Hacker News Highlights

9.25.25 | Yt-dlp's new YouTube download requirements, Google Search's issues illustrated, Terence Tao on small organizations' diminished societal role


Listen Later

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2025.

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

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:16) - Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
  • (01:29) - Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
  • (02:44) - Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
  • (04:09) - Huntington's disease treated for first time
  • (05:16) - Quicksort explained IKEA-style
  • (06:23) - Helium Browser
  • (07:38) - How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
  • (08:46) - Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
  • (09:53) - How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
  • (11:08) - How to be a leader when the vibes are off
  • (12:27) - Outro

  • Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980

    Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
    https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366566

    Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
    https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697

    Huntington's disease treated for first time
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358940

    Quicksort explained IKEA-style
    https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321849

    Helium Browser
    https://helium.computer/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867

    How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
    https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359604

    Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
    https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362023

    How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
    https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358280

    How to be a leader when the vibes are off
    https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361394

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Hacker News HighlightsBy Hacker News Highlights