12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with ChatGPT, 8M users' AI chats exploited by extensions, Pepsi and Walmart colluded on food prices

Hacker News Highlights · Dec 16, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:14) - I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

(01:26) - 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

(02:40) - Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices

(03:51) - Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

(05:04) - “Are you the one?” is free money

(06:18) - SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image

(07:25) - Quill OS: An…