/Hive Five #255 · Dec 24, 2025
How to Crush Your 2026 Goals
/The Bee's Knees 🐝
The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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Andrej Karpathy breaks down 2025's biggest AI breakthroughs, from reasoning models that "think" through problems to AI agents living on your computer. He explains how LLMs became jaggedly intelligent - genius at math but easily tricked - while enabling anyone to code through natural language.
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Derek Thompson presents 26 key trends shaping 2026, from the decline of reading and rise of AI-driven economics to America's shift from alcohol to marijuana use. The analysis covers everything from TikTok's cognitive effects and housing market dysfunction to GLP-1 drugs reshaping food industries and young people gambling with crypto instead of saving for homes.
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Teresa Torres demonstrates how she uses Claude Code as a $100/month AI employee to automate her entire workflow - from generating daily to-do lists by scanning Trello boards to co-authoring 9,000-word blog posts in just 1.5 days. She shares her three-layer context system using Obsidian and terminal windows that lets her delegate everything from research to task management while maintaining creative control over her writing voice.
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Mehmet chained together multiple vulnerabilities in PostHog's analytics platform to achieve remote code execution, exploiting SSRF flaws, a ClickHouse SQL escaping bug, and default PostgreSQL credentials. The attack demonstrates how seemingly minor security issues can combine into a critical exploit chain affecting self-hosted PostHog instances.
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Companies are desperately hiring "storytellers" as AI floods the market with generic content, creating a gold rush for authentic human communication. While tech leaders scramble to find genuine narrative talent, they often overlook actual storytellers who lack the corporate buzzwords but possess the life experience needed to craft meaningful stories that cut through AI-generated noise.
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