Hacker News Highlights

5.14.26 | Linux gaming speeds up, free *.city.state.us domains in 2025, twin brothers erase 96 government databases

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:18:55 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
(01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
(02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
(04:08) - A History of IDEs at Google
(05:54) - Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
(07:24) - The Emacsification of Software
(08:46) - Claude for Small Business
(10:03) - Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
(11:03) - Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
(12:37) - MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
(14:08) - Outro

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438

A History of IDEs at Google
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848

The Emacsification of Software
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727

Claude for Small Business
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617

5.13.26 | Bambu Lab accused of open source abuse, Googlebook discussed, senior developers struggle to communicate expertise

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:21:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
(01:40) - Googlebook
(02:52) - Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
(04:21) - Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
(05:57) - Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
(07:25) - Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
(08:43) - The Future of Obsidian Plugins
(09:58) - How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
(11:01) - Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
(12:34) - CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
(14:00) - Outro

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224

Googlebook
https://googlebook.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127

The Future of Obsidian Plugins
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042

5.12.26 | TanStack NPM supply-chain attack, GitLab workforce reduction and CREDIT end, AI-written code questions Python use

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:20:04 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
(01:58) - GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
(03:22) - If AI writes your code, why use Python?
(04:57) - UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
(06:04) - Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
(07:35) - They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
(08:48) - Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
(10:21) - Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
(11:30) - Interaction Models
(12:56) - Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
(14:20) - Outro

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500

If AI writes your code, why use Python?
https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428

Interaction Models
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524

Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641

5.11.26 | Hardware attestation enables monopoly, local AI should be the norm, returning to AWS revealed reasons for leaving

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:40:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
(01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm
(02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
(04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
(05:25) - I'm going back to writing code by hand
(07:16) - Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
(08:41) - Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
(09:51) - Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
(11:06) - The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
(12:35) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
(13:44) - Outro

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190

Local AI needs to be the norm
https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082

I'm going back to writing code by hand
https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993

5.10.26 | Bun's Rust rewrite achieves near-perfect Linux compatibility, EU calls for VPN regulation, and Claude Code highlights HTML's effectiveness

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:51:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
(01:12) - EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
(02:51) - Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
(04:19) - I’ve banned query strings
(05:29) - LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
(06:47) - The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
(08:21) - Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
(09:37) - Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
(10:42) - Zed Editor Theme-Builder
(11:47) - Outro

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940

I’ve banned query strings
https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587

Zed Editor Theme-Builder
https://zed.dev/theme-builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651

5.9.26 | Google's reCAPTCHA issue for de-googled Android users, David Attenborough's 100th Birthday, Introduction to Meshtastic

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:50:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
(01:39) - David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
(02:37) - An Introduction to Meshtastic
(03:42) - Mojo 1.0 Beta
(05:12) - Cartoon Network Flash Games
(06:05) - AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
(07:30) - A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
(08:58) - OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
(10:15) - US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
(11:40) - Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
(13:32) - Outro

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884

An Introduction to Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566

Mojo 1.0 Beta
https://mojolang.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901

Cartoon Network Flash Games
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
https://www.war.gov/UFO/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
https://www.wiisfi.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037760

5.8.26 | Cloudflare layoffs, AI affecting online communities, Canvas outage due to ShinyHunters threat

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:58:00 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:13) - Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
(01:31) - AI slop is killing online communities
(02:52) - Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
(04:26) - The map that keeps Burning Man honest
(05:37) - Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
(06:57) - Programming Still Sucks
(08:13) - Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
(09:13) - Agents need control flow, not more prompts
(10:34) - DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
(12:02) - I want to live like Costco people
(13:19) - Outro

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423

AI slop is killing online communities
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913

The map that keeps Burning Man honest
https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623

Programming Still Sucks
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227

Agents need control flow, not more prompts
https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
https://github.com/antirez/ds4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751

I want to live like Costco people
https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499

5.7.26 | Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license, appearing productive in the workplace, and Vibe coding and agentic engineering are converging dangerously

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:16:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
(01:23) - Appearing productive in the workplace
(02:42) - Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
(04:09) - Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
(05:31) - SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
(06:54) - From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
(08:19) - Show HN: Hallucinopedia
(09:08) - A Theory of Deep Learning
(10:31) - Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
(11:56) - Permacomputing Principles
(13:19) - Outro

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555

Appearing productive in the workplace
https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
https://blog.val.town/better-auth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038827

Show HN: Hallucinopedia
http://halupedia.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257

A Theory of Deep Learning
https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027455

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
https://tilde.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037724

Permacomputing Principles
https://permacomputing.net/principles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638

5.6.26 | DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains, faster inference with Gemma 4, Three Inverse Laws of AI

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:15:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
(01:34) - Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
(02:59) - Three Inverse Laws of AI
(04:36) - Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
(06:26) - Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
(07:56) - StarFighter 16-Inch
(09:11) - Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
(10:28) - EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
(11:33) - Write some software, give it away for free
(12:54) - Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
(14:09) - Outro

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540

Three Inverse Laws of AI
https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368

StarFighter 16-Inch
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129

Write some software, give it away for free
https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769

5.5.26 | Talking to strangers at the gym, Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust, How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:03:35 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Talking to strangers at the gym
(01:50) - Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
(03:03) - How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
(04:12) - Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
(05:28) - Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
(06:53) - Redis array: short story of a long development process
(08:01) - Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
(09:12) - Agent Skills
(10:32) - Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
(11:18) - 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
(12:39) - Outro

Talking to strangers at the gym
https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

Redis array: short story of a long development process
https://antirez.com/news/164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948

Agent Skills
https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015397

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012162

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840

5.4.26 | Mercedes-Benz restores physical buttons, DeepClaude launches Claude Code agent with DeepSeek V4 Pro, London unveils Banksy’s blind man statue

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:14:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
(01:42) - DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
(03:12) - New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
(04:48) - OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
(06:22) - BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
(07:40) - Let's Buy Spirit Air
(08:56) - A desktop made for one
(10:11) - Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
(11:16) - Southwest Headquarters Tour
(12:31) - The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
(13:49) - Outro

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991981

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636

Let's Buy Spirit Air
https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777

A desktop made for one
https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990

Southwest Headquarters Tour
https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002607

5.3.26 | VS Code adds 'Co-Authored-by Copilot'; Dav2d; Do_not_track

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:49:49 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
(01:50) - Dav2d
(03:00) - Do_not_track
(04:20) - This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
(05:25) - Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
(06:41) - Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
(08:07) - How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
(09:40) - A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
(11:51) - Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
(12:58) - Outro

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883

Dav2d
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504

Do_not_track
https://donottrack.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284

5.2.26 | Ti-84 Evo, dreaming communication skills, Ask.com closed

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:49:15 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Ti-84 Evo
(01:39) - New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
(02:58) - Ask.com has closed
(04:13) - Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
(05:10) - Artemis II Photo Timeline
(06:16) - Apocalypse Early Warning System
(07:32) - I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
(08:47) - Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
(10:13) - Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
(11:35) - A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
(12:46) - Outro

Ti-84 Evo
https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748

Ask.com has closed
https://www.ask.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352

Artemis II Photo Timeline
https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394

Apocalypse Early Warning System
https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669

5.1.26 | Claude Code's policy on "OpenClaw," Belgium halts nuclear decommissioning, and vehicle data collection removal options

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:57:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
(01:40) - Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
(03:04) - Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
(04:34) - How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
(05:41) - For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
(07:03) - How an oil refinery works
(08:14) - Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
(10:03) - Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
(11:37) - You can beat the binary search
(13:21) - I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
(15:00) - Outro

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961319

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965060

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965108

How an oil refinery works
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962548

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964617

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951295

You can beat the binary search
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924912

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965503

4.30.26 | Zed 1.0, HERMES.md commit messages billing issue, Copy Fail

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:10:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Zed 1.0
(01:47) - HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
(03:13) - Copy Fail
(04:41) - Cursor Camp
(05:35) - Where the goblins came from
(06:53) - We need a federation of forges
(08:14) - FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
(09:46) - The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
(11:02) - Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
(12:38) - OpenTrafficMap
(13:47) - Outro

Zed 1.0
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722

Copy Fail
https://copy.fail/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181

Cursor Camp
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939

Where the goblins came from
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957688

We need a federation of forges
https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927627

OpenTrafficMap
https://opentrafficmap.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953541

4.29.26 | Ghostty leaving GitHub, concerns over phone privacy, Localsend as open-source AirDrop alternative

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:09:39 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Ghostty is leaving GitHub
(01:41) - Your phone is about to stop being yours
(03:21) - Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
(05:00) - Before GitHub
(06:25) - UAE to leave OPEC
(07:53) - Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
(09:13) - GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
(10:41) - How ChatGPT serves ads
(11:55) - Bugs Rust won't catch
(13:18) - Warp is now open-source
(14:29) - Outro

Ghostty is leaving GitHub
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

Your phone is about to stop being yours
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
https://github.com/localsend/localsend
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208

Before GitHub
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921

UAE to leave OPEC
https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933983

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479

How ChatGPT serves ads
https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437

Bugs Rust won't catch
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499

Warp is now open-source
https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

4.28.26 | Microsoft, OpenAI end deal; GitHub Copilot shifts to usage billing; Men stare at walls

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:14:28 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
(01:53) - GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
(03:15) - Men who stare at walls
(04:28) - Is my blue your blue?
(05:39) - 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
(07:10) - Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
(08:21) - Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
(09:45) - Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
(10:46) - Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
(12:08) - FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
(13:20) - Outro

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

Men who stare at walls
https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074

Is my blue your blue?
https://ismy.blue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
https://quarkdown.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919240

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919733

4.27.26 | Bought Friendster, AI agent deleted production database, AI should elevate thinking

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:15:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
(01:47) - An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
(03:10) - AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
(04:37) - Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
(05:54) - Self-updating screenshots
(07:02) - SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
(08:24) - Flipdiscs
(09:33) - Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
(11:14) - Three constraints before I build anything
(12:22) - Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
(13:43) - Outro

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350

Self-updating screenshots
https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388

Flipdiscs
https://flipdisc.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855

Three constraints before I build anything
https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677

4.26.26 | The West is losing manufacturing and coding skills, an amateur with ChatGPT solves Erdős problem, USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:48:19 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
(02:20) - Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
(03:46) - USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
(04:51) - The Free Universal Construction Kit
(05:52) - Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
(07:09) - Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
(08:36) - Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
(10:03) - OpenAI Privacy Filter
(11:15) - EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
(12:45) - The Joy of Folding Bikes
(13:44) - Outro

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876

The Free Universal Construction Kit
https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984

OpenAI Privacy Filter
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130

The Joy of Folding Bikes
https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127

4.25.26 | Google invests in Anthropic, overthinking hampers projects, MacBook Neo and iPad comparison

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:48:19 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
(01:33) - Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
(02:57) - MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
(04:30) - Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
(05:38) - My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
(06:58) - There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
(08:24) - The Classic American Diner
(09:34) - Paraloid B-72
(10:46) - New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
(12:30) - Outro

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779

The Classic American Diner
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435

Paraloid B-72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053

4.24.26 | GPT-5.5, DeepSeek v4, Bitwarden CLI compromised in Checkmarx campaign

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:56:19 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - GPT-5.5
(01:19) - DeepSeek v4
(03:06) - Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
(04:34) - An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
(05:58) - Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
(07:15) - US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
(08:33) - Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
(10:11) - Incident with multple GitHub services
(11:18) - Ubuntu 26.04
(12:41) - MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
(13:59) - Outro

GPT-5.5
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092

DeepSeek v4
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882645

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
https://github.com/russellromney/honker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647

Incident with multple GitHub services
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644

Ubuntu 26.04
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117

4.23.26 | Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors, Qwen3.6-27B offers flagship-level coding, Firefox identifier links private Tor identities

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:57:42 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
(01:56) - Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
(03:11) - We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
(04:47) - 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
(06:04) - Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
(07:28) - I am building a cloud
(08:36) - Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
(10:22) - Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
(12:12) - Website streamed live directly from a model
(13:13) - Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
(14:49) - Outro

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867

I am building a cloud
https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393

Website streamed live directly from a model
https://flipbook.page/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661

4.22.26 | Framework Laptop 13 Pro, Laws of Software Engineering, ChatGPT Images 2.0

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:54:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Framework Laptop 13 Pro
(01:34) - Laws of Software Engineering
(02:40) - ChatGPT Images 2.0
(03:53) - SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
(05:19) - Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
(06:34) - Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
(07:54) - Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
(09:06) - Making RAM at Home [video]
(10:21) - Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
(11:32) - The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
(12:48) - Outro

Framework Laptop 13 Pro
https://frame.work/laptop13pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177

Laws of Software Engineering
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179

ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635

Making RAM at Home [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822978

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634

4.21.26 | John Ternus to become Apple CEO, EU mandates replaceable batteries in phones by 2027, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Evolving

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:55:02 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - John Ternus to become Apple CEO
(01:46) - All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
(03:15) - Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
(04:26) - ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
(05:38) - Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
(06:51) - WebUSB Extension for Firefox
(08:17) - Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
(09:26) - Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
(10:44) - Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
(12:03) - Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
(13:19) - Outro

John Ternus to become Apple CEO
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838703

WebUSB Extension for Firefox
https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831742

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269

4.20.26 | Vercel security incident, Claude Opus prompt changes, prolonged RAM shortage

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:04:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Vercel April 2026 security incident
(02:00) - Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
(04:09) - The RAM shortage could last years
(05:22) - Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
(06:15) - Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
(07:41) - The Bromine Chokepoint
(09:01) - 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
(10:11) - A Brief History of Fish Sauce
(11:16) - Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
(12:54) - Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
(14:15) - Outro

Vercel April 2026 security incident
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-selling-stolen-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270

The RAM shortage could last years
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822414

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-after-blizzard-wins-injunction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825160

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259

The Bromine Chokepoint
https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-production-of-the-worlds-memory-chips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826100

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
https://mxmap.ch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420

A Brief History of Fish Sauce
https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822734

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828896

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780743

4.19.26 | Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner, comparing request-tokens in Opus 4.6 and 4.7, and exploring Japan's excellent railways

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:47:36 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 19, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
(02:10) - Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
(03:46) - Why Japan has such good railways
(05:19) - State of Kdenlive
(06:35) - The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
(07:41) - NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
(08:54) - Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
(10:35) - College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
(11:57) - Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
(13:04) - Modern Common Lisp with FSet
(14:18) - Outro

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816960

Why Japan has such good railways
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395

State of Kdenlive
https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817132

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength-lasers-tiny-circuits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819453

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-written-work-and-teach-life-lessons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818485

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784395

Modern Common Lisp with FSet
https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779659

4.18.26 | Claude Design, measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs, Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:47:44 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Claude Design
(01:53) - Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
(03:42) - Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
(04:52) - All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
(06:12) - NASA Force
(07:23) - Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
(08:35) - Spending 3 months coding by hand
(09:45) - NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
(11:19) - Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
(12:35) - Outro

Claude Design
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725

Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807006

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808913

NASA Force
https://nasaforce.gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209

Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778922

Spending 3 months coding by hand
https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807583

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806777

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807619

4.17.26 | Claude Opus 4.7, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with agentic coding, Codex for nearly everything

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:50:14 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Claude Opus 4.7
(01:40) - Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
(03:22) - Codex for almost everything
(04:32) - The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
(06:06) - Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
(07:28) - Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
(08:55) - Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
(10:08) - Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
(11:16) - US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
(12:41) - Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
(14:04) - Outro

Claude Opus 4.7
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764

Codex for almost everything
https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792538

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797665

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
https://clojure.org/about/documentary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798345

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801991

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798176

4.16.26 | Google, ICE data breach; Live Nation monopolizes ticketing; McDonald's Japan burger buns askew

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:52:36 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
(01:43) - Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds
(03:07) - The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
(03:53) - Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
(05:31) - Cal.com is going closed source
(07:04) - IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
(08:15) - Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
(09:36) - ChatGPT for Excel
(10:55) - FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
(12:22) - CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
(13:36) - Outro

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782570

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-finds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783713

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769089

Cal.com is going closed source
https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780456

IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
https://darkbloom.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788542

ChatGPT for Excel
https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785397

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
https://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788424

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-crispr-bold-silencing-syndrome-extra.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781286

4.15.26 | Stop Flock, rare concert recordings on Internet Archive, Claude Code Routines

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:50:56 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Stop Flock
(01:44) - Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
(03:11) - Claude Code Routines
(04:52) - The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
(06:19) - The Orange Pi 6 Plus
(07:50) - Let's talk space toilets
(08:59) - A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing
(11:01) - Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
(12:09) - 5NF and Database Design
(13:26) - Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
(14:19) - Outro

Stop Flock
https://stopflock.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765604

Claude Code Routines
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768133

The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759420

The Orange Pi 6 Plus
https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/11/1900
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732535

Let's talk space toilets
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758870

A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing
https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-years-of-not-knowing-what-youre-testing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724571

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768339

5NF and Database Design
https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767676

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774789

4.14.26 | Someone planted backdoors in 30 WordPress plugins, GitHub introduced Stacked PRs, DaVinci Resolve now supports Photo editing

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:53:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
(02:11) - GitHub Stacked PRs
(03:33) - DaVinci Resolve – Photo
(04:58) - Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
(05:53) - US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
(07:07) - Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
(08:08) - A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
(09:45) - Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
(11:27) - Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
(12:45) - Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
(14:11) - Outro

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629

GitHub Stacked PRs
https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495

DaVinci Resolve – Photo
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753472

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751781

Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752819

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750669

Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753689

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709

4.13.26 | Docker pull fails in Spain, Pro Max 5x quota exhausted, Seven countries use mostly renewables

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:03:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
(01:43) - Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
(03:09) - Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
(04:58) - Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
(05:53) - DIY Soft Drinks
(07:11) - Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
(08:15) - All elementary functions from a single binary operator
(09:44) - The peril of laziness lost
(10:48) - Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
(12:07) - Most people can't juggle one ball
(13:03) - Outro

Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260

Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739313

Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738827

DIY Soft Drinks
https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741701

Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
https://bsky.app/profile/serenityforge.com/post/3mj3r4nbiws2t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743730

All elementary functions from a single binary operator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610

The peril of laziness lost
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
https://boringbar.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742200

Most people can't juggle one ball
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jTGbKKGqs5EdyYoRc/most-people-can-t-juggle-one-ball
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702887

4.12.26 | Small models reveal vulnerabilities, Pardonned.com is a US pardons database, and top AI benchmarks were surpassed

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:47:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:24) - Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
(01:56) - Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
(03:12) - How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
(04:22) - Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
(05:23) - Optimal Strategy for Connect 4
(07:03) - Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
(08:33) - Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS
(09:59) - I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
(11:11) - 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
(12:31) - Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust
(14:34) - Outro

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=40.64&lon=-73.78&alt=3000&hdg=220&spd=130&cs=DAL123
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694064

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4
https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695213

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
https://cirruslabs.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730194

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS
https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731506

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
https://stevehanov.ca/blog/how-i-run-multiple-10k-mrr-companies-on-a-20month-tech-stack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736555

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
https://zenodo.org/records/19513269
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733561

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust
https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693559

4.11.26 | Artemis II safely splashes down, filing the corners off MacBooks, 1D Chess

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:47:02 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Artemis II safely splashes down
(01:37) - Filing the corners off my MacBooks
(02:42) - 1D Chess
(03:55) - WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
(05:25) - Installing every* Firefox extension
(06:59) - Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
(08:07) - Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
(09:35) - CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
(10:48) - AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
(12:05) - Helium is hard to replace
(13:19) - Outro

Artemis II safely splashes down
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725583

Filing the corners off my MacBooks
https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352

1D Chess
https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719740

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009561.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719942

Installing every* Firefox extension
https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724118

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720419

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722333

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717847

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721953

Helium is hard to replace
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719274

4.10.26 | Native macOS space switching, NASA's Artemis II fault-tolerant computer, old laptops as cost-effective servers

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:49:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 10, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
(01:29) - How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
(02:43) - Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
(03:55) - Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft
(05:05) - RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
(06:24) - Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
(07:27) - I still prefer MCP over skills
(08:59) - PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
(10:15) - Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
(11:30) - Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
(13:03) - Outro

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704804

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
https://colaptop.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707477

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft
https://www.unfolder.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706140

RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680005

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709158

I still prefer MCP over skills
https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712718

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
https://eaw.app/picoz80/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708041

Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706141

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707632

4.9.26 | Git commands, Mac OS X ported to Nintendo Wii, LittleSnitch for Linux

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:51:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Git commands I run before reading any code
(01:24) - I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
(02:45) - LittleSnitch for Linux
(04:24) - They're made out of meat (1991)
(05:23) - ML promises to be profoundly weird
(06:55) - Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
(08:22) - Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
(09:39) - Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
(10:58) - Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
(12:20) - John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
(13:47) - Outro

Git commands I run before reading any code
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687273

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

LittleSnitch for Linux
https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

They're made out of meat (1991)
http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678

ML promises to be profoundly weird
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685320

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
https://kalmanfilter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693153

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696035

4.8.26 | Project Glasswing secures critical AI software, Lunar Flyby, System Card: Claude Mythos Preview

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:50:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
(01:49) - Lunar Flyby
(02:53) - System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
(04:24) - GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
(05:45) - US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
(06:58) - Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
(08:07) - How to get better at guitar
(09:18) - A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
(10:33) - Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
(12:07) - S3 Files
(13:50) - Outro

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121

Lunar Flyby
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676509

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-iran-war-ceasefire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678573

How to get better at guitar
https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650887

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625

S3 Files
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404

4.7.26 | Sam Altman’s potential influence, Claude Code’s engineering limitations, and a cryptography engineer’s quantum computing insights

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:50:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:24) - Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
(01:31) - Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
(03:18) - A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
(04:49) - What being ripped off taught me
(06:15) - Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
(07:18) - German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
(09:03) - Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
(10:20) - Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
(11:32) - Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
(12:49) - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
(14:22) - Outro

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234

What being ripped off taught me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717

4.6.26 | Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI, Caveman: fewer tokens suffice, Gemma 4 on iPhone

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:50:41 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
(02:11) - Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
(03:26) - Gemma 4 on iPhone
(04:40) - Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
(06:13) - Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
(07:27) - Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
(08:33) - Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
(10:04) - LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
(11:18) - Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
(12:53) - Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
(13:53) - Outro

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648828

Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455

Gemma 4 on iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652561

Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652400

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655408

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce3d5gkd2geo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649721

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651703

LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
https://github.com/love2d/love
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637377

Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651540

Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655392

4.5.26 | A game building a GPU, Microsoft's numerous 'Copilot' products, Apple approves Nvidia eGPU driver

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:47:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
(01:39) - How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
(02:57) - Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
(04:05) - OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
(05:14) - AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
(07:01) - German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
(08:24) - Components of a Coding Agent
(09:44) - LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file"
(11:01) - Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]
(12:45) - Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
(13:54) - Outro

Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640728

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642569

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
https://www.theverge.com/tech/907003/apple-approves-driver-that-lets-nvidia-egpus-work-with-arm-macs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640380

OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
https://github.com/siddharthvaddem/openscreen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595695

AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644864

German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644406

Components of a Coding Agent
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638810

LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file"
https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640875

Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]
https://composerprogrammer.com/introductiontocomputermusic.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645432

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
https://sllm.cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639779

4.4.26 | Artemis II crew captures Earth image, Anthropic restricts Claude Code subscriptions with OpenClaw, F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
(01:43) - Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
(02:36) - F-15E jet shot down over Iran
(04:03) - iNaturalist
(05:10) - The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
(06:35) - OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
(08:15) - Delve removed from Y Combinator
(08:55) - We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
(10:29) - Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
(11:44) - Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
(13:13) - Outro

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631118

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

F-15E jet shot down over Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628326

iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629433

The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633947

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628608

Delve removed from Y Combinator
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618223

Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621792

Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-overtakes-u-s-treasuries-as-the-worlds-largest-foreign-reserve-asset-in-2026-can-gold-challenge-the-u-s-dollars-dominance-and-hold-its-ground/articleshow/126420128.cms?from=mdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635056

4.3.26 | LinkedIn monitors browser extensions, Google launches Gemma 4 models, former Azure engineer discusses trust issues

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:48:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
(01:55) - Google releases Gemma 4 open models
(03:07) - Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
(04:11) - Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
(05:46) - Tailscale's new macOS home
(07:10) - Cursor 3
(08:40) - Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
(10:00) - Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
(11:17) - Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
(12:24) - OpenAI Acquires TBPN
(13:46) - Outro

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
https://browsergate.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

Google releases Gemma 4 open models
https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002

Tailscale's new macOS home
https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618189

Cursor 3
https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617415

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609356

OpenAI Acquires TBPN
https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617376

4.2.26 | Artemis II launch updates, EmDash security-focused WordPress successor, DRAM prices harm hobbyist SBC market

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:49:42 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Artemis II Launch Day Updates
(01:05) - EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
(02:38) - DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
(04:07) - Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
(05:23) - SpaceX files to go public
(06:50) - Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
(08:11) - Weather.com/Retro
(09:18) - AI for American-produced cement and concrete
(10:35) - A new C++ back end for ocamlc
(12:09) - Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
(13:50) - Outro

Artemis II Launch Day Updates
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564

SpaceX files to go public
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557921

Weather.com/Retro
https://weather.com/retro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609090

AI for American-produced cement and concrete
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and-concrete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603737

A new C++ back end for ocamlc
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608495

4.1.26 | Fake tools and frustration, OpenAI's $852B valuation, visual guide to Claude Code

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:49:56 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
(01:47) - OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
(03:20) - Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
(04:40) - Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
(06:14) - A dot a day keeps the clutter away
(07:16) - Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
(08:59) - Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
(10:26) - Slop is not necessarily the future
(12:05) - MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)
(13:27) - 4D Doom
(14:44) - Outro

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592755

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
https://ccunpacked.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085

Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586614

A dot a day keeps the clutter away
https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593556

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795

Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
https://prismml.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422

Slop is not necessarily the future
https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953

MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)
https://ministack.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593285

4D Doom
https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549128

3.31.26 | Axios compromised with malicious NPM versions, turning any device into a router, and government apps spying more than banned counterparts

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:49:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
(02:13) - How to turn anything into a router
(03:31) - Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
(04:46) - Do your own writing
(06:11) - CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
(07:23) - Artemis II is not safe to fly
(08:57) - Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
(10:23) - Bird brains (2023)
(11:41) - Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
(13:03) - Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
(14:18) - Outro

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582220

How to turn anything into a router
https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574034

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577761

Do your own writing
https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573519

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
https://www.codingfont.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575403

Artemis II is not safe to fly
https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578572

Bird brains (2023)
https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581701

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549824

3.30.26 | ChatGPT delays input until Cloudflare reads React state, Copilot inserted an ad into PR, Voyager 1 operates on minimal memory and vintage tape recorder

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:52:23 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
(01:51) - Copilot edited an ad into my PR
(02:56) - Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
(04:10) - The Cognitive Dark Forest
(05:51) - Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
(07:15) - Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
(08:25) - C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
(09:58) - My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
(11:13) - Coding agents could make free software matter again
(12:53) - The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
(14:10) - Outro

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865

Copilot edited an ad into my PR
https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421

The Cognitive Dark Forest
https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556290

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569471

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565365

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566143

Coding agents could make free software matter again
https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568028

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570666

3.29.26 | GitLab founder fights cancer by founding companies, Spanish legislation stored as a Git repo, AI too affirming in personal advice

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:47:00 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
(01:34) - Spanish legislation as a Git repo
(02:42) - AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
(03:41) - I decompiled the White House's new app
(04:52) - I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
(06:07) - CSS is DOOMed
(07:32) - Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
(08:47) - Linux is an interpreter
(10:17) - OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
(11:42) - Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
(13:12) - Outro

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
https://sytse.com/cancer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729

Spanish legislation as a Git repo
https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773

I decompiled the White House's new app
https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553717

CSS is DOOMed
https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557166

Linux is an interpreter
https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556359

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557064

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559481

3.28.26 | Microsoft account controversy, .claude/ folder analysis, macOS usability decline

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:45:57 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 28, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
(01:32) - Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
(02:56) - Make macOS consistently bad unironically
(04:03) - Desk for people who work at home with a cat
(04:54) - Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
(06:19) - ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
(07:37) - Meow.camera
(08:04) - Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
(09:30) - LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
(11:05) - Explore the Hidden World of Sand
(12:07) - Outro

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543139

Make macOS consistently bad unironically
https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

Desk for people who work at home with a cat
https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543943

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550282

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540383

Meow.camera
https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543204

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-battery-life.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495245

Explore the Hidden World of Sand
https://magnifiedsand.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493677

3.27.26 | Seafoam green control rooms, future risks of gambling, Apple discontinues Mac Pro

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:49:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
(01:38) - We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
(03:08) - Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
(04:25) - My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
(05:41) - DOOM Over DNS
(06:50) - $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
(08:11) - John Bradley, author of xv, has died
(09:16) - Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
(10:21) - HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents
(11:41) - We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
(13:18) - Outro

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518960

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534848

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535708

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531967

DOOM Over DNS
https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490705

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533297

John Bradley, author of xv, has died
https://voxday.net/2026/03/25/rip-john-bradley/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534086

Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
https://georgelarson.me/writing/2026-03-23-nullclaw-doorman/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536761

HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents
https://github.com/facebookresearch/hyperagents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505670

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536712

3.26.26 | EU privacy scanning, slowing down reflections, Tesla Model 3 computer setup

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:50:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 26, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
(01:19) - Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
(02:33) - Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
(03:50) - Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
(05:11) - ARC-AGI-3
(06:20) - Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
(07:40) - 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
(09:05) - False claims in a widely-cited paper
(10:22) - Quantization from the Ground Up
(11:30) - Personal Encyclopedias
(12:45) - Outro

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517539

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/tesla/2026/03/23/running-tesla-model-3s-computer-on-my-desk-using-parts-from-crashed-cars/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523330

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/11.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521876

ARC-AGI-3
https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521150

Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-court-cox-music-copyright.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281

90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
https://www.claudescode.dev/?window=since_launch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521157

False claims in a widely-cited paper
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/24/false-claims-in-a-published-no-corrections-no-consequences-welcome-to-the-business-school/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525378

Quantization from the Ground Up
https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519295

Personal Encyclopedias
https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522173

3.25.26 | Wine 11 improves Linux Windows game performance, farewell to Sora, Litellm on PyPI compromised

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:49:28 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 25, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
(01:51) - Goodbye to Sora
(03:02) - Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
(04:40) - Apple Business
(06:16) - Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller
(07:34) - Arm AGI CPU
(08:54) - Missile defense is NP-complete
(10:19) - Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
(11:52) - Flighty Airports
(12:39) - I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
(13:57) - Outro

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150

Goodbye to Sora
https://twitter.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036532795984715896
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508246

Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501426

Apple Business
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/introducing-apple-business-a-new-all-in-one-platform-for-businesses-of-all-sizes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504112

Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller
https://videojs.org/blog/videojs-v10-beta-hello-world-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506713

Arm AGI CPU
https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/introducing-arm-agi-cpu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506251

Missile defense is NP-complete
https://smu160.github.io/posts/missile-defense-is-np-complete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501950

Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
https://github.com/ssrajadh/sentrysearch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503617

Flighty Airports
https://flighty.com/airports
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511589

I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
https://www.onhand.pro/p/i-wanted-to-build-vertical-saas-for-pest-control-i-took-a-technician-job-instead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509571

3.24.26 | iPhone 17 Pro demonstrating a 400B LLM, Claude Code Cheat Sheet, Autoresearch revisiting an old research idea

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:49:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 24, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
(01:32) - Claude Code Cheat Sheet
(02:47) - Autoresearch on an old research idea
(04:28) - I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
(05:44) - Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)
(07:34) - Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
(09:10) - How I'm Productive with Claude Code
(10:35) - An incoherent Rust
(12:00) - Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
(13:18) - Outro

iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
https://twitter.com/anemll/status/2035901335984611412
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490070

Claude Code Cheat Sheet
https://cc.storyfox.cz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495527

Autoresearch on an old research idea
https://ykumar.me/blog/eclip-autoresearch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493460

I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
https://www.itsthatlady.dev/blog/building-an-ai-receptionist-for-my-brother/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487536

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)
https://iev.ee/blog/the-quadratic-problem-nobody-fixed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443903

Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475888

How I'm Productive with Claude Code
https://neilkakkar.com/productive-with-claude-code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494890

An incoherent Rust
https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490648

Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475417

3.23.26 | PC Gamer's recommended RSS readers, the future of version control, Project Nomad – offline knowledge

