12.19.25 | ACM publications to be open access in 2026, supply-chain attack on X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord, Texas suing TV makers for spying

Hacker News Highlights · Dec 19, 2025 · 12m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

(01:30) - We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

(02:49) - Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

(04:06) - History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

(05:21) - GPT-5.2-Codex

(06:26) - Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

(07:28) - 1.5 TB of VRAM on…