Weekly Best
1.
What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
2.
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
3.
Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)
4.
Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com)
5.
How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)
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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
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Calendar (neatnik.net)
8.
Floor796 (floor796.com)
9.
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
10.
Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn (theocharis.dev)
11.
Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)
12.
Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)
13.
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
14.
Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
15.
Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (htmhell.dev)
16.
X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com)
17.
Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
18.
Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
19.
How we lost communication to entertainment (ploum.net)
20.
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (git.dec05eba.com)
21.
Say No to Palantir in the NHS (notopalantir.goodlawproject.org)
22.
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)
23.
Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole (ossa-ma.github.io)
24.
You can make up HTML tags (maurycyz.com)
25.
We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (blog.helix.ml)
26.
GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder (gog.com)
27.
Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (github.com)
28.
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)
29.
Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)
30.
Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)