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:49:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 23, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
(01:35) - The future of version control
(02:58) - Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
(04:14) - GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
(05:21) - Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
(06:45) - The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
(08:24) - Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop
(09:44) - Why I love NixOS
(11:13) - MAUI Is Coming to Linux
(12:37) - More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
(13:56) - Outro

PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480507

The future of version control
https://bramcohen.com/p/manyana
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478401

Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
https://www.projectnomad.us
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476821

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116261301913660830
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482217

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
https://stevekrouse.com/precision
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476315

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480886

Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop
https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476422

Why I love NixOS
https://www.birkey.co/2026-03-22-why-i-love-nixos.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479751

MAUI Is Coming to Linux
https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478687

More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/more-common-diagram-mistakes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476562

3.22.26 | Some things just take time, do not turn child protection into internet access control, Tinybox—a powerful computer for deep learning

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:44:52 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 22, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Some things just take time
(01:39) - Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
(03:22) - Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning
(04:55) - Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
(06:24) - The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
(07:38) - Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM
(08:58) - Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
(10:25) - Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
(11:30) - Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
(12:52) - Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition
(13:56) - Outro

Some things just take time
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467537

Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
https://news.dyne.org/child-protection-is-not-access-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470991

Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning
https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470773

Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
https://pbxscience.com/ubuntu-26-04-ends-46-years-of-silent-sudo-passwords/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464134

The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
https://43081j.com/2026/03/three-pillars-of-javascript-bloat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473718

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM
https://tooscut.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471601

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
https://grafeo.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467567

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
https://512pixels.net/2026/03/hide-macos-tahoes-menu-icons-with-this-one-simple-trick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469331

Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
https://github.com/hectorvent/floci
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471801

Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition
https://nostarch.com/electronics-for-kids-2e
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434986

3.21.26 | OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent, Delve offers fake compliance as a service, and France's aircraft carrier was located in real time by Le Monde through a fitness app

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:44:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 21, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
(01:38) - Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
(02:49) - France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
(04:15) - Our commitment to Windows quality
(05:41) - The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
(06:57) - A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
(08:16) - Ghostling
(09:23) - We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
(11:06) - VisiCalc Reconstructed
(12:27) - Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
(14:06) - Outro

OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
https://opencode.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460525

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319

France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453942

Our commitment to Windows quality
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459296

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/3/17/the-los-angeles-aqueduct-is-wild
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416543

A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01362/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460452

Ghostling
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostling
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461378

We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
https://www.openui.com/blog/rust-wasm-parser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461094

VisiCalc Reconstructed
https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410871

Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452955

3.20.26 | Astral joins OpenAI, Google reveals 24-hour Android sideload process, new Kitten TTS models introduced

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:47:54 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 20, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Astral to Join OpenAI
(01:46) - Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
(03:26) - Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
(04:36) - 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
(05:52) - Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game
(06:51) - Push events into a running session with channels
(08:10) - Waymo Safety Impact
(09:36) - ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
(10:43) - Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
(11:53) - How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
(13:33) - Outro

Astral to Join OpenAI
https://astral.sh/blog/openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438723

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442690

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441546

4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440430

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406160

Push events into a running session with channels
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448524

Waymo Safety Impact
https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445246

ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-pioneering-preprint-server-declares-independence-cornell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450478

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445599

How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
https://www.carryology.com/insights/how-the-turner-twins-are-mythbusting-modern-gear/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416972

3.19.26 | Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming, OpenRocket, Austin’s housing surge lowers rents

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:48:05 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 19, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:26) - Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
(02:01) - OpenRocket
(03:08) - Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
(04:27) - A sufficiently detailed spec is code
(05:53) - Warranty Void If Regenerated
(07:13) - Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
(08:21) - Nvidia NemoClaw
(09:29) - Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
(10:42) - Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
(11:44) - OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
(13:19) - Outro

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423647

OpenRocket
https://openrocket.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386703

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433058

A sufficiently detailed spec is code
https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434047

Warranty Void If Regenerated
https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431237

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388658

Nvidia NemoClaw
https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427027

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://susam.net/wander/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427299

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423976

3.18.26 | Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One hacked by 'Bliss', A Decade of Slug, Mistral AI releases Forge

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:49:57 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:25) - Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
(01:56) - A Decade of Slug
(03:16) - Mistral AI Releases Forge
(04:46) - Have a fucking website
(06:06) - Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
(07:26) - Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
(08:55) - Honda is killing its EVs
(10:20) - Unsloth Studio
(11:36) - It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]
(12:42) - More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware
(13:47) - Outro

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-hacked-by-bliss-the-2013-console-finally-fell-to-voltage-glitching-allowing-the-loading-of-unsigned-code-at-every-level
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413876

A Decade of Slug
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416736

Mistral AI Releases Forge
https://mistral.ai/news/forge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418295

Have a fucking website
https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421442

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416486

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417804

Honda is killing its EVs
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/honda-is-killing-its-evs-and-any-chance-of-competing-in-the-future/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387268

Unsloth Studio
https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414032

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368425

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware
https://openhardware.directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369883

3.17.26 | Polymarket gamblers threaten violence, Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak, US SEC to eliminate quarterly reports

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:49:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 17, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
(01:52) - Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
(03:04) - US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
(04:04) - Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
(05:31) - Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
(06:45) - Why I love FreeBSD
(08:04) - The “small web” is bigger than you might think
(09:38) - My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)
(10:46) - The American Healthcare Conundrum
(12:11) - AirPods Max 2
(13:36) - Outro

Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397822

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703

US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-sec-preparing-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requirement-wsj-says-2026-03-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406779

Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404796

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renewed-commitment-to-jemalloc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402640

Why I love FreeBSD
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397574

The “small web” is bigger than you might think
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401879

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/my-journey-to-a-reliable-and-enjoyable-locally-hosted-voice-assistant/944860
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398534

The American Healthcare Conundrum
https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401809

AirPods Max 2
https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398681

3.16.26 | Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance, the 49MB web page, Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:50:14 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 16, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
(01:43) - The 49MB web page
(03:02) - Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
(04:15) - LLM Architecture Gallery
(05:22) - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
(06:24) - Stop Sloppypasta
(07:49) - Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
(09:06) - Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
(10:37) - LLMs can be exhausting
(12:09) - How I write software with LLMs
(13:36) - Outro

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392084

The 49MB web page
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390945

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-debug-your-browser-session
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390817

LLM Architecture Gallery
https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388676

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386116

Stop Sloppypasta
https://stopsloppypasta.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389570

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388137

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387047

LLMs can be exhausting
https://tomjohnell.com/llms-can-be-absolutely-exhausting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391803

How I write software with LLMs
https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394022

3.15.26 | Ageless Linux for all ages, Python's optimization techniques, Baochip-1x development journey

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:46:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:24) - Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
(02:43) - Python: The Optimization Ladder
(04:50) - Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about
(06:35) - How kernel anti-cheats work
(08:02) - Marketing for Founders
(09:15) - Rack-mount hydroponics
(10:19) - Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
(11:56) - MCP is dead; long live MCP
(13:35) - Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
(14:44) - Launching the Claude Partner Network
(16:04) - Outro

Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
https://agelesslinux.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381791

Python: The Optimization Ladder
https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/03/10/optimization-ladder/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327703

Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about
https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is-why-im-doing-it-now-and-how-it-came-about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339219

How kernel anti-cheats work
https://s4dbrd.github.io/posts/how-kernel-anti-cheats-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382791

Marketing for Founders
https://github.com/EdoStra/Marketing-for-Founders
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380295

Rack-mount hydroponics
https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384352

Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
https://github.com/xodn348/han
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381382

MCP is dead; long live MCP
https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2026/03/mcp-is-dead-long-live-mcp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380270

Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
https://sebi.io/posts/2026-03-14-allow-me-to-get-to-know-you-mistakes-and-all/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381736

Launching the Claude Partner Network
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-partner-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381340

3.14.26 | Can I run AI locally, 1M context with Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, Qatar helium shutdown impacts chip supply chain

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:45:15 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Can I run AI locally?
(01:34) - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
(03:07) - Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
(04:29) - Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
(05:43) - The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing
(07:21) - Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
(08:37) - Your phone is an entire computer
(09:54) - Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
(11:17) - Hammerspoon
(12:17) - Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
(13:39) - Outro

Can I run AI locally?
https://www.canirun.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363754

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
https://claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367129

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363584

Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
https://channelsurfer.tv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336100

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366374

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366666

Your phone is an entire computer
https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568

Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
https://github.com/TomBadash/MouseControl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368033

Hammerspoon
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367932

Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/13/macbook-neo-runs-windows-11-vm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364729

3.13.26 | Reject implementation, Malus Clean Room as a Service, Not the right computer for you

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:47:54 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Shall I implement it? No
(01:40) - Malus – Clean Room as a Service
(03:08) - “This is not the computer for you”
(04:42) - ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
(06:19) - US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
(07:58) - Willingness to look stupid
(09:21) - Big data on the cheapest MacBook
(10:46) - Bubble Sorted Amen Break
(11:57) - Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
(13:13) - Vite 8.0 Is Out
(14:14) - Outro

Shall I implement it? No
https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357042

Malus – Clean Room as a Service
https://malus.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350424

“This is not the computer for you”
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359744

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351371

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-ce7e5fd8df8fff2d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349806

Willingness to look stupid
https://sharif.io/looking-stupid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307124

Big data on the cheapest MacBook
https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349277

Bubble Sorted Amen Break
https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354098

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353533

Vite 8.0 Is Out
https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360730

3.12.26 | Avoid AI-generated comments, JavaScript time fix took nine years, WebAssembly aims for first-class status

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:48:03 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
(01:38) - Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
(03:10) - Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
(04:36) - The MacBook Neo
(05:58) - BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
(07:31) - I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
(08:51) - Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
(10:19) - Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
(11:43) - Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
(12:50) - Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS
(14:13) - Outro

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336989

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331811

The MacBook Neo
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334293

BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334694

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
https://www.theverge.com/featured-video/892850/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-bot-for-a-job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339164

Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
https://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wiz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336476

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
http://satproto.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344548

Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335349

Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS
https://sitespy.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337607

3.11.26 | Tony Hoare has died, Meta acquires Moltbook, Yann LeCun raises $1B for physical-world AI

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:47:56 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Tony Hoare has died
(01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook
(02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
(04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
(05:42) - Agents that run while I sleep
(07:17) - Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
(08:36) - Cloudflare crawl endpoint
(09:48) - U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
(11:02) - Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
(12:10) - RISC-V Is Sloooow
(13:30) - Outro

Tony Hoare has died
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054

Meta acquires Moltbook
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332074

Agents that run while I sleep
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327559

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087

Cloudflare crawl endpoint
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329557

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329605

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329608

RISC-V Is Sloooow
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328214

3.10.26 | Ireland closes coal plant, building procedural hex map, questioning legality versus legitimacy with AI and copyleft erosion

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:48:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
(02:06) - Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
(03:42) - Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
(05:31) - Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
(07:05) - OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
(08:30) - JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
(09:50) - Two Years of Emacs Solo
(11:09) - No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
(12:51) - DARPA’s new X-76
(14:05) - Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
(15:05) - Outro

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307055

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311815

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310160

Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312090

OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315128

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
https://bellard.org/jslinux/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311484

Two Years of Emacs Solo
https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317616

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317132

DARPA’s new X-76
https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311669

Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
https://realtuner.online/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280654

3.9.26 | Agent Safehouse offers macOS-native sandboxing, people seek advice on being alone, and microscopes can view video on laserdiscs

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:48:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
(01:50) - Ask HN: How to be alone?
(03:27) - Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
(04:39) - FrameBook
(05:40) - My Homelab Setup
(06:46) - Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
(07:57) - We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
(09:37) - Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
(11:12) - My “grand vision” for Rust
(12:32) - How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
(13:43) - Outro

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
https://agent-safehouse.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301085

Ask HN: How to be alone?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547

Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291876

FrameBook
https://fb.edoo.gg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298044

My Homelab Setup
https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298743

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300102

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747

Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-cant-you-tune-your-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254896

My “grand vision” for Rust
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256376

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304831

3.8.26 | Docker containers' decade, yoghurt delivery women fighting loneliness in Japan, CasNum

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:43:01 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - A decade of Docker containers
(01:25) - Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
(02:43) - CasNum
(03:40) - Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
(04:58) - Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
(06:17) - FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
(07:20) - Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
(08:33) - Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
(09:18) - How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
(10:37) - The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
(12:00) - Outro

A decade of Docker containers
https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311

Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287344

CasNum
https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286408

FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288533

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271988

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290198

3.7.26 | Tech employment decline, Firefox security enhancements, 60-year-old's renewed passion with Claude Code

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:42:32 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
(01:44) - Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
(03:21) - Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
(04:35) - Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
(05:53) - this css proves me human
(07:05) - Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
(08:39) - LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
(10:08) - CT Scans of Health Wearables
(11:30) - UUID package coming to Go standard library
(12:46) - A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
(14:09) - Outro

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273854

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777

Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
https://plasma-bigscreen.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736

this css proves me human
https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281593

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275236

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337

CT Scans of Health Wearables
https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275152

UUID package coming to Go standard library
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275291

3.6.26 | Wikipedia in read-only mode, government ordered to refund $130B tariffs, GPT-5.4

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:47:43 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
(01:48) - Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
(03:24) - GPT-5.4
(04:54) - 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
(06:23) - Where things stand with the Department of War
(07:57) - CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
(09:23) - A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
(10:29) - Good software knows when to stop
(11:50) - System76 on Age Verification Laws
(13:24) - The Brand Age
(14:55) - Outro

Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
https://www.wikimediastatus.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261688

GPT-5.4
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265045

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971

Where things stand with the Department of War
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263

CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249387

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263595

Good software knows when to stop
https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261561

System76 on Age Verification Laws
https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270784

The Brand Age
https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756

3.5.26 | MacBook Neo, developments in Qwen, Google Workspace CLI

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:48:15 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 5, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - MacBook Neo
(01:59) - Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
(03:23) - Google Workspace CLI
(04:40) - Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
(06:28) - Building a new Flash
(07:38) - “It turns out” (2010)
(08:58) - Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
(10:00) - The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
(11:36) - You Just Reveived
(12:40) - NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
(14:02) - Outro

MacBook Neo
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343

Google Workspace CLI
https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255881

Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255662

Building a new Flash
https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253177

“It turns out” (2010)
https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248319

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
https://www.moss.town/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245491

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257394

You Just Reveived
https://dylan.gr/1772520728
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257637

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
https://qlabs.sh/slowrun
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251259

3.4.26 | MacBook Pro with M5 chips, Motorola GrapheneOS devices unlockable, Claude's Cycles PDF

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:47:39 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
(02:07) - Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
(03:26) - Claude's Cycles [pdf]
(04:58) - Don't become an engineering manager
(06:24) - GPT‑5.3 Instant
(07:40) - TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
(09:11) - When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
(10:54) - Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
(12:02) - Agentic Engineering Patterns
(13:17) - An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)
(14:31) - Outro

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232453

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241551

Claude's Cycles [pdf]
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710

Don't become an engineering manager
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232727

GPT‑5.3 Instant
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236169

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234917

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239042

Agentic Engineering Patterns
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243272

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237460

3.3.26 | Meta’s AI smart glasses raise data privacy concerns, Microsoft Copilot Discord server filters “Microslop,” and British Columbia adopts permanent daylight time

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:48:05 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 3, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
(01:09) - “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
(02:35) - British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
(04:01) - Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
(05:22) - New iPad Air, powered by M4
(06:45) - Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
(08:08) - Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
(09:43) - First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
(10:44) - iPhone 17e
(12:06) - Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
(13:14) - Outro

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130

“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216047

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223620

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
https://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224295

New iPad Air, powered by M4
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218175

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226608

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/first-ever-in-utero-stem-cell-therapy-for-fetal-spina-bifida-repair-is-safe-study-finds/2026/02
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218743

iPhone 17e
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218084

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
https://govbase.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220809

3.2.26 | Ghostty terminal, Motorola partners with GrapheneOS Foundation, decision trees' nested rules

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:48:26 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 2, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
(01:35) - Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
(03:12) - Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
(04:29) - When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
(06:20) - WebMCP is available for early preview
(07:30) - Microgpt explained interactively
(08:31) - If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
(09:52) - Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
(11:17) - Flightradar24 for Ships
(12:35) - Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
(14:11) - Outro

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
https://ghostty.org/docs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645

Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204964

When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208398

WebMCP is available for early preview
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211249

Microgpt explained interactively
https://growingswe.com/blog/microgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205208

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
https://github.com/mandel-macaque/memento
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212355

Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/281-53d8693e-77a4-42ad-86e4-3426a30d25ae
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213764

Flightradar24 for Ships
https://atlas.flexport.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205637

Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182284

3.1.26 | Microgpt, Anthropic not a supply chain risk, happiest I've ever been

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:43:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 1, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Microgpt
(01:42) - We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
(03:15) - The happiest I've ever been
(04:13) - Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
(05:25) - MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
(06:50) - Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
(08:14) - Our Agreement with the Department of War
(09:31) - Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
(10:56) - The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
(12:38) - Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
(13:54) - Outro

Microgpt
http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202708

We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200420

The happiest I've ever been
https://ben-mini.com/2026/the-happiest-ive-ever-been
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161759

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
https://mksg.lu/blog/context-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193064

Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
https://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-5-performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199781

Our Agreement with the Department of War
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199948

Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155526

The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200904

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/1123499337/iran-israel-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200879

2.28.26 | "We Will Not Be Divided," comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and OpenAI's deployment with Dept. of War on classified network

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:41:55 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - We Will Not Be Divided
(01:30) - Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
(02:53) - OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
(04:15) - A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
(05:55) - OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
(07:37) - A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
(09:00) - Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
(10:36) - Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
(11:36) - NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
(13:07) - A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
(13:54) - Outro

We Will Not Be Divided
https://notdivided.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
https://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181211

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180569

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146487

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
https://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189535

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182483

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181944

2.27.26 | Dario Amodei discusses Department of War talks, Block experiences layoffs, Claude Code selects options

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:47:52 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
(01:41) - Layoffs at Block
(03:03) - What Claude Code chooses
(04:25) - AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
(05:58) - What does " 2>&1 " mean?
(07:13) - I baked a pie every day for a year
(08:31) - The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
(09:45) - BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
(11:08) - OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
(12:34) - Outro

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173121

Layoffs at Block
https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172119

What Claude Code chooses
https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169757

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167763

What does " 2>&1 " mean?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171233

I baked a pie every day for a year
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128645

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
https://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166264

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170157

2.26.26 | Danish government agency plans to stop using Microsoft software, advice against purchasing .online domains, and Google API keys became sensitive after Gemini's rule change

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:48:53 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 26, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
(01:38) - Never buy a .online domain
(03:19) - Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
(05:00) - Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
(06:06) - Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
(07:37) - Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
(08:32) - Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
(09:47) - Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
(11:19) - RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
(12:50) - The Om Programming Language
(14:04) - Outro

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149701

Never buy a .online domain
https://www.0xsid.com/blog/online-tld-is-pain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151233

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156925

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153798

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/01/21/notepad-and-paint-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154399

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160226

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139716

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-now-represents-35-percent-of-bill-of-materials-for-hp-pcs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161160

The Om Programming Language
https://www.om-language.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154971

2.25.26 | Helping dog vibe code games, Mac mini production in Houston, 10-year-old's Disneyland roller coaster pitch

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:50:05 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 25, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - I'm helping my dog vibe code games
(01:57) - Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
(03:23) - I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
(04:37) - Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
(06:08) - Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
(07:35) - Nearby Glasses
(09:02) - We installed a single turnstile to feel secure
(10:28) - Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
(12:05) - Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
(13:14) - Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
(14:33) - Outro

I'm helping my dog vibe code games
https://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139675

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with-mac-mini-production/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136604

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145907

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
https://pi.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754

Nearby Glasses
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140042

We installed a single turnstile to feel secure
https://idiallo.com/blog/installed-single-turnstile-for-security-theater
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114678

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
https://www.mariannefeng.com/portfolio/kindle/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141797

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143755

2.24.26 | Age verification risks data, Ladybird uses Rust and AI, AI creates Wi-Fi driver for old MacBook

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:49:41 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 24, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
(01:51) - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
(03:22) - FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
(05:00) - Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
(06:16) - Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
(07:53) - Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
(09:28) - Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
(10:46) - A simple web we own
(12:25) - “Car Wash” test with 53 models
(14:03) - Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
(15:12) - Outro

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122715

Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129361

Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123689

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123631

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
https://serverhost.com/blog/firefox-148-launches-with-exciting-ai-kill-switch-feature-and-more-enhancements/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133313

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132388

A simple web we own
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124149

“Car Wash” test with 53 models
https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128138

Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120145

2.23.26 | Taalas "prints" LLM onto chip, Gamedate revives dead multiplayer games, baby chicks exhibit bouba-kiki effect

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:49:38 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 23, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
(01:43) - Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
(02:46) - Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
(03:44) - Japanese Woodblock Print Search
(04:36) - Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
(05:53) - Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
(07:12) - A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
(08:27) - Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
(09:47) - Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
(10:51) - What Is a Database Transaction?
(11:59) - Outro

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
https://gamedate.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096167

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105198

Japanese Woodblock Print Search
https://ukiyo-e.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107781

Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
https://floedb.ai/blog/two-bits-are-better-than-one-making-bloom-filters-2x-more-accurate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046070

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
https://susam.net/attention-media-vs-social-networks.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110515

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
https://www.sambent.com/a-botnet-accidentally-destroyed-i2p-the-full-story/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106985

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989

Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098669

What Is a Database Transaction?
https://planetscale.com/blog/database-transactions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110473

2.22.26 | Using Claude Code for planning, understanding historical English, and integrating claws with LLM agents

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:44:14 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 22, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
(02:01) - How far back in time can you understand English?
(03:37) - Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
(05:06) - Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
(06:45) - CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
(08:01) - Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
(09:46) - EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
(11:01) - zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
(12:19) - Permacomputing
(13:33) - Outro

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106686

How far back in time can you understand English?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061614

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096253

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104667

CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10679206
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101171

Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/parse-dont-validate-and-type-driven-design-in-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103931

EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
https://www.eduke32.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104185

zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
https://github.com/tnm/zclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100232

Permacomputing
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046858

2.21.26 | Keep Android Open, Trump tariffs struck down, Facebook is cooked

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:44:38 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 21, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Keep Android Open
(01:58) - Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
(03:25) - Facebook is cooked
(05:07) - The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
(06:41) - Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
(07:58) - I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
(09:34) - Turn Dependabot off
(11:10) - Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
(12:22) - Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
(13:49) - CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
(14:47) - Outro

Keep Android Open
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091419

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0l9r67drg7t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089213

Facebook is cooked
https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091748

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086181

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092578

Turn Dependabot off
https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094192

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
https://juno-labs.com/blogs/every-company-building-your-ai-assistant-is-an-ad-company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092203

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)
https://worldwideweb.cern.ch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095429

2.20.26 | Gemini 3.1 Pro, Micasa house tracking, Paged Out Issue #8 PDF

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:48:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 20, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Gemini 3.1 Pro
(01:50) - Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
(03:06) - Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
(04:22) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
(05:38) - US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
(07:09) - America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
(08:39) - MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
(10:02) - AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
(11:27) - Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
(13:00) - I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
(14:33) - Outro

Gemini 3.1 Pro
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074735

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
https://micasa.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124

Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072968

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074389

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
https://gist.github.com/interpiduser5/547d8a7baec436f24b7cce89dd4ae1ea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082496

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
https://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078324

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043345

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483

2.19.26 | Sizing chaos, Tailscale Peer Relays available, Cosmologically Unique IDs

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:48:25 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 19, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:24) - Sizing chaos
(01:42) - Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
(03:04) - Cosmologically Unique IDs
(04:29) - Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
(05:13) - 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
(06:32) - Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
(08:15) - DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
(09:47) - Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
(11:03) - How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
(12:54) - The Perils of ISBN
(14:19) - Outro

Sizing chaos
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066552

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063005

Cosmologically Unique IDs
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064490

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069299

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066241

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062748

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064047

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068948

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068320

The Perils of ISBN
https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063663

2.18.26 | Claude Sonnet 4.6, HN saved 33k lives, Microsoft merged diagram 15 years later

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:49:01 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Claude Sonnet 4.6
(02:09) - Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
(03:18) - 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
(04:42) - Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
(06:10) - Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
(07:23) - Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
(08:51) - Using go fix to modernize Go code
(10:27) - Gentoo on Codeberg
(11:32) - HackMyClaw
(12:39) - BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
(14:14) - Outro

Claude Sonnet 4.6
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049824

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057829

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055979

Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852

Using go fix to modernize Go code
https://go.dev/blog/gofix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

Gentoo on Codeberg
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050067

HackMyClaw
https://hackmyclaw.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049573

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052941

2.17.26 | Miles Wu's origami holds 10k times its weight, Bluetooth devices reveal personal data, dark web agent aids rescue of girl from abuse

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:50:19 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
(01:38) - What your Bluetooth devices reveal
(02:35) - Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
(03:36) - Ghidra by NSA
(04:37) - Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
(05:28) - Rise of the Triforce
(06:38) - Visual introduction to PyTorch
(07:45) - Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
(08:43) - Four Column ASCII (2017)
(09:45) - "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
(11:03) - Outro

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546

What your Bluetooth devices reveal
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396

Ghidra by NSA
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
https://jmail.world/jemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334

Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

Visual introduction to PyTorch
https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375

Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270

"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318

2.16.26 | Joining OpenAI, EU bans unsold apparel destruction, Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest highlight U.S. surveillance

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:50:01 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 16, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - I’m joining OpenAI
(01:26) - EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
(02:44) - Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
(03:51) - I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
(04:52) - Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
(06:06) - LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
(07:06) - Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
(08:17) - Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
(09:30) - Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
(10:46) - Audio is the one area small labs are winning
(11:49) - Outro

I’m joining OpenAI
https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025378

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023238

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
https://modern-css.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025851

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025399

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028227

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
https://gwern.net/gwtar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506

Audio is the one area small labs are winning
https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999285

2.15.26 | uBlock filter for YouTube Shorts, Ooh.directory for finding blogs, News publishers restrict Internet Archive access

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:45:29 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 15, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
(01:16) - Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
(02:06) - News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
(03:23) - My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
(04:37) - I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
(05:52) - NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
(06:54) - Descent, ported to the web
(07:50) - Breaking the spell of vibe coding
(09:01) - Instagram's URL Blackhole
(10:07) - OpenAI should build Slack
(11:25) - Outro

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
https://ooh.directory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014449

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020191

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
https://newpipe.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

Descent, ported to the web
https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545

Breaking the spell of vibe coding
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006615

Instagram's URL Blackhole
https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004689

OpenAI should build Slack
https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553

2.14.26 | Fix iOS keyboard or switch to Android, Monosketch, EU targets infinite scrolling

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:46:12 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
(01:23) - Monosketch
(02:20) - The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
(03:35) - GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
(04:36) - An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
(05:38) - Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
(06:49) - Gradient.horse
(07:44) - Building a TUI is easy now
(08:45) - Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
(09:56) - Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
(10:51) - Outro

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
https://ios-countdown.win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064

Monosketch
https://monosketch.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001871

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-meta-facebook-instagram-brussels-kill-infinite-scrolling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007656

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949

Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954696

Gradient.horse
https://gradient.horse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955311

Building a TUI is easy now
https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000505

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
https://github.com/datascale-ai/data_engineering_book/blob/main/README_en.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008163

2.13.26 | AI agent hit piece, Gemini 3 Deep Think, GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:48:48 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - An AI agent published a hit piece on me
(01:32) - Gemini 3 Deep Think
(02:43) - GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
(03:45) - Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
(04:56) - Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
(06:10) - Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
(07:24) - Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
(08:26) - Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
(09:25) - Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
(10:25) - Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
(11:19) - Outro

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729

Gemini 3 Deep Think
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991240

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996999

Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
https://skipthe.tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997519

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
https://pol.is/home2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815

Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490

2.12.26 | Claude Code's simplification, Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification loophole, Amazon Ring's lost dog ad controversy

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:50:21 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 12, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Claude Code is being dumbed down?
(01:26) - Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
(02:32) - Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
(03:44) - Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
(04:49) - GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
(05:52) - Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
(07:05) - WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
(08:05) - Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
(09:10) - NetNewsWire Turns 23
(10:06) - “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
(11:04) - Outro

Claude Code is being dumbed down?
https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978966

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
https://fluorite.game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911

GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974853

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151

WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920315

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977175

NetNewsWire Turns 23
https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978490

“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933529

2.11.26 | Singularity on Tuesday, Europe's $24T split from Visa and Mastercard, Ex-GitHub CEO's new AI developer platform

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:51:04 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 11, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
(01:34) - Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
(02:52) - Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
(04:02) - Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
(05:07) - The Day the Telnet Died
(06:09) - The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
(07:17) - Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
(08:29) - My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
(09:40) - Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
(10:33) - Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
(11:29) - Outro

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
https://campedersen.com/singularity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
https://code.idtech.space/fn/hl2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958231

The Day the Telnet Died
https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967772

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958345

Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time
https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959418

My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933444

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971516

Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
https://www.netviews.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955712

2.10.26 | Discord mandates face scan or ID, Sky color explanation, $3.88 Walmart clock converted to ESP8266 Wi-Fi clock

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:51:52 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 10, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Why is the sky blue?
(01:21) - Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
(02:40) - Another GitHub outage in the same day
(03:43) - Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
(05:02) - Sandboxels
(06:03) - Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
(07:12) - Discord Alternatives, Ranked
(08:14) - Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
(09:17) - Outro

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663

Why is the sky blue?
https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947096

Another GitHub outage in the same day
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949452

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920

Sandboxels
https://neal.fun/sandboxels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946308

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937696

Discord Alternatives, Ranked
https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser
https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954136

2.9.26 | Vouch, Game road art, AI simplifies easy tasks but complicates hard ones

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:50:39 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 9, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Vouch
(01:21) - Art of Roads in Games
(02:20) - AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
(03:27) - Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
(04:34) - GitHub Agentic Workflows
(05:45) - Dave Farber has died
(06:43) - Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
(07:38) - More Mac malware from Google search
(08:38) - Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
(09:59) - A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
(11:01) - Outro

Vouch
https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

Art of Roads in Games
https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938511

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939593

Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603

GitHub Agentic Workflows
https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934107

Dave Farber has died
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933401

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
https://underhillgame.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936237

More Mac malware from Google search
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/30/more-malware-from-google-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938398

Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938903

A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
https://gtaforums.com/topic/986492-grand-theft-auto-ready2play-full-game-windows-version/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938241

2.8.26 | Commands start with a comma, Vocal Guide for safe singing, SectorC: 512-byte C Compiler

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:45:13 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 8, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
(01:18) - Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
(02:28) - SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)
(03:38) - Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
(04:54) - Software factories and the agentic moment
(06:10) - Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
(07:18) - Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
(08:15) - Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
(09:17) - Speed up responses with fast mode
(10:35) - Outro

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890814

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself
https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922049

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)
https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925741

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918429

Software factories and the agentic moment
https://factory.strongdm.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924426

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930391

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924264

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923254

Speed up responses with fast mode
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926043

2.7.26 | Ads on Apple News are scams, Waymo World Model, OpenCiv3 reimagines Civilization III

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:44:44 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 7, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
(01:31) - The Waymo World Model
(02:47) - OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
(03:51) - Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
(04:53) - An Update on Heroku
(05:55) - Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
(06:50) - Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
(07:56) - Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
(09:00) - Understanding Neural Network, Visually
(09:55) - Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
(11:02) - Outro

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901

The Waymo World Model
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914785

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
https://openciv3.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918612

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912800

An Update on Heroku
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913903

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914159

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913793

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
https://vecti.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917033

Understanding Neural Network, Visually
https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871654

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916609

2.6.26 | Claude Opus 4.6 release, GPT-5.3-Codex features, personal AI adoption experience

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:49:16 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 6, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Claude Opus 4.6
(01:29) - GPT-5.3-Codex
(02:39) - My AI Adoption Journey
(03:46) - We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
(05:04) - LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
(06:03) - Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
(07:10) - Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
(08:17) - GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
(09:23) - Company as Code
(10:35) - The RCE that AMD won't fix
(11:48) - Outro

Claude Opus 4.6
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902223

GPT-5.3-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902638

My AI Adoption Journey
https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890335

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902368

GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491

Company as Code
https://blog.42futures.com/p/company-as-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899132

The RCE that AMD won't fix
https://mrbruh.com/amd/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947

2.5.26 | Voxtral Transcribe 2 released, AI disrupts B2B SaaS, OpenClaw surpasses Apple intelligence

