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

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