Hacker News on Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

1888 points by basilikum 10 months ago | 406 comments

A Tell HN post wishing the Hacker News community a Merry Christmas, with a link to the Wikipedia article on Christmas markets.

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig(git.dec05eba.com)

634 points by snvzz 10 months ago | 386 comments

Git repository page for Phoenix, a new X server written from scratch in Zig as a modern alternative to the Xorg server, currently in early development.

Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash(cnbc.com)

613 points by nickrubin 10 months ago | 349 comments

CNBC exclusive reporting that Nvidia is acquiring AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, its largest acquisition on record.

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL(github.com)

437 points by medv 10 months ago | 160 comments

GitHub repository for textarea.my, a single-file, dependency-free browser notes editor that stores compressed note contents in the URL hash.

Unifi Travel Router(blog.ui.com)

436 points by flurdy 10 months ago | 377 comments

Ubiquiti blog post announcing the UniFi Travel Router, a pocket-sized device that extends a user's UniFi network configuration while traveling.

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator(github.com)

398 points by hugs 10 months ago | 113 comments

GitHub repository for Vibium, an Apache-2.0 browser automation tool for AI agents and humans from Selenium's creator, using a Go binary with BiDi and MCP support.

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf](ipaidia.gr)

344 points by lioeters 10 months ago | 120 comments

A PDF biography of programmer Fabrice Bellard by Andy Gocke and Nick Pizzolato, covering his background and influential software contributions.

I'm returning my Framework 16(yorickpeterse.com)

265 points by YorickPeterse 10 months ago | 457 comments

When Compilers Surprise You(xania.org)

223 points by brewmarche 10 months ago | 96 comments

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian(twitter.com)

208 points by flaxxen 10 months ago | 394 comments

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025(blog.google)

198 points by Anon84 10 months ago | 148 comments

Don't Become the Machine(armeet.bearblog.dev)

191 points by armeet 10 months ago | 115 comments

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together(ivanca.github.io)

189 points by AmbroseBierce 10 months ago | 108 comments

Asterisk AI Voice Agent(github.com)

183 points by akrulino 10 months ago | 107 comments

Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)(forum.hackliberty.org)

167 points by Flere-Imsaho 10 months ago | 129 comments

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago(ianvisits.co.uk)

160 points by zeristor 10 months ago | 116 comments

How I Left YouTube(zhach.news)

157 points by dhashe 10 months ago | 196 comments

AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago(tomshardware.com)

141 points by ksec 10 months ago | 70 comments

Avoid Mini-Frameworks(laike9m.com)

127 points by laike9m 10 months ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free(html2png.dev)

127 points by alvinunreal 10 months ago | 70 comments

Lessons from the PG&E outage(waymo.com)

127 points by scoofy 10 months ago | 107 comments

Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults(games.jmir.org)

125 points by azalemeth 10 months ago | 109 comments

Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale(github.com)

117 points by flyaway123 10 months ago | 23 comments

Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)(gwern.net)

109 points by tsenturk 10 months ago | 43 comments

The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf](vpri.org)

101 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 27 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions(timothychambers.net)

99 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 94 comments

2D Signed Distance Functions(iquilezles.org)

97 points by nickswalker 10 months ago | 13 comments

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery(postech.ac.kr)

94 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024)(evan.widloski.com)

87 points by Evidlo 10 months ago | 14 comments

The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)(christitus.com)

85 points by janandonly 10 months ago | 58 comments

Kitchen optimizations(natemeyvis.com)

83 points by Theaetetus 10 months ago | 197 comments

Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale(eliocapella.com)

81 points by eliocs 10 months ago | 29 comments

Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments)(github.com)

74 points by v15w 10 months ago | 31 comments

Looking for Decent Conversation?

70 points by kmstout 10 months ago | 10 comments

Golfing Is Not Rowing(taylor.town)

69 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 53 comments

Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video](youtube.com)

68 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 6 comments

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave(wsj.com)

66 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 27 comments

'Three norths' alignment about to end(spatialsource.com.au)

65 points by altilunium 10 months ago | 27 comments

US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA(mastodon.social)

62 points by pojntfx 10 months ago | 30 comments

European Majority favours more social media regulation(yougov.co.uk)

61 points by snowpid 10 months ago | 69 comments

Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45(thomaswc.com)

59 points by thomaswc 10 months ago | 11 comments

Could lockfiles just be SBOMs?(nesbitt.io)

57 points by zdw 10 months ago | 40 comments

'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed(phys.org)

56 points by wglb 10 months ago | 12 comments

Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf](staff.fnwi.uva.nl)

54 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 5 comments

Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak(gmpy.dev)

52 points by grodola 10 months ago | 9 comments

New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas(phys.org)

51 points by westurner 10 months ago | 34 comments

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention(bitcoinmagazine.com)

48 points by giuliomagnifico 10 months ago | 30 comments

High-performance C++ hash table using grouped SIMD metadata scanning(github.com)

43 points by rurban 10 months ago | 15 comments

-tucky (2023)(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

43 points by benatkin 10 months ago | 34 comments

Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami(stanislas.blog)

41 points by angristan 10 months ago | 7 comments

Rust the Process(amalbansode.com)

39 points by quadrophenia 10 months ago | 5 comments

Steam Store is offline(steamstat.us)

38 points by DetectDefect 10 months ago | 11 comments

Microsoft Agent Framework(learn.microsoft.com)

38 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 22 comments

Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

37 points by apatheticonion 10 months ago | 19 comments

CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift(12onyourside.com)

37 points by gehwartzen 10 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator(github.com)

35 points by fwsgonzo 10 months ago | 11 comments

Dutch Tesla Fleet Goes Bankrupt After Betting on Musk's Self-Driving Promises(guessingheadlights.com)

34 points by toss1 10 months ago | 2 comments

Hacking a Java Minecraft server with memory overflows [video](youtube.com)

31 points by jblazevic 10 months ago | 2 comments

Custom Cross Compiler with Nix(hobson.space)

30 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 1 comments

Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard(altgr-weur.eu)

26 points by tokai 10 months ago | 12 comments