HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-24

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)

    674 points · HN #46380075

  2. 02

    Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    1958 points · HN #46380168

  3. 03

    Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)

    1029 points · HN #46368946

  4. 04

    Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)

    468 points · HN #46378554

  5. 05

    Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)

    360 points · HN #46377862

  6. 06

    Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/vibiumdev)

    443 points · HN #46377597

  7. 07

    Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)

    699 points · HN #46379183

  8. 08

    Unifi Travel Router (ui.com)

    472 points · HN #46371135

  9. 09

    The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)

    140 points · HN #46318080

  10. 10

    Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)

    158 points · HN #46322815

  11. 11

    Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)

    223 points · HN #46371423

  12. 12

    I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)

    313 points · HN #46375174

  13. 13

    Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com/sebastienros)

    150 points · HN #46339532

  14. 14

    When compilers surprise you (xania.org)

    244 points · HN #46375384

  15. 15

    The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)

    184 points · HN #46373644

  16. 16

    A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)

    104 points · HN #46317687

  17. 17

    Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free (html2png.dev)

    152 points · HN #46371743

  18. 18

    Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)

    121 points · HN #46344104

  19. 19

    Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com/xyphro)

    91 points · HN #46371429

  20. 20

    Don't Become the Machine (armeet.bearblog.dev)

    262 points · HN #46372153

  21. 21

    Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)

    84 points · HN #46335370

  22. 22

    The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)

    80 points · HN #46338895

  23. 23

    My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)

    115 points · HN #46376652

  24. 24

    Lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)

    171 points · HN #46371730

  25. 25

    Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim (github.com/humorless)

    70 points · HN #46304858

  26. 26

    Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 (abhamra.com)

    63 points · HN #46335961

  27. 27

    How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)

    218 points · HN #46379677

  28. 28

    Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? (statusgator.com)

    104 points · HN #46370592

  29. 29

    Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (uva.nl)

    62 points · HN #46371759

  30. 30

    Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)

    245 points · HN #46374018