9.16.25 | Website on disposable vape, React stifles innovation, Linux phones' rising significance
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) - macOS Tahoe
(04:55) - Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
(06:02) - PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
(07:10) - How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
(08:22) - I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
(09:34) - GPT-5-Codex
(10:38) - Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
(11:48) - Outro
Hosting a website on a disposable vapehttps://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817React is winning by default and slowing innovationhttps://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252715Linux phones are more important now than everhttps://feddit.org/post/18353777https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256651macOS Tahoehttps://www.apple.com/os/macos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252378Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Linkhttps://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251690PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoinhttps://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-15-PayPal-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Peer-to-Peer-Payments,-Reimagining-How-Money-Moves-to-Anyone,-Anywherehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45249915How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/how-big-a-solar-battery-do-i-need-to-store-all-my-homes-electricity/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45248899I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customershttps://morrick.me/archives/10137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256577GPT-5-Codexhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252301Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experimenthttps://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experimenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255400
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 will decompose
(04:00) - Why We Spiral
(05:09) - Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
(06:25) - Read to forget
(07:28) - Introduction to GrapheneOS
(08:40) - OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life
(09:48) - Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions
(11:02) - Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)
(12:15) - Outro
You’re a slow thinker. Now what?https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-whathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204587Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxeshttps://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243635Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decomposehttps://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/08/can-grapevines-help-slow-plastic-waste-problemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243803Why We Spiralhttps://behavioralscientist.org/why-we-spiral/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146Writing an operating system kernel from scratchhttps://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240682Read to forgethttps://mo42.bearblog.dev/read-to-forget/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239601Introduction to GrapheneOShttps://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200133OCSP Service Has Reached End of Lifehttps://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/06/ocsp-service-has-reached-end-of-lifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242591Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensionshttps://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245948Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)https://svg.nicubunu.ro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240391
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9.14.25 | Store generates products from search, Myocardial infarction linked to infection, Wedding crasher mystery resolved
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 crasher mystery solved
(03:27) - Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
(04:23) - The case against social media is stronger than you think
(05:44) - Models of European Metro Stations
(06:57) - Pass: Unix Password Manager
(08:05) - My first impressions of Gleam
(09:15) - RIP pthread_cancel
(10:30) - 486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board
(12:00) - Outro
Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in searchhttps://anycrap.shop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231378Myocardial infarction may be an infectious diseasehttps://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-diseasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235648Four-year wedding crasher mystery solvedhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotlandhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232562Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tallhttps://joefatula.com/twoslice.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236263The case against social media is stronger than you thinkhttps://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-case-against-social-media-ishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234323Models of European Metro Stationshttp://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238055Pass: Unix Password Managerhttps://www.passwordstore.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236079My first impressions of Gleamhttps://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231852RIP pthread_cancelhttps://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233713486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA boardhttps://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/486tang_486_on_a_credit_card_size_fpga_board/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232565
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9.13.25 | EU court classifies nuclear energy as clean, Treasury expands Patriot Act against Bitcoin self-custody, UTF-8 praised as brilliant design
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
(04:11) - Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
(05:22) - Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
(06:27) - QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
(07:46) - 3D modeling with paper
(08:45) - Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
(09:54) - FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
(11:00) - Legal win
(12:04) - Outro
EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energyhttps://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custodyhttps://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274UTF-8 is a brilliant designhttps://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-designhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizenshttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problemshttps://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information systemhttps://github.com/qgis/QGIShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=452241563D modeling with paperhttps://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paperhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222369Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extractionhttps://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch arthttps://ffglitch.org/gallery/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227212Legal winhttps://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228692
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9.12.25 | Git history leaks skew SWE-bench scores, Bun Install's behind-the-scenes, website resembles an operating system
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
(03:49) - AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
(04:59) - Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
(06:16) - Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
(07:23) - From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
(08:25) - Float Exposed
(09:38) - Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
(10:56) - Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
(12:05) - Outro
Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-benchhttps://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670Behind the scenes of Bun Installhttps://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-installhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210850Why our website looks like an operating systemhttps://posthog.com/blog/why-oshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217269AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accountshttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-restricted/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210428Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’shttps://www.shloked.com/writing/claude-memoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214908Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45216805From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone banhttps://gothamist.com/news/from-burner-phones-to-decks-of-cards-nyc-teens-are-adjusting-to-the-smartphone-banhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211527Float Exposedhttps://float.exposed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217415Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentumhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsungs-us-market-share-apple-rivalry-foldable-phones.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209389Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabeteshttps://www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211596
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