to Guatemala, passing near volcanos and various locations. It may have met its demise, but its journey has become a bizarre and entertaining story for those tracking its path.

Bye, Mom

150 reducesuffering 2025-12-14 08:21:59 UTC aella.substack.com Llama Share 31

The writer's mother is in the ICU with acute liver shock and the family is trying to decide whether to take her off life support. The writer is torn between wanting to let her go and trying to find a way to keep her alive.

Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion

148 fanf2 2025-12-14 15:42:03 UTC vitaut.net Llama Share 38

A software engineer created a new binary-to-decimal floating-point conversion method called zmij, which optimizes the Schubfach algorithm. The zmij method reduces complexity and improves performance.

“You should never build a CMS”

140 handfuloflight 2025-12-14 05:38:52 UTC sanity.io Llama Share 109

Cursor.com moved from Sanity CMS to markdown files and GitHub, but the author argues that this approach has its own set of problems. A better solution is to build content infrastructure that AI can read, write, and reason about, using structured data and APIs.

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?

139 rdgthree 2025-12-14 01:43:33 UTC 1393.xyz Llama Share 92

The Earth's magnetic field is sensed by many living organisms, including humans, and research has shown that our brain's magnetic field represents a high-fidelity analog representation of our current state of mind. The brain's magnetic field is thought to be used as a global state vehicle, with the locus coeruleus playing a key role in releasing norepinephrine to change brain neurochemistry ...

Baumol's Cost Disease

137 drra 2025-12-14 12:34:35 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 134

The Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, is a tendency for wages in jobs with little productivity growth to rise due to competition with jobs that have experienced high productivity growth. This results in increased costs for services like healthcare and education.

Compiler Engineering in Practice

134 dhruv3006 2025-12-14 07:45:15 UTC chisophugis.github.io Llama Share 30

A compiler is a translator that converts input language to output language, preserving computation behavior. Compilers are complex but can be debugged like any other command line program if built correctly.

Stop crawling my HTML – use the API

127 edent 2025-12-14 18:44:38 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 131

The author's website is targeted by scrapers who prefer brute force over critical thinking, but the author provides APIs for efficient data access. The author urges LLMs to use APIs instead of scraping HTML pages.

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

125 birdculture 2025-12-14 17:43:39 UTC typeframe.net Llama Share 42

The Typeframe PX-88 is a professional system with a dedicated user experience, combining power and specialized features in a compact size. It features a Raspberry Pi 4 B core, mechanical keyboard, and easy maintenance for demanding tasks and web-based editors.

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

117 cdrnsf 2025-12-14 03:46:51 UTC hcn.org Llama Share 61

A heavy music festival called Fire in the Mountains was held on the Blackfeet Nation to promote healing and community among Native youth. The festival featured Native metal bands and aimed to reduce suicidal distress, which disproportionately affects Native communities.

Show HN: A pager

104 keepamovin 2025-12-14 17:10:08 UTC udp7777.com Full Share 43

"Pagers operate on very low signal levels... making them more reliable than terrestrial cellular networks during disaster." — London Ambulance Service / Wikipedia

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)

102 rramadass 2025-12-14 20:47:21 UTC calteches.library.caltech.edu Llama Share 126

Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at the First Inter-American Conference on Physics Education in Rio de Janeiro in 1963. He discussed the problem of teaching physics in Latin America, which is part of a wider problem of teaching physics anywhere.

Show HN: Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL

101 atgreen 2025-12-14 00:31:02 UTC github.com/atgreen Llama Share 7

ICL is a modern Common Lisp REPL with features like readline-style editing, syntax highlighting, and tab completion. It supports multiple implementations, primarily using SBCL and communicating with a backend Lisp process via Slynk.

Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch

98 nullbyte808 2025-12-14 04:59:07 UTC fil-c.org Llama Share 28

Pizlix is a memory-safe Linux-like OS built from Linux From Scratch 12.2 with Fil-C and Yolo-C compilers. It uses a custom build process to inject Fil-C into LFS, creating a secure and compatible OS.

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils

95 maxloh 2025-12-14 16:40:40 UTC github.com/uutils Llama Share 145

The Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 release includes comprehensive improvements and continued progress toward full GNU compatibility, with a further reduced testing failure count. It also features various bug fixes and enhancements, including base encoding simplifications and mkfifo tests.

An Implementation of J (1992)

90 ofalkaed 2025-12-14 00:34:56 UTC jsoftware.com Llama Share 43

J is a freely available dialect of APL with a simpler and more powerful spelling scheme. It is implemented in C and specified by the J Dictionary.

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

89 birdculture 2025-12-14 13:13:41 UTC boringsql.com Llama Share 50

PostgreSQL's VACUUM doesn't fix index bloat, which occurs when deleted entries remain in indexes, wasting space and affecting query performance. REINDEX or pg_squeeze can fix index bloat, but VACUUM is essential for handling heap bloat.

