top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-24

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168

8 months ago

Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html

8 months ago

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/

8 months ago

Unifi Travel Router

https://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router

8 months ago

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea

8 months ago

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium

8 months ago

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf

8 months ago

I'm returning my Framework 16

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/

8 months ago

Don't Become the Machine

https://armeet.bearblog.dev/becoming-the-machine/

8 months ago

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

https://ivanca.github.io/programming/2025/11/26/microsoft-pls-get-your-tab-to-autocomplete-shit-together/

8 months ago

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

https://blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs/

8 months ago

When compilers surprise you

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang

8 months ago

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

https://twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502

8 months ago

How I Left YouTube

https://zhach.news/how-i-left-youtube/

8 months ago

Asterisk AI Voice Agent

https://github.com/hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent

8 months ago

AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-first-entered-the-cpu-market-with-reverse-engineered-intel-8080-clone-50-years-ago-the-am9080-cost-50-cents-apiece-to-make-but-sold-for-usd700

8 months ago

Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)

https://forum.hackliberty.org/t/why-we-abandoned-matrix-the-dark-truth-about-user-security-and-safety/224

8 months ago

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds-a-century-ago-86263/

8 months ago

Lessons from the PG&E outage

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world

8 months ago

Avoid Mini-Frameworks

https://laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171/

8 months ago