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 …

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 …

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 wrec…

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…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM (01:27) - Claude Skills (02:40) - Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing (03:51) - Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Apple M5 chip (01:32) - Claude Haiku 4.5 (02:37) - Zed is now available on Windows (03:45) - Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified archite…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - FSF announces Librephone project (01:31) - What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on (02:43) - Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when app…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 14, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (01:25) - No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off (02:35) - Dutch government takes control of …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Wireguard FPGA (01:22) - Free software hasn't won (02:41) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) (03:43) - Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year (01:27) - GNU Health (02:31) - Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 (03:40) - Meta S…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left (01:25) - Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR (02:34) - I bui…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 10, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size (01:43) - Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? (02:44) - My first contribution to Linux (03:42) - Show HN: I buil…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler (01:23) - A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator (02:43) - One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Contr…

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 8, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (01:22) - German government comes out against Chat Control (02:24) - Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model (03:42) - Show HN: Timelinize – Privately…

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (01:34) - Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? (02:44) - 1 Trillion Web Pages …

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2025. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving (01:29) - Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf] (02:29) - A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of…

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 (03:4…

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 (…

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-par…

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…

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…

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 addr…

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)…

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 t…

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-…

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 orga…

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 …

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, imag…

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 de…

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 launch…

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) - Le…

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) - …

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. in…

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) - …

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) - m…

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 wi…

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 cras…

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 …

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 (0…

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 enti…

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 GameCub…

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) -…

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…

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 ci…

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 CSC…

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 C…

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…

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 …

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…