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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Cloudflare is down (01:23) - Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (02:44) - How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (03:59) - I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (05:14) - Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (06:24) - Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (07:29) - Multivox: Volumetric Display (08:32) - BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (09:52) - Fighting the age-gated internet (11:02) - Outro Cloudflare is downhttps://www.cloudflare.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineerhttps://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451Transparent leadership beats servant leadershiphttps://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadershiphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zighttps://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466Multivox: Volumetric Displayhttps://github.com/AncientJames/multivoxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensivehttps://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619Fighting the age-gated internethttps://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.