Hacker News Highlights19 Des 2025

12.19.25 | ACM publications to be open access in 2026, supply-chain attack on X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord, Texas suing TV makers for spying

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.

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

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
(01:30) - We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
(02:49) - Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
(04:06) - History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
(05:21) - GPT-5.2-Codex
(06:26) - Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
(07:28) - 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
(08:43) - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
(09:58) - Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
(11:07) - Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
(12:12) - Outro

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991

We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826

GPT-5.2-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367

Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316409

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907

Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
https://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349

Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
https://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414

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