Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - How uv got so fast (01:36) - Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (02:43) - Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (03:43) - Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (04:48) - The best things and stuff of 2025 (05:53) - LearnixOS (06:52) - Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? (07:46) - Always bet on text (2014) (08:47) - Exe.dev (09:39) - Outro How uv got so fasthttps://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works outhttps://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-timehttps://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-andhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux systemhttps://github.com/pranshuparmar/witrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910The best things and stuff of 2025https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726LearnixOShttps://www.learnix-os.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391599Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572Always bet on text (2014)https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379Exe.devhttps://exe.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:28) - We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (02:35) - Maybe the default settings are too high (03:50) - I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (04:54) - The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (05:54) - Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (07:07) - Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (08:24) - Fahrplan – 39C3 (09:20) - Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) (10:32) - Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players (11:33) - Outro Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJShttps://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 yearshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383552Maybe the default settings are too highhttps://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387657I sell onions on the Internet (2019)https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308The entire New Yorker archive is now digitizedhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitizedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336577Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% fasterhttps://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384167Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitorshttps://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388040Fahrplan – 39C3https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46386211Asahi 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/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384565Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 playershttps://gamingcouch.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Tell HN: Merry Christmas (01:14) - Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash (02:25) - Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (03:40) - Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (04:43) - Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (05:51) - Ruby 4.0.0 (06:54) - Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (08:00) - I'm returning my Framework 16 (09:03) - CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (10:16) - Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (11:06) - Outro Tell HN: Merry Christmashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cashhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379183Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zighttps://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URLhttps://github.com/antonmedv/textareahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378554Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creatorhttps://github.com/VibiumDev/vibiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377597Ruby 4.0.0https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382011Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377862I'm returning my Framework 16https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fieldshttps://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fieldshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351666Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380758

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:19) - Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks (02:22) - X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (03:28) - We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (04:49) - What makes you senior (06:02) - Lua 5.5 (07:00) - Unifi Travel Router (08:03) - Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge (09:10) - Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One (10:30) - Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 (11:43) - Outro Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJShttps://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hackshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-mediahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368946X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documentshttps://github.com/freelawproject/x-rayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475What makes you seniorhttps://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327692Lua 5.5https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354674Unifi Travel Routerhttps://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-routerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judgehttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370012Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of Onehttps://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-softwarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334206Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309007

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (01:32) - Claude Code gets native LSP support (02:37) - The Illustrated Transformer (03:55) - GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (05:03) - It's Always TCP_NODELAY (06:19) - NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut (07:31) - Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases (08:42) - Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors (09:57) - The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (11:08) - The Garbage Collection Handbook (12:09) - Outro Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselveshttps://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548Claude Code gets native LSP supporthttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165The Illustrated Transformerhttps://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357675GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capabilityhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357287It's Always TCP_NODELAYhttps://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359120NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cuthttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nist-was-5-μs-utc-after-last-weeks-power-cuthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355949Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebaseshttps://blog.kierangill.xyz/oversight-and-guidancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354970Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumorshttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrasound-cancer-treatmenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357945The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353777The Garbage Collection Handbookhttps://gchandbook.org/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357870