Weekly Best
1.
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
2.
Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
3.
Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)
4.
Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com)
5.
How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)
6.
We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
7.
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
8.
Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)
9.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
10.
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
11.
Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
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X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com)
13.
Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
14.
Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
15.
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (git.dec05eba.com)
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The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt (mastodon.online)
17.
Floor796 (floor796.com)
18.
Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app)
19.
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified (arstechnica.com)
20.
A guide to local coding models (aiforswes.com)
21.
Logging sucks (loggingsucks.com)
22.
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone (idiallo.com)
23.
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)
24.
We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (blog.helix.ml)
25.
Claude Code gets native LSP support (github.com)
26.
The Illustrated Transformer (jalammar.github.io)
27.
It's Always TCP_NODELAY (brooker.co.za)
28.
Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study (case.edu)
29.
I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (deepsouthventures.com)
30.
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)