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11:23

11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community...

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2025/11/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:14) - Solarpunk is happening in Africa (01:23) - End of Japanese community (02:31) - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair (03:35) - I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] (04:41) - Ratatui – App Showcase (05:50) - Why aren't smart people happier? (07:06) - Dillo,

12:11

11.5.25 | Mr TIFF, Robert Morris's 1988 worm, Pg_lake...

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2025/11/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - Mr TIFF (01:31) - This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (02:38) - Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access (03:53) - I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (05:03) - Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not (06:12) -

11:23

11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early...

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2025/11/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Case Against PGVector (01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era (02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) (03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors (04:45) - WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel (05:52) - Things you can do with diodes (06:43) - First

11:54

11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state...

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2025/11/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Facts about throwing good parties (01:26) - URLs are state containers (02:29) - Notes by djb on using Fil-C (03:38) - Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) (04:47) - Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (05:59) - Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI

12:22

11.2.25 | ArXiv CS review article updates, Visopsys...

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2025/11/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category (01:32) - Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 (02:42) - Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment) (04:05) - Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography (05:21) - GHC now runs in

12:21

11.1.25 | Strange Attractors, subtle risk in async...

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2025/11/01

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: Strange Attractors (01:23) - Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (02:29) - Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (03:44) - Addiction Markets (05:05) - AI scrapers request commented scripts (06:22) - Introducing architecture variants (07:38) - Hacking India's largest

10:09

10.31.25 | Affinity Studio free, free software...

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2025/10/31

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Affinity Studio now free (01:26) - Free software scares normal people (02:39) - 987654321 / 123456789 (04:09) - How the cochlea computes (2024) (05:24) - Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy (06:37) - NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times (07:50) -

11:57

10.30.25 | Uv enhances Python ecosystem, Azure...

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2025/10/30

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade (01:28) - Tell HN: Azure outage (02:36) - Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition (03:50) - China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990 (05:07) - Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres (06:18) - Dithering – Part 1 (07:20) - Tailscale

12:13

10.29.25 | Sideloading discussions, AI reduces...

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2025/10/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (01:26) - Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k (02:43) - Keep Android Open (03:48) - EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages (05:02) - The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem (06:10) - ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser

12:36

10.28.25 | YouTuber sued for lock shimming, PSF...

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2025/10/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (02:50) - Claude for Excel (04:02) - JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (05:07) - Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (06:19) -

11:56

10.27.25 | Git server availability, PyTorch bug...

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2025/10/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - You already have a Git server (01:25) - A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it (02:42) - Asbestosis (03:48) - A definition of AGI (05:02) - How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in (06:15) - Poison, Poison Everywhere (07:15) - Feed the bots (08:19) - We Saved

10:03

10.26.25 | Worker falls into nuclear reactor pool,...

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2025/10/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool (01:19) - California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind (02:25) - The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel (03:32) - Pico-Banana-400k (04:35) - The Journey Before main() (05:42) - Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable

11:53

10.25.25 | Swift SDK for Android, shape can't pass...

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2025/10/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Swift SDK for Android (01:30) - First shape found that can't pass through itself (02:36) - Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive (03:31) - Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways (04:38) - Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study (06:04) - Valetudo: Cloud

11:46

10.24.25 | Trump pardons Binance founder, Claude...

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2025/10/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Trump pardons convicted Binance founder (01:21) - Claude Memory (02:33) - /dev/null is an ACID compliant database (03:34) - PyTorch Monarch (04:36) - Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B (05:46) - Roc Camera (06:51) - I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D (08:13) - FocusTube: A

12:09

10.23.25 | Google marks Immich sites dangerous,...

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2025/10/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Google flags Immich sites as dangerous (01:33) - Scripts I wrote that I use all the time (02:31) - Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs (03:39) - Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware (04:58) - JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in

11:45

10.22.25 | ChatGPT Atlas, Cutting Heroku costs from...

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2025/10/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - ChatGPT Atlas (01:16) - Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server (02:16) - Build your own database (03:21) - KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (04:28) - LLMs can get "brain rot" (05:43) - Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs (06:52) - Foreign hackers breached a

12:01

10.21.25 | Amazon's AWS struggles, Claude Code...

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2025/10/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout (01:30) - Claude Code on the web (02:36) - A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] (03:34) - Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system (04:50) - Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents (06:03) - BERT is

11:03

10.20.25 | AWS outage, Andrej's success advice, Space...

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2025/10/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Major AWS Outage Happening (01:15) - Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) (02:23) - Space Elevator (03:28) - Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake (04:33) - Airliner hit by possible space debris (05:32) - Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024) (06:38) - DeepSeek OCR (07:43) - AWS Multiple

11:30

10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root...

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2025/10/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) (01:34) - ./watch (02:35) - Root System Drawings (03:34) - Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site (04:45) - Tinnitus Neuromodulator (05:46) - When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (06:56) -

10:31

10.18.25 | Karpathy on agents' decade-long...

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2025/10/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents (01:29) - The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (02:20) - Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (03:40) - Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock (04:47) - Live Stream from the Namib Desert (05:45) - 4Chan Lawyer

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