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11:40

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

12:12

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) -

11:44

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

12:17

9.27.25 | Open Social, Britain’s compulsory digital...

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2025/09/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Open Social (01:29) - Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers (02:40) - SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think (03:48) - US cities pay too much for buses (05:11) - Traefik's 10-year anniversary (06:21) - Why use mailing lists? (07:29) - CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show

12:22

9.26.25 | Cloudflare Email Service in private beta,...

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2025/09/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Cloudflare Email Service: private beta (01:26) - ChatGPT Pulse (02:32) - Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite (03:45) - Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high (04:58) - Ollama Web Search (05:58) - Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel (07:19) - Resurrect the Old Web (08:31) - Evanston

12:38

9.25.25 | Yt-dlp's new YouTube download requirements,...

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2025/09/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads (01:29) - Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image (02:44) - Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (04:09) - Huntington's disease treated for first time (05:16) - Quicksort explained

11:59

9.24.25 | Always Invite Anna, Find SF parking cops,...

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2025/09/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Always Invite Anna (01:23) - Find SF parking cops (02:22) - Libghostty is coming (03:33) - Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version (04:40) - Markov chains are the original language models (05:54) - Getting AI to work in complex codebases (06:56) - Qwen3-VL (08:00) - Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it (09:20)

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9.23.25 | Cap'n Web: new RPC system, Delete FROM...

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2025/09/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers (01:36) - Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; (02:46) - Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video (03:53) - OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems (05:12) - Why haven't local-first apps become

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9.22.25 | Sj.h is a small JSON library, beginner...

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2025/09/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 22, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (01:24) - How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (02:29) - DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list (03:39) - Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank (04:44) - Download responsibly (05:50)

12:10

9.21.25 | Ultrasonic Chef's Knife, $2 WeAct Display...

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2025/09/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 21, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Ultrasonic Chef's Knife (01:27) - $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer (02:39) - Scream cipher (03:50) - FLX1s phone is launched (05:01) - Designing NotebookLM (06:11) - MapSCII – World map in terminal (07:13) - Images over DNS (08:28) - Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power

12:57

9.20.25 | Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee, Ants lay eggs...

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2025/09/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says (01:42) - Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species (03:06) - Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks (04:17) - The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the

12:10

9.19.25 | Nvidia acquires $5B Intel stake, KDE...

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2025/09/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 19, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Nvidia buys $5B in Intel (01:34) - KDE is now my favorite desktop (02:44) - Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (03:56) - Apple: SSH and FileVault (05:01) - Grief gets an expiration date, just like us (06:06) - Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative

12:33

9.18.25 | Slack raises charges by $195k, Apple Photos...

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2025/09/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year (01:39) - Apple Photos app corrupts images (02:58) - WASM 3.0 Completed (04:02) - Meta Ray-Ban Display (05:02) - U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China (06:22) - YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers (07:35) -

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9.17.25 | UN finds Israel guilty of Gaza genocide,...

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2025/09/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza (01:38) - Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised (02:51) - Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024) (03:52) - Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine

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9.16.25 | Website on disposable vape, React stifles...

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2025/09/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Hosting a website on a disposable vape (01:23) - React is winning by default and slowing innovation (02:35) - Linux phones are more important now than ever (03:49) - macOS Tahoe (04:55) - Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link (06:02) - PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin (07:10) - How big a solar

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9.15.25 | Slow thinking strategies, Betty Crocker's...

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2025/09/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - You’re a slow thinker. Now what? (01:30) - Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes (02:41) - Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose (04:00) - Why We Spiral (05:09) - Writing an operating system kernel from scratch (06:25) - Read to forget (07:28) - Introduction to

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