{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with ChatGPT, 8M users' AI chats exploited by extensions, Pepsi and Walmart colluded on food prices","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d9a093bd\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":706,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlightsI'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like mehttps://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462734668M users' AI conversations sold for profit by \"privacy\" extensionshttps://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Priceshttps://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887Ford kills the All-Electric F-150https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182“Are you the one?” is free moneyhttps://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single imagehttps://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReadershttps://quill-os.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jethttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatmenthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376Umbrel – Personal Cloudhttps://umbrel.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187","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}