Hey buddy,

Just saw some wild stuff on Hacker News today, figured I'd give you the quick rundown. It's Christmas Eve, so things were a mix of tech and holiday cheer!

Holiday Vibes & Tech Fails

First off, it's Christmas Eve, so a bunch of people were just wishing everyone Merry Christmas on HN, which was kinda nice. Someone even posted a cool old-school BASIC code to draw a Christmas tree! And get this, ChatGPT apparently couldn't even format a simple text Christmas tree in the comments, haha. There was also a deep dive comment about how the Bible and the Big Bang theory aren't necessarily at odds, which was a surprising read for a tech forum.

Nvidia's Shopping Spree

Big news, man, Nvidia is apparently buying Groq for like 20 BILLION bucks! That's a massive deal in the AI chip world. People in the comments are already wondering if regulators are even gonna care, or if Nvidia's just gonna keep eating up all the competition. It's pretty wild to see how fast they're growing.

You can check out the article here: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq

Unifi's New Travel Gadget

Ubiquiti, you know, Unifi, they've got a new travel router out. People are stoked because they deal with all sorts of messed-up Wi-Fi when they travel – like trying to get your e-reader online at a hotel with those annoying captive portals. Someone said they use one for their robotics team to get good internet at competitions. But yeah, some folks remembered Ubiquiti had some security drama a while back, so that's always in the back of people's minds.

Linux Display Wars Continue

Okay, this one's pretty nerdy, but some dude is writing a whole new X server – that's like the core display thing for Linux – from scratch in a language called Zig. It's called Phoenix. The comments are a total war zone between people who love the old X11 and those pushing for Wayland. One guy even joked about Windows still struggling with basic driver detection, classic!

Browser Editor in Your URL

There's this super neat little 'Show HN' project, it's a minimalist editor right in your browser. The wild part? Everything you type or draw gets saved directly in the URL! So you can just bookmark the URL and come back to your stuff. Someone said they're using it to plan a trip, which is a clever idea. Though, one person mentioned it crashed their Firefox on Android, oops. You can see it here: Minimalist editor that lives in browser

Selenium Creator's New Gig

Remember Selenium, the browser automation tool? Well, the original creator just launched a new project called Vibium. It's for browser automation, but sounds like it's really geared towards AI and also for us regular humans. The creator had this cool metaphor about building an island resort and a bridge to explain his vision – like, build the cool thing first, then the path to it. People are talking about it for testing and scraping data.

Legendary Coder Spotlight

Oh, and there was a link to an old biography of Fabrice Bellard, you know, that legendary coder who built like, a tiny Linux distro, a C compiler, and a video encoder all by himself? People in the comments were saying he's like a 'solo auteur' and probably wouldn't even fit into a big tech company like Google or Apple because he's just *that* good and independent. Pretty inspiring stuff. Here's the PDF bio if you're curious.

Anyway, gotta run, talk soon!