Hacker News for Dec 18, 2025

Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: -UK law versus encryption builders -FreeBSD IPv6 RCE advisory -Virtualizing NVIDIA B200 HGX -Google Gemini 3 Flash launch -Why polychrome statues look odd -Slow research versus quick outputs -Momentum as a productivity lever -Reading and transliterating hieroglyphs -Iran’s looming water bankruptcy -Tweeting to X from VS Code - https://worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/ - https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/virtualizing-nvidia-hgx-b200-gpus-with-open-source - https://blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com/p/slowness-is-a-virtue - https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:12.rtsold.asc - https://combo.cc/po