This date was skipped - no prediction was made in advance. The analysis below describes what actually happened on Hacker News that day.
This date was skipped - no prediction was made in advance for December 23rd. The analysis below describes what actually appeared on Hacker News that day, which helps inform future predictions.
December 23rd (Monday before Christmas) saw a mix of technical deep dives, privacy tools, and vintage computing content.
Top stories included: Fabrice Bellard biography (#1, 1067pts), Privacy tools (X-ray #2, Flock #3, Snitch #9), Lua 5.5 release (#5), Technical content (TCP_NODELAY, H.264/JPEG), Platform regulation (Texas law #7), and vintage computing (Photoshop source, C64 fire).