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:49:58 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 5, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Voxtral Transcribe 2
(01:31) - AI is killing B2B SaaS
(02:46) - OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
(03:57) - Don't rent the cloud, own instead
(05:13) - A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
(06:20) - Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
(07:23) - The Great Unwind
(08:39) - Claude Code for Infrastructure
(09:46) - Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
(10:55) - Tractor
(12:01) - Outro

Voxtral Transcribe 2
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886735

AI is killing B2B SaaS
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2b-saas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888441

OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/openclaw-is-what-apple-intelligence-should-have-been
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893970

Don't rent the cloud, own instead
https://blog.comma.ai/datacenter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896146

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
https://pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-pdf-forensics-the-epstein-pdfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886440

Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
https://boxc.net/blog/2026/claude-code-connecting-to-local-models-when-your-quota-runs-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845845

The Great Unwind
https://occupywallst.com/yen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008

Claude Code for Infrastructure
https://www.fluid.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889703

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems-ce235b28
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887564

Tractor
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/tractor.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877278

2.4.26 | France replaces Zoom and Teams for digital autonomy, Qwen3-Coder-Next, space data centers are illogical

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:50:20 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 4, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
(01:33) - Qwen3-Coder-Next
(02:29) - Data centers in space makes no sense
(03:32) - Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
(04:44) - I miss thinking hard
(06:05) - Agent Skills
(07:12) - Deno Sandbox
(08:26) - New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
(09:36) - X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
(10:55) - Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
(12:09) - Outro

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294

Qwen3-Coder-Next
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872706

Data centers in space makes no sense
https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848876

I miss thinking hard
https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264

Agent Skills
https://agentskills.io/home
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871173

Deno Sandbox
https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874097

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872540

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868998

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847690

2.3.26 | xAI partners with SpaceX, The Codex App, Todd C. Miller, Sudo maintainer for 30 years

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:49:36 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 3, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:13) - xAI joins SpaceX
(01:28) - The Codex App
(02:31) - Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
(03:36) - The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
(04:53) - Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
(05:57) - Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
(07:08) - Hacking Moltbook
(08:12) - 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
(09:21) - Zig Libc
(10:19) - Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
(11:29) - Outro

xAI joins SpaceX
https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170

The Codex App
https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
https://www.millert.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
https://www.frommers.com/tips/airfare/the-tsa-new-45-fee-to-fly-without-id-is-illegal-says-regulatory-expert/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863162

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863112

Hacking Moltbook
https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857615

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820142

Zig Libc
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-01-31
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858622

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855447

2.2.26 | Netbird offers open source zero trust networking, defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle, NanoClaw showcases "Clawdbot" in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:50:00 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 2, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
(01:18) - Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
(02:35) - Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
(03:46) - Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
(04:50) - My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
(06:04) - Apple I Advertisement (1976)
(07:11) - FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
(08:26) - MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
(09:36) - Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
(10:30) - Two kinds of AI users are emerging
(11:52) - Outro

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
https://netbird.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844870

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850205

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849258

Apple I Advertisement (1976)
http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847780

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android-like-user-experience-on-microcontrollers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812795

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
https://xikipedia.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850803

Two kinds of AI users are emerging
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850588

2.1.26 | Mobile carriers track GPS, Finland considers Australia-style social media ban, Swift offers convenience over Rust

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:45:38 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 1, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
(01:36) - Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
(02:39) - Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
(03:54) - Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
(05:00) - Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
(06:06) - CPython Internals Explained
(07:04) - In praise of –dry-run
(08:02) - Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
(09:10) - List animals until failure
(10:06) - Outro

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838597

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841374

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793313

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
https://www.moltbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802254

CPython Internals Explained
https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780086

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837814

In praise of –dry-run
https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840612

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-most-updated-android-device-ever/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837346

List animals until failure
https://rose.systems/animalist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842603

1.31.26 | Antirender removes glossy shine, HTTP Cats, engineer invents Mars rover suspension in garage

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:44:19 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 31, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
(01:25) - HTTP Cats
(02:12) - The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
(03:12) - Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
(04:19) - Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
(05:32) - Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
(06:41) - Code is cheap. Show me the talk
(08:02) - Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
(09:14) - YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
(10:12) - Outro

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
https://antirender.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147

HTTP Cats
https://http.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824422

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773655

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822630

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
https://peerweb.lol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829582

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832074

Code is cheap. Show me the talk
https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823485

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802748

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834441

1.30.26 | Claude Code benchmarks for degradation, Project Genie explores infinite worlds, Moltbook

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:48:33 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 30, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
(01:24) - Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
(02:31) - Moltbook
(03:34) - PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
(04:41) - AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
(05:56) - A lot of population numbers are fake
(07:23) - Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
(08:34) - Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
(09:47) - OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
(10:55) - The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
(11:54) - Outro

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810282

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933

Moltbook
https://www.moltbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814743

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809708

A lot of population numbers are fake
https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027

Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
https://grid.space/stem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817813

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816539

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)
https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816357

1.29.26 | Airfoil (2024), Apple to take 30% cut from Patreon creators, Mail limited to 500 miles (2002)

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:47:54 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 29, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Airfoil (2024)
(01:18) - Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
(02:32) - We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
(03:33) - Tesla ending Models S and X production
(04:39) - Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
(05:38) - Android's desktop interface leaks
(06:54) - Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
(08:02) - Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
(09:08) - Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
(10:12) - Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
(11:15) - Outro

Airfoil (2024)
https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795908

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805665

Tesla ending Models S and X production
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802867

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804828

Android's desktop interface leaks
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790740

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797594

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806773

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798402

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789561

1.28.26 | FBI probes Minnesota Signal chats, Prism, Claude's recent coding notes

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:46:46 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 28, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
(01:30) - Prism
(02:38) - A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
(03:41) - 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
(04:51) - Doing the thing is doing the thing
(05:44) - Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
(06:56) - Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
(07:54) - Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
(09:09) - Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
(10:11) - AI2: Open Coding Agents
(11:25) - Outro

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/fbi-investigating-minnesota-signal-minneapolis-group-ice-patel-kash-rcna256041
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783254

Prism
https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783752

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771564

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781530

Doing the thing is doing the thing
https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776155

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779645

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
https://amutable.com/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781444

AI2: Open Coding Agents
https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783017

1.27.26 | Vibecoding to handwriting, France's video conferencing alternatives, Television's centennial celebration

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:45:10 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 27, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
(01:25) - France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
(02:33) - Television is 100 years old today
(03:40) - Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
(04:41) - Qwen3-Max-Thinking
(05:36) - Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
(06:56) - Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
(08:04) - ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
(09:11) - JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
(10:26) - The hidden engineering of runways
(11:29) - Outro

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765460

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
https://twitter.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668

Television is 100 years old today
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766188

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769051

Qwen3-Max-Thinking
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766741

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760329

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765819

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back
https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768909

The hidden engineering of runways
https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694193

1.26.26 | Make me care, macOS app blurs screen when slouching, Iran's internet blackout may be permanent for elites

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:44:36 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 26, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - First, make me care
(01:14) - A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
(02:13) - Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
(03:33) - Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
(04:32) - Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
(05:33) - Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
(06:40) - Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
(07:48) - The browser is the sandbox
(09:05) - I was right about ATProto key management
(10:15) - Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
(11:29) - Outro

First, make me care
https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757067

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
https://github.com/tldev/posturr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761822

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760237

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753708

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755115

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760099

The browser is the sandbox
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762150

I was right about ATProto key management
https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757357

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709270

1.25.26 | BirdyChat is first European WhatsApp-interoperable app, Claude Code introduces Swarms feature, EV adoption linked to reduced air pollution: study

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:40:42 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 25, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
(01:40) - Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
(02:40) - Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
(03:52) - Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
(05:02) - Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
(06:19) - Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
(07:23) - Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
(08:31) - Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
(09:36) - Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
(10:46) - Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
(11:53) - Outro

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746476

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743908

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688804

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747119

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744807

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745922

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750425

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-update-kb5078127-released-address-outlook-bugs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750358

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
https://netzbremse.de/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751899

1.24.26 | Microsoft provided FBI BitLocker keys, Proof of Corn, Unrolling Codex agent loop

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:40:16 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 24, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
(01:30) - Proof of Corn
(02:42) - Unrolling the Codex agent loop
(03:38) - Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
(04:48) - Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
(05:49) - Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
(06:58) - New YC homepage
(07:57) - Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
(09:01) - KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
(10:10) - The tech monoculture is finally breaking
(11:24) - Outro

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545

Proof of Corn
https://proofofcorn.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511

Unrolling the Codex agent loop
https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737630

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
https://maggieappleton.com/gastown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734302

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730885

Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
https://comma.ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740029

New YC homepage
https://www.ycombinator.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735644

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731432

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732967

The tech monoculture is finally breaking
http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733624

1.23.26 | Isometric pixel art map of NYC, GPTZero discovers hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025, Bugs Apple Loves

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:44:02 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 23, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
(01:29) - GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
(02:37) - Bugs Apple Loves
(03:39) - Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
(04:41) - Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
(05:58) - Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
(07:13) - Your app subscription is now my weekend project
(08:22) - Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
(09:28) - Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
(10:33) - Outro

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720395

Bugs Apple Loves
https://www.bugsappleloves.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727587

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719229

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222

Your app subscription is now my weekend project
https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672713

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725288

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729368

1.22.26 | ChartGPU is a WebGPU charting library, Claude has a new constitution, Skip is now free and open source

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:45:04 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 22, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
(01:20) - Claude's new constitution
(02:29) - Skip is now free and open source
(03:41) - Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
(05:00) - Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
(06:02) - Nested code fences in Markdown
(06:57) - Can you slim macOS down?
(08:02) - Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
(09:14) - JPEG XL Test Page
(10:09) - Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
(11:26) - Outro

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706528

Claude's new constitution
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707572

Skip is now free and open source
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706906

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713106

Nested code fences in Markdown
https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705201

Can you slim macOS down?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702411

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712678

JPEG XL Test Page
https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708032

Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713929

1.21.26 | California drought-free for 25 years, PostgreSQL optimizations, Anthropic's open-sourced assignment

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:45:36 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 21, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
(01:26) - Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
(02:34) - Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
(03:36) - Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
(04:43) - cURL removes bug bounties
(05:47) - The Unix Pipe Card Game
(06:37) - Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
(07:44) - IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
(08:56) - The challenges of soft delete
(10:06) - Outro

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698660

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692116

Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700594

Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691243

cURL removes bug bounties
https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733

The Unix Pipe Card Game
https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694124

Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
https://novalauncher.com/nova-is-here-to-stay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696357

IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696303

The challenges of soft delete
https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698061

1.20.26 | Level S4 solar radiation event, Apple tests new App Store design blurring ads and results, CNAME or A record: which came first?

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:44:58 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 20, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Level S4 solar radiation event
(01:22) - Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
(02:28) - What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
(03:51) - Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
(05:11) - Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
(06:23) - The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
(07:38) - Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
(08:36) - Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
(09:41) - Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
(10:40) - The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
(11:57) - Outro

Level S4 solar radiation event
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684056

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search-results-ads-new-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680974

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681611

Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686640

Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670524

The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971

Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/35049920
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686655

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686273

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682518

The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
https://www.jbecker.dev/research/prediction-market-microstructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680515

1.19.26 | Gaussian Splatting music video, A Social Filesystem, Flux 2 Klein C inference

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:45:18 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 19, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:25) - Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
(01:32) - A Social Filesystem
(02:44) - Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
(03:45) - Dead Internet Theory
(04:58) - Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
(06:01) - A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
(07:12) - High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
(08:21) - Sins of the Children
(09:30) - Gas Town Decoded
(10:31) - Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
(11:32) - Outro

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670024

A Social Filesystem
https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665839

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670279

Dead Internet Theory
https://kudmitry.com/articles/dead-internet-theory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671731

Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672150

A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
https://bitchat.free/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675853

High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673453

Sins of the Children
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669663

Gas Town Decoded
https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-town-decoded/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624883

Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
https://getdock.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671952

1.18.26 | ASCII rendering explained, Apple icons reversed show design improvement, Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:40:17 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
(01:24) - If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
(02:26) - We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
(03:38) - The recurring dream of replacing developers
(04:48) - jQuery 4
(05:54) - Raising money fucked me up
(06:57) - Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
(08:06) - Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
(09:11) - The Olivetti Company
(10:20) - Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
(11:18) - Outro

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657122

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663338

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
https://labs.ramp.com/rct
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588972

The recurring dream of replacing developers
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658345

jQuery 4
https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664755

Raising money fucked me up
https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660543

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664631

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661897

The Olivetti Company
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576581

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665411

1.17.26 | STFU, Cloudflare acquires Astro, Cursor's browser experiment suggests success without proof

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:39:41 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 17, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - STFU
(01:17) - Cloudflare acquires Astro
(02:18) - Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
(03:26) - East Germany balloon escape
(04:40) - 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
(05:53) - Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
(07:11) - LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
(08:21) - Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
(09:25) - High-Level Is the Goal
(10:28) - FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
(11:41) - Outro

STFU
https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142

Cloudflare acquires Astro
https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777

East Germany balloon escape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648916

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635309

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648885

High-Level Is the Goal
https://bvisness.me/high-level/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630816

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653721

1.16.26 | Apple battles for TSMC capacity, addressing loneliness epidemic, Pocket TTS offers quality voice

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:43:08 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 16, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
(01:22) - Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
(02:29) - Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
(03:35) - Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
(04:38) - Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
(05:47) - OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
(06:52) - Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
(08:00) - Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
(09:09) - First impressions of Claude Cowork
(10:02) - Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
(11:00) - Outro

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329

Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
https://briarproject.org/manual/fa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638013

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618042

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
https://shellbox.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638629

First impressions of Claude Cowork
https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612919

Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
https://github.com/different-ai/openwork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612494

1.15.26 | Claude Cowork exfiltrates files, personal website sharing on Ask HN, SparkFun drops AdaFruit over CoC violation

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:43:06 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 15, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
(01:25) - Ask HN: Share your personal website
(02:23) - SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
(03:22) - The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
(04:11) - Find a pub that needs you
(05:15) - Scaling long-running autonomous coding
(06:21) - Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
(07:14) - Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
(08:29) - Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
(09:21) - The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
(10:30) - Outro

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328

Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
https://creepylink.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652

Find a pub that needs you
https://www.ismypubfucked.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617360

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624541

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
https://webtiles.kicya.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561341

Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
https://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626410

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624352

1.14.26 | Scott Adams dies, AI music banned on Bandcamp, excessive tech in disposable vapes

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:44:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Scott Adams has died
(01:19) - AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
(02:24) - There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
(03:32) - A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
(04:42) - Every GitHub object has two IDs
(05:53) - The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
(07:06) - The Tulip Creative Computer
(08:07) - How to make a damn website (2024)
(09:12) - The $LANG Programming Language
(10:10) - No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
(11:21) - Outro

Scott Adams has died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102

AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
https://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591810

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630

Every GitHub object has two IDs
https://www.greptile.com/blog/github-ids
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602591

The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morgan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605332

The Tulip Creative Computer
https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603995

How to make a damn website (2024)
https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250

The $LANG Programming Language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854

1.13.26 | Cowork's Claude Code enhances productivity, Apple chooses Gemini for Siri, Floppy disks serve as ideal kids' TV remotes

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:43:16 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
(01:31) - Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
(02:37) - Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
(03:44) - TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
(04:53) - Postal Arbitrage
(05:53) - Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
(07:03) - Date is out, Temporal is in
(08:08) - LLVM: The bad parts
(09:16) - Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
(10:27) - Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
(11:38) - Outro

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280

Postal Arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536

Date is out, Temporal is in
https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658

LLVM: The bad parts
https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586766

1.12.26 | Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe, Avoiding anti-AI hype, Easier self-hosting with CLI agents

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:43:56 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 12, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
(01:29) - CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
(02:46) - iCloud Photos Downloader
(03:40) - I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
(04:49) - Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
(05:50) - Xfce is great
(06:56) - This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
(08:01) - Poison Fountain
(09:07) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
(10:08) - Outro

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
https://antirez.com/news/158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326

iCloud Photos Downloader
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539478

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543509

Xfce is great
https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580864

Poison Fountain
https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577464

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577242

1.11.26 | Fixing Ghostty's memory leak, Open Chaos as a self-evolving project, Claude Code connects 100 books

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:40:02 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 11, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
(01:32) - Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
(02:37) - Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
(03:34) - Code and Let Live
(04:45) - AI is a business model stress test
(06:01) - Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
(07:11) - My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
(08:11) - A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
(09:20) - Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
(10:23) - ASCII-Driven Development
(11:22) - Outro

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
https://www.openchaos.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
https://trails.pieterma.es/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400

Code and Let Live
https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825

AI is a business model stress test
https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567392

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571980

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
https://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679

A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572769

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569312

ASCII-Driven Development
https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538628

1.10.26 | Cloudflare CEO discusses Italy fines, Memory game for piano by ear, AI autonomously solves Erdos problem #728

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:39:56 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 10, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
(01:30) - Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
(02:23) - “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
(03:24) - How will the miracle happen today?
(04:33) - Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
(05:47) - Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
(06:48) - How Markdown took over the world
(07:50) - JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
(08:41) - Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
(09:32) - RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
(10:48) - Outro

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445

How will the miracle happen today?
https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
https://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343

How Markdown took over the world
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
https://beta.dwitter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557489

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
https://quack.sdan.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557029

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558148

1.9.26 | Bose opens API for SoundTouch speakers, Google AI Studio sponsors Tailwind CSS, coding Claude in 200 lines

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:42:37 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 9, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
(01:23) - Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
(02:28) - How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
(03:38) - The Jeff Dean Facts
(04:32) - Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
(05:36) - AI coding assistants are getting worse?
(06:43) - Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
(07:50) - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
(08:58) - Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
(10:09) - Why I left iNaturalist
(11:18) - Outro

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620

The Jeff Dean Facts
https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823

AI coding assistants are getting worse?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740

Why I left iNaturalist
https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940

1.8.26 | Tailwind creators lay off 75% of engineers, US bans Wall Street from single-family home purchases, Eat Real Food

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:43:43 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 8, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
(01:22) - US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
(02:29) - Eat Real Food
(03:36) - Shipmap.org
(04:36) - A4 Paper Stories
(05:37) - LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
(06:40) - Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
(07:54) - ChatGPT Health
(08:58) - “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
(10:10) - Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
(11:13) - Outro

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068

Eat Real Food
https://realfood.gov
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237

Shipmap.org
https://www.shipmap.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161

A4 Paper Stories
https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
https://tailscale.com/changelog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925

ChatGPT Health
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531280

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525640

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

1.7.26 | Vietnam bans unskippable ads, Opus 4.5 offers a unique AI experience, Stop Doom Scrolling and start coding from your phone

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:43:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 7, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Vietnam bans unskippable ads
(01:25) - Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
(02:44) - Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
(03:51) - The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
(04:55) - I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
(05:48) - Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
(06:54) - A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
(08:19) - Sergey Brin's Unretirement
(09:21) - Passing of Joe Mancuso
(10:15) - Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
(11:26) - Outro

Vietnam bans unskippable ads
https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
https://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573

Sergey Brin's Unretirement
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641

Passing of Joe Mancuso
https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860

1.6.26 | BGP anomalies during Venezuela blackout, 2025 database review, best promotion advice

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:42:43 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
(01:27) - Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
(02:47) - Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
(03:58) - Pebble Round 2
(04:56) - I switched from VSCode to Zed
(06:14) - Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
(07:20) - enclose.horse
(08:10) - Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
(09:07) - Welcome to Gas Town
(10:16) - Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
(11:10) - Outro

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027

Pebble Round 2
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335

I switched from VSCode to Zed
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894

enclose.horse
https://enclose.horse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211

Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
https://donotnotify.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646

Welcome to Gas Town
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137

1.5.26 | Insights from Google, Joy of solitude in cafés, Renewed excitement in web development

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:44:41 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 5, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Lessons from 14 years at Google
(01:26) - The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
(02:33) - Web development is fun again
(03:44) - Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
(04:54) - Claude Code On-the-Go
(06:00) - Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
(06:59) - I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
(08:06) - Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
(09:16) - Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
(10:18) - During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
(11:25) - Outro

Lessons from 14 years at Google
https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355

Web development is fun again
https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278

Claude Code On-the-Go
https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
https://howbrowserswork.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

1.4.26 | StackOverflow questions trend, Popular Hacker News blogs 2025, C3 Programming Language

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:40:00 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 4, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
(01:34) - The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
(02:45) - The C3 Programming Language
(03:52) - The suck is why we're here
(05:17) - Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
(06:09) - Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
(07:20) - Corroded: Illegal Rust
(08:27) - KDE onboarding is good now
(09:28) - Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
(10:34) - Take One Small Step
(11:36) - Outro

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377

The C3 Programming Language
https://c3-lang.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647

The suck is why we're here
https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023

Corroded: Illegal Rust
https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531

KDE onboarding is good now
https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432

Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037

Take One Small Step
https://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107

1.3.26 | Self-publishing and syndication, 2026 as the Linux desktop year, Daft Punk Easter Egg in BPM

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:40:25 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 3, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
(01:31) - 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
(02:40) - Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
(03:56) - IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
(05:11) - Clicks Communicator
(06:12) - Assorted less(1) tips
(07:16) - Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
(08:08) - Jank Lang Hit Alpha
(08:58) - Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
(10:10) - Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone
(11:20) - Outro

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
https://indieweb.org/POSSE#
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468600

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469577

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465327

Clicks Communicator
https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467057

Assorted less(1) tips
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464120

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171

Jank Lang Hit Alpha
https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468517

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467677

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone
https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466364

1.2.26 | Linux improved, website destruction tool, Bluetooth headphone security risk

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:40:33 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 2, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Linux is good now
(01:21) - A website to destroy all websites
(02:34) - Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
(03:41) - Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
(04:49) - Cameras and Lenses (2020)
(05:48) - Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
(06:57) - I rebooted my social life
(08:04) - Python numbers every programmer should know
(09:15) - Why users cannot create Issues directly
(10:20) - 2025 Letter
(11:36) - Outro

Linux is good now
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770

A website to destroy all websites
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693

Cameras and Lenses (2020)
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797

I rebooted my social life
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114

Python numbers every programmer should know
https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470

Why users cannot create Issues directly
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319

2025 Letter
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454413

1.1.26 | Buffett resigns as Berkshire Hathaway CEO, 2025 focuses on LLMs, canceled book deal

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:41:01 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 1, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
(01:22) - 2025: The Year in LLMs
(02:38) - I canceled my book deal
(03:42) - Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
(04:46) - Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
(05:56) - Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
(07:09) - Demystifying DVDs
(08:10) - On privacy and control
(09:24) - Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
(10:28) - Outro

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo-after-six-decades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448705

2025: The Year in LLMs
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

I canceled my book deal
https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446815

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
https://exopriors.com/scry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442245

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442903

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446366

Demystifying DVDs
https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417162

On privacy and control
https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446938

Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
https://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448894

12.31.25 | 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite, faster heart for F-Droid, Non-Zero-Sum Games

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:40:49 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 31, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
(01:18) - A faster heart for F-Droid
(02:22) - Non-Zero-Sum Games
(03:20) - OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
(04:26) - FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
(05:32) - Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
(06:46) - A Vulnerability in Libsodium
(07:41) - Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
(08:57) - Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
(10:16) - Five Years of Tinygrad
(11:30) - Outro

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308

A faster heart for F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409

Non-Zero-Sum Games
https://nonzerosum.games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
https://loss32.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173

A Vulnerability in Libsodium
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438522

Five Years of Tinygrad
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757

12.30.25 | Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn, Google is dead, GOG acquired by co-founder

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:42:10 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 30, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
(01:35) - Google is dead. Where do we go now?
(02:44) - GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
(03:48) - Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
(04:52) - Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
(06:16) - Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
(07:10) - ManusAI Joins Meta
(08:15) - I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
(09:32) - The future of software development is software developers
(10:39) - Static Allocation with Zig
(11:54) - Outro

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970

Google is dead. Where do we go now?
https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412

Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714

Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423290

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
https://linuxdaw.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419968

ManusAI Joins Meta
https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426534

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427582

The future of software development is software developers
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424233

Static Allocation with Zig
https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422009

12.29.25 | Unprocessed photo example, China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert, creating custom HTML tags

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:42:22 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 29, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - What an unprocessed photo looks like
(01:31) - Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
(02:39) - You can make up HTML tags
(03:33) - Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
(04:42) - Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
(05:57) - MongoBleed Explained Simply
(07:04) - PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
(08:14) - As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
(09:17) - Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
(10:22) - Staying ahead of censors in 2025
(11:19) - Outro

What an unprocessed photo looks like
https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415225

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988

You can make up HTML tags
https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414723

Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
https://marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414819

MongoBleed Explained Simply
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
https://pysdr.org/content/intro.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413975

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415338

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417815

Staying ahead of censors in 2025
https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844

12.28.25 | Floor796, Nvidia's $20B loophole, lost communication to entertainment

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:39:54 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 28, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Floor796
(01:09) - Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
(02:19) - How we lost communication to entertainment
(03:25) - Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
(04:35) - Calendar
(05:21) - Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
(06:26) - Gpg.fail
(07:28) - Say No to Palantir in the NHS
(08:32) - Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
(09:36) - Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
(10:32) - Outro

Floor796
https://floor796.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559

How we lost communication to entertainment
https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337

Calendar
https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
http://npmjs.com/package/ezff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251

Gpg.fail
https://gpg.fail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200

Say No to Palantir in the NHS
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291

Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648

12.27.25 | uv's speed, Git's issues in package managers, toys with optimal play and clean-up

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:39:27 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - How uv got so fast
(01:36) - Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
(02:43) - Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
(03:43) - Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
(04:48) - The best things and stuff of 2025
(05:53) - LearnixOS
(06:52) - Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
(07:46) - Always bet on text (2014)
(08:47) - Exe.dev
(09:39) - Outro

How uv got so fast
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910

The best things and stuff of 2025
https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726

LearnixOS
https://www.learnix-os.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391599

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572

Always bet on text (2014)
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379

Exe.dev
https://exe.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609

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

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:41:05 -0500

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(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 Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
(08:24) - Fahrplan – 39C3
(09:20) - Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
(10:32) - Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
(11:33) - Outro

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383552

Maybe the default settings are too high
https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387657

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336577

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384167

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388040

Fahrplan – 39C3
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46386211

Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-sway-on-the-macbook-air-m2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384565

Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
https://gamingcouch.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573

12.25.25 | Merry Christmas, Nvidia acquires Groq for $20B, Phoenix is a new X server in Zig

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:41:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 25, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Tell HN: Merry Christmas
(01:14) - Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
(02:25) - Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
(03:40) - Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
(04:43) - Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
(05:51) - Ruby 4.0.0
(06:54) - Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
(08:00) - I'm returning my Framework 16
(09:03) - CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
(10:16) - Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
(11:06) - Outro

Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379183

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378554

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377597

Ruby 4.0.0
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382011

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377862

I'm returning my Framework 16
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351666

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380758

12.24.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released, Epstein file redactions undone, X-ray Python library finds bad redactions

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:40:49 -0500

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 MicroQuickJS
https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368946

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923

We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475

What makes you senior
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327692

Lua 5.5
https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354674

Unifi Travel Router
https://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370012

Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One
https://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334206

Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309007

12.23.25 | Flock's AI cameras exposed online, Claude Code adds LSP support, The Illustrated Transformer

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:42:29 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 23, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
(01:32) - Claude Code gets native LSP support
(02:37) - The Illustrated Transformer
(03:55) - GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
(05:03) - It's Always TCP_NODELAY
(06:19) - NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
(07:31) - Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
(08:42) - Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
(09:57) - The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
(11:08) - The Garbage Collection Handbook
(12:09) - Outro

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548

Claude Code gets native LSP support
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165

The Illustrated Transformer
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357675

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357287

It's Always TCP_NODELAY
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359120

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nist-was-5-μs-utc-after-last-weeks-power-cut
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355949

Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
https://blog.kierangill.xyz/oversight-and-guidance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354970

Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrasound-cancer-treatment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357945

The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353777

The Garbage Collection Handbook
https://gchandbook.org/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357870

12.22.25 | ProtectEU's Chat Control 3.0, Hacker News books in 2025, local coding models guide

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:41:30 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 22, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
(01:23) - Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
(02:25) - A guide to local coding models
(03:30) - Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
(04:27) - I'm just having fun
(05:31) - CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
(06:41) - I program on the subway
(07:43) - Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
(08:48) - Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
(10:03) - Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
(11:06) - Outro

The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115742530333573065
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347080

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897

A guide to local coding models
https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348329

Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745

I'm just having fun
https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287253

CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345506

I program on the subway
https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294694

Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348847

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316050

Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
https://rue-lang.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348262

12.21.25 | Backing up Spotify, Jmail for Epstein files, self-host Postgres

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:39:31 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 21, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Backing up Spotify
(01:23) - Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
(02:19) - Go ahead, self-host Postgres
(03:31) - Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics
(04:31) - Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
(05:46) - Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
(06:55) - Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
(08:09) - Skills Officially Comes to Codex
(09:06) - OpenSCAD is kinda neat
(10:11) - Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
(11:22) - Outro

Backing up Spotify
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
https://www.jmail.world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600

Go ahead, self-host Postgres
https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336947

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341305

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301059

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337438

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287848

Skills Officially Comes to Codex
https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334424

OpenSCAD is kinda neat
https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337984

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339031

12.20.25 | Garage offers reliable S3 object storage outside datacenters, Mistral OCR 3, CSS Grid Lanes

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:39:14 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 20, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
(01:21) - Mistral OCR 3
(02:31) - CSS Grid Lanes
(03:34) - TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
(04:45) - 8-bit Boléro
(05:47) - Graphite is joining Cursor
(06:46) - LLM Year in Review
(08:06) - Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
(09:18) - Rust's Block Pattern
(10:21) - Outro

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326984

Mistral OCR 3
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313390

CSS Grid Lanes
https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
https://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329038

8-bit Boléro
https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324702

Graphite is joining Cursor
https://cursor.com/blog/graphite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206

LLM Year in Review
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726

Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968

Rust's Block Pattern
https://notgull.net/block-pattern/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322391

12.19.25 | ACM publications to be open access in 2026, supply-chain attack on X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord, Texas suing TV makers for spying

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:41:14 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
(01:30) - We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
(02:49) - Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
(04:06) - History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
(05:21) - GPT-5.2-Codex
(06:26) - Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
(07:28) - 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
(08:43) - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
(09:58) - Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
(11:07) - Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
(12:12) - Outro

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991

We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826

GPT-5.2-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367

Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316409

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907

Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
https://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349

Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
https://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414

12.18.25 | Gemini 3 Flash focuses on speed, AWS CEO criticizes replacing junior devs with AI, HN experienced downtime

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:42:02 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 18, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
(01:21) - AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
(02:40) - Tell HN: HN was down
(03:47) - Coursera to combine with Udemy
(04:51) - Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
(06:10) - I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
(07:19) - A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
(08:31) - How SQLite is tested
(09:42) - OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
(10:48) - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
(11:48) - Outro

Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301851

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267

Tell HN: HN was down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921

Coursera to combine with Udemy
https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346

Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894

I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305585

A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302337

How SQLite is tested
https://sqlite.org/testing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303277

OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305428

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973

12.17.25 | alpr.watch, GitHub Actions pricing changes, No Graphics API

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:43:23 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 17, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - alpr.watch
(01:32) - Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
(02:44) - No Graphics API
(03:52) - AI will make formal verification go mainstream
(05:13) - Announcing the Beta release of ty
(06:16) - Thin desires are eating life
(07:22) - Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
(08:24) - 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
(09:39) - GPT Image 1.5
(10:47) - No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
(11:59) - Outro

alpr.watch
https://alpr.watch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156

No Graphics API
https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062

AI will make formal verification go mainstream
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574

Announcing the Beta release of ty
https://astral.sh/blog/ty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294289

Thin desires are eating life
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283276

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288415

GPT Image 1.5
https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295268

12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with ChatGPT, 8M users' AI chats exploited by extensions, Pepsi and Walmart colluded on food prices

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:43:16 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
(01:26) - 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
(02:40) - Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
(03:51) - Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
(05:04) - “Are you the one?” is free money
(06:18) - SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
(07:25) - Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
(08:32) - JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
(09:31) - Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
(10:38) - Umbrel – Personal Cloud
(11:40) - Outro

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466

8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182

“Are you the one?” is free money
https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500

SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658

Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
https://quill-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944

Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376

Umbrel – Personal Cloud
https://umbrel.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187

12.15.25 | Hashcards is a spaced repetition system, elevated errors in models, Ask HN about December 2025 projects

