top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-12-25

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o

17 hours ago

961 upvotes – 231 comments

Ruby 4.0.0

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/

a day ago

699 upvotes – 158 comments

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study

https://case.edu/news/new-study-shows-alzheimers-disease-can-be-reversed-achieve-full-neurological-recovery-not-just-prevented-or-slowed-animal-models

12 hours ago

435 upvotes – 109 comments

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/

11 hours ago

388 upvotes – 117 comments

Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/34271

17 hours ago

342 upvotes – 207 comments

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html

15 hours ago

333 upvotes – 108 comments

Maybe the default settings are too high

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/

4 hours ago

285 upvotes – 85 comments

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc

a day ago

273 upvotes – 103 comments

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-historic-private-donations

a day ago

208 upvotes – 33 comments

Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-sway-on-the-macbook-air-m2/

13 hours ago

195 upvotes – 179 comments
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