Hacker News on Thursday, 25 December 2025

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years(bbc.co.uk)

1081 points by rajeshrajappan 10 months ago | 252 comments

BBC Wales human-interest article about a family who invited a man into their home at Christmas, where he then lived with them for 45 years.

Maybe the default settings are too high(raptitude.com)

837 points by htk 10 months ago | 273 comments

A Raptitude blog essay titled "Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High," a personal-improvement piece suggesting we slow down our default pace of living and consuming.

Ruby 4.0.0(ruby-lang.org)

707 points by FBISurveillance 10 months ago | 162 comments

Official ruby-lang.org announcement of the Ruby 4.0.0 release, introducing Ruby Box and the ZJIT compiler plus other improvements.

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)(deepsouthventures.com)

462 points by sogen 10 months ago | 135 comments

Peter Askew's 2019 essay on Deep South Ventures about running an online business selling Vidalia onions.

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study(case.edu)

457 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 111 comments

Case Western Reserve University news release on a study reporting that Alzheimer's disease was reversed, with full neurological recovery, in animal models.

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster(fidget-spinner.github.io)

389 points by lumpa 10 months ago | 132 comments

Blog post by CPython developer Ken Jin reporting that the tail-calling interpreter gives ~15% speedup on Windows x86-64 MSVC and ~5% on macOS AArch64 for Python 3.15.

Fahrplan – 39C3(fahrplan.events.ccc.de)

358 points by rurban 10 months ago | 174 comments

The official talk schedule (Fahrplan) for the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3), starting December 27, 2025, listing talks by time, speaker and track.

Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached(github.com)

310 points by xvilka 10 months ago | 182 comments

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video](youtube.com)

285 points by notgloating 10 months ago | 105 comments

Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)(daniel.lawrence.lu)

243 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 258 comments

Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address(9to5google.com)

204 points by geox 10 months ago | 181 comments

Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

165 points by meridion 10 months ago | 249 comments

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations(fsf.org)

160 points by pentagrama 10 months ago | 21 comments

Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol(fontgenerator.design)

157 points by yarlinghe 10 months ago | 62 comments

Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI(maarthandam.com)

114 points by whynotmaybe 10 months ago | 58 comments

Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts(baecher.dev)

109 points by pbhn 10 months ago | 55 comments

Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664(cyata.ai)

107 points by shahartal 10 months ago | 70 comments

UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist(github.com)

105 points by _____k 10 months ago | 35 comments

We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)(kegel.com)

96 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 61 comments

Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting(github.com)

68 points by Sakura-sx 10 months ago | 43 comments

Memory Safety(memorysafety.org)

66 points by pmaddams 10 months ago | 105 comments

The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind(mirari.vitasys.nl)

64 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 13 comments

Librarians Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI(gizmodo.com)

63 points by vitalnodo 10 months ago | 41 comments

Python Applied Mathematics Labs(labs.acme.byu.edu)

58 points by vvin 10 months ago | 2 comments

Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM(algassert.com)

57 points by EvgeniyZh 10 months ago | 15 comments

Line scan camera image processing(daniel.lawrence.lu)

54 points by vasco 10 months ago | 3 comments

Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture(0l.de)

53 points by stv0g 10 months ago | 9 comments

Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI(windowslatest.com)

52 points by zdw 10 months ago | 44 comments

Vitest Browser Mode Guide(howtotestfrontend.com)

52 points by howToTestFE 10 months ago | 7 comments

URL Pattern API(developer.mozilla.org)

51 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?

48 points by KellyCriterion 10 months ago | 15 comments

Winnie-the-Pooh brings 100 years of fame to forest(bbc.com)

48 points by 1659447091 10 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas

44 points by jack_ruru 10 months ago | 9 comments

The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush(rferl.org)

42 points by ece20 10 months ago | 13 comments

A Christmas Present to Myself – Vector Network Analyzer (2014)(axotron.se)

33 points by joebig 10 months ago | 3 comments

No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner(economictimes.indiatimes.com)

29 points by gfortaine 10 months ago | 12 comments

Intelligence – A Mystery Investigation Game(intelligencegame.tech)

26 points by throw_a_grenade 10 months ago | 2 comments

Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf](archive.blankline.org)

21 points by epicprogrammer 10 months ago | 2 comments

Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021)(heathrow.com)

15 points by susam 10 months ago | 0 comments

Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System(submicro.krishnabajpai.me)

15 points by krish678 10 months ago | 5 comments

Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)

14 points by 0xpgm 10 months ago | 0 comments

Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker?

14 points by emmasuntech 10 months ago | 11 comments

Why 'The Global Market' Is an Irresponsible Phrase(oswarld.com)

12 points by haebom 10 months ago | 6 comments

The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful

12 points by kinj28 10 months ago | 2 comments

Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity(blog.jetbrains.com)

9 points by mikece 10 months ago | 0 comments