Hacker News on Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS(github.com)

1460 points by Aissen 10 months ago | 547 comments

GitHub README for MicroQuickJS, a compact JavaScript engine by Fabrice Bellard derived from QuickJS.

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video](archive.org)

1391 points by lawlessone 10 months ago | 411 comments

Internet Archive upload of the 60 Minutes segment "Inside CECOT" about El Salvador's mega-prison.

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone(theguardian.com)

919 points by vinni2 10 months ago | 713 comments

Guardian news article reporting that redactions in released Epstein files are being undone with simple hacks, with un-redacted text circulating on social media.

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents(github.com)

660 points by rendx 10 months ago | 114 comments

GitHub repository for x-ray, a BSD-licensed Python library from Free Law Project that detects bad or ineffective redactions in PDF documents.

Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers(phoronix.com)

599 points by yellow_lead 10 months ago | 318 comments

Phoronix news article reporting that Meta uses the SCX-LAVD Linux scheduler, originally built for Valve's Steam Deck, on its large servers.

We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)(blog.helix.ml)

476 points by quesobob 10 months ago | 281 comments

HelixML blog post explaining how they replaced an H.264 WebCodecs screen-streaming pipeline with JPEG screenshots and found it worked better.

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18(boringsql.com)

386 points by radimm 10 months ago | 148 comments

A boringSQL blog post by Radim Marek explaining how to create instant database clones in PostgreSQL 18 for testing, migrations, and reproducible snapshots.

The best things and stuff of 2025(blog.fogus.me)

370 points by adityaathalye 10 months ago | 82 comments

Fogus's annual personal list of favorite posts, articles, videos, books, and other things discovered in 2025, with short commentary on each.

Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

314 points by nishilpatel 10 months ago | 98 comments

Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat(github.com)

302 points by karol-broda 10 months ago | 93 comments

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge(macrumors.com)

299 points by danso 10 months ago | 212 comments

10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13(datocms.com)

295 points by steffoz 10 months ago | 110 comments

iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA(macrumors.com)

292 points by Tomte 10 months ago | 255 comments

Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal(github.com)

286 points by samsep10l 10 months ago | 97 comments

Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades(spectrum.ieee.org)

227 points by barqawiz 10 months ago | 224 comments

Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs(theguardian.com)

217 points by aquir 10 months ago | 245 comments

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)(gkbrk.com)

214 points by bayesnet 10 months ago | 28 comments

Clock synchronization is a nightmare(arpitbhayani.me)

200 points by grep_it 10 months ago | 133 comments

Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize(github.com)

191 points by bahaAbunojaim 10 months ago | 156 comments

AI Police Reports: Year in Review(eff.org)

180 points by hn_acker 10 months ago | 148 comments

Test, don't just verify(alperenkeles.com)

180 points by alpaylan 10 months ago | 127 comments

I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus(pocket-lint.com)

170 points by fcpguru 10 months ago | 160 comments

HTTP Caching, a Refresher(danburzo.ro)

159 points by danburzo 10 months ago | 26 comments

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024)(blog.glyphdrawing.club)

137 points by california-og 10 months ago | 28 comments

Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF(github.com)

136 points by zdw 10 months ago | 61 comments

Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes Cecot Segment Bari Weiss Killed(404media.co)

124 points by m-hodges 10 months ago | 6 comments

Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo(wallpaper.com)

112 points by ohjeez 10 months ago | 115 comments

Help My c64 caught on fire(c0de517e.com)

105 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 33 comments

Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell(carnap.io)

97 points by ravenical 10 months ago | 20 comments

UNIX Fourth Edition(squoze.net)

96 points by dcminter 10 months ago | 10 comments

Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?(statusgator.com)

93 points by colinbartlett 10 months ago | 65 comments

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf](docs.fcc.gov)

91 points by Espressosaurus 10 months ago | 70 comments

Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once(engineering.cmu.edu)

89 points by gnabgib 10 months ago | 39 comments

Stop Slopware(stopslopware.net)

87 points by bradley_taunt 10 months ago | 112 comments

Terrence Malick's Disciples(yalereview.org)

86 points by prismatic 10 months ago | 21 comments

Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan(clan.lol)

83 points by throawayonthe 10 months ago | 21 comments

Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics(physicalintelligence.company)

81 points by beklein 10 months ago | 10 comments

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape(spinellis.gr)

76 points by DSpinellis 10 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents(superset.sh)

76 points by avipeltz 10 months ago | 72 comments

Some Junk Theorems in Lean(github.com)

75 points by saithound 10 months ago | 53 comments

Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news(nbcnews.com)

71 points by duxup 10 months ago | 12 comments

Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle(geneguessr.brinedew.bio)

69 points by brinedew 10 months ago | 13 comments

Quake's Player Speed (2017)(rome.ro)

66 points by klaussilveira 10 months ago | 21 comments

How Did Doge Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?(nytimes.com)

62 points by JumpCrisscross 10 months ago | 29 comments

The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf](dozenal.org)

56 points by susam 10 months ago | 26 comments

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT(archive.org)

56 points by DustinEchoes 10 months ago | 3 comments

How Willie Nelson sees America(newyorker.com)

45 points by NaOH 10 months ago | 1 comments

Un-Redactor(github.com)

44 points by kvthweatt 10 months ago | 39 comments

Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots(pantograph.com)

42 points by agajews 10 months ago | 8 comments

They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)(jens.mooseyard.com)

41 points by classichasclass 10 months ago | 27 comments

2025 was the year Xbox died(engadget.com)

41 points by speckx 10 months ago | 26 comments

The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband(theverge.com)

37 points by lateforwork 10 months ago | 4 comments

Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols(blog.chrislewis.au)

35 points by knackers 10 months ago | 4 comments

When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates(devblogs.microsoft.com)

34 points by magnat 10 months ago | 13 comments

Confessions to a Data Lake(confer.to)

34 points by kkl 10 months ago | 12 comments

The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal(blog.apnic.net)

27 points by speckx 10 months ago | 15 comments

Static Allocation for Compilers(matklad.github.io)

22 points by enz 10 months ago | 9 comments

Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

22 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 7 comments

Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia(sciencedirect.com)

22 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 9 comments

Fixed-Wing Runway Design(wbdg.org)

21 points by DarkContinent 10 months ago | 10 comments