top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-23

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

https://archive.org/details/insidececot

2 months ago

1679 upvotes – 549 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md

2 months ago

1507 upvotes – 569 comments

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

2 months ago

1029 upvotes – 780 comments

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

2 months ago

709 upvotes – 122 comments

Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-SCX-LAVD-Steam-Deck-Server

2 months ago

701 upvotes – 392 comments

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

https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen

2 months ago

523 upvotes – 320 comments

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363921

2 months ago

474 upvotes – 141 comments

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18

https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones/

2 months ago

435 upvotes – 162 comments

The best things and stuff of 2025

https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html

2 months ago

415 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal

https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli

2 months ago

348 upvotes – 111 comments

Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat

https://github.com/karol-broda/snitch

2 months ago

341 upvotes – 103 comments

How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

2 months ago

332 upvotes – 220 comments

10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13

https://www.datocms.com/blog/a-look-back-at-2025

2 months ago

326 upvotes – 129 comments

iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing/

2 months ago

324 upvotes – 330 comments

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/

2 months ago

322 upvotes – 251 comments

I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus

https://www.pocket-lint.com/lg-tv-turn-off-live-plus/

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 245 comments

Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/23/ryanair-fined-limit-online-travel-agencies-ticket-sales-ota

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 271 comments

Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-models-locally

2 months ago

255 upvotes – 260 comments

Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed

https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 11 comments

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT

https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 15 comments
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