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11:48

11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure,...

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2025/11/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today (01:34) - AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem (02:42) - TCP, the workhorse of the internet (03:47) - Things that aren't doing the thing (04:48) - Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations (06:03) - When UPS charged me a

11:14

11.15.25 | AI World Clocks, EU Chat Control's...

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2025/11/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - AI World Clocks (01:14) - The disguised return of EU Chat Control (02:12) - A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition (03:15) - 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (04:23) - Winamp clone in Swift for macOS (05:29) - Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and

12:04

11.14.25 | Nano Banana enables nuanced AI image...

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2025/11/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation (01:32) - Zed is our office (02:39) - SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search (03:48) - Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try (04:58) - Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage

11:46

11.13.25 | Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Yt-dlp...

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2025/11/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:14) - Steam Machine (01:25) - Steam Frame (02:31) - Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support (03:48) - Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification (04:57) - The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia (06:00) - Project Euler (07:01) - GPT-5.1: A

11:44

11.12.25 | FFmpeg demands funding from Google,...

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2025/11/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs (01:40) - Laptops with Stickers (02:32) - X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch (03:39) - Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models' (04:48) - The history of Casio watches (05:55) - I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my

10:07

11.11.25 | Unexpected people, Nostalgic 'Toy Story',...

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2025/11/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Unexpected things that are people (01:24) - The 'Toy Story' You Remember (02:21) - Time to start de-Appling (03:29) - Unix v4 Tape Found (04:34) - The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need (05:41) - Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] (06:40) - Writing your own BEAM (07:46) - Spatial intelligence is

10:55

11.10.25 | Marble Fountain, Montana enshrines 'right...

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2025/11/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Marble Fountain (01:23) - Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law (02:30) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) (03:25) - XSLT RIP (04:23) - The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra (05:25) - Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] (06:22) -

11:13

11.9.25 | AI evaluation weaknesses, I Am Mark...

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2025/11/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 9, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated (01:29) - I Am Mark Zuckerberg (02:22) - Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language (03:30) - Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel (04:43) - Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing (05:58) - Tabloid: The

11:34

11.8.25 | YouTube removes Windows 11 bypass...

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2025/11/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' (01:34) - VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 (02:48) - Why is Zig so cool? (04:01) - Why I love OCaml (2023) (05:12) - James Watson has died (06:08) - Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy

11:09

11.7.25 | FBI investigates archive.is owner, Kimi K2...

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2025/11/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (01:34) - Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model (02:37) - You should write an agent (03:45) - Two billion email addresses were exposed (04:49) - Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model (05:50) - Open

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) -

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