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Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

2025-12-24 @ 21:02:15Points: 107Comments: 40

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

2025-12-24 @ 21:01:05Points: 1

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning

2025-12-24 @ 20:48:53Points: 38Comments: 3

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave

2025-12-24 @ 20:04:52Points: 48Comments: 8

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

2025-12-24 @ 19:42:25Points: 127Comments: 50

What it does:

Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc

Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!)

Auto-compressed with CompressionStream

Plain-text editor (contenteditable)

History support

Page title from first # heading

Respects light/dark mode

No storage, cookies, or tracking

The entire app is the page source.

https://textarea.my/

Looking for Decent Conversation?

2025-12-24 @ 19:28:18Points: 68Comments: 8

  inurl:viewtopic.php
to any query, and most, if not all, of your results will be discussion threads on boards running atop phpBB. Similarly, using

  inurl:"index.php?topic="
seems to get Simple Machines fora, and

  inurl:showthread.php
will unearth vBulletin fora. You can also combine them, like so:

  croissant AND (inurl:viewtopic.php OR inurl:showthread.php OR inurl:"index.php?topic=")
Happy holidays, and good hunting.

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

2025-12-24 @ 18:17:47Points: 119Comments: 35

Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery

2025-12-24 @ 18:09:42Points: 90Comments: 44

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

2025-12-24 @ 17:49:02Points: 143Comments: 63

i started the selenium project 21 years ago. vibium is what i'd build if i started over today with ai agents in mind. go binary under the hood (handles browser, bidi, mcp) but devs never see it. just npm install vibium. python/java coming. for claude code: claude mcp add vibium -- npx -y vibium v1 ships today. ama.

Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011)

2025-12-24 @ 17:00:28Points: 11Comments: 1

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

2025-12-24 @ 15:59:23Points: 61Comments: 55

AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago

2025-12-24 @ 14:28:35Points: 140Comments: 68

Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults

2025-12-24 @ 13:43:46Points: 124Comments: 107

When Compilers Surprise You

2025-12-24 @ 13:27:50Points: 176Comments: 75

I'm returning my Framework 16

2025-12-24 @ 12:55:19Points: 102Comments: 161

Avoid Mini-Frameworks

2025-12-24 @ 12:04:02Points: 97Comments: 74

Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale

2025-12-24 @ 09:50:52Points: 83Comments: 29

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

2025-12-24 @ 08:32:27Points: 123Comments: 97

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

2025-12-24 @ 01:20:39Points: 209Comments: 395

Unifi Travel Router

2025-12-24 @ 00:30:18Points: 436Comments: 376

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents

2025-12-23 @ 21:54:30Points: 656Comments: 113

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

2025-12-23 @ 20:10:30Points: 911Comments: 708

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

2025-12-23 @ 17:33:42Points: 1322Comments: 507

Your inbox is a bandit problem

2025-12-22 @ 04:04:04Points: 57Comments: 55

Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials

2025-12-21 @ 22:04:12Points: 11Comments: 1

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

2025-12-20 @ 11:19:21Points: 22Comments: 9

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

2025-12-19 @ 13:00:47Points: 63Comments: 10

Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison

2025-12-19 @ 12:25:40Points: 8Comments: 2

The Port I couldn't Ship

2025-12-18 @ 20:17:37Points: 87Comments: 44

A faster path to container images in Bazel

2025-12-18 @ 19:50:29Points: 45Comments: 17

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