Hacker News Highlights5 Dec 2025

12.5.25 | Cloudflare outage, Stanford students' disability claims, elites influencing mass preferences with AI

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Cloudflare is down
(01:23) - Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
(02:44) - How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
(03:59) - I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
(05:14) - Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
(06:24) - Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
(07:29) - Multivox: Volumetric Display
(08:32) - BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
(09:52) - Fighting the age-gated internet
(11:02) - Outro

Cloudflare is down
https://www.cloudflare.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466

Multivox: Volumetric Display
https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619

Fighting the age-gated internet
https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493

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9.9.26 | Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, AlphaGenome Atlas human DNA map, house built for LAN parties 2024

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - On the Navier–Stokes...

9 Sep 12min

9.8.26 | LG Spy TVs problem, Mistral raises €3B, Jellyfin 12.0

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - 216M Spy TVs – The L...

8 Sep 14min

9.7.26 | Nitter and XCancel resume service, Keep Our Servers Running, Asahi Linux on M3

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Nitter and XCancel r...

7 Sep 13min

9.6.26 | Nitter has more instances, German rocket reaches orbit from Europe, Chrome exempts Google from data settings

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Nitter has more work...

6 Sep 13min

9.5.26 | OpenAI agent message board, Fermat's Last Theorem formalized, Chromium sandbox RCE exploited

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Discovery of a new O...

5 Sep 13min

9.4.26 | .name Termination, GPT-6 Astra, Any Human Ever life selection

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - .name Termination (0...

4 Sep 14min

9.3.26 | Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber, Muse Spark 1.3, opt out of training data

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemini 3.8 Flash and...

3 Sep 13min

9.2.26 | Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions, Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Claude Fable 5.1 and...

2 Sep 13min