9.25.25 | Yt-dlp's new YouTube download requirements, Google Search's issues illustrated, Terence Tao on small organizations' diminished societal role

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 25, 2025.

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• (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 organizations in society has shrunk significantly
• (04:09) - Huntington's disease treated for first time
• (05:16) - Quicksort explained IKEA-style
• (06:23) - Helium Browser
• (07:38) - How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
• (08:46) - Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
• (09:53) - How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
• (11:08) - How to be a leader when the vibes are off
• (12:27) - Outro

Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366566

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697

Huntington's disease treated for first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358940

Quicksort explained IKEA-style
https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321849

Helium Browser
https://helium.computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359604

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362023

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358280

How to be a leader when the vibes are off
https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361394