Hacker News Highlights

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
https://anycrap.shop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231378

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235648

Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232562

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
https://joefatula.com/twoslice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236263

The case against social media is stronger than you think
https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234323

Models of European Metro Stations
http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238055

Pass: Unix Password Manager
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236079

My first impressions of Gleam
https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231852

RIP pthread_cancel
https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233713

486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232565

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274

UTF-8 is a brilliant design
https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224156

3D modeling with paper
https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222369

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227212

Legal win
https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228692

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670

Behind the scenes of Bun Install
https://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210850

Why our website looks like an operating system
https://posthog.com/blog/why-os
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217269

AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-restricted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210428

Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
https://www.shloked.com/writing/claude-memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214908

Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45216805

From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
https://gothamist.com/news/from-burner-phones-to-decks-of-cards-nyc-teens-are-adjusting-to-the-smartphone-ban
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211527

Float Exposed
https://float.exposed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217415

Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsungs-us-market-share-apple-rivalry-foldable-phones.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209389

Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211596

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181535

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520

KDE launches its own distribution
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204393

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/developer-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199713

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-verizon-claim-that-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209366

DOOMscrolling: The Game
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrolling-the-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205232

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200925

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
https://jiratui.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198481

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

• (00:00) - Intro

iPhone Air
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakthrough-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015

We all dodged a bullet
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183029

Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
https://www.anthropic.com/news/create-files
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182381

E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185756

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/animal-crossing-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192655

Memory Integrity Enforcement
https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265

Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38120-immunotherapy-drug-eliminates-aggressive-cancers-in-clinical-trial/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188945

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
https://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-send-employees-back-to-office-rto-remote-work-2025-9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45184432

Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179304

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

Signal Secure Backups
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515

iPhone dumbphone
https://stopa.io/post/297
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

No adblocker detected
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624

Clankers Die on Christmas
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275

The Storm Hits the Art Market
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45158968

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163362

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152284

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155986

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160774

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118286

What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156826

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
https://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45161816

The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
https://www.datagubbe.se/sceneherit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162803

Formatting code should be unnecessary
https://maxleiter.com/blog/formatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163043

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
https://mitchivin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609

We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45148944

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
https://dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-kimsuky-leak-how-the-kim-dump-exposed-north-koreas-credential-theft-playbook/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152066

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-weaving.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152779

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
https://www.consumer.org.hk/en/press-release/528-sunscreen-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152374

Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
https://kanadojo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152940

Oldest recorded transaction
https://avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-txn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149626

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/stop-writing-cli-validation-parse-it-right-the-first-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45151622

The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250829-the-bomber-that-became-ww2s-most-expensive-weapon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109927

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155179

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

I ditched Docker for Podman
https://codesmash.dev/why-i-ditched-docker-for-podman-and-you-should-too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137525

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.bTTt.Zir9wmtPaTp2&smid=url-share
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142885

Purposeful animations
https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45139088

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-bought-cheapest-ev-used-nissan-leaf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136103

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108401

Making a font of my handwriting
https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141636

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
https://signalsandthreads.com/why-ml-needs-a-new-programming-language/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137373

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr
https://6octaves.com/2025/09/interview-with-demoscener-0b5vr.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137245

I kissed comment culture goodbye
https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/the-day-i-kissed-comment-culture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143077

The Old Robots Web Site
https://www.theoldrobots.com/index2.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098609