top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-23

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

https://archive.org/details/insidececot

8 months ago

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

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

8 months ago

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18

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

8 months ago

The best things and stuff of 2025

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

8 months ago

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

https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli

8 months ago

Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat

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

8 months ago

How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades

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

8 months ago

Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed

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

8 months ago

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT

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

8 months ago

Clock synchronization is a nightmare

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/clock-sync-nightmare/

8 months ago

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

https://www.gkbrk.com/hotel-music

8 months ago

Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize

https://github.com/DeepMyst/Mysti

8 months ago

Test, don't just verify

https://alperenkeles.com/posts/test-dont-verify/

8 months ago

AI Police Reports: Year in Review

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/ai-police-reports-year-review

8 months ago

HTTP Caching, a Refresher

https://danburzo.ro/http-caching-refresher/

8 months ago

60 Minutes: Cecot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362149

8 months ago

Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618

8 months ago

The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

https://www.theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak

8 months ago

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024)

https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting/

8 months ago

Stop Slopware

https://stopslopware.net/

8 months ago

Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF

https://github.com/rex-rs/rex

8 months ago

Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/corporate-design-branding/volvo-new-font-volvo-centum

8 months ago

Help My c64 caught on fire

https://c0de517e.com/026_c64fire.htm

8 months ago

UNIX Fourth Edition

http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README

8 months ago

Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell

https://carnap.io/

8 months ago

We just unredacted some of the Epstein files

https://krassencast.com/p/breaking-we-just-unredacted-the-epstein

8 months ago

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf

8 months ago

Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?

https://statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025/

8 months ago

Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics

https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/olympics

8 months ago

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?yc261223

8 months ago

Terrence Malick's Disciples

https://yalereview.org/article/bilge-ebiri-terrence-malick

8 months ago

Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents

https://superset.sh/

8 months ago

US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints

https://apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-immigration-rubio-visas-87c8a4692f3184e4f83fdd8ed5093886

8 months ago

Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan

https://clan.lol/blog/towards-app-platform-vmtech/

8 months ago

Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once

https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2025/12/19-perfect-shot.html

8 months ago

Some Junk Theorems in Lean

https://github.com/James-Hanson/junk-theorems-in-lean

8 months ago

Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle

https://geneguessr.brinedew.bio/

8 months ago

Quake's Player Speed (2017)

https://rome.ro/quakes-player-speed-1

8 months ago

When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251223-00/?p=111896

8 months ago

Microsoft to replace all C/C++ code with Rust

https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all-c-c-code-with-rust-by-2030

8 months ago

They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)

https://jens.mooseyard.com/1997/04/13/they-made-me-an-offer-i-couldnt-refuse/

8 months ago