12.26.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released, man stays with family for 45 years, default settings possibly too high

Hacker News Highlights · Dec 26, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 26, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

(01:28) - We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

(02:35) - Maybe the default settings are too high

(03:50) - I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

(04:54) - The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

(05:54) - Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster

(07:07) - Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to…