This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Line scan camera image processing for train photography
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996938

What makes Claude Code so damn good
https://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998295

RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995640

How to build a coding agent
https://ghuntley.com/agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001051

The cost of interrupted work (2023)
https://blog.oberien.de/2023/11/05/23-minutes-15-seconds.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999373

Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987078

How can AI ID a cat?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964800

Why was Apache Kafka created?
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-created
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988845

A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2000-year-old-sun-hat-worn-by-a-roman-soldier-in-egypt-goes-on-view-after-a-century-in-storage-180987192/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998514

Acronis True Image costs performance when not used
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/acronis-true-image-costs-performance-when-not-used/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960718