12.31.25 | 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite, faster heart for F-Droid, Non-Zero-Sum Games

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 31, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
(01:18) - A faster heart for F-Droid
(02:22) - Non-Zero-Sum Games
(03:20) - OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
(04:26) - FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
(05:32) - Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
(06:46) - A Vulnerability in Libsodium
(07:41) - Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
(08:57) - Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
(10:16) - Five Years of Tinygrad
(11:30) - Outro

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308

A faster heart for F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409

Non-Zero-Sum Games
https://nonzerosum.games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
https://loss32.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173

A Vulnerability in Libsodium
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438522

Five Years of Tinygrad
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757