Hacker News Highlights

10.6.25 | Fire destroys S. Korean cloud storage, LLMs react to seahorse emoji, 1 trillion web pages archived


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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025.

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  • (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

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