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September 20, 2025Hacker News – 20 Sep 2025
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Security and Software Development
Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration

Innovations in Learning and Content Creation
Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

Understanding Software and Coding Concepts
If all the world were a monorepo

Compiling with Continuations

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

Science and Technology Intersection
Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
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September 19, 2025Hacker News – 19 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Innovations and Developments
Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

The Ruliology of Lambdas

iTerm2 Web Browser

User Experience and Design
Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer

Gemini in Chrome

Cultural Reflections and Historical Insights
Leatherman (vagabond)

Count Folke Bernadotte: Sweden's Servant of Peace (2010)

The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)

Architecture and Development
David Lynch LA House

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

Apple: SSH and FileVault

Exploring the Human Experience Through Technology
Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)

AI tools are making the world look weird

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
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September 18, 2025Hacker News – 18 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Nonprofit Pricing Shock
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

Innovations in Tech
WASM 3.0 Completed

Meta Ray-Ban Display

Web Development Trends
This Website Has No Class

How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

Security and Vulnerabilities
One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

Nostalgic Bytes
History of the Gem Desktop Environment

CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice
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September 17, 2025Hacker News – 17 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
File Management & Development Tools
GNU Midnight Commander

Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

Security Concerns in Software
Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

The Asus Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation

Innovations in Command Line & Shells
Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line

Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age

Tech Experiments & Theoretical Insights
Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

Normal-order syntax-rules and proving the fix-point of call/cc

Health Innovations & Future Directions
Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem
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September 16, 2025Hacker News – 16 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Unexpected Innovations
Hosting a website on a disposable vape

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

User Interface Insights
"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces

React is winning by default and slowing innovation

Tech and AI Developments
Automating Distro Updates in CI

Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex

GPT-5-Codex

Solar Insights and Eco-Concerns
How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

Linux phones are more important now than ever

Cultural Reflections
I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
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4min
September 15, 2025Hacker News – 15 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Machine Learning Innovations
Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

Sustainable Innovations
Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose

Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

Cultural and Social Insights
Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams

Tech Developments and Trends
NASA's Guardian Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time

Which NPM package has the largest version number?
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4min
September 14, 2025Hacker News – 14 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Urban Design and Innovation
Models of European Metro Stations

Dynamic Bird Migration Map

Hardware and Software Developments
Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

Pass: Unix Password Manager

Astrophysics and Emerging Theories
A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak

AI and Future Perspectives
Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?

SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs

Cultural Reflections and Societal Impacts
The case against social media is stronger than you think
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September 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Operating Systems and Development Tools
SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

Social Media and Digital Democracy
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion

Nepal picks a new prime minister on a discord server days after social media ban

Innovative Technologies
FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

Coding and Algorithms
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

Miscellaneous
3D modeling with paper

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
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4min
September 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Controversies
The rise of AI cults and the false prophets of revelation

Qwen3-Next

Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer

Programming Insights
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

Doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax, LSP, and Alire support

Tech Projects and Innovations
Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

3D modeling with paper

Show HN: DWS OS, a Plan 9 Inspired Web "OS"

Security and Privacy Concerns
The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

Crates.io phishing attempt

Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU
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September 11, 2025 Hacker News – 11 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Content filtered for security
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1min

FAQs about HN Daily Digest:

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