top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-24

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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

2 months ago

1958 upvotes – 430 comments

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

2 months ago

699 upvotes – 404 comments

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

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

2 months ago

674 upvotes – 435 comments

Unifi Travel Router

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

2 months ago

472 upvotes – 430 comments

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

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea

2 months ago

468 upvotes – 168 comments

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

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium

2 months ago

443 upvotes – 124 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

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

2 months ago

360 upvotes – 126 comments

I'm returning my Framework 16

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

2 months ago

313 upvotes – 608 comments

Don't Become the Machine

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

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 143 comments

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/

2 months ago

251 upvotes – 152 comments

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

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

2 months ago

245 upvotes – 168 comments

When compilers surprise you

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

2 months ago

244 upvotes – 104 comments

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

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

2 months ago

223 upvotes – 470 comments

How I Left YouTube

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

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 324 comments

Asterisk AI Voice Agent

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

2 months ago

198 upvotes – 119 comments

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

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 101 comments

Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)

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

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 196 comments

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/

2 months ago

184 upvotes – 145 comments

Lessons from the PG&E outage

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

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 166 comments

Avoid Mini-Frameworks

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

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 116 comments

Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults

https://games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free

https://html2png.dev

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 81 comments

Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)

https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 59 comments

Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale

https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 25 comments

US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA

https://mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 152 comments

2D Signed Distance Functions

https://iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions2d/

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 18 comments

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

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 38 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 122 comments

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery

https://postech.ac.kr/eng/research/research_results.do?mode=view&articleNo=43617&title=Anode-Free+Battery+Doubles+Electric+Vehicle+Driving+Range

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Help my website is too small

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/help-my-website-is-too-small/

2 months ago

107 upvotes – 14 comments

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

https://evan.widloski.com/posts/spinners/

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

Looking for Decent Conversation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378431

2 months ago

103 upvotes – 17 comments

Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale

https://eliocapella.com/blog/permission-systems-for-enterprise/

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 37 comments

The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 86 comments

Kitchen optimizations

https://www.natemeyvis.com/kitchen-optimizations/

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 236 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374456

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

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

https://github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

European Majority favours more social media regulation

https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/53241-european-political-monthly-where-do-europeans-stand-on-social-media-regulation

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 137 comments

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Golfing Is Not Rowing

https://taylor.town/golf-vs-rowing

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiRte-tnMY

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdcda2d

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 80 comments

'Three norths' alignment about to end

https://www.spatialsource.com.au/three-norths-alignment-about-to-end/

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45

https://thomaswc.com/2025.html

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Could lockfiles just be SBOMs?

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/23/could-lockfiles-just-be-sboms.html

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chaotic-dracula-chivito-hubble-reveals.html

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak

https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/psutil-heap-introspection-apis

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Steam Store is offline

https://steamstat.us/

2 months ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371139

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-reactor-energy-carbon-nanotubes-natural.html

2 months ago

64 upvotes – 41 comments
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