Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fluid Glass
https://chiuhans111.github.io/fluidglass/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422147

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467500

Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423404

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447536

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466086

Zig builds are getting faster
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468698

Where it's at://
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455164

I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463319

Cancellations in async Rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464632

Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464429

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
https://signal.org/blog/spqr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451527

OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453586

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
https://github.com/paaatrick/playball
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577

Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
https://entropicthoughts.com/why-stick-to-emacs-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453222

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455882

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458948

I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-spent-the-day-trying-to-teach-seniors-how-to-use-an-iphone-and-it-was-a-nightmare.2468117/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457670

Why I chose Lua for this blog
https://andregarzia.com/2025/03/why-i-choose-lua-for-this-blog.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452261

FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458122

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Jane Goodall has died
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441069

Show HN: Autism Simulator
https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438346

Don't avoid workplace politics
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440571

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438496

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437893

OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
https://www.opentslm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440431

Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435422

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759

Cormac McCarthy's personal library
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444694

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Sora 2
https://openai.com/index/sora-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430498

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427197

Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428482

CDC File Transfer
https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433768

Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/business/charlie-javice-frank-sentenced-jpmorgan-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424827

Designing agentic loops
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loops/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426680

Diff Algorithms
https://flo.znkr.io/diff/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430604

An opinionated critique of Duolingo
https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025/duolingo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425061

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Sonnet 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415962

Claude Code 2.0
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416228

Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
https://loadmo.re
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415207

Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416080

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418675

Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII
https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382300

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/vertical-solar-panels-are-out-standing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414215

iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/irobot-founder-dont-believe-the-ai-robotics-hype/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418261

How to create an OS from scratch
https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420173

Safe zero-copy operations in C#
https://ssg.dev/safe-zero-copy-operations-in-c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420001

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
https://privacybadger.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404021

F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794

Play snake in the URL address bar
https://demian.ferrei.ro/snake/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408021

The AI coding trap
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09/28/the-ai-coding-trap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405177

When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-09-28-alphabetic-order/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404022

Farewell friends
https://humbledollar.com/forum/farewell-friends/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408229

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-server-motherboards-can-be-infected-with-unremovable-malware/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363465

Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads
https://toolbrew.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404667

Zlib visualizer
https://lynn.github.io/flateview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373784

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
https://messenger.abeto.co/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396441

Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
https://matduggan.com/greenland-is-a-beautiful-nightmare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396754

SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395991

Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02851-w
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370798

A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
https://www.koi.security/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395957

I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
https://www.theroom.lol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398005

Learn to play Go
https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400376

Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
https://handy.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399106

Python developers are embracing type hints
https://pyrefly.org/blog/why-typed-python/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358841

High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
https://www.epirusinc.com/press-releases/epirus-leonidas-high-power-microwave-defeats-49-drone-swarm-100-of-drones-flown-at-live-fire-demonstration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399863

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Open Social
https://overreacted.io/open-social/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388021

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-introduce-mandatory-digital-id-cards-2025-09-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45381810

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think
https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389267

US cities pay too much for buses
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386578

Traefik's 10-year anniversary
https://traefik.io/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-traefik
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357732

Why use mailing lists?
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/q6A_anL1u-Y9iXe-vboiOYamsl0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45390121

CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-hidden-risks-in-the-battery-supply-chain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364932

Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed
https://moondream.ai/blog/moondream-3-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45391444

If you are harassed by lasers
https://www.laserpointersafety.com/harassment.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389965

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393842

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373081

ChatGPT Pulse
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375477

Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/continuing-to-bring-you-our-latest-models-with-an-improved-gemini-2-5-flash-and-flash-lite-release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375845

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-replacing-radiologists
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372335

Ollama Web Search
https://ollama.com/blog/web-search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377641

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605

Resurrect the Old Web
https://stevedylandev.bearblog.dev/resurrect-the-old-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372113

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382434

Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380699

RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS
https://doc.redox-os.org/book/redoxfs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379325

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

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