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:44:27 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 15, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
(01:24) - Elevated errors across many models
(02:20) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
(03:15) - Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
(04:30) - Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
(05:35) - Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
(06:38) - Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
(07:41) - JSDoc is TypeScript
(08:47) - Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time
(09:51) - In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
(11:02) - Outro

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264492

Elevated errors across many models
https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267385

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021

Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265362

Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268844

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268854

JSDoc is TypeScript
https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266102

Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-park-dcfb1ce237af7a10ab72205fc9bbdc02
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178966

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189905

12.14.25 | Stranger kindness, VPN location discrepancies, improving AI programming skills

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:39:20 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 14, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
(01:21) - VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
(02:37) - Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
(03:47) - I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
(04:57) - Useful patterns for building HTML tools
(06:00) - Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
(07:14) - Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
(08:21) - Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
(09:26) - Go Proposal: Secret Mode
(10:35) - I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
(11:43) - Outro

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236001

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991

Useful patterns for building HTML tools
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
https://fil-c.org/seccomp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163

Go Proposal: Secret Mode
https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607

12.13.25 | Apple ID locked, macOS 26.2 fast AI clusters, OpenAI adopts skills in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:39:06 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 13, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
(01:24) - macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
(02:37) - OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
(03:42) - Koralm Railway
(04:41) - Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
(05:53) - Rats Play DOOM
(06:47) - GNU Unifont
(08:00) - String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
(09:11) - Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
(10:25) - Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
(11:29) - Outro

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332

Koralm Railway
https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655

Rats Play DOOM
https://ratsplaydoom.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323

GNU Unifont
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538

12.12.25 | GPT-5.2 release, highest quality codebase, French supermarket's successful Christmas advert

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:41:50 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 12, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - GPT-5.2
(01:23) - The highest quality codebase
(02:34) - French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
(03:27) - EFF launches Age Verification Hub
(04:42) - Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
(05:54) - Nokia N900 Necromancy
(07:06) - Litestream VFS
(08:16) - Craft software that makes people feel something
(09:26) - Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
(10:37) - Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
(11:40) - Outro

GPT-5.2
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234788

The highest quality codebase
https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930

French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187

EFF launches Age Verification Hub
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920

Nokia N900 Necromancy
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177

Litestream VFS
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710

Craft software that makes people feel something
https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
https://larr.net/p/namings.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806

Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924

12.11.25 | Life's dimensions, Australia enforces teen social media ban, Valve reports HDMI Forum blocks HDMI 2.1 for Linux

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:43:05 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 11, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Size of Life
(01:17) - Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
(02:24) - Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
(03:34) - Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
(04:42) - Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
(05:53) - Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
(07:07) - Patterns.dev
(07:59) - Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
(09:11) - How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
(10:17) - Is it a bubble?
(11:26) - Outro

Size of Life
https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219346

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438

Patterns.dev
https://www.patterns.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343

Is it a bubble?
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640

12.10.25 | Gemini Pro 3 imagines future HN front page, Let's Encrypt celebrates 10 years, Mistral launches Devstral2 and Vibe CLI

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:42:43 -0500

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
(01:25) - 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
(02:45) - Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
(04:01) - Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites
(05:06) - PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
(06:12) - Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
(07:16) - Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
(08:23) - If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
(09:39) - Django: what’s new in 6.0
(10:44) - Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
(11:48) - Outro

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632

10 Years of Let's Encrypt
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962

Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437

Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites
https://bruno-simon.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505

Django: what’s new in 6.0
https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425

12.9.25 | Icons in menus, AI progress steady, IBM acquires Confluent

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:43:06 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
(01:28) - Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
(02:44) - IBM to acquire Confluent
(03:54) - Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
(05:12) - Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
(06:20) - Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
(07:33) - Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
(08:34) - Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
(09:41) - The universal weight subspace hypothesis
(10:56) - Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
(12:16) - Outro

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723

IBM to acquire Confluent
https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846

Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337

The universal weight subspace hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196228

12.8.25 | Google Titans architecture enhances AI memory, failed attempt to recreate 1996 Space Jam website, dollar-stores overcharge despite low price promises

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:42:50 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 8, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
(01:33) - I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
(02:46) - Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
(04:01) - The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
(05:10) - I wasted years of my life in crypto
(06:15) - The Anatomy of a macOS App
(07:27) - Scala 3 slowed us down?
(08:35) - How I block all online ads
(09:42) - An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
(10:49) - Turtletoy
(11:44) - Outro

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181231

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657

I wasted years of my life in crypto
https://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181371

The Anatomy of a macOS App
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181268

Scala 3 slowed us down?
https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202

How I block all online ads
https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185816

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358

Turtletoy
https://turtletoy.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138459

12.7.25 | GrapheneOS offers complete security patches, Tiny Core Linux is a 23 MB graphical distro, LLMs utilized at Oxide

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:38:08 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 7, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
(01:29) - Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
(02:38) - Using LLMs at Oxide
(03:57) - Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
(04:53) - Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
(05:54) - Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
(07:06) - Autism's confusing cousins
(08:19) - Perl's decline was cultural
(09:31) - HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
(10:41) - The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
(11:48) - Outro

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547

Using LLMs at Oxide
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095817

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176905

Autism's confusing cousins
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172443

Perl's decline was cultural
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173825

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498

12.6.25 | Netflix acquires Warner Bros, Cloudflare outage December 5, 2025, Gemini 3 Pro advances vision AI

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:38:46 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 6, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
(01:18) - Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
(02:29) - Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
(03:38) - Self-hosting my photos with Immich
(04:48) - YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
(05:55) - Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
(07:09) - Leaving Intel
(08:05) - I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
(09:14) - Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
(10:14) - Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
(11:28) - Outro

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162656

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308

Self-hosting my photos with Immich
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095087

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163609

Leaving Intel
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167552

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163121

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
https://haveibeenflocked.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170302

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134.xml
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46168057

12.5.25 | Cloudflare outage, Stanford students' disability claims, elites influencing mass preferences with AI

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:41:05 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Cloudflare is down
(01:23) - Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
(02:44) - How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
(03:59) - I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
(05:14) - Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
(06:24) - Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
(07:29) - Multivox: Volumetric Display
(08:32) - BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
(09:52) - Fighting the age-gated internet
(11:02) - Outro

Cloudflare is down
https://www.cloudflare.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466

Multivox: Volumetric Display
https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619

Fighting the age-gated internet
https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493

12.4.25 | Ghostty becomes non-profit, Seattle's disdain for AI, Valve's role in Windows games on Arm

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:42:21 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 4, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Ghostty is now non-profit
(01:24) - Everyone in Seattle hates AI
(02:43) - Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
(03:56) - Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
(05:13) - Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
(06:24) - RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
(07:35) - 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
(08:44) - Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
(09:43) - Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
(10:47) - How to Synthesize a House Loop
(11:34) - Outro

Ghostty is now non-profit
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238

Everyone in Seattle hates AI
https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126446

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136026

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137253

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139761

How to Synthesize a House Loop
https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072280

12.3.25 | Anthropic acquires Bun, OpenAI issues 'code red' over Google, IBM CEO doubts AI data center ROI

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:43:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 3, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Anthropic acquires Bun
(01:33) - OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
(02:42) - IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
(04:02) - I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
(05:08) - Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
(06:18) - Learning music with Strudel
(07:11) - Paged Out
(08:08) - Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
(09:26) - Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
(10:43) - Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
(12:01) - Outro

Anthropic acquires Bun
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
https://snoutcover.com/billie-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131330

Learning music with Strudel
https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478

Paged Out
https://pagedout.institute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406

12.2.25 | DeepSeek-v3.2 advances open language models, India mandates preloaded cyber safety app, Ghostty compiles to WASM with xterm.js compatibility

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:41:59 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 2, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
(01:42) - India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
(02:48) - Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
(03:47) - Google unkills JPEG XL?
(05:03) - What will enter the public domain in 2026?
(06:10) - 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
(07:09) - Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
(08:18) - Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
(09:34) - The Penicillin Myth
(10:43) - Outro

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104193

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842

Google unkills JPEG XL?
https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108563

What will enter the public domain in 2026?
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112

10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
https://flowtwo.io/post/on-10-years-of-writing-a-blog-nobody-reads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070883

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents_building_counterstrike
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080835

Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108437

The Penicillin Myth
https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107658

12.1.25 | Advent of Code 2025, tips for writing Claude.md, Windows drive letters beyond A-Z

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:42:48 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 1, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Advent of Code 2025
(01:20) - Writing a good Claude.md
(02:26) - Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
(03:34) - Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
(04:45) - Migrating Dillo from GitHub
(05:45) - A Love Letter to FreeBSD
(06:54) - GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
(08:03) - Advent of Sysadmin 2025
(09:04) - Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
(10:14) - Outro

Advent of Code 2025
https://adventofcode.com/2025/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096337

Writing a good Claude.md
https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098838

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096556

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103376

Migrating Dillo from GitHub
https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096800

A Love Letter to FreeBSD
https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100892

GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
https://eldred.fr/blog/forge-migration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097829

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/files/optimization.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101492

Advent of Sysadmin 2025
https://sadservers.com/advent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102347

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532

11.30.25 | OpenAI preparing ChatGPT ads, One breakthrough needed, Bazzite for Linux gaming

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:38:24 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 30, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
(01:29) - All it takes is for one to work out
(02:34) - Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
(03:42) - Show HN: Boing
(04:37) - Datacenters in space aren't going to work
(05:47) - Be Like Clippy
(06:53) - Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
(08:07) - Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
(09:16) - Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
(10:14) - Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
(11:18) - Outro

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771

All it takes is for one to work out
https://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090433

Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
https://bazzite.gg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091362

Show HN: Boing
https://boing.greg.technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093473

Datacenters in space aren't going to work
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087616

Be Like Clippy
https://be-clippy.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090172

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-dramatic-shift-americans-no-longer-see-four-year-college-degrees-rcna243672
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091591

Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
https://bourdain.greg.technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879

Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093518

Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090269

11.29.25 | 28M Hacker News comments dataset, Imgur geo-blocked UK, Molly improved Signal App

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:38:49 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 29, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
(01:38) - Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
(02:44) - Molly: An Improved Signal App
(03:47) - How good engineers write bad code at big companies
(05:01) - Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
(06:10) - So you wanna build a local RAG?
(07:24) - Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
(08:30) - Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
(09:23) - System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
(10:29) - WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
(11:38) - Outro

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081053

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081188

Molly: An Improved Signal App
https://molly.im/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080916

How good engineers write bad code at big companies
https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082223

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083004

So you wanna build a local RAG?
https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080364

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083303

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080289

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084956

WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045207

11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:40:23 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 28, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
(01:10) - Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
(02:09) - TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
(03:28) - Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
(04:26) - 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
(05:33) - Quake Engine Indicators
(06:34) - Mixpanel Security Breach
(07:30) - GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
(08:44) - Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
(09:50) - Outro

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065955

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070668

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-inference
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069048

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
https://pocketbase.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075320

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
https://www.energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-heating-and-ancillary-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073855

Quake Engine Indicators
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031552

Mixpanel Security Breach
https://mixpanel.com/blog/sms-security-incident/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066522

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070203

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075882

11.27.25 | Voyager 1 nearing one light-day from Earth, hotel bathroom doors needed, Zig repository migrating to Codeberg

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:41:27 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 27, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
(01:24) - Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
(02:24) - Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
(03:42) - The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
(04:50) - Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
(05:57) - A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
(07:12) - S&box is now an open source game engine
(08:21) - Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
(09:39) - A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
(10:50) - DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
(12:04) - Outro

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
https://scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is-about-to-reach-one-light-day-from-earth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057488

Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
https://bringbackdoors.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063072

Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062504

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
https://github.com/penpot/penpot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064757

A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020193

S&box is now an open source game engine
https://sbox.game/news/update-25-11-26
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061682

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060508

A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055935

DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
https://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065034

11.26.25 | Google Antigravity data exfiltration, YouTube's prophecy fulfilled, big software projects failing despite trillions spent

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:41:54 -0500

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
(01:37) - Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
(02:44) - Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
(04:09) - Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
(05:18) - Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
(06:36) - Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
(07:42) - FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
(08:53) - Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
(09:46) - How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
(10:44) - Python is not a great language for data science
(11:56) - Outro

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042810

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
https://far.computer/how-to/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

Python is not a great language for data science
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580

11.25.25 | Pebble Watch software open source, Claude Opus 4.5 released, over 300 infected NPM packages

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:42:25 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 25, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Pebble Watch software is now open source
(01:28) - Claude Opus 4.5
(02:41) - Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
(03:52) - Claude Advanced Tool Use
(05:04) - Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
(06:16) - PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
(07:36) - Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
(08:26) - Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
(09:34) - We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
(10:52) - Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
(12:00) - Outro

Pebble Watch software is now open source
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037626

Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037637

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539

Claude Advanced Tool Use
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038047

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038099

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038143

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
https://news.ysimulator.run/news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019898

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024541

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330

11.24.25 | Fran Sans font inspired by San Francisco, time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2, native Secure Enclave SSH keys on macOS

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:41:37 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 24, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
(01:19) - A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
(02:17) - Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
(03:27) - µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
(04:36) - RuBee
(05:49) - Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
(06:53) - Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
(08:01) - The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
(09:09) - New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries
(10:17) - Outro

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025942

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009962

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025721

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024773

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
https://microcad.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027216

RuBee
https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029932

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029699

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968827

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029908

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985008

11.23.25 | Browser fingerprinting privacy issues, Inducing smells with ultrasound, Challenges in agent design

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:38:22 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 23, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
(01:27) - We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
(02:31) - Agent design is still hard
(03:46) - Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
(05:03) - China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
(06:21) - Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
(07:17) - A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
(08:16) - $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
(09:26) - The realities of being a pop star
(10:31) - Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
(11:39) - Outro

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008332

Agent design is still hard
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013935

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019817

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016639

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
https://forty.news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019685

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940980

The realities of being a pop star
https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016613

Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938005

11.22.25 | Helping Valve enhance Steam devices, Wealthfolio 2.0 is an open-source investment tracker for mobile and Docker, advocating for dependency cooldowns

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:37:44 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 22, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
(01:32) - Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
(02:40) - We should all be using dependency cooldowns
(03:54) - Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
(05:02) - Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
(06:14) - You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
(07:09) - Homeschooling hits record numbers
(08:22) - Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12M
(09:29) - Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
(10:42) - Making a Small RPG
(11:31) - Outro

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006616

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
https://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006016

We should all be using dependency cooldowns
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005111

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009894

Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-memory-price-surge-sends-shockwaves-through-the-global-dram-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934619

You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006082

Homeschooling hits record numbers
https://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999842

Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12M
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e9rp0knj6o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012328

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927520

Making a Small RPG
https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004293

11.21.25 | Nano Banana Pro, CBP monitors US drivers for suspicious patterns, Android and iPhone users can share files with Pixel 10

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:40:17 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 21, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Nano Banana Pro
(01:28) - CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
(02:36) - Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
(03:46) - Microsoft makes Zork open-source
(05:05) - Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
(06:08) - Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
(07:25) - Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
(08:43) - Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
(09:50) - New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
(11:03) - Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
(11:58) - Outro

Nano Banana Pro
https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993296

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996860

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995740

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
http://geacron.com/home-en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990934

Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991738

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963350

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
https://github.com/PegorK/f32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984461

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997212

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
https://mobomaps.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976693

11.20.25 | Europe relaxes GDPR and AI laws, Meta Segment Anything Model 3, patent office to protect bad patents

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:40:28 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 20, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
(01:29) - Meta Segment Anything Model 3
(02:42) - The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
(04:02) - Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
(05:06) - Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
(06:08) - AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
(07:16) - Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
(08:22) - Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
(09:33) - How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
(10:42) - Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
(11:42) - Outro

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117

Meta Segment Anything Model 3
https://ai.meta.com/sam3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985506

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983700

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984659

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985036

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980106

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985867

11.19.25 | Cloudflare issues, Gemini 3, Cloudflare November 18, 2025 outage post mortem

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:40:53 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 19, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
(01:25) - Gemini 3
(02:28) - Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
(03:44) - Google Antigravity
(04:55) - Blender 5.0
(05:48) - I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
(06:51) - Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
(08:02) - GitHub: Git operation failures
(08:56) - Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
(10:15) - Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
(11:26) - Outro

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780

Gemini 3
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973709

Google Antigravity
https://antigravity.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967814

Blender 5.0
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969909

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969250

GitHub: Git operation failures
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30sk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971726

Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961886

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963670

11.18.25 | Synth for daughter, Rebecca Heineman dies, Core Devices steals work

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:41:18 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 18, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
(01:24) - Rebecca Heineman has died
(02:31) - Core Devices keeps stealing our work
(03:38) - My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
(04:33) - Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
(05:51) - Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
(06:59) - Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
(08:13) - FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
(09:15) - Project Gemini
(10:19) - WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
(11:29) - Outro

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900425

Rebecca Heineman has died
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champion-and-lgbtq-trailblazer-rebecca-heineman-has-died/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960368

Core Devices keeps stealing our work
https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960893

My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937302

Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959795

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944158

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955900

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
https://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953452

Project Gemini
https://geminiprotocol.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954640

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954210

11.17.25 | Anthropic's paper criticized, Open-source Zig book released, Heretic removes censorship for language models

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:41:31 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 17, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
(01:31) - Open-source Zig book
(02:35) - Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
(03:49) - I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
(04:53) - Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
(05:57) - Dark Pattern Games
(07:01) - Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
(07:53) - The fate of "small" open source
(09:10) - I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
(10:13) - A file format uncracked for 20 years
(11:23) - Outro

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944296

Open-source Zig book
https://www.zigbook.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947810

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945587

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
https://jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45948058

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947770

Dark Pattern Games
https://www.darkpattern.games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947761

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949326

The fate of "small" open source
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947639

I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
https://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946865

A file format uncracked for 20 years
https://landaire.net/a-file-format-uncracked-for-20-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837259

11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure, AirPods liberated from Apple, TCP as internet workhorse

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 05:38:23 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
(01:34) - AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
(02:42) - TCP, the workhorse of the internet
(03:47) - Things that aren't doing the thing
(04:48) - Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations
(06:03) - When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
(07:14) - Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust
(08:19) - IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
(09:31) - Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
(10:35) - When did people favor composition over inheritance?
(11:42) - Outro

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936460

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941596

TCP, the workhorse of the internet
https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935503

Things that aren't doing the thing
https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939431

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939798

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941563

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832051

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941835

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937989

When did people favor composition over inheritance?
https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841095

11.15.25 | AI World Clocks, EU Chat Control's disguised return, new Google model excels in handwriting recognition

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:37:54 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 15, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - AI World Clocks
(01:14) - The disguised return of EU Chat Control
(02:12) - A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
(03:15) - 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
(04:23) - Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
(05:29) - Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
(06:42) - A race condition in Aurora RDS
(07:45) - All praise to the lunch ladies
(08:55) - HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
(10:03) - SSL Configuration Generator
(11:08) - Outro

AI World Clocks
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930151

The disguised return of EU Chat Control
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928492

Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924483

A race condition in Aurora RDS
https://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929921

All praise to the lunch ladies
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931403

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-09-hk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923188

SSL Configuration Generator
https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932798

11.14.25 | Nano Banana enables nuanced AI image prompts, Zed serves as our office, SlopStop detects AI slop in Kagi Search

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:40:35 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 14, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
(01:32) - Zed is our office
(02:39) - SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
(03:48) - Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
(04:58) - Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
(06:24) - Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
(07:24) - Blender Lab
(08:27) - SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
(09:40) - 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
(10:56) - Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
(11:58) - Outro

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875

Zed is our office
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920748

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525

Blender Lab
https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914761

SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916037

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920881

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921431

11.13.25 | Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Yt-dlp requires external JavaScript for YouTube support

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:42:07 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 13, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Steam Machine
(01:25) - Steam Frame
(02:31) - Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
(03:48) - Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
(04:57) - The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
(06:00) - Project Euler
(07:01) - GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
(08:10) - Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
(09:15) - Valve is about to win the console generation
(10:30) - Learn Prolog Now
(11:40) - Outro

Steam Machine
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404

Steam Frame
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407

Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908938

The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901904

Project Euler
https://projecteuler.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902898

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370

Valve is about to win the console generation
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908464

Learn Prolog Now
https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=top
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900978

11.12.25 | FFmpeg demands funding from Google, Laptops featuring stickers, X5.1 solar flare and G4 geomagnetic storm alert

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:41:39 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 12, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
(01:40) - Laptops with Stickers
(02:32) - X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
(03:39) - Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
(04:48) - The history of Casio watches
(05:55) - I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
(07:02) - Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
(08:11) - The terminal of the future
(09:17) - .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
(10:25) - A modern 35mm film scanner for home
(11:38) - Outro

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891016

Laptops with Stickers
https://stickertop.art/main/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789674

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/593/20251111-x5-1-solar-flare-g4-geomagnetic-storm-watch.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893004

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-focused-world-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271

The history of Casio watches
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860552

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
https://james.belchamber.com/articles/blood-pressure-monitor-reverse-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893095

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
https://pikaday.dbushell.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887957

The terminal of the future
https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892191

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
https://avaloniaui.net/blog/net-maui-is-coming-to-linux-and-the-browser-powered-by-avalonia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893986

A modern 35mm film scanner for home
https://www.soke.engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891907

11.11.25 | Unexpected people, Nostalgic 'Toy Story', De-Appling begins

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:40:55 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 11, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Unexpected things that are people
(01:24) - The 'Toy Story' You Remember
(02:21) - Time to start de-Appling
(03:29) - Unix v4 Tape Found
(04:34) - The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
(05:41) - Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
(06:40) - Writing your own BEAM
(07:46) - Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
(08:53) - Using Generative AI in Content Production
(10:02) - Outro

Unexpected things that are people
https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected-things-that-are-people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877257

The 'Toy Story' You Remember
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883788

Time to start de-Appling
https://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/time-to-start-de-appling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876598

Unix v4 Tape Found
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321

The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878578

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837

Writing your own BEAM
https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/09/writing-your-own-beam.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867828

Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880939

Using Generative AI in Content Production
https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/43393929218323-Using-Generative-AI-in-Content-Production
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879793

11.10.25 | Marble Fountain, Montana enshrines 'right to compute', Ask HN: November 2025 projects

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:41:20 -0500

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Marble Fountain
(01:23) - Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
(02:30) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
(03:25) - XSLT RIP
(04:23) - The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
(05:25) - Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
(06:22) - Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
(07:37) - Sued by Nintendo
(08:47) - The Principles of Diffusion Models
(09:47) - Email verification protocol
(10:45) - Outro

Marble Fountain
https://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866697

Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
https://montananewsroom.com/montana-becomes-first-state-to-enshrine-right-to-compute-into-law/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865289

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146

XSLT RIP
https://xslt.rip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866224

Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803601

Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/drilling-down-on-uncle-sams-proposed-tp-link-ban/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867717

Sued by Nintendo
https://www.suedbynintendo.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870675

The Principles of Diffusion Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866572

Email verification protocol
https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782192

11.9.25 | AI evaluation weaknesses, I Am Mark Zuckerberg, Marko HTML-based language

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:37:41 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 9, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
(01:29) - I Am Mark Zuckerberg
(02:22) - Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
(03:30) - Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
(04:43) - Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
(05:58) - Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
(06:54) - Avería: The Average Font (2011)
(07:56) - Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon
(08:50) - Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects
(09:57) - Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list
(11:03) - Outro

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/study-identifies-weaknesses-in-how-ai-systems-are-evaluated/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856804

I Am Mark Zuckerberg
https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863360

Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
https://markojs.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858905

Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
https://ironclad-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860843

Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859471

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
https://tabloid.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862470

Avería: The Average Font (2011)
http://iotic.com/averia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859243

Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon
https://open.space/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790672

Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects
http://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798068

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857836

11.8.25 | YouTube removes Windows 11 bypass tutorials, VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf wins European SFS Award 2025, Zig's appeal discussed

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:38:39 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
(01:34) - VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
(02:48) - Why is Zig so cool?
(04:01) - Why I love OCaml (2023)
(05:12) - James Watson has died
(06:08) - Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
(07:06) - Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
(08:15) - Becoming a Compiler Engineer
(09:25) - Ruby Solved My Problem
(10:25) - How did I get here?
(11:24) - Outro

YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850963

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850751

Why is Zig so cool?
https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852328

Why I love OCaml (2023)
https://mccd.space/posts/ocaml-the-worlds-best/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846517

James Watson has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/science/james-watson-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850069

Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849342

Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852854

Becoming a Compiler Engineer
https://rona.substack.com/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851495

Ruby Solved My Problem
https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/ruby-already-solved-my-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849528

How did I get here?
https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850382

11.7.25 | FBI investigates archive.is owner, Kimi K2 Thinking is a trillion-parameter model, write an agent

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:40:09 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
(01:34) - Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
(02:37) - You should write an agent
(03:45) - Two billion email addresses were exposed
(04:49) - Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
(05:50) - Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
(06:55) - Game design is simple
(07:53) - Leaving Meta and PyTorch
(08:59) - A Fond Farewell
(09:57) - Eating stinging nettles
(10:58) - Outro

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-FBI-Demands-Data-from-Provider-Tucows-11066346.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826

Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836070

You should write an agent
https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088

Two billion email addresses were exposed
https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839901

Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
https://book.sv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825733

Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824243

Game design is simple
https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841262

Leaving Meta and PyTorch
https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948

A Fond Farewell
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843146

Eating stinging nettles
https://rachel.blog/2018/04/29/eating-stinging-nettles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834254

11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:42:19 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Solarpunk is happening in Africa
(01:23) - End of Japanese community
(02:31) - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
(03:35) - I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
(04:41) - Ratatui – App Showcase
(05:50) - Why aren't smart people happier?
(07:06) - Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
(08:02) - NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
(09:05) - ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
(10:10) - Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
(11:13) - Outro

Solarpunk is happening in Africa
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190

End of Japanese community
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995

I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815419

Ratatui – App Showcase
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829

Why aren't smart people happier?
https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824864

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539

ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825965

Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783467

11.5.25 | Mr TIFF, Robert Morris's 1988 worm, Pg_lake integrates Postgres with Iceberg

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:41:18 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Mr TIFF
(01:31) - This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
(02:38) - Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
(03:53) - I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
(05:03) - Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
(06:12) - Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
(07:20) - Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
(08:36) - Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
(09:43) - Whole Earth Index
(10:52) - By the Power of Grayscale
(12:01) - Outro

Mr TIFF
https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816853

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hours
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812024

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812606

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816041

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817167

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813767

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968

Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319

Whole Earth Index
https://wholeearth.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734259

By the Power of Grayscale
https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151

11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:41:42 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - The Case Against PGVector
(01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era
(02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
(03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
(04:45) - WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel
(05:52) - Things you can do with diodes
(06:43) - First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
(07:53) - State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
(09:09) - You can't cURL a Border
(10:16) - When stick figures fought
(11:12) - Outro

The Case Against PGVector
https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479

AI's Dial-Up Era
https://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-era
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777

A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816

WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel
https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074

Things you can do with diodes
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805900

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbacks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799478

You can't cURL a Border
https://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806263

When stick figures fought
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806348

11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state containers, djb's notes on Fil-C

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:41:35 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Facts about throwing good parties
(01:26) - URLs are state containers
(02:29) - Notes by djb on using Fil-C
(03:38) - Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
(04:47) - Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
(05:59) - Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
(07:06) - Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
(08:10) - Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
(09:24) - Why don't you use dependent types?
(10:37) - X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland
(11:44) - Outro

Facts about throwing good parties
https://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794032

URLs are state containers
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789474

Notes by djb on using Fil-C
https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788040

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787993

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789424

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
https://tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789602

Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/paris-had-a-moving-sidewalk-in-1900.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466

Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
https://nickvsnetworking.com/simple-trick-to-increase-coverage-lying-to-users-about-signal-strength/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795036

Why don't you use dependent types?
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790827

X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790015

11.2.25 | ArXiv CS review article updates, Visopsys OS by single developer since 1997, Show HN on LLM coding experiment

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:37:12 -0500

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
(01:32) - Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
(02:42) - Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
(04:05) - Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
(05:21) - GHC now runs in the browser
(06:24) - SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
(07:39) - SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
(08:54) - How I use every Claude Code feature
(10:01) - The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
(11:00) - Pomelli
(12:11) - Outro

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782136

Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
https://visopsys.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785858

Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
https://github.com/samrolken/nokode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783640

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
https://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784179

GHC now runs in the browser
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782981

SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
https://jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781298

SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
https://sailfishos.org/info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785840

How I use every Claude Code feature
https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786738

The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762160

Pomelli
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786324

11.1.25 | Strange Attractors, subtle risk in async Rust, Pixels vulnerable to Cellebrite hacking

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:38:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: Strange Attractors
(01:23) - Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
(02:29) - Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
(03:44) - Addiction Markets
(05:05) - AI scrapers request commented scripts
(06:22) - Introducing architecture variants
(07:38) - Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
(08:41) - Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
(09:53) - My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
(11:04) - Nix Derivation Madness
(12:10) - Outro

Show HN: Strange Attractors
https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777810

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774086

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766501

Addiction Markets
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/addiction-markets-abolish-corporate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774640

AI scrapers request commented scripts
https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773347

Introducing architecture variants
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758392

Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-hack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741569

Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10/24/rethinking-data-discovery-for-libraries-and-digital-humanities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774571

My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-10-31-macbook-pro-m4-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770304

Nix Derivation Madness
https://fzakaria.com/2025/10/29/nix-derivation-madness
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772347

10.31.25 | Affinity Studio free, free software scares, 987654321 / 123456789

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:39:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Affinity Studio now free
(01:26) - Free software scares normal people
(02:39) - 987654321 / 123456789
(04:09) - How the cochlea computes (2024)
(05:24) - Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
(06:37) - NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
(07:50) - Springs and bounces in native CSS
(08:55) - Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
(09:58) - Outro

Affinity Studio now free
https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761445

Free software scares normal people
https://danieldelaney.net/normal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878

987654321 / 123456789
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/26/987654321/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712620

How the cochlea computes (2024)
https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762259

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
https://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765664

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/npm-flooded-with-malicious-packages-downloaded-more-than-86000-times/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755027

Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
https://0github.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760321

Springs and bounces in native CSS
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/linear-timing-function/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736461

Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
https://github.com/itsfrank/MinecraftHDL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763877

10.30.25 | Uv enhances Python ecosystem, Azure experiences outage, Minecraft drops Java obfuscation

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:40:11 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
(01:28) - Tell HN: Azure outage
(02:36) - Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
(03:50) - China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
(05:07) - Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
(06:18) - Dithering – Part 1
(07:20) - Tailscale Peer Relays
(08:30) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
(09:28) - Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
(10:33) - GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
(11:46) - Outro

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
https://emily.space/posts/251023-uv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751400

Tell HN: Azure outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748879

China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-forest-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732800

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747018

Dithering – Part 1
https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750954

Tailscale Peer Relays
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749017

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749161

Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671677

GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/9/11/bvaf141/8277723?login=false
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45728525

10.29.25 | Sideloading discussions, AI reduces hospital bill, Android openness

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:42:04 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 29, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
(01:26) - Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
(02:43) - Keep Android Open
(03:48) - EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
(05:02) - The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
(06:10) - ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
(07:24) - Boring is what we wanted
(08:36) - Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
(09:46) - We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
(10:54) - Generative AI Image Editing Showdown
(12:02) - Outro

What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736479

Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
https://www.threads.com/@nthmonkey/post/DQVdAD1gHhw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582

Keep Android Open
http://keepandroidopen.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488

EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
https://eurollm.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733707

The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-airpods-pro-3-flight-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733329

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702397

Boring is what we wanted
https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738247

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
https://seated.ro/blog/tinkering-a-lost-art
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739499

We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731321

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown
https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739080

10.28.25 | YouTuber sued for lock shimming, PSF withdraws $1.5M grant proposal, Claude for Excel

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:41:32 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
(01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
(02:50) - Claude for Excel
(04:02) - JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
(05:07) - Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
(06:19) - Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
(07:32) - Easy RISC-V
(08:40) - OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
(09:54) - Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
(11:09) - Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
(12:26) - Outro

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720376

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904

Claude for Excel
https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
https://jetkvm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723159

Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721801

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701901

Easy RISC-V
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726192

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727060

Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723359

Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725009

10.27.25 | Git server availability, PyTorch bug insights, Asbestosis discussion

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:40:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - You already have a Git server
(01:25) - A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
(02:42) - Asbestosis
(03:48) - A definition of AGI
(05:02) - How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
(06:15) - Poison, Poison Everywhere
(07:15) - Feed the bots
(08:19) - We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3"
(09:33) - Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites
(10:44) - Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)
(11:46) - Outro

You already have a Git server
https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710721

