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This article curates the top ten trending discussions from Hacker News on December 11, 2025, offering a broad and in-depth exploration of various topics. Highlights include: "The Immense Scope of Life" providing a unique perspective on life's diversity and scale; Rust's official adoption in the Linux Kernel, marking a significant milestone in systems programming; and a review of Let's Encrypt's 10th anniversary, celebrating the immense success of HTTPS popularization while also sparking discussion on the actual value of EV Certificates. Furthermore, the article delves into the impact of AI-generated code on programming paradigms, the social controversy and potential risks associated with Australia's youth social media ban, the positive effects of New York's congestion pricing on the urban environment, alongside an in-depth discussion on PM2.5 sources. Other cutting-edge topics include ethical controversies surrounding Palantir's technology in military conflicts, Django 6.0's new features, and Anthropic's donation of an AI protocol to promote AI agent standards. These discussions not only cover technological developments but also deeply explore their intertwined influences with society, ethics, and the environment.

This article offers an in-depth analysis of the groundbreaking performance of the Doubao Mobile Assistant technical preview version on the ZTE nubia M153. Although positioned as a technology demonstration, its AI's ability to fully control the phone, understand interfaces, and execute multi-step tasks quickly generated immense enthusiasm both domestically and internationally. It has garnered high praise as "the first truly intelligent smartphone." Through multiple real-world case studies, the article illustrates Doubao Assistant's fluidity and practicality, showcasing features like object recognition, hotel booking, route planning, food delivery orders, and information retrieval. The article concurrently reveals that the core technology powering Doubao Assistant is ByteDance's Seed Team's UI-TARS model. This model has demonstrated outstanding performance in Graphical User Interface (GUI) benchmarks, significantly outperforming competitors, especially on AndroidWorld. The article also discusses current obstacles such as app environment detection challenges and the industry's forward-looking perspective on the future of AI-driven phone operations. It emphasizes its innovative approach to "streamlining complex interactions" and foreshadows the future direction of AI hardware and human-computer interaction.

This article compiles the top ten trending stories from Hacker News on December 13, 2025. OpenAI released GPT-5.2, achieving significant breakthroughs in professional tasks, programming, and scientific research, sparking discussions about AI models' factual grounding and hallucination issues. In the hardware domain, an author successfully repaired and repurposed a Nokia N900 into an internet radio, showcasing the hacker spirit and the potential for reviving old devices. Regarding software development, the article criticized the chaotic nature of modern software naming, advocating for a return to functional naming to minimize cognitive load. Concurrently, James Zhan's blog faced Google index delisting issues, exposing the complexities of SEO mechanisms and their potential for misjudgment. In the smart car sector, Rivian unveiled its custom silicon, LiDAR roadmap, and universal hands-free driving feature, planning to evolve into a smart mobility platform through subscription services, prompting discussions about its technological fulfillment capabilities and business model. Concerning digital privacy, the UK House of Lords proposed legislation to ban VPN use for minors and require service providers to monitor, raising strong concerns about internet freedom, privacy rights, and excessive government intervention. In market regulation, Epic Games won its iOS payment dispute against Apple, potentially ending the “Apple Tax” and profoundly impacting the mobile app ecosystem. Litestream, a data management tool, launched its VFS plugin, enabling remote on-demand reading and point-in-time recovery for SQLite, enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of data auditing and error recovery. In frontend technology, React Server Components were found to have denial-of-service and source code leak vulnerabilities, reminding developers to upgrade promptly. Finally, the article explored the lasting value of single SVG files in scientific communication for data embedding, frontend computing, and interactive visualization.

Zhipu AI team has open-sourced its core AI Agent model, AutoGLM, aiming to teach AI to use mobile phones like real people, capable of stably completing complex multi-step operations such as ordering food delivery and booking flights. AutoGLM supports hundreds of mainstream apps and improves the agent's accuracy and generalization capability through large-scale virtual environment training. Zhipu AI's move aims to promote the open development of the AI phone ecosystem, believing that AI phones should not be monopolized by a few manufacturers. It also emphasizes addressing privacy issues through open source and private deployment, allowing more developers and enterprises to build AI-native applications using AutoGLM. The article also analyzes the market prospects and current challenges for AI phones, distinguishes between "intent framework" and "visual route (GUI Agent)" technical paths, and points out Zhipu AI's role in providing open, easily integratable underlying capabilities, becoming a key piece of the AI phone ecosystem.

This article elaborates on OpenAI's 'State of Enterprise AI 2025' report, which is based on real usage data from 1 million enterprise customers and a survey of 100 companies and over 9,000 employees. The report indicates a growing scale of enterprise AI usage and deepening workflow integration. ChatGPT message volume increased by 8 times, and API inference Token consumption grew by 320 times year-over-year. Enterprise employees leveraging AI can save 40-60 minutes daily and complete tasks previously impossible, boosting productivity. Enterprise AI growth is global, with leading companies demonstrating systemic integration, workflow standardization, executive support, data readiness, and change management in their AI practices. The article also reveals a widening AI usage gap, emphasizing that organizational readiness is key to AI success, and provides several enterprise-grade AI application case studies, including examples from Intercom and Lowe's.

