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11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel


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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

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