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684253

Asbestosis
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710065

A definition of AGI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713959

How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716109

Poison, Poison Everywhere
https://loeber.substack.com/p/29-poison-poison-everywhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715726

Feed the bots
https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711094

We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3"
https://engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-by-rolling-our-own-s3-6caec1ee1143
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715204

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650167

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)
https://github.com/dvir-biton/MyraOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715055

10.26.25 | Worker falls into nuclear reactor pool, California invests in battery energy storage, Linux boot process explained

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:38:03 -0400

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
(01:19) - California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
(02:25) - The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
(03:32) - Pico-Banana-400k
(04:35) - The Journey Before main()
(05:42) - Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
(06:42) - Rock Tumbler Instructions
(07:46) - Why I code as a CTO
(08:56) - D2: Diagram Scripting Language
(09:52) - Outro

A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZL1FfGE7TYHVw#en57996:~:text=TRANSPORT%20OF%20CONTAMINATED%20PERSON%20OFFSITE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-without-a-flex-alert
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706527

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707658

Pico-Banana-400k
https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708524

The Journey Before main()
https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706380

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706792

Rock Tumbler Instructions
https://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45705125

Why I code as a CTO
https://www.assembled.com/blog/why-i-code-as-a-cto
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695979

D2: Diagram Scripting Language
https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707539

10.25.25 | Swift SDK for Android, shape can't pass through itself, Twake Drive as Google Drive alternative

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:38:04 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - The Swift SDK for Android
(01:30) - First shape found that can't pass through itself
(02:36) - Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
(03:31) - Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways
(04:38) - Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
(06:04) - Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
(07:13) - I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
(08:18) - Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models
(09:23) - Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors
(10:32) - Code Like a Surgeon
(11:42) - Outro

The Swift SDK for Android
https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698570

First shape found that can't pass through itself
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694856

Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
https://github.com/linagora/twake-drive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45692984

Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways
https://www.saxrag.com/tech/reversing/2025/06/01/BAWiFi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695134

Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-national-montessori-early-outcomes-sharply.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674002

Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
https://valetudo.cloud/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642571

I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-invited-strangers-to-message-me-through-a-receipt-printer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633877

Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models
https://mesh2motion.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693325

Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors
https://rkirov.github.io/posts/why_lean/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632894

Code Like a Surgeon
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695621

10.24.25 | Trump pardons Binance founder, Claude Memory, /dev/null is ACID compliant

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:40:15 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
(01:21) - Claude Memory
(02:33) - /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
(03:34) - PyTorch Monarch
(04:36) - Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
(05:46) - Roc Camera
(06:51) - I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
(08:13) - FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
(09:13) - Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
(10:21) - Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
(11:36) - Outro

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683152

Claude Memory
https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458

PyTorch Monarch
https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680237

Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688006

Roc Camera
https://roc.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690251

I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681200

FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687227

Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613327

Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
https://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690045

10.23.25 | Google marks Immich sites dangerous, Useful scripts I frequently use, FIA bugs expose Max Verstappen's passport and PII

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:40:08 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
(01:33) - Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
(02:31) - Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
(03:39) - Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
(04:58) - JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
(06:16) - I see a future in jj
(07:22) - VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
(08:22) - Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
(09:28) - Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
(10:41) - Rivian's TM-B electric bike
(11:58) - Outro

Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675015

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670052

Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
https://ian.sh/fia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673130

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670443

JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
https://stalw.art/blog/jmap-collaboration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672336

I see a future in jj
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672280

VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-8-0-sdk-released/1011988
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678549

Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
https://github.com/character-ai/Ovi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674166

Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1980397031542989305
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658928

Rivian's TM-B electric bike
https://www.theverge.com/news/804157/rivian-tm-b-electric-bike-price-specs-helmet-quad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672844

10.22.25 | ChatGPT Atlas, Cutting Heroku costs from $3000 to $55, Creating a custom database

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:40:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - ChatGPT Atlas
(01:16) - Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
(02:16) - Build your own database
(03:21) - KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
(04:28) - LLMs can get "brain rot"
(05:43) - Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
(06:52) - Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
(08:06) - NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
(09:18) - Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
(10:23) - Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
(11:34) - Outro

ChatGPT Atlas
https://chatgpt.com/atlas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658479

Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253

Build your own database
https://www.nan.fyi/database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657827

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557599

LLMs can get "brain rot"
https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656223

Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655161

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657287

NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-landing-contract-sean-duffy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655188

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657345

Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
https://www.dagens.com/technology/greenland-ditches-starlink-for-french-satellite-service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665796

10.21.25 | Amazon's AWS struggles, Claude Code online, laser pointer at 2B FPS

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:39:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
(01:30) - Claude Code on the web
(02:36) - A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
(03:34) - Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
(04:50) - Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
(06:03) - BERT is just a single text diffusion step
(07:15) - ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
(08:33) - How to stop Linux threads cleanly
(09:33) - My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
(10:40) - x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger
(11:51) - Outro

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178

Claude Code on the web
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647166

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632429

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643163

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645349

BERT is just a single text diffusion step
https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644328

ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582958

How to stop Linux threads cleanly
https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589156

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
https://verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get-consistent-classification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571423

x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger
https://x64.halb.it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646958

10.20.25 | AWS outage, Andrej's success advice, Space Elevator

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:40:08 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Major AWS Outage Happening
(01:15) - Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
(02:23) - Space Elevator
(03:28) - Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
(04:33) - Airliner hit by possible space debris
(05:32) - Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
(06:38) - DeepSeek OCR
(07:43) - AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
(08:47) - Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
(09:54) - Compare Single Board Computers
(10:52) - Outro

Major AWS Outage Happening
https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640772

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635533

Space Elevator
https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637744

Airliner hit by possible space debris
https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636285

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
https://zenodo.org/records/14179366
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639995

DeepSeek OCR
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640594

AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45577181

Compare Single Board Computers
https://sbc.compare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636365

10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root System Drawings

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:37:00 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
(01:34) - ./watch
(02:35) - Root System Drawings
(03:34) - Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
(04:45) - Tinnitus Neuromodulator
(05:46) - When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
(06:56) - Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
(08:07) - Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
(09:10) - K8s with 1M nodes
(10:16) - How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
(11:19) - Outro

IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626910

./watch
https://dotslashwatch.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626130

Root System Drawings
https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627394

Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/tragic-oceangate-titan-submersibles-usd62-sandisk-memory-card-found-undamaged-at-wreckage-site-12-stills-and-nine-videos-have-been-recovered-but-none-from-the-fateful-implosion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613898

Tinnitus Neuromodulator
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628391

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251014-00/?p=111681
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609986

Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/18/WS68f3170ea310f735438b5bf2.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45625229

Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627692

K8s with 1M nodes
https://bchess.github.io/k8s-1m/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611252

How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
https://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/how-to-sequence-your-dna-for-2k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629970

10.18.25 | Karpathy on agents' decade-long challenges, 50 Cent's inflation-adjusted impact, Claude's impressive skills surpassing MCP

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:37:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
(01:29) - The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
(02:20) - Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
(03:40) - Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
(04:47) - Live Stream from the Namib Desert
(05:45) - 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
(06:54) - EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
(08:11) - New Work by Gary Larson
(09:06) - Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
(10:21) - Outro

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619329

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618790

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619537

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614713

Live Stream from the Namib Desert
https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615931

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614148

EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
https://restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615237

New Work by Gary Larson
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622365

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593358

10.17.25 | Bypassing Amazon's Kindle web DRM, Claude Skills, Gemini 3.0 A/B testing discovery

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:39:24 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
(01:27) - Claude Skills
(02:40) - Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
(03:51) - Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
(05:04) - Elixir 1.19
(06:08) - Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
(07:23) - Your data model is your destiny
(08:35) - Meow.camera
(09:35) - DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
(10:35) - Codex Is Live in Zed
(11:38) - Outro

How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226

Claude Skills
https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607117

Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
https://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607758

Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
https://hyperflask.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604673

Elixir 1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602428

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563576

Your data model is your destiny
https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583786

Meow.camera
https://meow.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047

DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45605501

Codex Is Live in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606698

10.16.25 | Apple M5 chip, Claude Haiku 4.5, Zed available on Windows

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:40:05 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Apple M5 chip
(01:32) - Claude Haiku 4.5
(02:37) - Zed is now available on Windows
(03:45) - Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
(04:47) - Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
(06:08) - Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
(07:10) - TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
(08:27) - Are hard drives getting better?
(09:29) - Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
(10:34) - F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
(11:50) - Outro

Apple M5 chip
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591799

Claude Haiku 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595403

Zed is now available on Windows
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594920

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590756

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602179

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
https://github.com/squidowl/halloy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590949

TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601750

Are hard drives getting better?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595724

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599727

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592271

10.15.25 | FSF's Librephone project, Discrepancies in American death reporting, Misconceptions about AI vs. regular software

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:40:39 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - FSF announces Librephone project
(01:31) - What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
(02:43) - Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
(03:55) - A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
(05:05) - Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
(06:14) - How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
(07:21) - Why Is SQLite Coded In C
(08:30) - Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
(09:44) - How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
(10:59) - SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
(12:00) - Outro

FSF announces Librephone project
https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583336

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
https://boydkane.com/essays/boss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583180

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498887

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584281

How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

Why Is SQLite Coded In C
https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584464

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580699

How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581735

SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
https://smolbsd.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758

10.14.25 | NanoChat offers affordable ChatGPT, innovation stifled by lack of science, Dutch government seizes Nexperia

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:39:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 14, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
(01:25) - No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
(02:35) - Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
(03:53) - Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
(04:57) - Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users
(05:58) - Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
(07:13) - Smartphones and being present
(08:19) - New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
(09:26) - JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
(10:32) - Outro

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569350

No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
https://steveblank.com/2025/10/13/no-science-no-startups-the-unseen-engine-were-switching-off/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567877

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566644

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568700

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users
https://sqliteonline.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567770

Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575391

Smartphones and being present
https://herman.bearblog.dev/being-present/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568613

New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575755

JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
https://github.com/rictic/jsonriver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45518033

10.13.25 | Wireguard on FPGA, Free software's ongoing struggle, HN inquiry on current projects

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:40:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Wireguard FPGA
(01:22) - Free software hasn't won
(02:41) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
(03:43) - Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
(04:45) - Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
(05:39) - Show HN: Baby's first international landline
(06:44) - Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
(07:53) - Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience
(08:58) - A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
(10:06) - John Searle has died
(11:07) - Outro

Wireguard FPGA
https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559857

Free software hasn't won
https://dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562286

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428

Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
https://ambisounds.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558611

Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
https://xenodium.com/introducing-agent-shell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561672

Show HN: Baby's first international landline
https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-international-landline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515978

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formally-verified-code-can-go-wrong-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555727

Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487232

A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559767

John Searle has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563627

10.12.25 | Microsoft limits AI photo scanning opt-out, GNU Health, coding agents in October 2025

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:36:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
(01:27) - GNU Health
(02:31) - Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
(03:40) - Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper
(04:56) - Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
(06:04) - Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
(07:15) - LineageOS 23
(08:15) - The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
(09:26) - Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
(10:36) - Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
(11:49) - Outro

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551504

GNU Health
https://www.gnuhealth.org/about-us.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550049

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547344

Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper
https://paddedinputs.substack.com/p/meta-superintelligences-surprising
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553577

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549434

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547359

LineageOS 23
https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553835

The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/twin-towers-construction-photographs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498055

Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/06/datablocks-white-label-drives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45489497

Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553764

10.11.25 | Ryanair flight had six minutes of fuel, new generative model accepted to ICLR, physical album cards with NFC for music discovery

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:36:56 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
(01:25) - Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
(02:34) - I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
(03:47) - Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
(05:03) - Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
(06:08) - Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
(07:21) - (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
(08:25) - HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
(09:31) - OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
(10:41) - Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
(12:01) - Outro

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539943

Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536694

I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
https://fulghum.io/album-cards
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543475

Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
https://data-star.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536618

Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
https://blog.tangled.org/intro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543899

Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
https://orb.net/blog/does-speed-make-wifi-suck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542444

(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544228

HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547566

OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
https://www.supergoodcode.com/mesh-shaders-in-the-current-year/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537890

Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
https://alew.is/lava.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535183

10.10.25 | LLM poisoning by few samples, Python 3.14 performance, first Linux contribution

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:39:10 -0400

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
(01:43) - Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
(02:44) - My first contribution to Linux
(03:42) - Show HN: I built a web framework in C
(04:48) - Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
(05:57) - Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
(06:52) - Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
(07:54) - LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
(09:09) - Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
(10:17) - A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
(11:25) - Outro

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529587

Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524702

My first contribution to Linux
https://vkoskiv.com/first-linux-patch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490652

Show HN: I built a web framework in C
https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45526890

Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527402

Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
https://github.com/mafik/keyer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529393

Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
https://www.subwaybuilder.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530744

LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1976077806443569355
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530486

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/summary/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536700

A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-neurons-brainstem-may-hold-key-treating-chronic-pain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532685

10.9.25 | Go ARM64 compiler bug, Reddit moderator cripples bootcamp, EU 'Chat Control' bill campaign

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:40:29 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
(01:23) - A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
(02:43) - One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
(03:53) - SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
(05:05) - Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
(06:17) - California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
(07:19) - After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
(08:32) - A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
(09:32) - OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
(10:46) - Kurt Got Got
(11:52) - Outro

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516000

A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920

One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514433

SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/sec-approves-texas-stock-exchange-txse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474301

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521738

California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523033

After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
https://www.readonlymemo.com/mame-hyper-neo-geo-support-sound-emulation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516968

A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519575

OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-nvidia-amd-deals-boost-1-trillion-ai-boom-with-circular-deals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521629

Kurt Got Got
https://fly.io/blog/kurt-got-got/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520615

10.8.25 | Qualcomm acquires Arduino, German government opposes Chat Control, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:39:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 8, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
(01:22) - German government comes out against Chat Control
(02:24) - Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
(03:42) - Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
(04:52) - Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
(05:50) - Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
(07:06) - IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
(08:12) - An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
(09:19) - Vibe engineering
(10:41) - Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
(11:44) - Outro

Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502541

German government comes out against Chat Control
https://xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/status/1975595307800142205
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506143

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507936

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
https://timelinize.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504973

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-bill-would-strip-internet-access-from-specified-persons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502216

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501189

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504470

An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-introduction-to-linear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490713

Vibe engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503867

Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492489

10.7.25 | Ladybird surpasses Apple 90% in web-platform-tests, VPN ownership explained for Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark, minimal CSS for attractive sites

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:38:52 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 7, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
(01:29) - Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
(02:42) - The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
(03:46) - Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
(04:55) - Apps SDK
(06:04) - Indefinite Backpack Travel
(07:05) - OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
(08:05) - Mise: Monorepo Tasks
(09:09) - Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
(10:15) - Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
(11:17) - Outro

Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493358

Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469376

The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
https://thecascade.dev/article/least-amount-of-css/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497624

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497384

Apps SDK
https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45494558

Indefinite Backpack Travel
https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452472

OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492803

Mise: Monorepo Tasks
https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491621

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
https://animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crunchyroll-subtitles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458973

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
https://physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449015

10.6.25 | Fire destroys S. Korean cloud storage, LLMs react to seahorse emoji, 1 trillion web pages archived

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:39:38 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
(01:34) - Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
(02:44) - 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
(03:48) - What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
(04:56) - Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
(06:11) - The QNX Operating System
(07:22) - Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
(08:31) - Structured Procrastination
(09:43) - Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
(10:54) - Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
(12:00) - Outro

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487044

1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
https://blog.archive.org/trillion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487476

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
https://fi-le.net/oss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483924

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806

The QNX Operating System
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481892

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480317

Structured Procrastination
https://structuredprocrastination.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488261

Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
https://www.srb2.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447226

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448747

10.5.25 | ProofOfThought uses Z3 for LLM reasoning, Paged Out Issue #7 released, comparison of Ada and Rust in Advent of Code

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:36:49 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
(01:29) - Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
(02:29) - A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
(03:34) - Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
(04:58) - Social Cooling (2017)
(06:07) - Blog Feeds
(07:02) - NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
(08:29) - What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
(09:41) - Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
(10:48) - Outro

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
https://github.com/DebarghaG/proofofthought
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475529

Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_007.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472319

A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473861

Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427972

Social Cooling (2017)
https://www.socialcooling.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479165

Blog Feeds
https://blogfeeds.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475808

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477206

What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435606

Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
https://github.com/newton-physics/newton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440071

10.4.25 | Fluid Glass, Offline card payments by July 2026, Open Printer with DRM-free ink

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:36:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Fluid Glass
(01:16) - Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
(02:28) - Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
(03:44) - Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
(04:58) - PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
(06:02) - Zig builds are getting faster
(07:07) - Where it's at://
(08:11) - I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
(09:08) - Cancellations in async Rust
(10:17) - Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
(11:29) - Outro

Fluid Glass
https://chiuhans111.github.io/fluidglass/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422147

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467500

Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423404

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447536

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466086

Zig builds are getting faster
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468698

Where it's at://
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455164

I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463319

Cancellations in async Rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464632

Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464429

10.3.25 | Signal Protocol's post-quantum ratchets, OpenAI's H1 2025 income and loss, AI-assisted tools reveal curl issues

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:38:17 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
(01:27) - OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
(02:48) - Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
(03:59) - Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
(05:00) - Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
(06:11) - The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
(07:19) - Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
(08:22) - I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
(09:34) - Why I chose Lua for this blog
(10:36) - FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
(11:35) - Outro

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
https://signal.org/blog/spqr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451527

OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453586

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
https://github.com/paaatrick/playball
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577

Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
https://entropicthoughts.com/why-stick-to-emacs-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453222

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455882

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458948

I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-spent-the-day-trying-to-teach-seniors-how-to-use-an-iphone-and-it-was-a-nightmare.2468117/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457670

Why I chose Lua for this blog
https://andregarzia.com/2025/03/why-i-choose-lua-for-this-blog.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452261

FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458122

10.2.25 | Jane Goodall has died, Autism Simulator showcased, workplace politics addressed

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:37:59 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Jane Goodall has died
(01:17) - Show HN: Autism Simulator
(02:25) - Don't avoid workplace politics
(03:41) - Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
(04:49) - Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
(06:02) - Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
(07:14) - OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
(08:23) - Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
(09:40) - Cormac McCarthy's personal library
(10:44) - Outro

Jane Goodall has died
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441069

Show HN: Autism Simulator
https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438346

Don't avoid workplace politics
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440571

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438496

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437893

OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
https://www.opentslm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440431

Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435422

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759

Cormac McCarthy's personal library
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444694

10.1.25 | Sora 2, Inflammation predicts heart disease over cholesterol, Imgur exits UK amid data fine threat

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:40:01 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Sora 2
(01:25) - Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
(02:43) - Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
(03:55) - Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
(05:11) - Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
(06:19) - CDC File Transfer
(07:17) - Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
(08:34) - Designing agentic loops
(09:48) - Diff Algorithms
(10:45) - An opinionated critique of Duolingo
(12:01) - Outro

Sora 2
https://openai.com/index/sora-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430498

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427197

Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428482

CDC File Transfer
https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433768

Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/business/charlie-javice-frank-sentenced-jpmorgan-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424827

Designing agentic loops
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loops/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426680

Diff Algorithms
https://flo.znkr.io/diff/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430604

An opinionated critique of Duolingo
https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025/duolingo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425061

9.30.25 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 released, Claude Code 2.0 launched, Loadmo.re offers unconventional web design inspiration

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:39:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Claude Sonnet 4.5
(01:27) - Claude Code 2.0
(02:27) - Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
(03:22) - Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
(04:28) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
(05:33) - Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII
(06:43) - Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
(07:54) - iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
(09:05) - How to create an OS from scratch
(10:10) - Safe zero-copy operations in C#
(11:08) - Outro

Claude Sonnet 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415962

Claude Code 2.0
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416228

Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
https://loadmo.re
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415207

Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416080

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418675

Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII
https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382300

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/vertical-solar-panels-are-out-standing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414215

iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/irobot-founder-dont-believe-the-ai-robotics-hype/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418261

How to create an OS from scratch
https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420173

Safe zero-copy operations in C#
https://ssg.dev/safe-zero-copy-operations-in-c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420001

9.29.25 | Privacy Badger blocks spying, F-Droid and Google’s registration decree, play snake in URL

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:40:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
(01:25) - F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
(02:39) - Play snake in the URL address bar
(03:37) - The AI coding trap
(04:49) - When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
(05:57) - Farewell friends
(06:58) - Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
(08:13) - Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads
(09:13) - Zlib visualizer
(10:12) - Outro

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
https://privacybadger.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404021

F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794

Play snake in the URL address bar
https://demian.ferrei.ro/snake/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408021

The AI coding trap
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09/28/the-ai-coding-trap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405177

When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-09-28-alphabetic-order/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404022

Farewell friends
https://humbledollar.com/forum/farewell-friends/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408229

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-server-motherboards-can-be-infected-with-unremovable-malware/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363465

Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads
https://toolbrew.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404667

Zlib visualizer
https://lynn.github.io/flateview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373784

9.28.25 | WebGL game delivering messages, Greenland's beauty and challenges, SSH3 enhances secure shell with HTTP/3

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:36:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
(01:21) - Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
(02:34) - SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
(03:51) - Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
(05:00) - A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
(06:15) - I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
(07:20) - Learn to play Go
(08:17) - Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
(09:14) - Python developers are embracing type hints
(10:24) - High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
(11:33) - Outro

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
https://messenger.abeto.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396441

Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
https://matduggan.com/greenland-is-a-beautiful-nightmare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396754

SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395991

Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02851-w
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370798

A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
https://www.koi.security/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395957

I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
https://www.theroom.lol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398005

Learn to play Go
https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400376

Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
https://handy.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399106

Python developers are embracing type hints
https://pyrefly.org/blog/why-typed-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358841

High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
https://www.epirusinc.com/press-releases/epirus-leonidas-high-power-microwave-defeats-49-drone-swarm-100-of-drones-flown-at-live-fire-demonstration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399863

9.27.25 | Open Social, Britain’s compulsory digital ID for workers, SimpleFold simplifies protein folding

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:37:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Open Social
(01:29) - Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
(02:40) - SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
(03:48) - US cities pay too much for buses
(05:11) - Traefik's 10-year anniversary
(06:21) - Why use mailing lists?
(07:29) - CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
(08:48) - Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed
(09:57) - If you are harassed by lasers
(11:03) - Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
(12:06) - Outro

Open Social
https://overreacted.io/open-social/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388021

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-introduce-mandatory-digital-id-cards-2025-09-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45381810

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389267

US cities pay too much for buses
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386578

Traefik's 10-year anniversary
https://traefik.io/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-traefik
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357732

Why use mailing lists?
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/q6A_anL1u-Y9iXe-vboiOYamsl0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45390121

CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-hidden-risks-in-the-battery-supply-chain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364932

Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed
https://moondream.ai/blog/moondream-3-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45391444

If you are harassed by lasers
https://www.laserpointersafety.com/harassment.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389965

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393842

9.26.25 | Cloudflare Email Service in private beta, ChatGPT Pulse, improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:39:03 -0400

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
(01:26) - ChatGPT Pulse
(02:32) - Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
(03:45) - Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
(04:58) - Ollama Web Search
(05:58) - Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
(07:19) - Resurrect the Old Web
(08:31) - Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
(09:43) - Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
(10:47) - RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS
(12:12) - Outro

Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373081

ChatGPT Pulse
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375477

Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/continuing-to-bring-you-our-latest-models-with-an-improved-gemini-2-5-flash-and-flash-lite-release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375845

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-replacing-radiologists
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372335

Ollama Web Search
https://ollama.com/blog/web-search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377641

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605

Resurrect the Old Web
https://stevedylandev.bearblog.dev/resurrect-the-old-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372113

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382434

Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380699

RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS
https://doc.redox-os.org/book/redoxfs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379325

9.25.25 | Yt-dlp's new YouTube download requirements, Google Search's issues illustrated, Terence Tao on small organizations' diminished societal role

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:39:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
(01:29) - Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
(02:44) - Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
(04:09) - Huntington's disease treated for first time
(05:16) - Quicksort explained IKEA-style
(06:23) - Helium Browser
(07:38) - How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
(08:46) - Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
(09:53) - How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
(11:08) - How to be a leader when the vibes are off
(12:27) - Outro

Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366566

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697

Huntington's disease treated for first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358940

Quicksort explained IKEA-style
https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321849

Helium Browser
https://helium.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359604

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362023

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358280

How to be a leader when the vibes are off
https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361394

9.24.25 | Always Invite Anna, Find SF parking cops, Libghostty is coming

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:39:17 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Always Invite Anna
(01:23) - Find SF parking cops
(02:22) - Libghostty is coming
(03:33) - Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
(04:40) - Markov chains are the original language models
(05:54) - Getting AI to work in complex codebases
(06:56) - Qwen3-VL
(08:00) - Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
(09:20) - From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
(10:37) - Top Programming Languages 2025
(11:49) - Outro

Always Invite Anna
https://sharif.io/anna-alexei
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348495

Find SF parking cops
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45350690

Libghostty is coming
https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347117

Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
https://larian.com/support/faqs/steam-deck-native-version_121
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354644

Markov chains are the original language models
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304980

Getting AI to work in complex codebases
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347532

Qwen3-VL
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancements-list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352672

Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
https://ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-tried-htmx-then-ditched-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345950

From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
https://questdb.com/blog/rust-fetch-max-compiler-journey/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352944

Top Programming Languages 2025
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354314

9.23.25 | Cap'n Web: new RPC system, Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran', Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:39:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
(01:36) - Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
(02:46) - Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
(03:53) - OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
(05:12) - Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
(06:27) - Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
(07:30) - I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
(08:50) - Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
(09:55) - The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
(11:01) - Fall Foliage Map 2025
(11:53) - Outro

Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332883

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
https://gist.github.com/avestura/ce2aa6e55dad783b1aba946161d5fef4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45343108

Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336989

OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335474

Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/why-local-first-apps-havent-become
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333021

Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
http://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342364

I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
https://simonhartcher.com/posts/2025-09-22-why-im-spoiled-by-apple-silicon-but-still-love-framework/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332859

Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
https://blog.jgc.org/2025/09/is-movie-prop-ultimate-laptop-bag.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332196

The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323027

Fall Foliage Map 2025
https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341324

9.22.25 | Sj.h is a small JSON library, beginner developer reads tutorial, Microsoft debugging list

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:40:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
(01:24) - How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
(02:29) - DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
(03:39) - Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
(04:44) - Download responsibly
(05:50) - You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
(07:02) - 40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language
(08:13) - Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
(09:30) - DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)
(10:50) - Outro

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324349

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328247

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323207

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322135

Download responsibly
https://blog.geofabrik.de/index.php/2025/09/10/download-responsibly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45329414

You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-motallebighomi.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45329127

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-earliest-written-language.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286622

Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45327417

DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/traditional-dsm-disorders-dissolve?r=2wyot6&triedRedirect=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328537

9.21.25 | Ultrasonic Chef's Knife, $2 WeAct Display FS with 0.96-inch USB display, Scream cipher

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:36:55 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
(01:27) - $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
(02:39) - Scream cipher
(03:50) - FLX1s phone is launched
(05:01) - Designing NotebookLM
(06:11) - MapSCII – World map in terminal
(07:13) - Images over DNS
(08:28) - Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
(09:39) - PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?
(10:45) - iFixit iPhone Air teardown
(11:59) - Outro

Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
https://seattleultrasonics.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45314592

$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317527

Scream cipher
https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287474

FLX1s phone is launched
https://furilabs.com/flx1s-is-launched/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312326

Designing NotebookLM
https://jasonspielman.com/notebooklm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45315312

MapSCII – World map in terminal
https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293012

Images over DNS
https://dgl.cx/2025/09/images-over-dns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312515

Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
https://www.chargerlab.com/teardown-of-apple-40w-dynamic-power-adapter-with-60w-max-a3365/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289150

PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310995

iFixit iPhone Air teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319690

9.20.25 | Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee, Ants lay eggs hatching into another species, Obsidian minimizes supply chain attack risks

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:36:59 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
(01:42) - Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
(03:06) - Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
(04:17) - The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
(05:34) - Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
(06:52) - Show the Physics
(08:07) - Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory
(09:14) - Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support
(10:28) - If all the world were a monorepo
(11:38) - Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed
(12:46) - Outro

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300865

Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45307242

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300810

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-ends-in-settlement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255785

Show the Physics
https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/showthephysics/Introduction/About.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265760

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory
https://weuseelixir.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306120

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250918222607.186488-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302721

If all the world were a monorepo
https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259623

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed
https://feedmaker.fly.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306701

9.19.25 | Nvidia acquires $5B Intel stake, KDE becomes favorite desktop, tips to annoy IT department

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:38:41 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
(01:34) - KDE is now my favorite desktop
(02:44) - Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
(03:56) - Apple: SSH and FileVault
(05:01) - Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
(06:06) - Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
(07:18) - This map is not upside down
(08:32) - The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
(09:45) - Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
(10:47) - TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
(11:59) - Outro

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidia-and-intel-announce-jointly-developed-intel-x86-rtx-socs-for-pcs-with-nvidia-graphics-also-custom-nvidia-data-center-x86-processors-nvidia-buys-usd5-billion-in-intel-stock-in-seismic-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288161

KDE is now my favorite desktop
https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288690

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
https://phishyurl.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898

Apple: SSH and FileVault
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294440

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290021

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
https://research.google/blog/learn-your-way-reimagining-textbooks-with-generative-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292648

This map is not upside down
https://www.maps.com/this-map-is-not-upside-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292694

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/is-the-sagrada-familia-a-masterpiece-or-kitsch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256575

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
https://kasiin.top/blog/2025-08-04-flipper_zero_geiger_counter_module/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289453

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290245

9.18.25 | Slack raises charges by $195k, Apple Photos corrupts images, WASM 3.0 completed

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:38:28 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
(01:39) - Apple Photos app corrupts images
(02:58) - WASM 3.0 Completed
(04:02) - Meta Ray-Ban Display
(05:02) - U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
(06:22) - YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
(07:35) - Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
(08:53) - A postmortem of three recent issues
(10:05) - Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
(11:11) - One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
(12:23) - Outro

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

Apple Photos app corrupts images
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277

WASM 3.0 Completed
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279384

Meta Ray-Ban Display
https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278279

A postmortem of three recent issues
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281139

Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282497

9.17.25 | UN finds Israel guilty of Gaza genocide, Shai-Hulud malware compromises Tinycolor and 40+ NPM packages, Software Defined Radio uses for 2024

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:38:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
(01:38) - Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
(02:51) - Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
(03:52) - Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
(05:12) - Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
(06:21) - About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
(07:41) - GNU Midnight Commander
(08:35) - How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
(09:49) - Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
(10:56) - I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
(11:54) - Outro

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259553

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-crowdstrike-npm-packages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260741

Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262835

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/denmark-close-wiping-out-leading-cancer-causing-hpv-strains-after-vaccine-roll-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265745

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
https://waymo.com/blog/#short-all-systems-go-at-sfo-waymo-has-received-our-pilot-permit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45264562

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
https://support.apple.com/en-us/125142
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270108

GNU Midnight Commander
https://midnight-commander.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271481

How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
https://noctua.at/en/how-to-make-the-framework-desktop-run-even-quieter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266039

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268269

I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245050

9.16.25 | Website on disposable vape, React stifles innovation, Linux phones' rising significance

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:38:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Hosting a website on a disposable vape
(01:23) - React is winning by default and slowing innovation
(02:35) - Linux phones are more important now than ever
(03:49) - macOS Tahoe
(04:55) - Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
(06:02) - PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
(07:10) - How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
(08:22) - I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
(09:34) - GPT-5-Codex
(10:38) - Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
(11:48) - Outro

Hosting a website on a disposable vape
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817

React is winning by default and slowing innovation
https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252715

Linux phones are more important now than ever
https://feddit.org/post/18353777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651

macOS Tahoe
https://www.apple.com/os/macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252378

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251690

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-15-PayPal-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Peer-to-Peer-Payments,-Reimagining-How-Money-Moves-to-Anyone,-Anywhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249915

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/how-big-a-solar-battery-do-i-need-to-store-all-my-homes-electricity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45248899

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
https://morrick.me/archives/10137
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256577

GPT-5-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252301

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255400

9.15.25 | Slow thinking strategies, Betty Crocker's recipe box shrinkage, Grapevine canes as biodegradable plastic

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:39:32 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
(01:30) - Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
(02:41) - Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
(04:00) - Why We Spiral
(05:09) - Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
(06:25) - Read to forget
(07:28) - Introduction to GrapheneOS
(08:40) - OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life
(09:48) - Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions
(11:02) - Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)
(12:15) - Outro

