HN Buddy - December 15, 2025

Hey buddy,

Dude, Monday on Hacker News was pretty wild. Lemme quickly hit you with the highlights:

AI and Writing Styles – "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

First up, there was this super interesting article from a Kenyan guy saying that his writing style, which is often called "AI-like" these days because it's so clear and direct, isn't AI at all. He says it's just how they're taught to write, focusing on simplicity

All Stories from Today

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (marcusolang.substack.com)

670 points by florian_s | 415 comments

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (news.bloomberglaw.com)

635 points by nreece | 780 comments

“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)

569 points by e_daigle | 273 comments

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (english.elpais.com)

548 points by PaulHoule | 910 comments

Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial (www.bbc.com)

418 points by onemoresoop | 429 comments

Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide (www.mlive.com)

404 points by bikenaga | 305 comments

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (www.thebignewsletter.com)

371 points by connor11528 | 97 comments

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES (relaxing.run)

362 points by todsacerdoti | 155 comments

Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres (andyatkinson.com)

348 points by pil0u | 394 comments

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (www.wired.com)

325 points by sacred-rat | 527 comments

Unscii (viznut.fi)

308 points by Levitating | 52 comments

Rob Reiner has died (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

306 points by RickJWagner | 214 comments

Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)

298 points by LorenDB | 238 comments

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (community.letsencrypt.org)

290 points by schmuckonwheels | 240 comments

SoundCloud has banned VPN access (old.reddit.com)

282 points by empressplay | 195 comments

Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (www.techpowerup.com)

278 points by akyuu | 292 comments

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable (johnlian.net)

244 points by jlian | 118 comments

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets (arborium.bearcove.eu)

223 points by zdw | 43 comments

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (www.reuters.com)

219 points by divbzero | 106 comments

It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)

204 points by pavel_lishin | 101 comments

US Tech Force (techforce.gov)

197 points by purple_ferret | 268 comments

Read Something Wonderful (readsomethingwonderful.com)

183 points by snorbleck | 31 comments

Umbrel – Personal Cloud (umbrel.com)

173 points by oldfuture | 96 comments

John Varley has died (floggingbabel.blogspot.com)

163 points by decimalenough | 63 comments

The Whole App is a Blob (drobinin.com)

152 points by valzevul | 86 comments

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)

144 points by birdculture | 24 comments

We are discontinuing the dark web report (support.google.com)

142 points by satertek | 44 comments

A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave (arxiv.org)

133 points by bikenaga | 161 comments

$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres (planetscale.com)

129 points by ksec | 66 comments

We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video] (www.youtube.com)

127 points by huvarda | 47 comments