The article centers on the verbal spar triggered by Elon Musk after Google DeepMind's Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean, suggested Waymo's Robotaxi technology was ahead of Tesla's. Jeff Dean showcased Waymo's world model architecture, built on an end-to-end and modular design, along with its 96 million driverless ride-hailing miles and detailed safety data. Musk retorted aggressively, announcing that Tesla's Robotaxi will achieve fully driverless operation in Austin within three weeks (before year-end). The article then details a comparison of Waymo and Tesla's Robotaxis regarding driverless miles, safety data statistical methods, operational scope, and per-vehicle costs, highlighting their similarities, differences, and respective advantages and disadvantages. Finally, it cites the CEO of WeRide, pointing out the challenges for Tesla regarding its technological approach (e.g., insistence on not using LiDAR) and its track record of delivering promises on time.

Waymo's investors unexpectedly disclosed the latest data, revealing astonishing growth in its Robotaxi segment: weekly orders have surged to 450,000, an 80% increase in just 8 months, with its operating fleet expanding to 2,500 vehicles across 5 major US cities, such as Phoenix and San Francisco. The article highlights Waymo's absolute leading position in order volume and growth rate by comparing its data with competitors like Luobo Kuaipao (Baidu Apollo Go), WeRide, and Pony.ai. Waymo's rapid growth is primarily attributed to the continuous expansion of its operational footprint, now covering 2157.5 square kilometers and serving 5.6 million people in the United States, with plans to enter more cities, including London, next year. Furthermore, Waymo's market share in the San Francisco Bay Area has surpassed Lyft, reaching 27%, demonstrating the strong momentum of autonomous driving commercial deployment and its potential to rival traditional ride-hailing giants in the future.

By explaining the nature of business and wealth, the article introduces the core concept of the economic cycle – the driving role of credit and lending in economic activity. The author points out that an individual's total disposable spending equals existing money plus future credit and suggests that spending is an economic driver: your spending is someone else's income, so an initial act of borrowing by one person can trigger a multiplier effect, boosting economic growth across society. It emphasizes that economic cycles are an inevitable consequence driven by lending and divides them into four distinct phases: boom, recession, trough, and recovery. For each phase, the article provides asset allocation advice, such as investing in investable assets (e.g., real estate and commodities) during the boom phase, 'cash is king' during recession, holding bonds during the trough, and stocks during recovery. Finally, quoting Ray Dalio's three pieces of advice, it admonishes readers to pay attention to income and debt growth rates, and more importantly, to continuously improve productivity to cope with economic fluctuations.

This article delves into the persistent stagnation within quantum computing, highlighting the engineering bottleneck that has kept industry giants like Google and IBM hovering around the hundred-qubit mark. The core challenge lies in the exponential increase in engineering complexity, noise interference, and error rates as qubit counts rise. However, Dutch company QuantWare, through its pioneering VIO-40K architecture, has achieved quantum computing with 10,000 qubits for the first time, definitively resolving the scalability issue that has hindered the industry for years. This monumental advancement is built on two key innovations: 3D scaling technology (introducing a third dimension to quantum processors for optimized routing and reduced noise) and a Chiplet architecture (enabling modular manufacturing, calibration, and flexible expansion). These innovations transition quantum computing from mere conceptual verification to a scale with tangible real-world application potential. The article further elaborates on how NVIDIA, with its NVQLink high-speed interconnect protocol and CUDA-Q software stack, has proactively established a hybrid computing ecosystem that integrates quantum and classical processing power. This positions NVIDIA as the crucial link connecting ten-thousand-qubit quantum capabilities to practical applications, thereby securing a pivotal strategic position in the new quantum computing era.

This article selects and introduces 10 highly acclaimed open-source projects on GitHub this week. First up is Tencent's open-source enterprise-grade knowledge base, WeKnora, a document understanding and semantic retrieval framework based on large AI models, supporting complex document processing and agent capabilities. The article also introduces an AI-integrated draw.io flowchart generation tool that efficiently creates diagrams using natural language or hand-drawn sketches. Following that are Agents.md, a documentation standard designed for AI agents, and open-notebook, an open-source alternative to Google Notebook LLM. The article also recommends Fizzy, a minimalist Kanban tool, and Resume-Matcher, a resume matching tool, to help developers improve work efficiency and job search success rates. Finally, it introduces Goose, Block Inc.'s high-performance local AI coding agent, and HumanLayer, an AI agent security middleware, highlighting the application and development of AI in programming and security. The overall content is practical and cutting-edge, suitable for tech professionals to stay updated on the latest open-source trends.