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-what
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204587

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
https://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243635

Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/08/can-grapevines-help-slow-plastic-waste-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243803

Why We Spiral
https://behavioralscientist.org/why-we-spiral/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240682

Read to forget
https://mo42.bearblog.dev/read-to-forget/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239601

Introduction to GrapheneOS
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200133

OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/06/ocsp-service-has-reached-end-of-life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242591

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions
https://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245948

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)
https://svg.nicubunu.ro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240391

9.14.25 | Store generates products from search, Myocardial infarction linked to infection, Wedding crasher mystery resolved

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:35:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
(01:14) - Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
(02:33) - Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
(03:27) - Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
(04:23) - The case against social media is stronger than you think
(05:44) - Models of European Metro Stations
(06:57) - Pass: Unix Password Manager
(08:05) - My first impressions of Gleam
(09:15) - RIP pthread_cancel
(10:30) - 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
(12:00) - Outro

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
https://anycrap.shop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231378

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235648

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232562

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236263

The case against social media is stronger than you think
https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234323

Models of European Metro Stations
http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238055

Pass: Unix Password Manager
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236079

My first impressions of Gleam
https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231852

RIP pthread_cancel
https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233713

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232565

9.13.25 | EU court classifies nuclear energy as clean, Treasury expands Patriot Act against Bitcoin self-custody, UTF-8 praised as brilliant design

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 06:36:02 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
(01:39) - The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
(02:57) - UTF-8 is a brilliant design
(04:11) - Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
(05:22) - Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
(06:27) - QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
(07:46) - 3D modeling with paper
(08:45) - Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
(09:54) - FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
(11:00) - Legal win
(12:04) - Outro

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274

UTF-8 is a brilliant design
https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224156

3D modeling with paper
https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222369

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227212

Legal win
https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228692

9.12.25 | Git history leaks skew SWE-bench scores, Bun Install's behind-the-scenes, website resembles an operating system

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:38:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
(01:26) - Behind the scenes of Bun Install
(02:44) - Why our website looks like an operating system
(03:49) - AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
(04:59) - Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
(06:16) - Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
(07:23) - From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
(08:25) - Float Exposed
(09:38) - Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
(10:56) - Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
(12:05) - Outro

Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670

Behind the scenes of Bun Install
https://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210850

Why our website looks like an operating system
https://posthog.com/blog/why-os
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217269

AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-restricted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210428

Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
https://www.shloked.com/writing/claude-memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214908

Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45216805

From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
https://gothamist.com/news/from-burner-phones-to-decks-of-cards-nyc-teens-are-adjusting-to-the-smartphone-ban
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211527

Float Exposed
https://float.exposed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217415

Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsungs-us-market-share-apple-rivalry-foldable-phones.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209389

Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211596

9.11.25 | Museum visit prioritizes experience, Term.everything enables GUI apps in terminal, Pontevedra, Spain limits urban traffic

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:38:16 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
(01:44) - Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
(02:52) - Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
(04:09) - KDE launches its own distribution
(05:22) - ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
(06:31) - Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
(07:36) - Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
(08:40) - DOOMscrolling: The Game
(09:40) - Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
(10:55) - Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
(12:07) - Outro

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181535

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520

KDE launches its own distribution
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204393

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/developer-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199713

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-verizon-claim-that-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209366

DOOMscrolling: The Game
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrolling-the-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205232

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200925

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
https://jiratui.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198481

9.10.25 | iPhone Air, narrowly avoided disaster, Claude gains server-side container access

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:38:40 -0400

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

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - iPhone Air
(01:37) - We all dodged a bullet
(02:37) - Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
(03:47) - E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
(04:54) - I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
(06:16) - Memory Integrity Enforcement
(07:31) - Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
(08:40) - US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
(09:55) - Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
(11:10) - Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
(12:24) - Outro

iPhone Air
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakthrough-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015

We all dodged a bullet
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183029

Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
https://www.anthropic.com/news/create-files
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182381

E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185756

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/animal-crossing-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192655

Memory Integrity Enforcement
https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265

Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38120-immunotherapy-drug-eliminates-aggressive-cancers-in-clinical-trial/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188945

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
https://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-send-employees-back-to-office-rto-remote-work-2025-9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45184432

Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179304

9.9.25 | NPM packages compromised, Signal backups secured, iPhone as a dumbphone

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:39:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
(01:31) - Signal Secure Backups
(02:35) - iPhone dumbphone
(03:44) - No adblocker detected
(04:54) - Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
(06:07) - Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
(07:11) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
(08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
(09:32) - Clankers Die on Christmas
(10:46) - The Storm Hits the Art Market
(12:04) - Outro

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

Signal Secure Backups
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515

iPhone dumbphone
https://stopa.io/post/297
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

No adblocker detected
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624

Clankers Die on Christmas
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275

The Storm Hits the Art Market
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628

9.8.25 | MacBook screen hinge sensor, Claude Code modernizes kernel driver, GPT-5 excels in search

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:40:36 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
(01:23) - Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
(02:42) - GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
(03:56) - I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
(05:14) - Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
(06:25) - Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
(07:38) - What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
(08:56) - Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
(10:05) - The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
(11:20) - Formatting code should be unnecessary
(12:30) - Outro

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45158968

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163362

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152284

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155986

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160774

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118286

What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156826

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
https://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45161816

The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
https://www.datagubbe.se/sceneherit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162803

Formatting code should be unnecessary
https://maxleiter.com/blog/formatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163043

9.7.25 | Windows XP portfolio, Burger King auth bypass, Kim dump reveals North Korea's theft tactics

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:36:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
(01:28) - We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
(02:40) - How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
(03:52) - A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
(05:08) - Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
(06:24) - Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
(07:27) - Oldest recorded transaction
(08:43) - Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
(10:01) - The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
(11:15) - RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
(12:28) - Outro

Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
https://mitchivin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609

We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45148944

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
https://dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-kimsuky-leak-how-the-kim-dump-exposed-north-koreas-credential-theft-playbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152066

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-weaving.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152779

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
https://www.consumer.org.hk/en/press-release/528-sunscreen-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152374

Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
https://kanadojo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152940

Oldest recorded transaction
https://avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-txn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149626

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/stop-writing-cli-validation-parse-it-right-the-first-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45151622

The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250829-the-bomber-that-became-ww2s-most-expensive-weapon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109927

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155179

9.6.25 | Ditching Docker for Podman, Anthropic settles lawsuit for $1.5B, Purposeful animations

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:35:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - I ditched Docker for Podman
(01:28) - Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
(02:36) - Purposeful animations
(03:53) - I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
(05:06) - Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
(06:09) - Making a font of my handwriting
(07:15) - ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
(08:36) - Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr
(09:44) - I kissed comment culture goodbye
(10:53) - The Old Robots Web Site
(11:48) - Outro

I ditched Docker for Podman
https://codesmash.dev/why-i-ditched-docker-for-podman-and-you-should-too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137525

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.bTTt.Zir9wmtPaTp2&smid=url-share
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142885

Purposeful animations
https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45139088

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-bought-cheapest-ev-used-nissan-leaf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136103

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108401

Making a font of my handwriting
https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141636

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
https://signalsandthreads.com/why-ml-needs-a-new-programming-language/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137373

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr
https://6octaves.com/2025/09/interview-with-demoscener-0b5vr.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137245

I kissed comment culture goodbye
https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/the-day-i-kissed-comment-culture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143077

The Old Robots Web Site
https://www.theoldrobots.com/index2.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098609

9.5.25 | Sustained attention creates loops, Stripe launches L1 Blockchain Tempo, LLM visualization

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:39:11 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
(01:30) - Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
(02:46) - LLM Visualization
(03:55) - Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
(05:09) - Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
(06:38) - WiFi signals can measure heart rate
(07:48) - What Is the Fourier Transform?
(09:12) - io_uring is faster than mmap
(10:28) - A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom
(11:52) - Age Simulation Suit
(13:14) - Outro

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/attention
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126503

Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
https://tempo.xyz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129085

LLM Visualization
https://bbycroft.net/llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130260

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128391

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
https://fil-c.org/fugc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133938

WiFi signals can measure heart rate
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127983

What Is the Fourier Transform?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132810

io_uring is faster than mmap
https://www.bitflux.ai/blog/memory-is-slow-part2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132710

A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/high-school-student-ai-education/684088/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122885

Age Simulation Suit
https://www.age-simulation-suit.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129190

9.4.25 | Claude Code beta in Zed, 30 minutes with stranger, Nuclear desktop music player for free streaming

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:38:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
(01:42) - 30 minutes with a stranger
(02:48) - Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
(03:51) - The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
(05:06) - How to Give a Good Talk
(06:07) - ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
(07:16) - Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
(08:25) - Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
(09:39) - Neovim Pack
(10:39) - Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
(11:52) - Outro

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/claude-code-via-acp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116688

30 minutes with a stranger
https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124003

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117230

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
https://obviouslywrong.substack.com/p/the-bitter-lesson-is-misunderstood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057283

How to Give a Good Talk
https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/how-to-give-a-good-talk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45076992

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-paper/pro-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121721

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
https://rti.github.io/gptvis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116957

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
https://vgel.me/posts/c500/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117668

Neovim Pack
https://neovim.io/doc/user/pack.html#vim.pack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121915

Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
https://gimletlabs.ai/blog/ai-generated-metal-kernels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118111

9.3.25 | Google barred from exclusive contracts, staff engineer's journey with Claude Code, The Little Book of Linear Algebra

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:38:19 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
(01:40) - A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
(02:56) - The Little Book of Linear Algebra
(04:00) - The staff ate it later
(05:03) - We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
(06:23) - %CPU utilization is a lie
(07:36) - Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)
(08:45) - This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
(09:51) - Take something you don’t like and try to like it
(10:53) - Physically based rendering from first principles
(12:06) - Outro

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108548

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
https://www.sanity.io/blog/first-attempt-will-be-95-garbage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45107962

The Little Book of Linear Algebra
https://github.com/the-litte-book-of/linear-algebra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45103436

The staff ate it later
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_staff_ate_it_later
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104289

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
https://www.thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106011

%CPU utilization is a lie
https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110688

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)
https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108066

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a-pixel-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110209

Take something you don’t like and try to like it
https://dynomight.net/liking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45102512

Physically based rendering from first principles
https://imadr.me/pbr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106846

9.2.25 | Minecraft becomes spherical, Bear transitions to source-available, Foil sticker effect implementation

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:39:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Making Minecraft Spherical
(01:36) - Bear is now source-available
(02:55) - Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
(04:00) - Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
(04:57) - Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
(05:58) - FreeDroidWarn
(07:06) - Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
(08:16) - CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
(09:26) - The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
(10:50) - Outro

Making Minecraft Spherical
https://www.bowerbyte.com/posts/blocky-planet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055205

Bear is now source-available
https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092490

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2025/08/30/foil-sticker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095460

Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095849

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093090

FreeDroidWarn
https://github.com/woheller69/FreeDroidWarn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098722

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-talent-wars-internal-document-2025-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095603

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Specs-Repo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45091493

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1035727/4837b0d3dccf1cbb/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095475

9.1.25 | Ability to run any code on owned hardware, Telegram communication requires paraphrasing, Ongoing conflict

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:40:16 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
(01:34) - “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
(02:37) - Eternal Struggle
(03:40) - Jujutsu for everyone
(04:53) - Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
(06:13) - Use One Big Server (2022)
(07:23) - Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
(08:29) - When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
(09:47) - What to do with C++ modules?
(11:02) - Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
(12:25) - Outro

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087396

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/this-telegram-must-be-closely-paraphrased-before-being-communicated-to-anyone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082731

Eternal Struggle
https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086020

Jujutsu for everyone
https://jj-for-everyone.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083952

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
https://algassert.com/post/2500
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082587

Use One Big Server (2022)
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45085029

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/08/30/nintendo-switch-2-dock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087971

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
https://oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-british-empire/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084913

What to do with C++ modules?
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously-think-about-what.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086210

Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083635

8.31.25 | Cognitive load importance, questioning decentralization, businesses confused by tariffs

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:36:57 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Cognitive load is what matters
(01:30) - Are we decentralized yet?
(02:43) - Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
(03:57) - You Have to Feel It
(05:08) - Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
(06:12) - Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
(07:31) - AI models need a virtual machine
(08:50) - Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
(10:11) - Git Diagramming "The Weave"
(11:23) - Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
(12:35) - Outro

Cognitive load is what matters
https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074248

Are we decentralized yet?
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077291

Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-business-price-impact-37b630c8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077937

You Have to Feel It
https://mitchellh.com/writing/feel-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075048

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147

Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
https://andrewmarder.net/firefox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073746

AI models need a virtual machine
https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/29/ai-models-need-a-virtual-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074467

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
https://lwn.net/Articles/1035736/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074312

Git Diagramming "The Weave"
https://daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080720

Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/condors-cuzco-risc-v-core-at-hot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074895

8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast 1, John Carmack opposes custom XR OS at Meta

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:37:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
(01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1
(02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
(04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
(05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again
(06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
(07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
(09:00) - Wikipedia as a Graph
(09:58) - How do I get into the game industry
(11:06) - Outro

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091

Grok Code Fast 1
https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258

Flunking my Anthropic interview again
https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329

Wikipedia as a Graph
https://wikigrapher.com/paths
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060

How do I get into the game industry
https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052

8.29.25 | Blocked VPN options, Uncertain, Claude Sonnet in Xcode

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:39:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
(01:35) - Uncertain
(02:48) - Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
(03:54) - AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
(05:19) - Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
(06:35) - My startup banking story (2023)
(07:43) - Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
(08:41) - You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
(10:00) - Python: The Documentary [video]
(11:12) - The Synology End Game
(12:19) - Outro

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054260

Uncertain
https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054703

Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058688

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/generative-ai-reshapes-us-job-market-stanford-study-shows-entry-level-young-workers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052423

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055641

My startup banking story (2023)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056177

Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com&torchCursor=true&comicSans=true&fakeCursors=true&peskyFly=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057020

You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056878

Python: The Documentary [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171

The Synology End Game
https://lowendbox.com/blog/they-used-to-be-good-but-now-theyve-turned-to-evil-the-synology-end-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060920

8.28.25 | Google cuts 35% of small team managers, Rust shows unexpected productivity boost, malicious Nx versions and plugins published

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:39:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
(01:34) - Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
(02:41) - Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
(03:57) - The GitHub website is slow on Safari
(04:59) - Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
(06:33) - VIM Master
(07:32) - Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line
(08:48) - Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
(09:51) - Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development
(11:02) - The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
(12:12) - Outro

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045398

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
https://lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-productivity-curve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041286

Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-cxm3-wv7p-598c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496

The GitHub website is slow on Safari
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037365

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046916

VIM Master
https://github.com/renzorlive/vimmaster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041315

Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line
https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-is-recycling-old-ev-batteries-to-help-power-mazdas-production-line
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998010

Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
https://yamanot.es/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045307

Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development
https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/object-oriented-design-patterns-in-osdev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45023857

The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2025/08/18/how-to-prepare-for-the-bitnami-changes-coming-soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048419

8.27.25 | Gemini 2.5 image release, Claude browser extension, analysis of Apple M1 GPU

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:39:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
(01:33) - Claude for Chrome
(02:40) - Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
(03:50) - Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment
(04:57) - US Intel
(06:16) - One universal antiviral to rule them all?
(07:28) - A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
(08:44) - Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
(10:07) - Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
(11:24) - Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
(12:41) - Outro

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026719

Claude for Chrome
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030760

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034537

Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment
https://reclaimthenet.org/michigan-supreme-court-rules-phone-search-warrants-must-be-specific
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029764

US Intel
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45024786

One universal antiviral to rule them all?
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-universal-antiviral-rule-them-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026792

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
https://commonsware.com/blog/2025/08/26/uncomfortable-questions-android-developer-verification.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035699

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
https://fortune.com/2025/08/23/neuralink-participant-1-noland-arbaugh-18-months-post-surgery-life-changed-elon-musk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002688

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009760

8.26.25 | Google restricts Android apps to verified developers, Base is an SQLite editor for macOS, visual guide to big O notation

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:40:24 -0400

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

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
(01:35) - Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
(02:46) - A visual introduction to big O notation
(04:03) - Google's Liquid Cooling
(05:16) - macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
(06:32) - Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
(07:32) - A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation
(08:38) - DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
(09:44) - macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
(11:07) - The Annotated Transformer (2022)
(12:18) - Outro

Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
https://menial.co.uk/base/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014131

A visual introduction to big O notation
https://samwho.dev/big-o/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002182

Google's Liquid Cooling
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-liquid-cooling-at-hot-chips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016720

macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/macos_26_tahoes_dead_canary_utility_app_icons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45020685

Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022184

A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation
https://b.43z.one/2025-07-22/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013737

DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
https://www.aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002092

macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022383

The Annotated Transformer (2022)
https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002896

8.25.25 | Ghrc.io is malicious, Game development in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs, IP-level ban request

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:40:28 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
(01:24) - Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
(02:35) - Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
(03:43) - Everything I know about good API design
(04:56) - Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
(06:12) - We put a coding agent in a while loop
(07:19) - What are OKLCH colors?
(08:30) - Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock
(09:38) - Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
(10:47) - Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras
(11:47) - Outro

Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
https://bmitch.net/blog/2025-08-22-ghrc-appears-malicious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008740

Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
https://marianogappa.github.io/software/2025/08/24/i-made-two-card-games-in-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004728

Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010183

Everything I know about good API design
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45006801

Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-finds-ideal-pirate-bay-poster-boy-to-sell-blocking-of-non-pirate-sites-250824/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45005545

We put a coding agent in a while loop
https://github.com/repomirrorhq/repomirror/blob/main/repomirror.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45005434

What are OKLCH colors?
https://jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010876

Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam-shouldnt-own-intel-stock-ccd6986d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008056

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487804-trees-on-city-streets-cope-with-drought-by-drinking-from-leaky-pipes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44986723

Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras
https://github.com/roryclear/clearcam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003420

8.24.25 | Line scan camera for train photography, Claude Code's excellence, RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:37:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Line scan camera image processing for train photography
(01:27) - What makes Claude Code so damn good
(02:31) - RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
(03:40) - How to build a coding agent
(04:45) - The cost of interrupted work (2023)
(05:54) - Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips
(07:04) - How can AI ID a cat?
(08:16) - Why was Apache Kafka created?
(09:35) - A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
(10:37) - Acronis True Image costs performance when not used
(11:50) - Outro

Line scan camera image processing for train photography
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996938

What makes Claude Code so damn good
https://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998295

RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995640

How to build a coding agent
https://ghuntley.com/agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001051

The cost of interrupted work (2023)
https://blog.oberien.de/2023/11/05/23-minutes-15-seconds.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999373

Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987078

How can AI ID a cat?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964800

Why was Apache Kafka created?
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-created
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988845

A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2000-year-old-sun-hat-worn-by-a-roman-soldier-in-egypt-goes-on-view-after-a-century-in-storage-180987192/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998514

Acronis True Image costs performance when not used
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/acronis-true-image-costs-performance-when-not-used/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960718

8.23.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 released, Switching from Gmail to Mailbox.org, Cloudflare launches first Media over QUIC CDN

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:37:54 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - FFmpeg 8.0
(01:31) - Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
(02:36) - The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
(03:50) - LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis
(05:04) - Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
(06:11) - Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN
(07:29) - Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law
(08:53) - Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges
(09:50) - Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes
(10:53) - I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
(12:13) - Outro

FFmpeg 8.0
https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985730

Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
https://giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2025-08-18-leaving-gmail/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987380

The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
https://moq.dev/blog/first-cdn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987924

LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis
https://labplot.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982409

Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/about/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988530

Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/22/investigators-used-terrible-computer-fraud-laws-to-ensure-people-were-punished-for-leaking-air-crash-footage-to-cnn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991542

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law
https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-goes-dark-in-mississippi-age-verification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990886

Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges
https://shaderacademy.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960750

Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes
https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988271

I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
https://www.openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dumb-For-Zigs-New-IO-Interface/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993797

8.22.25 | AWS CEO criticizes AI replacing juniors, AI tooling disclosure required, DeepSeek-v3.1 released

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:39:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
(01:37) - AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
(02:49) - DeepSeek-v3.1
(03:50) - Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
(05:08) - Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
(06:17) - An interactive guide to SVG paths
(07:20) - Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
(08:36) - Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
(09:45) - How well does the money laundering control system work?
(10:54) - Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
(12:17) - Outro

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976568

DeepSeek-v3.1
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976764

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44971845

Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever
https://mavericksforever.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942099

An interactive guide to SVG paths
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941605

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44971212

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44977645

How well does the money laundering control system work?
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972213

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server
https://blog.habets.se/2025/04/io-uring-ktls-and-rust-for-zero-syscall-https-server.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980865

8.21.25 | Spherical helix visualization, anime catgirls blocking Linux kernel access, Zedless fork prioritizing privacy and local-first

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:39:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
(01:25) - Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
(02:43) - Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
(03:46) - Sequoia backs Zed
(05:03) - Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering
(06:10) - Code review can be better
(07:14) - An Update on Pytype
(08:19) - Introduction to AT Protocol
(09:24) - D4d4
(10:28) - Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
(11:51) - Outro

Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962066

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
https://github.com/zedless-editor/zed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964916

Sequoia backs Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172

Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering
https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/12_gemma3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962059

Code review can be better
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08-04-code-review-can-be-better/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44967469

An Update on Pytype
https://github.com/google/pytype
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963724

Introduction to AT Protocol
https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965233

D4d4
https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932401

Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts
https://petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-depot-sued-for-secretly-using-facial-recognition-technology-on-self-checkout-cameras/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962771

8.20.25 | Exploited CodeRabbit for RCE, AGENTS.md for coding agents, Copilot broke audit logs without customer notification

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:40:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
(01:40) - AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
(02:58) - Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
(04:15) - How to Draw a Space Invader
(05:13) - D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
(06:09) - Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
(07:12) - Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32
(08:29) - Without the futex, it's futile
(09:46) - Emacs as your video-trimming tool
(10:59) - Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
(12:10) - Outro

How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2025/08/19/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953032

AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents
https://agents.md/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957443

Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
https://pistachioapp.com/blog/copilot-broke-your-audit-log
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957454

How to Draw a Space Invader
https://muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956915

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
https://d2lang.com/blog/ascii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954524

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
https://cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921195

Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32
https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/telescope-mount/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44949895

Without the futex, it's futile
https://h4x0r.org/futex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951563

Emacs as your video-trimming tool
https://xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953316

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959073

8.19.25 | Anna's Archive update, app to block Shorts and Reels, Obsidian Bases

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:40:17 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
(01:27) - Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
(02:32) - Obsidian Bases
(03:38) - Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
(04:37) - FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
(05:44) - Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
(06:50) - Left to Right Programming
(08:00) - OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
(09:09) - Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery
(10:22) - Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
(11:22) - Outro

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942501

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
https://scrollguard.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44923520

Obsidian Bases
https://help.obsidian.md/bases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44945532

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942731

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940485

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-life-minh-le.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941369

Left to Right Programming
https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942936

OpenMower – An open source lawn mower
https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946996

Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-alternative-lasik-lasers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938818

Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
https://lazybrush.dulnan.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915897

8.18.25 | Claudia assists Claude coding, NextDNS introduces age verification bypass, The Enterprise Experience

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:42:01 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
(01:29) - Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
(02:40) - The Enterprise Experience
(03:53) - ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
(05:05) - Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
(06:20) - Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians
(07:39) - Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
(08:56) - Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
(10:19) - Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow
(11:22) - A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut
(12:30) - Outro

Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
https://claudiacode.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933255

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931824

The Enterprise Experience
https://churchofturing.github.io/the-enterprise-experience.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932980

ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
https://tracker.archiveteam.org/goo-gl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933401

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932651

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians
https://blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/derivatives-gradients-jacobians-and-hessians-oh-my/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931666

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
https://hyperclay.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44937991

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/google-admits-anti-competitive-conduct-involving-google-search-in-australia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936945

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow
https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44934391

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/a-gigantic-jet-caught-on-camera-a-spritacular-moment-for-nasa-astronaut-nicole-ayers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44908528

8.17.25 | Compiler bug affects Solidity, OpenBSD's speed requires program adjustment, CIA's heart attack gun incident

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:38:59 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
(01:36) - OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself
(02:44) - When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun
(03:47) - US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets
(04:54) - Bullfrog in the Dungeon
(06:04) - The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git
(07:11) - Is air travel getting worse?
(08:16) - Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software
(09:19) - An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions
(10:23) - I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
(11:30) - Outro

Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
https://osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872584

OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915824

When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun
https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-investigation-that-should-have
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911412

US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3320828/us-f-16s-lose-out-thai-air-force-seals-us600-million-deal-swedish-gripen-jets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917308

Bullfrog in the Dungeon
https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/bullfrog-in-the-dungeon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914149

The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916783

Is air travel getting worse?
https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/is-air-travel-getting-worse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911941

Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915206

An interactive guide to sensor fusion with quaternions
https://quaternion.cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912727

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
https://drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910865

8.16.25 | Open hardware 3D printing decline, Amsterdam’s Ritman Library digitizes occult books, Edka enables Kubernetes on Hetzner

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 06:38:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2025.

Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911423

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914061

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
https://edka.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915164

Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913359

The electric fence stopped working years ago
https://soonly.com/electric-fences/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913663

Imagen 4 is now generally available
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/announcing-imagen-4-fast-and-imagen-4-family-generally-available-in-the-gemini-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915187

Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/3899
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911560

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916813

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2024-083658
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912861

ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs
https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-arm-neural-technology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876346

8.15.25 | Strongest AI model on a laptop, Gemma 3 270M for efficient AI, Steve Wozniak on happiness over accomplishment

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:40:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2025.

What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
https://www.seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875848

Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902148

Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44903803

Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch-in-the-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899999

Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902797

1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)
https://mashable.com/archive/soviet-hobbit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859049

New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning
https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2025/new-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899339

What does Palantir actually do?
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894910

I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902127

500 days of math
https://gmays.com/500-days-of-math/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880139

8.14.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper, Nginx supports ACME protocol, PYX advances Python packaging

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:41:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2025.

FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647

Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889941

PYX: The next step in Python packaging
https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892209

OCaml as my primary language
https://xvw.lol/en/articles/why-ocaml.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891759

Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-vans-to-be-rolled-out-across-police-forces-in-england-13410613
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886913

Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzmDePH3E
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887853

Kodak says it might have to cease operations
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/business/kodak-survival-warning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875270

So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?
https://lostpixels.io/writings/the-difference-between-plotted-and-printed-artwork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887965

Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889715

PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again
https://www.servethehome.com/pcie-8-0-announced-by-the-pci-sig-will-double-throughput-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44851019

8.13.25 | Claude Sonnet 4 supports 1M tokens, Building a web search engine with 3B embeddings, Search all text in New York City

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:41:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2025.

Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878147

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings
https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878151

Search all text in New York City
https://www.alltext.nyc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883304

Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875992

Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere
https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878650

Ashet Home Computer
https://ashet.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880401

Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²
https://www.sdo.group/study
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845787

Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885295

F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709

Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm
https://www.thurrott.com/music-videos/324346/blender-is-native-on-windows-11-on-arm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843586

8.12.25 | GitHub loses independence post-CEO resignation, todo app experiment leads to .txt file, Wikipedia fails against Online Safety Act

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:41:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2025.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866208

Claude Code is all you need
https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864185

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
https://www.openssh.com/pq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44863242

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871337

Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867374

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872313

AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-internet.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861521

The value of institutional memory
https://timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866500

8.11.25 | Fight Chat Control, Coding with AI affordably, Try and

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:42:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2025.

Fight Chat Control
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426

How I code with AI on a budget/free
https://wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850913

Try and
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/try-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855079

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gpt-oss-analyzing-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855690

Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place
https://engineering.fyi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855157

1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-year-the-modern-world-lost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858154

The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/412578726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861106

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/offnet.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860139

Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
https://mill-build.org/blog/14-bash-zsh-completion.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854035

Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C
https://github.com/Beariish/bolt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856935

8.9.25 | Ultrathin business card simulates fluid, offline AI workspace creation, Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 06:39:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2025.

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44835879

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840013

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840582

Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728

The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839842

Getting good results from Claude Code
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836879

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838378

How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836463

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist
https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837434

Window Activation
https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784685

8.8.25 | GPT-5, Vibechart, GPT-5 features and pricing

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:42:10 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2025.

GPT-5
https://openai.com/gpt-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826997

Vibechart
https://www.vibechart.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44830684

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827794

GPT-5 for Developers
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827101

Historical Tech Tree
https://www.historicaltechtree.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44829185

Windows XP Professional
https://win32.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824539

Cursed Knowledge
https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831704

Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-darkweb-firmware-bypasses-rolling-code-security/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44830408

Building Bluesky comments for my blog
https://natalie.sh/posts/bluesky-comments/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826164

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
https://www.seangoedecke.com/gpt-oss-is-phi-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44828884

8.7.25 | Claude Code integrates with Emacs, passwords replaced with worse alternatives, Automerge 3.0 released

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:42:39 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2025.

Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811567

We replaced passwords with something worse
https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/passwords
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917

Automerge 3.0
https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777086

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/jules-now-available/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813854

Litestar is worth a look
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816755

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
https://www.projecthyperion.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817539

Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writing-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver-a-brief-introduction-on-how-gpu-drivers-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813789

A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/segment_array/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815702

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0213
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819037

Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
https://www.baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819968

8.6.25 | OpenAI's open models, Genie 3 advances world models, uBlock Origin Lite launches for Safari

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:43:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 6, 2025.

Open models by OpenAI
https://openai.com/open-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800746

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798166

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798189

Claude Opus 4.1
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800185

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796526

Ollama Turbo
https://ollama.com/turbo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802414

Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
https://ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802886

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
https://trial.medpath.com/news/5c43f09ebb6d0f8e/ozempic-shows-anti-aging-effects-in-first-clinical-trial-reversing-biological-age-by-3-1-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798410

8.5.25 | Perplexity evades no-crawl directives, Show HN showcases wooden pixel display, Qwen-Image features native text rendering

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:42:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2025.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787631

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786005

DrawAFish.com Postmortem
https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743

OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware
https://openipc.org/à
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758463

Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years
https://github.com/crbnos/carbon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792005

Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789068

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
https://frigate.video/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794508

I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class
https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769547

8.4.25 | Remote work encourages rambling, Node.js patterns explored, tips for effective design documents

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:43:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 4, 2025.

If you're remote, ramble
https://stephango.com/ramblings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775563

Modern Node.js Patterns
https://kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44778936

Writing a good design document
https://grantslatton.com/how-to-design-document
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779428

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777760

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
https://www.ioccc.org/2024/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774104

Tokens are getting more expensive
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775700

So you want to parse a PDF?
https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780353

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzx0zm68vo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745441

How to make almost anything (2019)
https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.19/CBA/people/dsculley/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775830

Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibecoding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44780878

8.3.25 | Helsinki achieves zero traffic deaths, Telo MT1, A.I. may change our nature in addressing loneliness

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:40:59 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 3, 2025.

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/27539-helsinki-records-zero-traffic-deaths-for-full-year.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736025

Telo MT1
https://www.telotrucks.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769039

We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/ai-is-about-to-solve-loneliness-thats-a-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766508

6 weeks of Claude Code
https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/07/30/six-weeks-of-claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746621

Online Collection of Keygen Music
https://keygenmusic.tk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44730544

PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor
https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/07/30/20-release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746583

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
https://eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-multiprocessor-programming.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44767555

A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technology/ai-researchers-nba-stars.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766758

Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
https://forums.anandtech.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44767433

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-points-to-figma-ipo-as-vindication-for-ma-scrutiny/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771808

8.2.25 | Draw a fish animation, Hannah Cairo solves math mystery, Cerebras Code

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:40:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 2, 2025.

Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
https://drawafish.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery
https://www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah-cairo-solved-a-major-math-mystery-20250801/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759152

Cerebras Code
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762959

Our Farewell from Google Play
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/2809.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754523

Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
https://bower.sh/you-might-not-need-tmux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754492

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
https://www.skeptrune.com/posts/doing-the-little-things/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759417

Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762856

Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765264

Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU
https://www.dougmacdowell.com/coffeematic-pc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762880

This Month in Ladybird
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-07-31/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765292

8.1.25 | Slow, Acknowledging personal craziness, Creation of Universal Pictures 1936 logo

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:42:57 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2025.

