The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025
Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform.
The engine behind the project is the domain-meta.csv CSV on GiHub, a...
Penone has been featured on KDO once before — for his sculptures of trees where he carves away tens or even hundreds of years from massive trees to reveal their inner saplings.
“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won. But merely restoring the pre-Trump status quo won’t work. The country needs a democratic transformation.”
In 1971, a red-headed, tree-loving astronaut named Stu ‘Smokey’ Roosa was asked to take something to the moon with him. Of all things, he chose to take a canister of 500 tree seeds. After orbiting the moon 34 times, the seeds made it back to Earth. NASA decided to plant the ...
[Claude Code] has the potential to transform all of tech. I also think we’re going to see a real split in the tech industry (and everywhere code is written) between people who are outcome-driven and are excited to get to the part where they can test their work with users faster, and people who are process-driven and get their meaning from the engineering itself and are upset about having that taken away.
Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
Follow-up:
Contacts
Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)
Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)
Face ID & Touch ID
Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harriso...
I am a huge fan of gistpreview.github.io, the site by Leon Huang that lets you append ?GIST_id to see a browser-rendered version of an HTML page that you have saved to a Gist. The last commit was ten years and I needed a couple of small changes so I've forked it and deployed...
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 and Things we learned about LLMs in 2024.
It’s been a year filled with a lot of different trends.
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Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of infinity, and he’s the #1 highest-rated user on MathOverflow. He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematic...
Spotify really started something, didn’t they? Everyone has a “Wrapped” this year; I even got an email one from the cruise line on which I took a trip this summer. Like, “Congratulations! You went on {1} cruise for {7} days!” — and then nothing else. Two stats. So I though...
Matthew Walther, in an opinion piece last week for The New York Times (gift link):
MAGA’s internal culture has always rewarded theatrical
confrontation over achievement. Boorishness commands attention,
and boors mistake attention for leverage. Pseudo-martyrdom becomes
an...
Codex cloud is now called Codex web
It looks like OpenAI's Codex cloud (the cloud version of their Codex coding agent) was quietly rebranded to Codex web at some point in the last few days.
Here's a screenshot of the Internet Archive copy from 18th December (the capture on the 28th maintains that Codex cloud title but did not fully load CSS for me):
And here's that same page today with the updated product name:
Anthropic's equivalent product has the incredibly clumsy name Claude Code on the web, which I shorten to "Claude Code for web" but even then bugs me because I mostly interact with it via Anthropic's native mobile app.
I was hoping to see Claude Code for web rebrand to Claude Code Cloud - I did not expect OpenAI to rebrand in the opposite direction!
Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, coding-agents, async-coding-agents
