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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.

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  • (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 down
https://www.cloudflare.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Why 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=46150715

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466

Multivox: Volumetric Display
https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
https://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=46155619

Fighting the age-gated internet
https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493

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