This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2025.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

Hosting a website on a disposable vape
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817

React is winning by default and slowing innovation
https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252715

Linux phones are more important now than ever
https://feddit.org/post/18353777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651

macOS Tahoe
https://www.apple.com/os/macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252378

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251690

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-15-PayPal-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Peer-to-Peer-Payments,-Reimagining-How-Money-Moves-to-Anyone,-Anywhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249915

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/how-big-a-solar-battery-do-i-need-to-store-all-my-homes-electricity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45248899

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
https://morrick.me/archives/10137
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256577

GPT-5-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252301

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255400