12.5.25 | Cloudflare outage, Stanford students' disability claims, elites influencing mass preferences with AI

Hacker News Highlights · Dec 5, 2025 · 11m

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…