What's up? Just wanted to quickly fill you in on some interesting stuff from Hacker News today, Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Some pretty wild headlines, man.

Ghostty Goes Non-Profit

First up, you know that terminal emulator, Ghostty? The one Mitchell Hashimoto made? Well, it just announced it's going non-profit! Pretty cool, right? Someone in the comments was just relieved it wasn't another "rug pull" situation like we've seen with some other software. Sounds like a good move for the project's future.

Zig Quits GitHub Over AI Obsession

Dude, this one's big: the Zig programming language project just packed up and left GitHub! They're apparently super fed up with Microsoft's AI obsession and all the outages and problems they say it's causing. There was a huge debate in the comments about whether the AI claims were even true, but a lot of people agreed the outages alone are a real pain.

Europe Says US Car Standards Risk Lives

Get this: Europe is basically saying that if they adopted US car safety standards, it would actually put European lives at risk. It's mostly because of how massive American trucks and SUVs are. The comments were full of people agreeing that big American pickups are a "massive problem" over there, not just for safety but for how they're used in general.

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill

There was a paper out today talking about "Captain Gains" – which sounds like a fancy name for insider trading or shady financial moves by politicians. People in the comments were pretty cynical, with some saying it's impossible to stop completely, but others arguing that rules still matter. One wild idea was even to select politicians randomly like jurors to prevent corruption!

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI?

This one's a bit of a clickbait title, but the gist is that the author claims "everyone in Seattle" – especially folks from Microsoft – is apparently fed up with AI. The article suggests it's because AI tools aren't actually helping with complex coding tasks, and it's mostly just hype from the top brass. A lot of ex-Microsoft people chimed in, agreeing that the old culture is gone and AI might not be great for deep, thoughtful coding.

Legal AI Tool Exposed 100k+ Confidential Files

Okay, this is a huge security screw-up: someone reverse-engineered a big legal AI tool, and it ended up exposing over 100,000 confidential legal files. Yikes! Lawyers in the comments were saying they're ethically bound to protect client info but often don't understand the tech side. Sounds like a classic case of security being an afterthought.

Micron Exits Crucial Consumer Business

And finally, Micron, a huge memory maker, is apparently getting rid of its Crucial brand for consumer stuff like RAM and SSDs. Looks like they're focusing more on big enterprise clients, probably because of the huge demand for memory in data centers due to the AI boom. Some people in the comments were pointing out that OpenAI buying up a ton of memory from other companies might be part of why prices spiked and why Micron is making this move. Less choice for us regular folks, I guess.

Anyway, that's the quick download! Talk soon, man.