Hacker News Highlights16 Des 2025

12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with ChatGPT, 8M users' AI chats exploited by extensions, Pepsi and Walmart colluded on food prices

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.

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

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
(01:26) - 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
(02:40) - Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
(03:51) - Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
(05:04) - “Are you the one?” is free money
(06:18) - SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
(07:25) - Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
(08:32) - JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
(09:31) - Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
(10:38) - Umbrel – Personal Cloud
(11:40) - Outro

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466

8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182

“Are you the one?” is free money
https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500

SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658

Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
https://quill-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944

Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376

Umbrel – Personal Cloud
https://umbrel.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Building an HTML-fi...

11 Jun 14min

6.10.26 | Claude Fable 5, old-school graphics, dependency on Claude Fable

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claude Fable 5 (02:...

10 Jun 15min

6.9.26 | Performative-UI, Apple’s new AI architecture with Google Gemini, Siri AI

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Show HN: Performativ...

9 Jun 12min

6.8.26 | LLMs threaten software careers, rebuilding after addiction and felony, Linear's speed explained

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - LLMs are eroding my ...

8 Jun 12min

6.7.26 | "Readers share 'oh shit' moments with GenAI, Meta confirms Instagram hacks via AI chatbot, Ntsc-rs offers open-source analog TV and VHS emulation."

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Ask HN: What was you...

7 Jun 14min

6.6.26 | Mouseless controls, S&P 500 blocking SpaceX and AI firms, UK government replacing Stripe with Adyen

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Mouseless – keyboard...

6 Jun 14min

6.5.26 | SpaceX and mega IPOs denied S&P entry, Anthropic offers open-source AI vulnerability framework, developing Ladybird is evolving

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

5 Jun 12min

6.4.26 | Gemma 4 12B is a unified multimodal model, Elixir v1.20 is now gradually typed, and They’re made out of weights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemma 4 12B: A unifi...

4 Jun 15min