Slow
https://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748934

Face it: you're a crazy person
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710651

How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744454

MacBook Pro Insomnia
https://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2025-07-24-macbook-pro-insomnia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/114946559233051667
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744715

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-abundance-critique-on-housing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750416

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/unifi-os-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603

Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea
https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745555

QUIC for the kernel
https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746948

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-embedding-powering-rag-context-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747457

7.31.25 | Fast's new developments, Our $100M Series B funding, Vibe code classified as legacy code

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:42:40 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 31, 2025.

Fast
https://www.catherinejue.com/fast
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736967

Our $100M Series B
https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733817

Vibe code is legacy code
https://blog.val.town/vibe-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739556

Ollama's new app
https://ollama.com/blog/new-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739632

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-widens-teen-social-media-ban-youtube-scraps-exemption-2025-07-29/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736646

I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733800

Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
https://optician-sans.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736090

Figma will IPO on July 31
https://www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pricing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44740222

The HTML Hobbyist (2022)
https://www.htmlhobbyist.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733119

The Math Is Haunted
https://overreacted.io/the-math-is-haunted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739315

7.30.25 | Study mode, M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific with tsunami warning, laptop writes Space Invaders in JavaScript

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:42:38 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 30, 2025.

Study mode
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764

M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729865

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723316

Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-cats-confuse-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44724238

iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
https://candid9.com/phone-camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723461

RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession
https://JapaneseNostalgicCar.com/rip-shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-model-kits/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728188

Learning basic electronics by building fireflies
http://a64.in/posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725757

ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725966

Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
https://www.kathaaverse.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725202

Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview
https://observablehq.com/notebook-kit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44724068

7.29.25 | Copyparty enables file server creation, Use Their ID utilizes UK MP’s ID for Online Safety Act, Claude Code imposes weekly rate limits

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:42:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 29, 2025.

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
https://github.com/9001/copyparty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711519

Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
https://use-their-id.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716106

Claude Code weekly rate limits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713757

Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114915604830689046
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711306

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
https://themaister.net/blog/2025/06/16/i-designed-my-own-ridiculously-fast-game-streaming-video-codec-pyrowave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714914

How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-make-websites-that-require-lots-of-time-and-energy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44708270

Fintech dystopia
https://fintechdystopia.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718117

GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711106

Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary
https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681858

7.28.25 | Trae IDE performance analysis, Dumb Pipe, EU app bans unlicensed Android systems

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:43:15 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 28, 2025.

Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703164

Dumb Pipe
https://www.dumbpipe.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701555

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240

Tom Lehrer has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702782

Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705445

Making Postgres slower
https://byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704736

I hacked my washing machine
https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704270

Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702833

Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671802

Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels
https://lithub.com/how-big-agriculture-mislead-the-public-about-the-benefits-of-biofuels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44706428

7.27.25 | Rust on all GPUs, Rooting Copilot, Purple Earth hypothesis

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:40:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 27, 2025.

Rust running on every GPU
https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692876

How we rooted Copilot
https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44695098

Purple Earth hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665644

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44693570

What went wrong for Yahoo
https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-went-wrong-for-yahoo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44696033

When We Get Komooted
https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699421

Resizable structs in Zig
https://tristanpemble.com/resizable-structs-in-zig/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697131

Shallow water is dangerous too
https://www.jefftk.com/p/shallow-water-is-dangerous-too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664176

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BashGoodSetEReports
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666984

Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698928

7.26.25 | Avoid app, use website, Steam and Itch.io remove 'porn' games, modern CSS should replace SPA

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:40:47 -0400

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

Do not download the app, use the website
https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-download-apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689059

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685011

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44688489

Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373

It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
https://news.sparkfun.com/14298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682964

The future is not self-hosted
https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682175

Programming vehicles in games
https://wassimulator.com/blog/programming/programming_vehicles_in_games.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44683682

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla-js-support-for-tailwind-plus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44686317

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685119

Developing our position on AI
https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663072

7.25.25 | Graphene OS enhances Android security, Memory safety requires thread safety, AMD CEO predicts TSMC US plant chips 5%-20% pricier

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:42:41 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 25, 2025.

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676691

There is no memory safety without thread safety
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672003

AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/amd-ceo-su-sees-chips-from-us-tsmc-plant-costing-5-to-20-more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663074

I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44632674

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf022/8016019
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676817

Open Source Maintenance Fee
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/8974
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44669858

Use Your Type System
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/07/use-your-type-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671484

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
https://avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-wal-checksum/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671373

Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern
https://github.com/vet-run/vet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44669998

Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
https://positron.posit.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44634598

7.24.25 | High precision robot dog, Tinder clone with wife’s pictures, Google Pixel and GrapheneOS for freedom

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:42:07 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2025.

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661846

Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right
https://trytender.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664873

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658908

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

The Promised LAN
https://tpl.house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682

US AI Action Plan
https://www.ai.gov/action-plan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660323

Building better AI tools
https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659921

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
https://www.seriouseats.com/meat-resting-science-11776272
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662757

I drank every cocktail
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665373

Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666157

7.23.25 | Qwen3-Coder's agentic coding, avoid animating height, TODOs as reminders

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:42:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 23, 2025.

Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653072

Don't animate height
https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619206

TODOs aren't for doing
https://sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/todos-arent-for-doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646801

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
https://abc.decontextualize.com/more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651770

Swift-erlang-actor-system
https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swift-erlang-actor-system/81248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651539

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
https://research.google/blog/android-earthquake-alerts-a-global-system-for-early-warning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651092

We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
https://plane.so/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-plane-air-gapped
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651766

Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
https://www.anthes.is/font-comparison-review-atkinson-hyperlegible-mono.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647190

I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files
https://anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_disaster.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651485

Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures
https://lemire.github.io/talks/2025/sea/sea2025.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653965

7.22.25 | Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint, TrackWeight turns MacBook trackpad into scale, AccountingBench evaluates LLMs on business tasks

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:42:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 22, 2025.

Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629710

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635808

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
https://accounting.penrose.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637352

What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?
https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638580

Uv: Running a script with dependencies
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-with-dependencies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641521

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2608
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643564

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637715

New records on Wendelstein 7-X
https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636204

Jujutsu for busy devs
https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641961

AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work-20250721/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642349

7.21.25 | XMLUI, LLMs in summer 2025 update, new colors without lasers

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:43:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2025.

XMLUI
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625292

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
https://antirez.com/news/154
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623953

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
https://dynomight.net/colors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808

FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-biggest-speedup-ive-seen-so-far-ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-another-100x-leap-thanks-to-handwritten-assembly-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629206

Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-staying-cool-without-refrigerants-how-samsung-is-pioneering-next-generation-peltier-cooling
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628930

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624114

AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/14/ai-is-killing-the-web-can-anything-save-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623361

Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters
https://camillovisini.com/coding/simulating-hand-drawn-motion-with-svg-filters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591305

“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44603349

Speeding up my ZSH shell
https://scottspence.com/posts/speeding-up-my-zsh-shell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626363

7.20.25 | Uncertainty in AI development, AI-related fatalities, Ring's new police live-stream feature

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:42:14 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2025.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-how-to-build-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44616479

Death by AI
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620002

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618687

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
https://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617078

The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/borrowchecker/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618535

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/go-memory-regression/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597550

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2025/07/rethinking-cli-interfaces-for-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617184

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2610411.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591775

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583316

7.19.25 | Valve pressured by credit card companies, AI capex impacts economic stats, personal self-hosting setup

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:40:42 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2025.

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606184

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609130

My Self-Hosting Setup
https://codecaptured.com/blog/my-ultimate-self-hosting-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612151

Asynchrony is not concurrency
https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608754

Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607838

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610732

How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026694/3413f4b43c862629/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610468

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions
https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569032

Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608856

Why your website should be under 14kB in size
https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613625

7.17.25 | Altermagnets introduce a new type of magnet, Ex-Waymo engineers create Bedrock Robotics for construction automation, Pgactive offers Postgres active-active replication

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:41:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2025.

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487013-weve-discovered-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-what-can-we-do-with-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583171

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-waymo-engineers-launch-bedrock-robotics-with-80m-to-automate-construction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44584372

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension
https://github.com/aws/pgactive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44580257

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
https://smallandroidphone.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586723

“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/to-combat-summer-reading-slumps-this-timeless-childrens-television-show-tried-to-bridge-the-literacy-gap-with-the-magic-of-stories-180986984/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588491

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586064

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intels-retreat-is-unlike-anything-its-done-before-in-oregon.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585755

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores
https://www.zeroentropy.dev/blog/improving-rag-with-elo-scores
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582662

How and where will agents ship software?
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585002

Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode
https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44587248

7.16.25 | Reflections on OpenAI, Shoggoth Mini robot powered by GPT-4o, write proofs to improve programming skills

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:42:15 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2025.

Reflections on OpenAI
https://calv.info/openai-reflections
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572377

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573409

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572499

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490

Where's Firefox going next?
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575794

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical
https://gpuhammer.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577268

My Family and the Flood
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576352

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography
https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573887

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545050

7.15.25 | Kiro IDE launch, LLM inevitabilism discussion, Django's 20th birthday celebration

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:41:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2025.

Kiro: A new agentic IDE
https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662

LLM Inevitabilism
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857

Happy 20th Birthday, Django
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/13/happy-20th-birthday-django/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552500

Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44563324

Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565668

Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)
https://mymodernmet.com/totoro-sculpture-bus-stop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561818

LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ligo-detects-most-massive-black-hole-merger-to-date
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564656

Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project
https://blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565603

RFC: PHP license update
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565647

Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564248

7.14.25 | Ten years of daily running visualized, Explanation of screen functionality, Open-source alternative to CapCut

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:42:16 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2025.

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
https://nodaysoff.run
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522683

How does a screen work?
https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-a-screen-works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550572

OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553752

GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
https://www.glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-1s-are-breaking-life-insurance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44552414

Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
https://gpfault.net/posts/asm-tut-0.txt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554307

Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
https://marketsaintefficient.substack.com/p/five-companies-now-control-over-90
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553389

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
https://www.mechanize.work/blog/the-upcoming-gpt-3-moment-for-rl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512350

A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
https://zola.ink/blog/posts/a-technical-look-at-irans-internet-shutdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551652

Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
https://github.com/ByteAtATime/raycast-linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551762

Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
https://refine.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556684

7.13.25 | MacPaint Art's enduring appeal, Bypassing Google's adblock update, Understanding JavaScript's Date class

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:40:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2025.

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
https://jsdate.wtf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540241

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)
https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541576

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach
https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44539879

Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model
https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687594560332025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403

Zig's New Async I/O
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949

Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739

Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240

Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'
https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565

7.12.25 | OpenAI's Windsurf deal canceled, Windsurf CEO joins Google, ETH Zurich and EPFL releasing LLM, Bill Atkinson's psychedelic UI

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:39:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2025.

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536988

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535637

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-mystical-bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530767

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/upgrading-m4-pro-mac-minis-storage-half-price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44532306

Preliminary report into Air India crash released
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536459

jank is C++
https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534787

Faking a JPEG
https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44537631

Repaste Your MacBook
https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531569

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521225

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538413

7.11.25 | AI's impact on open-source productivity, Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY scalability issues, Grok searches X for Elon Musk's messages

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:40:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2025.

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527190

Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
https://flix.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521224

Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44526015

What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#What_is_Realtalks_relationship_to_AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522076

Graphical Linear Algebra
https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522505

FOKS: Federated Open Key Service
https://foks.pub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520419

Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
https://www.browseros.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523409

Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
https://stylepedia.net/style/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521871

7.10.25 | Tree Borrows concept, Linda Yaccarino departs X, jank programming language discussed

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:41:20 -0400

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

Tree Borrows
https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510600

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731

The jank programming language
https://jank-lang.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482273

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517424

Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone
https://github.com/lraton/FlopperZiro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44512763

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation
https://mcp-b.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm
https://cairno.substack.com/p/improvements-to-the-separating-axis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510282

Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know
https://www.prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-frozen-string-literals-rails-upgrade-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479302

Grok 4 Launch [video]
https://twitter.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517055

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent
https://github.com/snap-stanford/Biomni
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513843

7.9.25 | Supabase MCP SQL leak, Bootstrapping profitable side project, OffChess offline chess puzzles app

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:41:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2025.

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44495428

Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
https://offchess.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498296

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
https://dgl.cx/2025/07/git-clone-submodule-cve-2025-48384
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502330

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501413

Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/taking-over-60k-spyware-user-accounts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455707

Radium Music Editor
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502298

Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby
https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2025/07/08/brut-a-new-web-framework-for-ruby.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502463

RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505876

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504699

7.8.25 | ChatGPT prompts feature addition, Mercury introduces fast diffusion models, o3 profiles from Pocket links

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:40:44 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2025.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491071

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489690

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489803

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44493196

When Figma starts designing us
https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479502

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455175

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461082

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490863

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver
https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476382

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer
https://buildmytransit.nyc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490588

7.7.25 | Extracted Apple Intelligence safety filters, Loss of individuality in society, Bitchat – decentralized Bluetooth messaging app

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:41:27 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2025.

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483485

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484595

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics
https://alpha.lisagui.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482965

Get the location of the ISS using DNS
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480223

Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal
https://github.com/sst/opencode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482504

The first time I was almost fired from Apple
https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463063

Functions Are Vectors (2023)
https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481464

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-lion-cove-p-core-and-gaming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484688

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)
https://www.crypto101.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484074

7.6.25 | Local-first software, hidden interface controls, questioning morality

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 06:39:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2025.

Local-first software (2019)
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135

Hidden interface controls that affect usability
https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2025/stop-hiding-my-controls-hidden-interface-controls-are-affecting-usability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476297

Are We the Baddies?
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115

X-Clacks-Overhead
https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44440968

Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44474759

macOS Icon History
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473400

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched
https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44472992

How to Network as an Introvert
https://aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-to-network-as-an-introvert/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44475537

What a Hacker Stole from Me
https://mynoise.net/blog.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476115

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476716

7.5.25 | Nvidia criticized, Mini NASes combine NVMe and Intel chip, OBBB reinstates R&D expensing in U.S

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:39:54 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2025.

Nvidia is full of shit
https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468175

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
https://www.kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-to-president-for-signature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469124

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
https://sailhealth.substack.com/p/why-i-left-my-tech-job-to-work-on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44464068

Larry (cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462947

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44467912

Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463967

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)
https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462896

EverQuest
https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465731

Baba Is Eval
https://fi-le.net/baba/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455124

7.4.25 | tmux-rs launched, YC company relicensed my project, The Rise of Whatever

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:40:46 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2025.

Introducing tmux-rs
https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455787

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
https://twitter.com/soham_btw/status/1940952786491027886
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460552

The Rise of Whatever
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461208

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461222

Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457390

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433996

Peasant Railgun
https://knightsdigest.com/what-exactly-is-the-peasant-railgun-in-dd-5e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455222

Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455933

AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening
https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456779

Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904

7.3.25 | Exploiting IKKO Activebuds, US climate report websites down, gene therapy restored hearing

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:40:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2025.

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443919

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444626

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect
https://glass3d.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445238

ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art
https://asciimoon.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432571

Couchers is officially out of beta
https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446917

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429789

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446916

What to build instead of AI agents
https://decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450160

I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-how-i-scanned-all-of-github-s-oops-commits-for-leaked-secrets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452317

7.2.25 | Fed miscalculates $1M cube, Spegel is an LLM-based Terminal Browser, Figma files for IPO

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:41:04 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2025.

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435484

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44433409

Figma files for proposed IPO
https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437316

OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
https://github.com/stan-smith/OpenFLOW
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431178

Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
https://blog.truestar.pro/fakespot-shuts-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437712

Building a Personal AI Factory
https://www.john-rush.com/posts/ai-20250701.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438065

Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
https://jamesbvaughan.com/bidirectional-editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435716

Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436579

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna - Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17732
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434062

HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
https://www.josh.ing/hn-slop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434938

7.1.25 | AI's new skill is context engineering, Xfinity detects motion via WiFi signals, Proton sues Apple for harmful practices

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:41:18 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2025.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427757

Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726

Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426128

I write type-safe generic data structures in C
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425461

YouTube No Translation
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416009

Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-was-shocked-melbourne-mans-unbelievable-find-after-buying-house/m4sksfer8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429182

Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus
https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424194

Claude Code now supports Hooks
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/hooks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429225

The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port
https://www.linaro.org/blog/hidden-jtag-qualcomm-snapdragon-usb/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426428

End of an Era
https://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/end-of-an-era.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426845

6.30.25 | VM simulates CPU fan, ransomware avoids Russian keyboards, HN inquiry on current projects

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:41:03 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2025.

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-has-a-cpu-fan.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413185

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415233

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416093

The $25k car is going extinct?
https://media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414115

Touching the back wall of the Apple store
https://blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393307

We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube
https://ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414171

Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/06/27/bought-myself-an-ampere-altra-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419446

Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
https://gridfinity.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419091

The Book of Shaders (2015)
https://thebookofshaders.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389622

Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher
https://github.com/kelindar/event
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413809

6.29.25 | JavaScript trademark changes, MCP's universal plugin system, engineered addictions

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:40:23 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2025.

JavaScript Trademark Update
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407139

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905

Engineered Addictions
https://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405057

We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)
https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404164

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406171

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
https://jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408872

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408552

Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale
https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-inference-request-vllm-v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407058

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411069

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine
https://github.com/sirius-db/sirius
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404876

6.28.25 | Airline pilot creates flight graphs, Facebook uses private photos for AI, user deletes second brain

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:39:10 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2025.

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
https://jameshard.ing/pilot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406

I deleted my second brain
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402470

James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398756

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44402896

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397168

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397124

SymbolicAI: A neuro-symbolic perspective on LLMs
https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399234

Weird Expressions in Rust
https://www.wakunguma.com/blog/rust-weird-expr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397367

Learn OCaml
https://ocaml-sf.org/learn-ocaml-public/#activity=exercises
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400025

6.27.25 | AlphaGenome enhances genome understanding, Gemma 3n introduced, Issen is a personal AI language tutor

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:41:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2025.

AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387659

Introducing Gemma 3n
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389202

Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387828

Alternative Layout System
https://alternativelayoutsystem.com/scripts/#same-sizer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390501

Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
https://snowemu.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44385562

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
https://github.com/pacocoursey/xslt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393817

“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?”
https://sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust-compiler-slow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390488

The time is right for a DOM templating API
https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390452

Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024)
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/08/massive-biomolecular-shifts-occur-in-our-40s-and-60s--stanford-m.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393547

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship
https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390781

6.26.25 | Gemini CLI, OpenAI charges by the minute, new PNG spec

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:41:19 -0400

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

Gemini CLI
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919

OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
https://george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-charges-by-the-minute-so-make-the-minutes-shorter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376989

A new PNG spec
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365754

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381297

Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44382752

What Problems to Solve (1966)
http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379606

-2000 Lines of code
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381252

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379034

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345681

Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379673

6.25.25 | Joy in toy software, Exploring uv and PEP 723, New PNG spec

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:41:16 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2025.

Writing toy software is a joy
https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084

Fun with uv and PEP 723
https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388

A new PNG spec
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373504

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods
https://www.plasticlist.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366548

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806

Basic Facts about GPUs
https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365320

MCP is eating the world
https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338793

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366494

Microsoft Edit
https://github.com/microsoft/edit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372380

Ancient X11 scaling technology
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369646

6.24.25 | Backyard coffee and jazz in Kyoto, Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images, personal terminal usage

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:41:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2025.

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-coffee-and-jazz-in-kyoto
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356248

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/cosmic-treasure-chest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356890

How I use my terminal
https://jyn.dev/how-i-use-my-terminal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356646

Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-6-official-render-leaks-showcase-its-sustainable-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356788

U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated
https://www.ishn.com/articles/114776-us-chemical-safety-board-could-be-eliminated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361430

Making TRAMP faster
https://coredumped.dev/2025/06/18/making-tramp-go-brrrr./
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356346

Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/excalidraw-soc2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362165

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/18/a-deep-dive-into-solid-queue-for-ruby-on-rails.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326382

First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/science/spiders-deep-sea-methane-new-species
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338309

The FPGA turns 40
https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/the-fpga-turns-40
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333033

6.23.25 | Mechanical Watch diagram, Typst PhD Thesis, Klein Bottle brand hijacking

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:43:32 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2025.

Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
https://fellerts.no/projects/epoch.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347425

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
https://fransskarman.com/phd_thesis_in_typst.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350322

Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44349525

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
https://www.romanklasen.com/blog/beating-brainrot-by-button/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350002

Python can run Mojo now
https://koaning.io/posts/giving-mojo-a-spin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331316

The cultural decline of literary fiction
https://oyyy.substack.com/p/the-cultural-decline-of-literary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347973

2048 with only 64 bits of state
https://github.com/izabera/bitwise-challenge-2048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320285

Finding a billion factorials in 60 ms with SIMD
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/143279
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351068

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/new-linux-udisks-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-linux-distros/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325861

Radio Garden
https://radio.garden/?2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350450

6.22.25 | U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites, Beware lifetime non-compete confidentiality agreements, Airpass bypasses WiFi time limits

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:40:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2025.

U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338562

Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310763

uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS
https://testflight.apple.com/join/JjTcThrV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335664

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
https://delta.chat/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065

Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306892

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44308953

TPU Deep Dive
https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44342977

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
https://clickhouse.com/blog/scaling-observability-beyond-100pb-wide-events-replacing-otel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44336015

LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector
https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/laborberlin16mmprojector/start
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44340386

6.21.25 | YouTube's anti-adblock measures, Phoenix.new for remote AI runtime, Samsung embeds IronSource spyware on phones

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:39:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2025.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329712

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328326

Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA
https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334167

Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
https://writewithharper.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331362

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329457

AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332699

Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44328598

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44326145

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290992

Alpha Centauri
https://www.filfre.net/2025/06/alpha-centauri/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329600

6.20.25 | Rationalist identity, New BitTorrent tracker in Elixir, LLMs into MegaKernel for low-latency inference

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:40:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2025.

Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8908
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180

Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir
https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323253

Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference
https://zhihaojia.medium.com/compiling-llms-into-a-megakernel-a-path-to-low-latency-inference-cf7840913c17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321672

What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
https://matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317825

Infinite Mac OS X
https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323719

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324592

Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly
https://github.com/krustowski/rou2exOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318588

Curved-Crease Sculpture
https://erikdemaine.org/curved/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318874

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration – People vs. Big Tech
https://peoplevsbig.tech/break-up-big-tech-civil-society-declaration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325596

How OpenElections uses LLMs
https://thescoop.org/archives/2025/06/09/how-openelections-uses-llms/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320001

6.19.25 | Workout.cool is an open-source fitness platform, Andrej Karpathy discusses software in the AI era, Unregistry allows "docker push" to servers directly

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:40:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2025.

Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309320

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314423

Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry
https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314085

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314054

My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310944

The Zed Debugger Is Here
https://zed.dev/blog/debugger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314977

Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44313206

Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
https://meodai.github.io/poline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279569

Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309520

The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs
https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311241

6.18.25 | Honda's reusable rocket launch, The Grug Brained Developer, reviving a torrent tracker with 3M peers

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:42:49 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2025.

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300102

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
https://grugbrain.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301686

Building Effective AI Agents
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301809

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300717

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303361

Now might be the best time to learn software development
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299979

Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friends
https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306859

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302870

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299970

6.17.25 | WhatsApp adds ads, Nanonets-OCR-s converts documents to markdown, Chawan TUI web browser showcased

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:40:55 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2025.

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289412

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown
https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293260

Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/why-generative-ai-coding-tools-and-agents-do-not-work-for-me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294633

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes
https://github.com/czhu12/canine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292103

Benzene at 200
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290413

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defense-contract.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293988

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format
https://github.com/rorosen/zeekstd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284871

What happens when clergy take psilocybin
https://nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293610

Dull Men’s Club
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291892

6.16.25 | SSL renamed to TLS, Modifying Starlink Mini, Canyon.mid

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 06:41:18 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 16, 2025.

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282378

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router
https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282017

Canyon.mid
https://canyonmid.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282177

Datalog in Rust
https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281727

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282998

Foundations of Computer Vision (2024)
https://visionbook.mit.edu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281506

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282143

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-field-where-native-american-farmers-grew-corn-beans-and-squash-1000-years-ago-discovered-in-michigan-180986758/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44257422

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)
https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44281016

Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277

6.15.25 | Reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 in PyTorch, Waymo rides pricier than Uber/Lyft, TimeGuessr

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 06:40:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 15, 2025.

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276476

Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waymo-rides-cost-more-than-uber-or-lyft-and-people-are-paying-anyway/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258139

TimeGuessr
https://timeguessr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44233063

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278403

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_gets_world-first_views_of_the_Sun_s_poles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252717

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)
http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274001

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances
https://inria.hal.science/hal-04776866v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274567

Infinite Grid of Resistors
https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44279181

The Many Sides of Erik Satie
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44216921

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44277051

6.14.25 | Solar system model, HP's board buys Palm, Apple's Liquid Glass for AR interfaces

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:39:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 14, 2025.

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266828

I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270709

Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
https://omc345.substack.com/p/from-skeuomorphic-to-liquid-glass
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271630

Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
https://tattoy.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268644

Endometriosis is an interesting disease
https://www.owlposting.com/p/endometriosis-is-an-incredibly-interesting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272933

Self-Adapting Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284

Implementing Logic Programming
https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272467

100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)
https://research.mietek.io/mi.MartinLof2006.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269002

When random people give money to random other people (2017)
https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/when-random-people-give-money-to-random-other-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270144

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman
https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243059

6.13.25 | Receipt printer cured procrastination, Frequent reauth not more secure, US-backed Israeli spyware targeted European journalists

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:40:26 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 13, 2025.

A receipt printer cured my procrastination
https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256499

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261777

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259398

Jemalloc Postmortem
https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958

Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved-to-git-and-i-loved-devex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253212

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
https://github.com/ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258670

Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06932
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255728

Rust compiler performance
https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/06/09/why-doesnt-rust-care-more-about-compiler-performance.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234080

Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
https://osor.io/text
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265233

Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
https://tritium.legal/preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256765

6.12.25 | Big Bang possibly inside black hole, programming with agents, Chatterbox TTS

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:41:00 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 12, 2025.

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251047

How I Program with Agents
https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655

Chatterbox TTS
https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251411

Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
https://sparkjs.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249565

Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029

Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16150976-plants-hear-pollinators-produce-sweet-nectar-response
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211971

V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248165

OpenAI o3-pro
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240999

AOSP project is coming to an end
https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1l8rhon/aosp_project_is_coming_to_an_end/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254540

Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
https://github.com/rommapp/romm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247964

6.11.25 | Mistral AI's first reasoning model, Vassar Robotics' $219 learning robot arm, OpenAI's 80% price drop for o3

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:40:40 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 11, 2025.

Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
https://mistral.ai/news/magistral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236997

Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240302

OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1932434606558462459
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239359

Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
https://blog.jgc.org/2025/06/low-background-steel-content-without-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239481

Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238171

Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
https://www.tsungxu.com/p/i-made-a-3d-printed-vtol-that-can
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241278

Mikeal Rogers has died
https://b.h4x.zip/mikeal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236728

Denuvo Analysis
https://connorjaydunn.github.io/blog/posts/denuvo-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226406

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
https://www.vox.com/health/415812/cancer-death-rates-myeloma-immunotherapy-smoking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219379

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237881

6.10.25 | Tax deduction for US software devs, Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization, Apple introduces universal design

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:43:56 -0400

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

Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145

Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226978

Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-delightful-and-elegant-new-software-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226612

Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS
https://github.com/apple/containerization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-google-phones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224684

Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230182

Sly Stone has died
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sly-stone-pioneering-leader-funk-band-sly-family/story?id=122666345
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229841

Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing
https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226879

Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime
https://github.com/apple/container
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229239

Go is a good fit for agents
https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179889

6.9.25 | LLMs illustrated by pelicans, Kagi hits 50k users, supercomputers for autocrats threaten democracy

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:41:13 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2025.

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215352

Kagi Reaches 50k Users
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=members
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221450

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
https://helentoner.substack.com/p/supercomputers-for-autocrats
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219519

FSE meets the FBI
https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)
https://jordemort.dev/blog/why-android-cant-use-cdc-ethernet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219405

Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-06-08
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219857

Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance
https://aavetis.github.io/ai-pr-watcher/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188839

Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-time-of-day-that-immunotherapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217876

Gaussian integration is cool
https://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215603

My first attempt at iOS app development
https://mgx.me/my-first-attempt-at-ios-app-development
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188214

6.8.25 | Bill Atkinson has died, Washington Post advises against Chrome and Meta apps, overcoming procrastination

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:38:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2025.

Bill Atkinson has died
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210689

Getting Past Procrastination
https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207095

Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212446

My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210736

Joining Apple Computer (2018)
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212441

Low-Level Optimization with Zig
https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208060

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44211273

Why We're Moving on from Nix
https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208968

What was Radiant AI, anyway?
https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209497

6.7.25 | Tax code causing tech layoffs, Meta's invasive AI feed concerns, GitLab backup time reduced significantly

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 06:42:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 7, 2025.

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/meta-shut-down-your-invasive-ai-discover-feed-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201872

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201975

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205282

A year of funded FreeBSD development
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44204224

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44205590

A masochist's guide to web development
https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200895

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
https://odyc.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200866

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203562

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201812

6.6.25 | YouTube warns against self-hosting media, death newts face an impossible predicament, Air Lab introduces a portable air quality measuring device

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:42:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2025.

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932

The impossible predicament of the death newts
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191620

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189329

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-first
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184900

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191558

Eleven v3
https://elevenlabs.io/v3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194521

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186496

parrot.live
https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186536

I do not remember my life and it's fine
https://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196576

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194082

6.5.25 | OpenAI opposes court order on ChatGPT logs, FFmpeg adds WebRTC support, IRS Direct File available on GitHub

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:42:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 5, 2025.

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185913

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182186

IRS Direct File on GitHub
https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356

Why I wrote the BEAM book
https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44179257

Cursor 1.0
https://www.cursor.com/en/changelog/1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44185256

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183799

Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-guard-crash-data-public-disclosure-2025-06-04/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44186780

The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
https://tech.marksblogg.com/apple-iphone-15-pro-depth-map-heic.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183591

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers
https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182188

Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple-notes-rumored-markdown-support-ios-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183923

6.4.25 | Deep learning praised, fact checking overlooked, covert Android tracking, DiffX extensible format

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:41:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2025.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-06-04-enzyme-ml-fails/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174965

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
https://localmess.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format
https://diffx.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176737

Merlin Bird ID
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176829

Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905

Precious Plastic is in trouble
https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773

The Small World of English
https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170968

Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
https://richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856

Binary Wordle
https://wordle.chengeric.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176825

6.3.25 | AI skeptics are irrational, Cloudflare creates OAuth with Claude, Kan.bn is an open-source Trello alternative

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:40:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2025.

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166

Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
https://github.com/kanbn/kan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157177

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers
https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127653

Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)
https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159758

Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month
https://absurd.website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167592

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44166102

ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine
https://www.thorvg.org/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157406

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/02/younger-generations-less-likely-dementia-study
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160012

6.2.25 | Root shell on credit card terminal, Cinematography of "Andor," Visual world of 'Samurai Jack'

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:40:58 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2025.

Root shell on a credit card terminal
https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150803

Cinematography of “Andor”
https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149718

The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-visual-world-of-samurai-jack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154032

How to post when no one is reading
https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155746

LibriVox
https://librivox.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153738

I made a chair
https://milofultz.com/2025-05-27-i-made-a-chair.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142259

When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide
https://getkiln.ai/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129495

HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux
https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44068
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125793

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44156935

The Rise of Judgement over Technical Skill
https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/ai-and-judgement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153732

6.1.25 | Precision Clock Mk IV, Progressive JSON, A Lean companion to Analysis I

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:39:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2025.

Precision Clock Mk IV
https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750

Progressive JSON
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147945

A Lean companion to Analysis I
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145517

RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination
https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148524

Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146830

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17270
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146858

Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste
https://patio.so
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147803

CCD co-inventor George E. Smith dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146619

New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44147573

Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
https://stephencoyle.net/kilnettle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148853

5.31.25 | Photos inside instruments, AI hype and white-collar layoffs, AWS systems correctness practices

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 31 May 2025 06:41:03 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2025.

