Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-25

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas news.ycombinator.com - 241 comments 911 points
  2. Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash www.cnbc.com - 267 comments 454 points
  3. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig git.dec05eba.com - 151 comments 319 points
  4. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL github.com - 94 comments 284 points
  5. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium’s creator github.com - 86 comments 272 points
  6. Fabrice Bellard: Biography - 2009 - pdf www.ipaidia.gr - 68 comments 239 points
  7. When Compilers Surprise You xania.org - 95 comments 225 points
  8. I’m returning my Framework 16 yorickpeterse.com - 319 comments 194 points
  9. Google’s year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 blog.google - 144 comments 191 points
  10. Why We Abandoned Matrix - 2024 forum.hackliberty.org - 152 comments 185 points
  11. The e-scooter isn’t new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago www.ianvisits.co.uk - 117 comments 167 points
  12. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago www.tomshardware.com - 86 comments 163 points
  13. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together ivanca.github.io - 89 comments 159 points
  14. Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults games.jmir.org - 120 comments 145 points
  15. Avoid Mini-Frameworks laike9m.com - 97 comments 132 points
  16. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA mastodon.social - 132 comments 116 points
  17. Spaced repetition for efficient learning - 2019 gwern.net - 46 comments 116 points
  18. How I Left YouTube zhach.news - 142 comments 113 points
  19. Who Watches the Waymos? I do - video www.youtube.com - 35 comments 109 points
  20. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery postech.ac.kr - 51 comments 103 points
  21. Help my website is too small lukeplant.me.uk - 13 comments 99 points
  22. The Ultimate Windows Utility - 2022 christitus.com - 80 comments 97 points
  23. Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale eliocapella.com - 29 comments 93 points
  24. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions www.timothychambers.net - 85 comments 90 points
  25. Looking for Decent Conversation? news.ycombinator.com - 13 comments 85 points
  26. Tell HN: Merry Christmas news.ycombinator.com - 51 comments 84 points
  27. Ruby 4.0.0 Released www.ruby-lang.org - 6 comments 82 points
  28. European Majority favours more social media regulation yougov.co.uk - 128 comments 81 points
  29. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave www.wsj.com - 40 comments 79 points
  30. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention bitcoinmagazine.com - 36 comments 78 points