HN Daily Digest episodes:

• October 09, 2025Hacker News – 09 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Health and Nutrition Innovations

  First-in-the-nation law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

  Tech Governance and Development

  The React Foundation: The New Home for React and React Native

  Talk Python in Production

  Mathematics and Theory

  The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive

  Software Development Trends

  The Debugging Book

  WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

  Data Privacy and Industry News

  Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

  OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals

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• October 08, 2025Hacker News – 08 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Corporate Moves and Acquisitions

  Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS Sales Plummet

  Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino

  AI and Software Engineering

  Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Model

  Vibe Engineering

  Tech Innovations and Tools

  Working Pipe Operator Today in Pure JavaScript

  Show HN: Timelinize – Privately Organize Your Own Data from Everywhere, Locally

  Mathematics and Theoretical Breakthroughs

  Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos

  The Case for an Iceberg-Native Database

  Cultural Reflections

  IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021

  A PhD in Snapshots

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• October 07, 2025Hacker News – 07 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Quantum Breakthroughs

  Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis

  Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

  Web Development Trends

  The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)

  No_color: Disabling ANSI color output by default

  Tech Innovations

  Apps SDK

  Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects

  Cultural Reflections

  Indefinite Backpack Travel

  Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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• October 06, 2025Hacker News – 06 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Procrastination and Productivity

  Structured Procrastination

  Data Management and Security

  Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

  Battering RAM – Low-Cost Interposer Attacks on Confidential Computing

  Emerging Technologies and Innovations

  Flightcontrol: AWS PaaS

  Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

  Cultural and Historical Reflections

  Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame

  1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

  Controversies and Insights

  What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data

  It's Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead

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• October 05, 2025Hacker News – 05 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Social Dynamics and Communication

  Social Cooling

  Why I Choose Email over Messaging

  Development Tools and Languages

  What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers

  Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam

  A comparison of Ada and Rust

  AI and Machine Learning

  Anthropic Release Memory API

  ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving

  Security and Infrastructure

  1Password CLI Vulnerability

  Leveling Up My Homelab

  Space and Cryptography

  NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?

  Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

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• October 04, 2025Hacker News – 04 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Cloud Innovations

  Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+

  Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

  Programming Language Developments

  Zig builds are getting faster

  Systems Programming with Zig (Book)

  AI and Drug Discovery

  New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work

  LoRA Without Regret

  Cybersecurity Initiatives

  Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)

  Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

  Miscellaneous Tech Innovations

  Fluid Glass

  Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink

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• October 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Performance Optimizations

  Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

  Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone

  Software Innovations

  FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go

  Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

  Technology and Culture

  In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

  How England misplaced its first king

  Unique Projects

  Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

  Icebird: JavaScript Iceberg Reader

  Reflections on Technology

  You Want Technology with Warts

  Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs

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• October 02, 2025Hacker News – 02 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Data Innovations and Formats

  F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]

  OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

  Gmail's Shift in Email Access

  Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

  Ethics in Tech

  Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

  Creative Projects and Tools

  I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]

  Keyhive – Local-first access control

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• October 01, 2025Hacker News – 01 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Theory and Foundations

  Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]

  Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations

  Identity and Technology

  Our efforts, in part, define us

  Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

  Innovations in Efficiency

  High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping

  Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks

  Tech Breakthroughs and Developments

  Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement

  Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots

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• September 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Sep 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI and Development Breakthroughs

  Claude Sonnet 4.5

  Claude Code 2.0

  Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

  Privacy and Regulation

  Can You Use GDPR to Circumvent Bluesky's Adult Content Blocks?

  Disqus Turned My Blog into an Ad Farm – So I Killed It

  Web and Design Innovations

  Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

  Awakening Bell

  Programming Languages and Techniques

  Safe zero-copy operations in C#

  The ABS Programming Language

  Technology and Evolution Insights

  When did human chromosome 2 fuse?(2023)

  iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype

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