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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)

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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

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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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9.14.25 | Store generates products from search,...

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2025/09/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search (01:14) - Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease (02:33) - Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved (03:27) - Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall (04:23) - The case against social media is stronger than you think (05:44) -

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9.13.25 | EU court classifies nuclear energy as...

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2025/09/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy (01:39) - The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody (02:57) - UTF-8 is a brilliant design (04:11) - Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens (05:22) - Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (06:27)

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9.12.25 | Git history leaks skew SWE-bench scores,...

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2025/09/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench (01:26) - Behind the scenes of Bun Install (02:44) - Why our website looks like an operating system (03:49) - AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts (04:59) - Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of

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9.11.25 | Museum visit prioritizes experience,...

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2025/09/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens (01:44) - Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal (02:52) - Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" (04:09) - KDE launches its own distribution (05:22) - ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access (06:31)

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9.10.25 | iPhone Air, narrowly avoided disaster,...

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2025/09/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 10, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - iPhone Air (01:37) - We all dodged a bullet (02:37) - Claude now has access to a server-side container environment (03:47) - E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens (04:54) - I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory (06:16) - Memory Integrity Enforcement (07:31) - Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear (08:40) -

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9.9.25 | NPM packages compromised, Signal backups...

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2025/09/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - NPM debug and chalk packages compromised (01:31) - Signal Secure Backups (02:35) - iPhone dumbphone (03:44) - No adblocker detected (04:54) - Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS (06:07) - Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG (07:11) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML (08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them? (09:32) -

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9.8.25 | MacBook screen hinge sensor, Claude Code...

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2025/09/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge (01:23) - Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver (02:42) - GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search (03:56) - I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D (05:14) - Keeping secrets out of logs (2024) (06:25) - Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected

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9.7.25 | Windows XP portfolio, Burger King auth...

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2025/09/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 7, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio (01:28) - We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance (02:40) - How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook (03:52) - A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer (05:08) - Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020) (06:24) - Show HN: I'm making an open-source

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9.6.25 | Ditching Docker for Podman, Anthropic...

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2025/09/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 6, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - I ditched Docker for Podman (01:28) - Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors (02:36) - Purposeful animations (03:53) - I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf (05:06) - Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS (06:09) - Making a font of my handwriting (07:15) - ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner (08:36) - Interview with

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9.5.25 | Sustained attention creates loops, Stripe...

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2025/09/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 5, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself (01:30) - Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo (02:46) - LLM Visualization (03:55) - Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks (05:09) - Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (06:38) - WiFi signals can measure heart rate (07:48) - What Is the Fourier Transform? (09:12) - io_uring is faster than mmap (10:28) - A

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9.4.25 | Claude Code beta in Zed, 30 minutes with...

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2025/09/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed (01:42) - 30 minutes with a stranger (02:48) - Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources (03:51) - The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood (05:06) - How to Give a Good Talk (06:07) - ReMarkable Paper Pro Move (07:16) - Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example (08:25) - Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023) (09:39) - Neovim

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9.3.25 | Google barred from exclusive contracts,...

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2025/09/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts (01:40) - A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code (02:56) - The Little Book of Linear Algebra (04:00) - The staff ate it later (05:03) - We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that (06:23) - %CPU utilization is a lie (07:36) - Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023) (08:45) -

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