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Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

Related: <i>Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867</a>

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

Related: <i>Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394867</a>

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so:<p>Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect.<p>Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people.<p>To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market</a>

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so:<p>Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect.<p>Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people.<p>To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market</a>

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

Related: <a href="https://xcancel.com/vmfunc/status/2003292986650853825" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/vmfunc/status/2003292986650853825</a><p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptlms6/some_epstein_files_can_be_unredacted/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptlms6/some_epstein_f...</a><p><a href="https://krassencast.com/p/breaking-we-just-unredacted-the-epstein" rel="nofollow">https://krassencast.com/p/breaking-we-just-unredacted-the-ep...</a>

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/12/23/60-minutes-inside-cecot-el-salvador-prison-cbs/87893327007/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/12/23/6...</a>

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Archive Link: <a href="https://archive.ph/IWMKe" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/IWMKe</a><p>Also: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo</a> – <i>This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers</i>

Backing up Spotify

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

Docs: <a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3" rel="nofollow">https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3</a><p>Developer Blog: <a href="https://blog.google/technology/developers/build-with-gemini-3-flash/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/technology/developers/build-with-gemini-...</a><p>Model Card [pdf]: <a href="https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-flash/" rel="nofollow">https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-flash/</a><p>Gemini 3 Flash in Search AI mode: <a href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-ai-mode-update-gemini-3-flash/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/products/search/google-ai-mode-update-ge...</a><p>Deepmind Page: <a href="https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/flash/" rel="nofollow">https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/flash/</a>

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?