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

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

Hacker News Highlights

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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