{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"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","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ca6a2b46\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":738,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nBeginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access\nhttps://dl.acm.org/openaccess\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991\nWe pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack\nhttps://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098\nTexas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch\nhttps://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456\nHistory LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts\nhttps://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826\nGPT-5.2-Codex\nhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367\nFirefox will have an option to disable all AI features\nhttps://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316409\n1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5\nhttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657\nHow China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips\nhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907\nShow HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop\nhttps://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349\nSkills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem\nhttps://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414","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}