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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.

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11:49

10.17.25 | Bypassing Amazon's Kindle web DRM, Claude...

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2025/10/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM (01:27) - Claude Skills (02:40) - Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing (03:51) - Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework (05:04) - Elixir 1.19 (06:08) - Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (07:23) - Your data model is your

12:01

10.16.25 | Apple M5 chip, Claude Haiku 4.5, Zed...

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2025/10/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Apple M5 chip (01:32) - Claude Haiku 4.5 (02:37) - Zed is now available on Windows (03:45) - Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture (04:47) - Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules (06:08) - Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC

12:10

10.15.25 | FSF's Librephone project, Discrepancies in...

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2025/10/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - FSF announces Librephone project (01:31) - What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on (02:43) - Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI (03:55) - A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe (05:05) - Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance

10:43

10.14.25 | NanoChat offers affordable ChatGPT,...

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2025/10/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (01:25) - No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off (02:35) - Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (03:53) - Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend (04:57) - Show HN: SQLite Online – 11

11:17

10.13.25 | Wireguard on FPGA, Free software's ongoing...

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2025/10/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Wireguard FPGA (01:22) - Free software hasn't won (02:41) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) (03:43) - Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions (04:45) - Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) (05:39) - Show HN: Baby's first international landline (06:44) - Three ways

12:00

10.12.25 | Microsoft limits AI photo scanning...

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2025/10/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year (01:27) - GNU Health (02:31) - Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 (03:40) - Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper (04:56) - Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature (06:04) - Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD (07:15) -

12:11

10.11.25 | Ryanair flight had six minutes of fuel,...

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2025/10/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left (01:25) - Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR (02:34) - I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery (03:47) - Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive

11:35

10.10.25 | LLM poisoning by few samples, Python 3.14...

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2025/10/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size (01:43) - Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? (02:44) - My first contribution to Linux (03:42) - Show HN: I built a web framework in C (04:48) - Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot (05:57) - Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard (06:52) -

12:02

10.9.25 | Go ARM64 compiler bug, Reddit moderator...

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2025/10/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler (01:23) - A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator (02:43) - One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill (03:53) - SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades (05:05) - Discord says 70k users may have had

11:54

10.8.25 | Qualcomm acquires Arduino, German...

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2025/10/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 8, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (01:22) - German government comes out against Chat Control (02:24) - Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model (03:42) - Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally (04:52) - Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant (05:50) -

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10.7.25 | Ladybird surpasses Apple 90% in...

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2025/10/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 7, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests (01:29) - Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) (02:42) - The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) (03:46) - Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (04:55) -

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10.6.25 | Fire destroys S. Korean cloud storage, LLMs...

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2025/10/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (01:34) - Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? (02:44) - 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived (03:48) - What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data (04:56) - Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels (06:11) -

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10.5.25 | ProofOfThought uses Z3 for LLM reasoning,...

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2025/10/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving (01:29) - Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf] (02:29) - A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code (03:34) - Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet (04:58) - Social Cooling (2017) (06:07) - Blog Feeds (07:02) -

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10.4.25 | Fluid Glass, Offline card payments by July...

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2025/10/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Fluid Glass (01:16) - Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 (02:28) - Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink (03:44) - Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did (04:58) - PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports (06:02) - Zig builds

11:46

10.3.25 | Signal Protocol's post-quantum ratchets,...

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2025/10/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 3, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets (01:27) - OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss (02:48) - Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools (03:59) - Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal (05:00) - Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs (06:11) - The strangest letter of the

10:55

10.2.25 | Jane Goodall has died, Autism Simulator...

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2025/10/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:14) - Jane Goodall has died (01:17) - Show HN: Autism Simulator (02:25) - Don't avoid workplace politics (03:41) - Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (04:49) - Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (06:02) - Unix philosophy and filesystem

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10.1.25 | Sora 2, Inflammation predicts heart disease...

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2025/10/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 1, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Sora 2 (01:25) - Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol (02:43) - Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine (03:55) - Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores (05:11) - Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement (06:19) - CDC File Transfer (07:17) - Founder

11:19

9.30.25 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 released, Claude Code 2.0...

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2025/09/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 30, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (01:27) - Claude Code 2.0 (02:27) - Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web (03:22) - Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol (04:28) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) (05:33) - Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII (06:43) - Vertical Solar Panels

10:23

9.29.25 | Privacy Badger blocks spying, F-Droid and...

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2025/09/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying (01:25) - F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (02:39) - Play snake in the URL address bar (03:37) - The AI coding trap (04:49) - When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” (05:57) - Farewell friends (06:58) -

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9.28.25 | WebGL game delivering messages, Greenland's...

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2025/09/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet (01:21) - Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (02:34) - SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 (03:51) - Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant (05:00) - A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails (06:15) - I made a public living

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