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Hacker News Highlights

11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.

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

(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

1 day ago

11 minutes

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11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state containers, djb's notes on Fil-C

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

2 days ago

11 minutes

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11.2.25 | ArXiv CS review article updates, Visopsys OS by single developer since 1997, Show HN on LLM coding experiment

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2025.

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

(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

3 days ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

11.1.25 | Strange Attractors, subtle risk in async Rust, Pixels vulnerable to Cellebrite hacking

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2025.

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

(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

4 days ago

12 minutes

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10.31.25 | Affinity Studio free, free software scares, 987654321 / 123456789

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

5 days ago

10 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.30.25 | Uv enhances Python ecosystem, Azure experiences outage, Minecraft drops Java obfuscation

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

6 days ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.29.25 | Sideloading discussions, AI reduces hospital bill, Android openness

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

1 week ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.28.25 | YouTuber sued for lock shimming, PSF withdraws $1.5M grant proposal, Claude for Excel

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

1 week ago

12 minutes

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10.27.25 | Git server availability, PyTorch bug insights, Asbestosis discussion

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

1 week ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.26.25 | Worker falls into nuclear reactor pool, California invests in battery energy storage, Linux boot process explained

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

1 week ago

10 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.25.25 | Swift SDK for Android, shape can't pass through itself, Twake Drive as Google Drive alternative

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

1 week ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.24.25 | Trump pardons Binance founder, Claude Memory, /dev/null is ACID compliant

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

1 week ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.23.25 | Google marks Immich sites dangerous, Useful scripts I frequently use, FIA bugs expose Max Verstappen's passport and PII

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

1 week ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.22.25 | ChatGPT Atlas, Cutting Heroku costs from $3000 to $55, Creating a custom database

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

2 weeks ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.21.25 | Amazon's AWS struggles, Claude Code online, laser pointer at 2B FPS

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

2 weeks ago

12 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.20.25 | AWS outage, Andrej's success advice, Space Elevator

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

2 weeks ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root System Drawings

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

2 weeks ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.18.25 | Karpathy on agents' decade-long challenges, 50 Cent's inflation-adjusted impact, Claude's impressive skills surpassing MCP

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

2 weeks ago

10 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.17.25 | Bypassing Amazon's Kindle web DRM, Claude Skills, Gemini 3.0 A/B testing discovery

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

2 weeks ago

11 minutes

Hacker News Highlights

10.16.25 | Apple M5 chip, Claude Haiku 4.5, Zed available on Windows

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

2 weeks ago

12 minutes