Advent of Swift

85 chmaynard 2025-12-14 20:04:11 UTC leahneukirchen.org Llama Share 27

The user learned Swift through Advent of Code and found it to be modern, comfy, and easy to pick up, with a nice tooling environment and good standard library documentation. However, it had some flaws including lack of backtraces, slow type checking error reporting, and significant changes over time that made it sometimes difficult to find answers and use features.

Lean theorem prover mathlib

83 downboots 2025-12-14 01:49:11 UTC github.com/leanprover-community Llama Share 4

Mathlib is a user maintained library for the Lean theorem prover containing programming infrastructure, mathematics, and tactics. It has detailed installation guides and documentation on its website and GitHub.

Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment

80 triska 2025-12-14 10:08:42 UTC github.com/danja Llama Share 18

Dogalog is a Prolog-based livecoding music environment where users write logic rules to create algorithmic patterns. It uses the Euclidean algorithm to distribute hits evenly over steps, creating musically interesting patterns.

Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry"

80 planckscnst 2025-12-14 10:01:25 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 91

Copywriters are struggling with their careers devastated by AI-generated copywriting tools. They now offer discounted jobs like editing AI drafts, questioning the creation of new employment opportunities in an AI-infested economy.

Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

80 pseudolus 2025-12-14 01:19:50 UTC fsf.org Llama Share 10

The Free Software Foundation awarded Andy Wingo for his contributions to free software, particularly GNU Guile, and Alx Sa for work on GIMP. Govdirectory received the Award for Projects of Social Benefit for providing a fact-checked listing of government addresses with free software.

Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails

77 klevo 2025-12-14 09:29:47 UTC github.com/envirobly Llama Share 11

Stepped is a Rails engine for complex workflows as a tree of actions, persisting and running through Active Job. It allows defining and running actions on models, with concurrency lanes and reuse features.

History of Declarative Programming (2021)

76 measurablefunc 2025-12-14 22:46:01 UTC shenlanguage.org Full Share 24

Previous Next Up Want to advertise on this page? Go to the Contact link. Built by Shen Technology (c) Mark Tarver, June 2025

Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)

75 linkdd 2025-12-14 05:09:26 UTC github.com/yarrick Llama Share 26

pingfs is a cloud storage filesystem using ICMP Echo packets, requiring superuser powers and only supporting Linux. It allows file operations but lacks directory support and has low performance.

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

74 7402 2025-12-14 15:49:59 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 128

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Modern SID chip substitutes [video]

70 vismit2000 2025-12-14 03:17:11 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 12

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

68 ckennelly 2025-12-14 15:05:06 UTC abseil.io Llama Share 5

The author uses llvm-mca to analyze the execution of various functions on a simulated Skylake processor, providing insights into performance bottlenecks and underutilized resources. By restructuring code to take advantage of processor features such as multiple execution ports and carryless multiply instructions, the author demonstrates how to improve performance by extracting additional ...

Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things

64 n3t 2025-12-14 01:10:11 UTC github.com/necior Llama Share 28

This repo lists Jujutsu resources and uses change-id in Git commit headers for better code review. It supports forges like GitHub and allows users to submit issues or pull requests.

Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?

63 nazarh 2025-12-14 23:02:40 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 77

User wants to start a personal blog but hesitates, wanting to share private writings and learn through essays. They aim to create a "public notebook" for long-term growth, not a media business.

Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities

63 jackzhuo 2025-12-14 09:44:13 UTC castiching.com Llama Share 62

The I Ching offers two main methods for divination: the 3 coin method for quick and accessible readings and the traditional yarrow stalk method for a slower, meditative experience. Both methods provide valid insights into synchronicity and personal growth.

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020)

60 rcarmo 2025-12-14 12:04:44 UTC blog.jafma.net Full Share 15

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Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review

60 bookofjoe 2025-12-14 01:32:36 UTC jamanetwork.com Llama Share 90

The endocannabinoid system regulates bodily functions including pain, mood, appetite, memory, and immune function through cannabinoid receptors and endogenous ligands. Cannabis products contain a complex mixture of biologically active compounds including phytocannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids.

Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)

59 CharlesW 2025-12-14 19:41:59 UTC edutopia.org Llama Share 68

Dyslexia is a language-based processing difference, not a visual disorder, and using special fonts may not improve reading speed or accuracy. Experts recommend mainstream fonts like Arial and Times New Roman for better readability and suggest evidence-based reading instruction and accommodations for students with dyslexia.

Surface Tension of Software

59 i8s 2025-12-14 08:54:05 UTC iamstelios.com Llama Share 47

Systems hold shape through constraints like surface tension in water, and integrity emerges from making impossible states explicit. Good software has clear boundaries, honest interfaces, and consistent language to prevent ambiguity and maintain coherence.