Photos taken inside musical instruments
https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136117

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135638

Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135977

Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137715

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139454

Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/micro-center-santa-clara-photos.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140378

Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140379

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
https://sakana.ai/dgm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135369

Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44115853

5.30.25 | WeatherStar 4000+ simulates Weather Channel, human coders outperform LLMs, FLUX.1 Kontext

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 30 May 2025 06:40:50 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2025.

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109

Human coders are still better than LLMs
https://antirez.com/news/153
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

FLUX.1 Kontext
https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
https://commandline.stribny.name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
https://wave3.social
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513

Buttplug MCP
https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio
https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131984

Why is everybody knitting chickens?
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108139

Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/making-c-and-python-talk-to-each
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105746

5.29.25 | Rewrote Mac Electron app in Rust, Japan Post launches digital address system, Compiler Explorer promises lasting URLs

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 29 May 2025 06:41:36 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2025.

Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722

Long live American Science and Surplus
https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101175

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states
https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120241

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123098

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens
https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086429

Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117059

5.28.25 | Square Theory, hawk uses traffic signals for hunting, LLM CLI tool runs tools from Python or plugins

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:41:17 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2025.

Square Theory
https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965

Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584

Show HN: Lazy Tetris
https://lazytetris.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105796

Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326

LumoSQL
https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105619

The Level Design Book
https://book.leveldesignbook.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086973

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086917

5.27.25 | CSS Minecraft, Hacker News uses Common Lisp, Owls in Towels

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:42:10 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2025.

CSS Minecraft
https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

Owls in Towels
https://owlsintowels.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100179

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099407

5.26.25 | Claude 4 System Card, Amazon coders liken jobs to warehouse work, Open Source Society University offers free CS education

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:42:11 -0400

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

Claude 4 System Card
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920

At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150

Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089150

Google Shared My Phone Number
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094270

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
https://lottie.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088216

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089424

Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future
https://self-issued.info/?p=2708
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092102

Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087844

Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)
https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088682

5.25.25 | o3 finds Linux SMB zeroday, Reinvent the Wheel, US scientific conferences leaving due to border fears

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 25 May 2025 06:38:51 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2025.

I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338

Reinvent the Wheel
https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017

Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver
https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803

Good Writing
https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586

Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak
https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083388

The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080533

Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549

Why old games never die, but new ones do
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers
https://pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081081

5.24.25 | Postgres IDE for VS Code, Find Your People, Living on $432 a month in America

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:40:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2025.

Postgres IDE in VS Code
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588

Find Your People
https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017

How to live on $432 a month in America
https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074340

Root for your friends
https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077533

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049619

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077850

Why Algebraic Effects?
https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078434

Caesar's Last Breath
https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073185

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app
https://doublememory.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075451

5.23.25 | Claude 4, Mozilla shutting down Pocket and Fakespot, long-admired fractal on wall

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:41:02 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2025.

Claude 4
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063248

Improving performance of rav1d video decoder
https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-rav1d-faster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061160

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability
https://github.com/kepano/defuddle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067409

The Future of Flatpak
https://lwn.net/Articles/1020571/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068400

I Built My Own Audio Player
https://nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-native-mp3-player-in-swiftui/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062227

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5
https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-21-fast-allocations-in-ruby-3-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062160

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-earth-really-have-two-high-tide-bulges-on-opposite-sides
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065458

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 – slides and notes
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070042

5.22.25 | OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI startup, Devstral, Gemini Diffusion

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:40:32 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2025.

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053518

Devstral
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051733

Gemini Diffusion
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057820

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055347

Animated Factorization (2012)
http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051958

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053560

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective
https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053744

Decibels Are Ridiculous
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058778

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033711

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054185

5.21.25 | Veo 3 and Imagen 4 for filmmaking, Deep Learning in Applied Topology, AI driving Microsoft employees insane

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 21 May 2025 08:34:21 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2025.

Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043

Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
https://theahura.substack.com/p/deep-learning-is-applied-topology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041738

My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152

Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044199

Litestream: Revamped
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045292

Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web
https://90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042371

The NSA Selector
https://github.com/wenzellabs/the_NSA_selector
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044459

Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/why-does-the-u-s-always-run-a-trade-deficit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44040407

Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet
https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042490

AI's energy footprint
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039808

5.20.25 | Windows Subsystem for Linux open source, Zod 4, Have I Been Pwned 2.0

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 20 May 2025 05:39:49 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2025.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385

Zod 4
https://zod.dev/v4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030850

Have I Been Pwned 2.0
https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-2-0-is-now-live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035158

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031432

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
https://micahflee.com/ddosecrets-publishes-410-gb-of-heap-dumps-hacked-from-telemessages-archive-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036647

Claude Code SDK
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032777

Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent
https://jules.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034918

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game
https://ncase.me/trust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031535

Run GitHub Actions locally
https://github.com/nektos/act
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003184

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030492

5.18.25 | AR glasses and Linux on Android, Mystical, O2 VoLTE customer location

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 18 May 2025 05:37:44 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2025.

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513

Mystical
https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016037

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014046

If nothing is curated, how do we find things
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015144

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/dead-stars-dont-radiate-and-shrink/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015872

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model
https://komiko.app/video/AniSora
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017913

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
https://webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast-color/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015367

Directory of MCP Servers
https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016336

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus
https://www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-japanese-rom-of-the-macintosh-plus-which-isnt-lost-anymore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017692

FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux
https://freebasic.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017592

5.17.25 | Push Ifs Up, JavaScript's Explicit Resource Management, Japan's IC Cards

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:20:52 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2025.

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013157

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
https://v8.dev/features/explicit-resource-management
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012227

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
https://aruarian.dance/blog/japan-ic-cards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993711

MCP: An in-depth introduction
https://www.speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972334

XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement
https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011515

Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011489

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64
https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014587

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011381

"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014808

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/05/15/developer-tools/introducing-pyrefly-a-new-type-checker-and-ide-experience-for-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013913

5.16.25 | Baby healed with gene-editing, LLM agent loop effectiveness, leap year check instructions

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:29:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2025.

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997636

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
https://sketch.dev/blog/agent-loop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472

A leap year check in three instructions
https://hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-leap-year-check-in-three-instructions.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999748

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996307

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001087

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
https://zverok.space/blog/2024-08-08-bmac-snafu.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002333

Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/initialization-is-bonkers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43999492

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
https://teal-language.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000759

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003700

Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996555

5.15.25 | AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent, HDR explained, an unexpected server

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:39:23 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2025.

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489

What is HDR, anyway?
https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871

A server that wasn't meant to exist
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985971

Databricks acquires Neon
https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-neon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971515

Human
https://quarter--mile.com/Human
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991396

How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981680

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991256

Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620

Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945733

5.14.25 | Older hardware viable with software optimization, GNU Screen has multiple security issues, Branch Privilege Injection exploits race conditions

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 14 May 2025 05:39:09 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2025.

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971464

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971716

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974891

The great displacement is already well underway?
https://shawnfromportland.substack.com/p/the-great-displacement-is-already
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963434

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973395

PDF to Text, a challenging problem
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973721

Flattening Rust’s learning curve
https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978435

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845

Type-constrained code generation with language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978357

Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972425

5.13.25 | The Barbican, Firefox on GitHub, community fork of Organic Maps

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:39:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2025.

The Barbican
https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964136

Firefox moves to GitHub
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827

A community-led fork of Organic Maps
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?
https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966089

FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models
https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43968897

University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
https://news.utexas.edu/2025/05/05/university-of-texas-led-team-solves-a-big-problem-for-fusion-energy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962148

Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962770

Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
https://www.core77.com/posts/136773/Reviving-a-Modular-Cargo-Bike-Design-from-the-1930s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963397

Air Traffic Control
https://computer.rip/2025-05-11-air-traffic-control.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958562

RIP Usenix ATC
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964827

5.12.25 | Plain Vanilla Web, One-Click RCE in Asus Driver, 16x16 Dot Animation from Math Rules

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 12 May 2025 05:40:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2025.

Plain Vanilla Web
https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896

One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43951588

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
https://tixy.land
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942881

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
https://insideevs.com/features/759153/car-companies-software-companies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955525

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-13-taking-stock-part-1-attention-heads-are-dumb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931366

Lazarus Release 4.0
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=71050.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913414

Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/title-work-deciphered-sealed-herculaneum-scroll-digital-unwrapping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43953883

The most valuable commodity in the world is friction
https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933091

Why Bell Labs Worked
https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957010

High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954488

5.10.25 | ALICE detects lead to gold at LHC, Sofie automates live TV news production, business books as entertainment

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 10 May 2025 05:37:14 -0400

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

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937214

Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936408

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
https://theorthagonist.substack.com/p/why-reading-business-books-is-a-waste
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940747

Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor
https://www.hyvector.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935394

21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X
https://nietras.com/2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936592

Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
https://www.itter.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936884

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/multimodal.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943047

What’s new in Swift 6.2
https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/277/whats-new-in-swift-6-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940539

WebGL Water (2010)
https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942149

5.9.25 | Steve Jobs praises idea, Open-source Cursor alternative, First American pope named Pope Leo XIV

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 09 May 2025 05:38:45 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2025.

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724

Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
https://github.com/voideditor/void
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927926

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927856

Reservoir Sampling
https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928315

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
https://avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933891

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
https://www.fusionenergybase.com/articles/continuing-progress-toward-fusion-energy-breakeven-and-gain-as-measured-against-the-lawson-criteria
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927337

When Abandoned Mines Collapse
https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908261

A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-max-plan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409

Starlink User Terminal Teardown
https://www.darknavy.org/blog/a_first_glimpse_of_the_starlink_user_ternimal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933452

How to start a school with your friends
https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-start-a-university
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930397

5.8.25 | Ty is a fast Python type checker, Postgres 18 accelerates disk reads with asynchronous I/O, Mistral launches Le Chat, an enterprise AI assistant for on-prem use

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:38:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2025.

Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918484

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916577

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-enterprise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916098

So Much Blood
https://dynomight.net/blood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913751

Open source Google Analytics replacement
https://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918620

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
https://gill.net.in/posts/my-quest-to-make-motorcycle-riding-safer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914235

Web search on the Anthropic API
https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search-api
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43920188

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)
https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916956

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/generate-images-gemini-2-0-flash-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917461

Mac Themes Garden
https://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919868

5.7.25 | Clippy brings 90s UI to local LLMs, Gemini 2.5 Pro preview released, OpenAI acquires Windsurf for $3B

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 07 May 2025 05:39:47 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2025.

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905942

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43900877

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/05/06/matt-godbolt-sold-me-on-rust-by-showing-me-c-plus-plus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907820

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906841

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-launches-attack-9-sites-pakistan-pakistan-occupied-jammu-kashmir-2025-05-06/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909430

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/claude.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909409

VVVVVV Source Code
https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910681

Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
https://github.com/al13n321/nnd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185

Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
https://accent-strength.boldvoice.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905299

5.6.25 | OpenAI's structural evolution, Daft Punk's vocal effects, Real-time AI voice chat at ~500ms latency

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 06 May 2025 05:39:31 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2025.

Evolving OpenAI's Structure
https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772

The vocal effects of Daft Punk
https://bjango.com/articles/daftpunkvocaleffects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893601

Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899028

I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885101

As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often
https://minimaxir.com/2025/05/llm-use/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320

Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
https://blog.yaakov.online/replacing-kubernetes-with-systemd/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43899236

The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)
https://den.dev/blog/pihole/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43894175

Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database
https://vectorvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896011

How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/cybcecrime/security/cybersecurity/2025/05/05/state-cyber-security.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896188

Possibly a Serious Possibility
https://kucharski.substack.com/p/possibly-a-serious-possibility
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898380

5.5.25 | Prefer prompt reading, 3D-printing design, persistent Alabama landline

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 05 May 2025 05:41:55 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2025.

I'd rather read the prompt
https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803

Design for 3D-Printing
https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888117

An Alabama landline that keeps ringing
https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-alabama-landline-that-keeps-ringing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43886243

Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire
https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-volley-fire/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877644

Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874641

Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials used
https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476

Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling
https://rentry.co/samplers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43887637

Oberon Pi
http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/oberon-pi/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885478

Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-graceful-shutdown/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889610

On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/after-neoliberalism/articles/on-not-carrying-a-camera
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890525

5.4.25 | Free PDF editor, Rediscovering Ruby on Rails over Next.js, AI's time savings balanced by new work

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 04 May 2025 05:38:02 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2025.

Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
https://breezepdf.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962

We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
https://hardcover.app/blog/part-1-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-next-js-and-back-in-love-with-ruby-on-rails-inertia-js
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878850

Minimum Viable Blog
https://ostwilkens.se/blog/setting-up-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877797

Why can't HTML alone do includes?
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/seeking-an-answer-why-cant-html-alone-do-includes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878728

DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/03/duckdb-is-the-most-impactful-geospatial-software-in-a-decade.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881468

Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)
https://github.com/Anemll/Anemll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879702

Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
https://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883040

When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
https://aphyr.com/posts/381-when-flat-rate-movers-wont-answer-your-calls
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43882150

Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)
https://halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stopped-angel-investing-after
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878878

5.3.25 | Synthesizer using 3D physics, Soviet Venus craft reentry, language brain vs. math brain in programming

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 03 May 2025 05:37:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2025.

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics
https://anukari.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873074

Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry
https://www.leonarddavid.com/old-soviet-venus-descent-craft-nearing-earth-reentry/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873531

The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)
https://massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-python-women-in-science/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870969

Suno v4.5
https://suno.com/explore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869353

Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
https://www.abdisa.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43867211

Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870819

Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders
https://github.com/nathan-barry/gpt2-webgl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870998

Strings Just Got Faster
https://inside.java/2025/05/01/strings-just-got-faster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854337

What I've learned from jj
https://zerowidth.com/2025/what-ive-learned-from-jj/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43867403

The Cannae Problem
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cannae-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869288

5.2.25 | Redis is open source, Judge rules Apple executive lied, Claude Integrations

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:38:43 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2025.

Redis is open source again
https://antirez.com/news/151
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446

Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-apple-executive-lied
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856795

Claude Integrations
https://www.anthropic.com/news/integrations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859536

Third party cookies must be removed
https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865132

Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
https://linkwarden.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856801

New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-for-vru
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861828

Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864108

When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854776

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
https://picower.mit.edu/news/dopamine-signals-when-fear-can-be-forgotten
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860726

Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis
https://llasatts.github.io/llasatts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860137

5.1.25 | YouTube's vision issue, Apple antitrust violation, Perfect Wiki's $250k revenue without investors

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:38:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2025.

Someone at YouTube needs glasses
https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487

Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-violated-antitrust-ruling-federal-judge-finds-66b85957
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145

I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
https://habr.com/en/articles/905812/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842306

Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842683

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
https://www.jasonthorsness.com/25
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840193

DeepSeek-Prover-V2
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Prover-V2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43847432

Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model
https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/introducing-mercury
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43851099

All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
https://danfabulich.medium.com/all-four-major-web-browsers-are-about-to-lose-80-of-their-funding-0e42ceb358f1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827054

NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-audio-overviews-50-languages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848325

The True Size Of
https://thetruesize.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43804561

4.30.25 | Using zip bombs for server protection, Firefox introduces tab groups, Teslas exempt from auto tariffs due to domestic content rule

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:38:54 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2025.

I use zip bombs to protect my server
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798

Firefox tab groups are here
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834101

Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
https://fuelarc.com/cars/only-tesla-exempt-from-new-auto-tariffs-thanks-to-85-domestic-content-rule/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837993

Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
https://github.com/PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835445

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833195

Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices
https://github.com/freeman-jiang/beatsync
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835584

Sycophancy in GPT-4o
https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840842

Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/why-performance-optimization-is-hard-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831705

Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
https://blog.bymitch.com/posts/reject-cookies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831298

Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive
https://blog.tylerglaiel.com/p/programming-languages-should-have
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831628

4.29.25 | Power outage in Spain and Portugal, Hardware processor for Python, Qwen3 enhances decision-making

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:39:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2025.

Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820228

Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825900

Migrating away from Rust
https://deadmoney.gg/news/articles/migrating-away-from-rust
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824640

Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=111121
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827214

The 12-bit rainbow palette
https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827108

One Million Chessboards
https://onemillionchessboards.com/#199,276
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825336

Knowledge-based society, my ass
https://mihaiolteanu.me/knowledge-based-society-my-ass
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828713

LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
https://librelingo.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829035

The One-Person Framework in Practice
https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.5SRwDQ9qxPQW8vmD5Do73b3R4eTCi2vXqPyztEk6wMFC9_fqEAcDVx6xEJ96T4BSMXrPS7z5exEBSTF4pF48z8SqJkJnkAwMUW9LtYdd8lWmvkDinT92nsk5HmXOHdWgLsysm9FMGrqmu7dnG57cXpga8ZOe8X0IV8pyeC3AswdRMaitfT307y7naP-_6W5CiolKhXCKrEndMGCW2PftFUu9ieYOxpVJ_fhu82gAh-4/4g1/wA_MG-I5SVCyR3KY66oEaQ/h30/h001.kLDFZMgisudi21zmTPbd_O8U7X98d4UxYqZjQTb_D7o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826584

4.28.25 | Internet in a Box, single line of code can brick iPhone, tech startup co-founders overestimate value

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:18:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2025.

Internet in a Box
https://internet-in-a-box.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814433

How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814360

Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
https://verdikapuku.com/posts/business-founders-are-less-valuable-than-they-think/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814497

Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio
https://www.screenrecorder.me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816419

Reverse geocoding is hard
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812323

Read the Obits
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813175

Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?
https://zetier.com/5g-imsi-catcher/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813083

AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815591

I just want to code (2023)
https://www.zachbellay.com/daily/i-just-want-to-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814708

The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/the-coming-knowledge-work-supply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812459

Apr 27, 2025 | o3 guesses photo location, prostate trouble resolution, cloth

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:37:12 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2025.

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803243

An end to all this prostate trouble?
https://yarchive.net/blog/prostate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801906

Cloth
https://www.cloudofoz.com/verlet-test/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801179

Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad
https://github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803148

The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
https://www.happiness.hks.harvard.edu/february-2025-issue/the-friendship-recession-the-lost-art-of-connecting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802727

Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/australian-who-ordered-radioactive-materials-over-the-internet-walks-away-from-court/4021306.article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43801439

Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-just-happens-to-hold-book-sale-during-independent-bookstore-day-2000594958
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808334

Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS
https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-printf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43807404

CSS Zen Garden
https://csszengarden.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809484

Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs
https://github.com/si14/stuffed-naan-js
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803724

Apr 26, 2025 | $20k American electric pickup with no features, Wikipedia's nonprofit status questioned, "/etc/hosts" breaks Substack editor

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:39:00 -0400

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

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284

Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302

Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793526

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-love-letter-to-people-who-believe-in-people.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788255

Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796935

Eurorack Knob Idea
https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793288

GCC 15.1
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792248

I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time
https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799820

Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
https://clevercoloringbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791992

Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01266-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43795300

Apr 25, 2025 | GPLv2 license address contacted, OpenAI API adds image generation, DuckDB UI offers instant SQL results

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:38:18 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2025.

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781888

OpenAI releases image generation in the API
https://openai.com/index/image-generation-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786506

Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-instant-sql/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782406

Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782299

One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/21cm-magic-length/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784721

DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/music-ai-sandbox-now-with-new-features-and-broader-access/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790093

OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours
https://status.open-vsx.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785039

You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
https://www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787676

Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788125

National Airspace System Status
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787730

Apr 24, 2025 | GTA San Andreas bug in Windows 11, font theft analogy, DOGE worker aids NLRB whistleblower

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:39:20 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2025.

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43772311

You wouldn't steal a font
https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926

DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776476

AI Horseless Carriages
https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773813

Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778105

Teaching LLMs how to solid model
https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990

Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771365

YAGRI: You are gonna read it
https://www.scottantipa.com/yagri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776967

Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM
https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778081

Google blocked Motorola use of Perplexity AI, witness says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/perplexity-executive-says-google-blocked-motorola-s-use-of-ai-assistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776512

Apr 23, 2025 | Atuin Desktop enables automated runbooks, Sapphire is a Rust package manager for macOS, ClickHouse introduces lazy materialization for improved performance

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:39:06 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2025.

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200

Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
https://github.com/alexykn/sapphire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43765011

ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-gets-lazier-and-faster-introducing-lazy-materialization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763688

I should have loved biology too
https://nehalslearnings.substack.com/p/i-should-have-loved-biology-too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764076

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
https://uwplse.org/2025/03/31/Algebraic-Knitting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763614

Native visionOS platform support
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768421

Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces
https://www.solidjs.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734911

Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally
https://github.com/morphik-org/morphik-core
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763814

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
https://pi.website/blog/pi05
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43764439

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769482

Apr 22, 2025 | Dia TTS model for dialogue, Blog on Nintendo Wii, Synology's hard drive locking issue

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:39:01 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2025.

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754124

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754953

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43734706

Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757037

A new form of verification on Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753651

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751076

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752492

AI assisted search-based research works now
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752262

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755017

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176

Apr 21, 2025 | Gemma 3 QAT Models for consumer GPUs, limitations of Zig comptime, impact of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on emotions

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:38:25 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2025.

Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743337

Things Zig comptime won't do
https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748486

I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE to use their camera [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ_boqCw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748133

Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744173

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01026-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710451

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM
https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43747921

The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
https://blues.win/posts/joy-of-linux-theming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743784

Python's new t-strings
https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748512

Find the Odd Disk
https://colors2.alessandroroussel.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868

Apr 20, 2025 | Librarians pose risks, Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner, Claude Code's agentic coding best practices

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:37:23 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2025.

Librarians are dangerous
https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians-are-dangerous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736791

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner
https://github.com/PiLiDAR/PiLiDAR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738561

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735550

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669151

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738603

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735902

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials
https://github.com/The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739456

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd517z87o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717513

Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation
https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736193

Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine
https://philwip.com/2025/04/14/galaxian-3-project-revival/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735239

Apr 19, 2025 | Doom-like game in QR code, Judge rules cell tower data search unconstitutional, Cozy video games reduce stress and anxiety

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:36:40 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 19, 2025.

Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code
https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/backdooms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43729683

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43730545

Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cozy-video-games-can-quell-stress-anxiety-2025-01-27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43733097

Defold: cross-platform game engine
https://defold.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43726051

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731165

Full Text Search of US Court records
https://www.judyrecords.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731552

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
https://www.onemetre.net/Design/Design.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698522

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691020

Hypertext TV
https://hypertext.tv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732805

A New ASN.1 API for Python
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/18/sneak-peek-a-new-asn.1-api-for-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728279

Apr 18, 2025 | Gemini 2.5 Flash release, Google monopolizes online advertising, DeepSeek's distributed file system introduction

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:38:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2025.

Gemini 2.5 Flash
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43720845

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717705

An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
https://maknee.github.io/blog/2025/3FS-Performance-Journal-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716058

Potatoes in the Mail
https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722486

HDR‑Infused Emoji
https://sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43717606

Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00247-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695093

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715884

Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724941

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32433
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716526

Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
https://quagmirerepair.com/milwaukee-m18-battery-reverse-engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718809

Apr 17, 2025 | K-Mart shoppers alerted, TLS certificate lifetimes cut to 47 days, OpenAI introduces o3 and o4-mini

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:38:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2025.

Attention K-Mart Shoppers
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706706

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693900

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43707719

Kermit: A typeface for kids
https://microsoft.design/articles/introducing-kermit-a-typeface-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704904

Darwin's children drew all over the "On the Origin of Species" manuscript (2014)
https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037

A Postmortem of a Startup
https://buildwithtract.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703682

Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo-bled-atari-games-to-death/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704596

An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
https://bjlkeng.io/posts/an-introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703623

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
https://antirez.com/news/150
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705632

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)
https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705649

Apr 16, 2025 | Cursor IDE's lockout policy issues, DHS's CVE program contract not renewed, DOGE's potential NLRB data breach

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:39:36 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2025.

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700607

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
https://filiph.github.io/unsure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690289

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-sharty-hack-and-janitor-email-leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334

How the U.S. became a science superpower
https://steveblank.com/2025/04/15/how-the-u-s-became-a-science-superpower/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692360

Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
https://blog.google/products/gemini/video-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695592

Clolog
https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695620

Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-math-prodigy-cryptocurrency-enforcement-united-states/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681658

Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness
https://github.com/ubisoft/Chroma
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692089

Apr 15, 2025 | Harvard's response to federal letter, hackable AI assistant with SQLite and cron jobs, GPT-4.1 in API

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:39:48 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2025.

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681287

GPT-4.1 in the API
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683410

The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/tree/main/OpenSourcing_DeepSeek_Inference_Engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682088

Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/14/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial-kicks-off-in-federal-court
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680957

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899

Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-partner-deal-news-april2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686773

SQLite File Format Viewer
https://sqlite-internal.pages.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682006

Google to embrace MCP
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646227

What Is Entropy?
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/What-is-Entropy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684560

Apr 14, 2025 | Googler vs. ex-Googler, Open guide to equity, Dark side of Moomins

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:40:23 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2025.

Googler... ex-Googler
https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658089

Open guide to equity compensation
https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675126

The dark side of the Moomins
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672593

Why Fennel?
https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673551

Everything wrong with MCP
https://blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676771

I bought a Mac
https://loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677165

Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
https://www.signalbloom.ai/news/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675248

Math 13 – An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics [pdf]
https://www.math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math13/notes.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675310

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
https://alexanderell.is/posts/orange/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673761

Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch
https://github.com/policy-gradient/GRPO-Zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674825

Apr 13, 2025 | Open source file converter, SVG innovations, Trump exempts tech from tariffs

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:38:33 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2025.

Open source and self hostable/private file converter
https://vert.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663865

Nice things with SVG
https://fuma-nama.vercel.app/blog/svg-art
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666439

Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-from-reciprocal-tariffs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43664121

Emacs Lisp Elements
https://protesilaos.com/emacs/emacs-lisp-elements
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665046

Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114327666433966529
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669185

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669308

Anubis Works
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/anubis-works/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668433

Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers
https://tunarr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665201

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/i-ditched-my-laptop-for-a-pocketable-mini-pc-and-a-pair-of-ar-glasses-heres-what-happened
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668192

WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
https://webtui.ironclad.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668250

Apr 12, 2025 | Faster horse analogy, Israeli govt's Meta campaign, $70M profit from insider info

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:39:14 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2025.

But what if I want a faster horse?
https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652723

Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655603

$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661680

Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
https://petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653885

Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653672

You might not need WebSockets
https://hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-need-websockets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659370

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)
https://stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655221

Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661235

Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-creates-super-high-tech-ministry-research-technology-and-aerospace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658060

Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
https://chrismalek.me/posts/data-star-first-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914

Apr 11, 2025 | Garfield Minus Garfield, Fintech founder fraud, AI app humans in Philippines, 100 Go mistakes explained

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:38:18 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2025.

Garfield Minus Garfield
https://garfieldminusgarfield.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646095

Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43648950

The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mistakes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647880

.localhost Domains
https://inclouds.space/localhost-domains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644043

Big Book of R
https://www.bigbookofr.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646219

Default styles for h1 elements are changing
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649853

How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646920

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-wheel-tapping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644970

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules
https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647294

Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures
https://crocidb.com/post/kernel-adventures/demystifying-the-shebang/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646698

Apr 10, 2025 | Nike shoe production costs, Ironwood's Google TPU for inference, University students using Claude

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 05:39:04 -0400

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

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1909741170953273353
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631543

Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631274

How University Students Use Claude
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633383

Photographs of 19th Century Japan
https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-old-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631251

SpacetimeDB
https://spacetimedb.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631822

The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
https://livesys.se/posts/the-chroot-technique/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632379

GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635295

Firebase Studio
https://firebase.studio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635783

Google Cloud Rapid Storage
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-with-ai-hypercomputer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639642

Apr 9, 2025 | Apache ECharts, Puzzle game licensed by The Atlantic, Brazil's payments system dominance

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:41:34 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2025.

Apache ECharts
https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624220

Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719

Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/03/brazils-government-run-payments-system-has-become-dominant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620279

Tailscale has raised $160M
https://tailscale.com/blog/series-c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620141

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/no-elephants-breakthroughs-in-image
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43590569

An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

Obituary for Cyc
https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/cyc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768

Better typography with text-wrap pretty
https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622703

PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)
https://blog.vectorchord.ai/postgresql-full-text-search-fast-when-done-right-debunking-the-slow-myth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627646

Apr 8, 2025 | Viral trading cards in rural Japan, Browser MCP automates with Cursor, Claude, VS Code, Lux is a luxurious Lua package manager

Hacker News Highlights — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:39:04 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2025.

Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615912

Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
https://browsermcp.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613194

Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua
https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-04-07-lux-announcement.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614285

Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577490

Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
https://yossarian.net/til/post/any-program-can-be-a-github-actions-shell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617493

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3722542
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614199

India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618105

Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
https://www.botanica.software/post/decoding-the-90s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612102

What Was Quartz?
https://www.zachseward.com/what-was-quartz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616604

Scaffold Level Editor
https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615322

Apr 7, 2025 | Standard Ebooks offers quality ebooks, MCP emphasizes security, recent AI model progress seems unconvincing

Hacker News Highlights — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:38:53 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2025.

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
https://standardebooks.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637

The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands-for-security-91407b33ed6b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43603453

Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003

How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601213

Glamorous Toolkit
https://gtoolkit.com//
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43606027

Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock
https://old.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdropping_on_smartphone_1356mhz_nfc_polling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605576

Data centers contain 90% crap data
https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605695

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
https://www.theverge.com/tech/640119/camera-raw-spec-format-explained-adobe-dng-canon-nikon-sony-fujifilm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580815

Breaking computers taught me to build them
https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625

Apr 6, 2025 | Advertising illegal, Llama 4 herd, Word game feedback needed

Hacker News Highlights — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:38:39 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2025.

What if we made advertising illegal?
https://simone.org/advertising/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269

The Llama 4 herd
https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585

Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
https://www.whatsit.today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593789

Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)
https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596864

Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
https://tansanrao.com/blog/2025/04/xnu-kernel-and-darwin-evolution-and-architecture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597778

Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
https://thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-daft-punks-something-about-us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591050

Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
https://eshard.com/posts/emulating-ios-14-with-qemu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592409

The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
https://add.org/the-body-double/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597425

A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-a-vision-for-webassembly-support-in-swift/79060
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593596

Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-interpreters-in-go-catching-up-with-cpp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595283

Apr 5, 2025 | Machine Learning theory and algorithms, Zen of side projects, Learn electricity and electronics informally

Hacker News Highlights — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:36:39 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2025.

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearning/copy.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586073

The blissful Zen of a good side project
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587380

Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
https://simonmonk.org/tyee7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589776

An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=36.%208pinLinux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586654

The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
https://www.filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-1-the-acquisition/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586157

Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
https://coolify.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555996

Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024)
https://edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584303

Nebula Sans
https://nebulasans.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591225

Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
https://fi-le.net/byzantine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545757

Annotated Unix Magic Poster
https://unixmagic.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589042

Apr 4, 2025 | Archeologist adventurer with hat and bullwhip, AnimeJs v4 released, AI 2027

Hacker News Highlights — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:39:42 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2025.

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573156

AnimeJs v4 Is Here
https://animejs.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570533

AI 2027
https://ai-2027.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571851

Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099

Reasoning models don't always say what they think
https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572374

Microsoft’s original source code
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575884

Overengineered Anchor Links
https://thirty-five.com/overengineered-anchoring
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570324

The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
https://www.dutchosintguy.com/post/the-slow-collapse-of-critical-thinking-in-osint-due-to-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573465

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573755

A university president makes a case against cowardice
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568655

Apr 3, 2025 | tomhow as public moderator, TV Garden, 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Hacker News Highlights — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:38:30 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2025.

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671

TV Garden
https://tv.garden/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43524461

US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561253

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
https://www.dorithegiant.com/2016/05/13-animals-made-from-13-circles.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557873

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
https://pico.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560899

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562860

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43523220

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564111

Restructuring Announcement
https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559855

Why I don't discuss politics with friends
https://shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559605

Apr 2, 2025 | Germanium band structure critique, Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies, Glubux's Powerwall overview

Hacker News Highlights — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:39:19 -0400

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2025.

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545917

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236

Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powerwall.126/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217

Stop syncing everything
https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537272

Why F#?
https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546004

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549293

Shared DNA in Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551352

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518570

Where does air pollution come from?
https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553663

Apr 1, 2025 | Demoscene recognized as UNESCO heritage, Honey loses 4M Chrome users,