HN Daily Digest

Hacker News – 12 Oct 2025


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Table of Contents
  • AI Insights and Innovations
    • Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper
    • Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial
    • Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers
    • Database Developments
      • Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
      • I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue)
      • Tools and Applications
        • Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
        • Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits
        • Blossom – Heroku-like deploys on your servers; cheaper, no lock-in
        • Privacy and Ethics
          • Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
          • CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs
          • Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors
          • Nostalgia and Reflection
            • Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
            • ...more
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