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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:19) - Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks (02:22) - X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (03:28) - We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (04:49) - What makes you senior (06:02) - Lua 5.5 (07:00) - Unifi Travel Router (08:03) - Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge (09:10) - Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One (10:30) - Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 (11:43) - Outro Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJShttps://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hackshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-mediahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368946X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documentshttps://github.com/freelawproject/x-rayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475What makes you seniorhttps://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327692Lua 5.5https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354674Unifi Travel Routerhttps://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-routerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judgehttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370012Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of Onehttps://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-softwarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334206Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309007 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.