Hacker News Highlights

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Always Invite Anna
https://sharif.io/anna-alexei
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348495

Find SF parking cops
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45350690

Libghostty is coming
https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347117

Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
https://larian.com/support/faqs/steam-deck-native-version_121
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354644

Markov chains are the original language models
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304980

Getting AI to work in complex codebases
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347532

Qwen3-VL
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancements-list
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352672

Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
https://ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-tried-htmx-then-ditched-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345950

From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
https://questdb.com/blog/rust-fetch-max-compiler-journey/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352944

Top Programming Languages 2025
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354314

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332883

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
https://gist.github.com/avestura/ce2aa6e55dad783b1aba946161d5fef4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45343108

Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336989

OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335474

Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/why-local-first-apps-havent-become
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333021

Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
http://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342364

I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
https://simonhartcher.com/posts/2025-09-22-why-im-spoiled-by-apple-silicon-but-still-love-framework/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332859

Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
https://blog.jgc.org/2025/09/is-movie-prop-ultimate-laptop-bag.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332196

The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323027

Fall Foliage Map 2025
https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341324

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324349

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328247

DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323207

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322135

Download responsibly
https://blog.geofabrik.de/index.php/2025/09/10/download-responsibly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45329414

You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378

Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-motallebighomi.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45329127

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-earliest-written-language.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286622

Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45327417

DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/traditional-dsm-disorders-dissolve?r=2wyot6&triedRedirect=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328537

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
https://seattleultrasonics.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45314592

$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317527

Scream cipher
https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287474

FLX1s phone is launched
https://furilabs.com/flx1s-is-launched/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312326

Designing NotebookLM
https://jasonspielman.com/notebooklm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45315312

MapSCII – World map in terminal
https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293012

Images over DNS
https://dgl.cx/2025/09/images-over-dns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312515

Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
https://www.chargerlab.com/teardown-of-apple-40w-dynamic-power-adapter-with-60w-max-a3365/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289150

PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-vs-pyrex-whats-the-difference.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310995

iFixit iPhone Air teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319690

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300865

Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45307242

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300810

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-ends-in-settlement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255785

Show the Physics
https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/showthephysics/Introduction/About.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265760

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory
https://weuseelixir.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306120

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support
https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302721

If all the world were a monorepo
https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259623

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed
https://feedmaker.fly.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306701

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidia-and-intel-announce-jointly-developed-intel-x86-rtx-socs-for-pcs-with-nvidia-graphics-also-custom-nvidia-data-center-x86-processors-nvidia-buys-usd5-billion-in-intel-stock-in-seismic-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288161

KDE is now my favorite desktop
https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288690

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
https://phishyurl.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898

Apple: SSH and FileVault
https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294440

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290021

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
https://research.google/blog/learn-your-way-reimagining-textbooks-with-generative-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292648

This map is not upside down
https://www.maps.com/this-map-is-not-upside-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292694

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/is-the-sagrada-familia-a-masterpiece-or-kitsch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256575

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
https://kasiin.top/blog/2025-08-04-flipper_zero_geiger_counter_module/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289453

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290245

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

Apple Photos app corrupts images
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277

WASM 3.0 Completed
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279384

Meta Ray-Ban Display
https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278279

A postmortem of three recent issues
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281139

Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282497

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259553

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-crowdstrike-npm-packages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260741

Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262835

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/denmark-close-wiping-out-leading-cancer-causing-hpv-strains-after-vaccine-roll-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265745

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
https://waymo.com/blog/#short-all-systems-go-at-sfo-waymo-has-received-our-pilot-permit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45264562

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
https://support.apple.com/en-us/125142
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270108

GNU Midnight Commander
https://midnight-commander.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271481

How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
https://noctua.at/en/how-to-make-the-framework-desktop-run-even-quieter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266039

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268269

I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245050

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

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• (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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-what
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204587

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
https://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243635

Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose
https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/08/can-grapevines-help-slow-plastic-waste-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243803

Why We Spiral
https://behavioralscientist.org/why-we-spiral/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240682

Read to forget
https://mo42.bearblog.dev/read-to-forget/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239601

Introduction to GrapheneOS
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200133

OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/06/ocsp-service-has-reached-end-of-life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242591

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions
https://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245948

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)
https://svg.nicubunu.ro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240391