How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents

58 simonw 2025-12-14 16:26:12 UTC friendlybit.com Llama Share 21

The user created a Python-based HTML5 parser called JustHTML, which passed 100% of the html5lib test suite with the help of a coding agent. The agent wrote most of the code, but the user guided it, reviewed changes, and made design decisions to achieve 100% test coverage and a 3,000-line parser.

Generative Optogenetics

54 birriel 2025-12-14 23:13:39 UTC darpa.mil Full Share 18

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The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video]

53 surprisetalk 2025-12-14 20:25:25 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 4

Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

52 lnbharath 2025-12-14 15:43:51 UTC bharath.sh Full Share 94

Claude Code nails developer experience. But as capabilities grow, so does complexity. The best tools disappear - they don't become things you have to manage.

My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent

51 fortyseven 2025-12-14 18:55:30 UTC blog.kestrelsnest.social Llama Share 43

The author names AI sub-agents after people who inspire them to remember who they're building for. This practice helps them stay intentional about serving real humans with names and lives.

Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?

49 fi-le 2025-12-14 22:37:05 UTC fi-le.net Llama Share 55

GPTs are not Turing complete due to bounded computations and compact output probabilities. They model n-gram languages with a finite context window, not context-free or Turing complete languages.

Show HN: A local-first memory store for LLM agents (SQLite)

48 nullure 2025-12-14 11:16:52 UTC github.com/caviraoss Llama Share 16

OpenMemory is a self-hosted, local-first, explainable, and scalable cognitive memory engine for AI systems. It adds memory to AI/agents in one line.

More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast

45 Bender 2025-12-14 18:21:04 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 12

Heavy rain is expected to return to Washington and the Pacific Northwest next week, posing a renewed flood danger after historic flooding. Residents are warned to remain cautious and not attempt to return home too early due to ongoing risks and fluid situations.

Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute

40 XzetaU8 2025-12-14 06:50:34 UTC science.org Llama Share 2

Researchers have developed a microscopic robot that can sense, think, and act using onboard systems for computation, sensing, memory, locomotion, and communication, paving the way for general-purpose microrobots that can be programmed many times in a simple setup. The robot's design leverages semiconductor manufacturing to build the robot's body, actuators, and information systems massively ...

Our emotional pain became a product

39 worik 2025-12-14 23:50:32 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 15

Dr Gabor Maté diagnosed Prince Harry with Attention Deficit Disorder, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, stating they are normal responses to abnormal stress. Maté's diagnosis is part of a broader cultural shift where trauma is commodified and used to explain everyday experiences.

Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job

39 nomilk 2025-12-14 20:40:16 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 76

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped

33 tilschuenemann 2025-12-14 17:38:12 UTC tilschuenemann.de Llama Share 41

The text appears to be a coded message in a fictional language. The message discusses a mysterious event or plot involving characters with unclear identities and motivations.

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

27 donutloop 2025-12-14 22:15:00 UTC cordis.europa.eu Llama Share 8

German scientists successfully teleported information between two devices using quantum entanglement and ordinary internet cables. They achieved a 72.1% success rate, exceeding the classical fidelity threshold.

The World of OCR (C. 1960) [video]

25 indolering 2025-12-14 12:29:04 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 11

Rocket Lab – 'Raise and Shine' Launch for JAXA [video]

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Six Big Bets

23 personjerry 2025-12-14 18:51:02 UTC jerry.wtf Llama Share 12

You have a limited number of opportunities to take big risks, and most of life is spent accumulating resources for the next swing. Each phase of life offers unique advantages, and understanding your current phase is key to taking meaningful risk.

AI was not invented, it arrived

23 fcpguru 2025-12-14 15:47:59 UTC andrewarrow.dev Llama Share 60

Artificial intelligence emerged gradually, not invented, and arrived when humanity built a vessel for it to live in. This perspective reframes human agency, suggesting we're not creators but midwives to a new form of intelligence.

Fluent: A Localization System for Natural-Sounding Translations

19 stefankuehnel 2025-12-14 12:32:22 UTC projectfluent.org Llama Share 6

Fluent messages are simple text strings with identifiers and values, sometimes requiring logic for translations. Terms like -sync-brand-name are referenced in messages for consistency and branding.

Scam Compounds Become Targets in Thai-Cambodian Border War

16 JumpCrisscross 2025-12-14 23:37:56 UTC wsj.com Full Share 6

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Cisco Finally Did It

11 naves 2025-12-14 18:49:39 UTC ft.com Llama Share 9

Cisco Systems stock hit a new record high of $80.25 after 25 years, surpassing its 2000 peak. Nvidia's rise parallels Cisco's, but its valuation is lower, raising questions about its investment potential.