{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"12.5.25 | Cloudflare outage, Stanford students' disability claims, elites influencing mass preferences with AI","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":667,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nCloudflare is down\nhttps://www.cloudflare.com/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191\nWhy are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?\nhttps://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715\nHow elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180\nI ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer\nhttps://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451\nTransparent leadership beats servant leadership\nhttps://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540\nThoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig\nhttps://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466\nMultivox: Volumetric Display\nhttps://github.com/AncientJames/multivox\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813\nBMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive\nhttps://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619\nFighting the age-gated internet\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}