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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

12:11

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) -

10:56

9.2.25 | Minecraft becomes spherical, Bear...

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2025/09/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - Making Minecraft Spherical (01:36) - Bear is now source-available (02:55) - Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect (04:00) - Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video] (04:57) - Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights (05:58) - FreeDroidWarn (07:06) - Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war (08:16) - CocoaPods trunk read-only plan (09:26) - The future of 32-bit support in the kernel (10:50) - Outro Making

12:30

9.1.25 | Ability to run any code on owned hardware,...

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2025/09/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (01:34) - “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone” (02:37) - Eternal Struggle (03:40) - Jujutsu for everyone (04:53) - Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet? (06:13) - Use One Big Server (2022) (07:23) - Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility (08:29) - When the sun will literally

12:41

8.31.25 | Cognitive load importance, questioning...

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2025/08/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Cognitive load is what matters (01:30) - Are we decentralized yet? (02:43) - Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything (03:57) - You Have to Feel It (05:08) - Agent Client Protocol (ACP) (06:12) - Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy (07:31) - AI models need a virtual machine (08:50) - Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" (10:11) - Git

11:11

8.30.25 | Simplest effective solution, Grok Code Fast...

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2025/08/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1 (02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta (04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch (05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again (06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition (07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs (09:00) - Wikipedia as a

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8.29.25 | Blocked VPN options, Uncertain, Claude...

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2025/08/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? (01:35) - Uncertain (02:48) - Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode (03:54) - AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study (05:19) - Some thoughts on LLMs and software development (06:35) - My startup banking story (2023) (07:43) - Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos (08:41) - You no

12:18

8.28.25 | Google cuts 35% of small team managers,...

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2025/08/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year (01:34) - Unexpected productivity boost of Rust (02:41) - Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published (03:57) - The GitHub website is slow on Safari (04:59) - Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music (06:33) - VIM Master (07:32) - Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to

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8.27.25 | Gemini 2.5 image release, Claude browser...

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2025/08/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (01:33) - Claude for Chrome (02:40) - Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end (03:50) - Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment (04:57) - US Intel (06:16) - One universal antiviral to rule them all? (07:28) - A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in (08:44) - Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer

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8.26.25 | Google restricts Android apps to verified...

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2025/08/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (01:35) - Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS (02:46) - A visual introduction to big O notation (04:03) - Google's Liquid Cooling (05:16) - macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons (06:32) - Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines (07:32) - A small change to improve

11:53

8.25.25 | Ghrc.io is malicious, Game development in...

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2025/08/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Ghrc.io appears to be malicious (01:24) - Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs (02:35) - Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me (03:43) - Everything I know about good API design (04:56) - Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? (06:12) - We put a coding agent in a while loop (07:19) - What are OKLCH colors? (08:30) - Uncle Sam

11:55

8.24.25 | Line scan camera for train photography,...

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2025/08/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - Line scan camera image processing for train photography (01:27) - What makes Claude Code so damn good (02:31) - RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode (03:40) - How to build a coding agent (04:45) - The cost of interrupted work (2023) (05:54) - Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips (07:04) - How can AI ID a cat? (08:16) - Why was Apache Kafka created? (09:35) - A 2k-year-old sun hat

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8.23.25 | FFmpeg 8.0 released, Switching from Gmail...

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2025/08/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - FFmpeg 8.0 (01:31) - Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org (02:36) - The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare (03:50) - LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis (05:04) - Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor (06:11) - Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (07:29) - Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age

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8.22.25 | AWS CEO criticizes AI replacing juniors, AI...

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2025/08/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (01:37) - AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (02:49) - DeepSeek-v3.1 (03:50) - Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (05:08) - Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever (06:17) - An interactive guide to SVG paths (07:20) - Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit (08:36) - Code formatting comes to uv

11:57

8.21.25 | Spherical helix visualization, anime...

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2025/08/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (01:25) - Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (02:43) - Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (03:46) - Sequoia backs Zed (05:03) - Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering (06:10) - Code review can be better (07:14) - An Update on Pytype (08:19) -

12:16

8.20.25 | Exploited CodeRabbit for RCE, AGENTS.md for...

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2025/08/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (01:40) - AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents (02:58) - Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers (04:15) - How to Draw a Space Invader (05:13) - D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders (06:09) - Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock (07:12) - Custom telescope mount using

11:28

8.19.25 | Anna's Archive update, app to block Shorts...

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2025/08/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (01:27) - Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels (02:32) - Obsidian Bases (03:38) - Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust (04:37) - FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons (05:44) - Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room (06:50) - Left to Right Programming (08:00) - OpenMower – An open source lawn

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8.18.25 | Claudia assists Claude coding, NextDNS...

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2025/08/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code (01:29) - Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" (02:40) - The Enterprise Experience (03:53) - ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links (05:05) - Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea (06:20) - Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians (07:39) - Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating,

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8.17.25 | Compiler bug affects Solidity, OpenBSD's...

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2025/08/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2025.(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (01:36) - OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself (02:44) - When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun (03:47) - US F-16s lose out as Thai Air Force seals US$600M deal for Swedish Gripen jets (04:54) - Bullfrog in the Dungeon (06:04) - The Future of Large Files in Git Is

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8.16.25 | Open hardware 3D printing decline,...

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2025/08/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2025.Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911423Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Libraryhttps://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914061Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner

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