10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root System Drawings
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) - Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
(08:07) - Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
(09:10) - K8s with 1M nodes
(10:16) - How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
(11:19) - Outro
IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-andhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626910./watchhttps://dotslashwatch.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626130Root System Drawingshttps://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/searchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627394Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage sitehttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/tragic-oceangate-titan-submersibles-usd62-sandisk-memory-card-found-undamaged-at-wreckage-site-12-stills-and-nine-videos-have-been-recovered-but-none-from-the-fateful-implosionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613898Tinnitus Neuromodulatorhttps://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628391When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in ithttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251014-00/?p=111681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609986Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/18/WS68f3170ea310f735438b5bf2.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45625229Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant codehttps://github.com/willcrichton/flowistryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627692K8s with 1M nodeshttps://bchess.github.io/k8s-1m/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611252How to sequence your DNA for <$2khttps://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/how-to-sequence-your-dna-for-2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629970
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 publishes Ofcom correspondence
(06:54) - EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
(08:11) - New Work by Gary Larson
(09:06) - Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
(10:21) - Outro
Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agentshttps://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619329The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflationhttps://50centadjustedforinflation.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618790Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCPhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619537Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flockhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614713Live Stream from the Namib Deserthttps://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=456159314Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondencehttps://alecmuffett.com/article/117792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614148EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered carshttps://restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615237New Work by Gary Larsonhttps://www.thefarside.com/new-stuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622365Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 supporthttps://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-supporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593358
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10.17.25 | Bypassing Amazon's Kindle web DRM, Claude Skills, Gemini 3.0 A/B testing discovery
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 Htmx framework
(05:04) - Elixir 1.19
(06:08) - Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
(07:23) - Your data model is your destiny
(08:35) - Meow.camera
(09:35) - DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
(10:35) - Codex Is Live in Zed
(11:38) - Outro
How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRMhttps://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226Claude Skillshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/skillshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607117Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testinghttps://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607758Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx frameworkhttps://hyperflask.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604673Elixir 1.19https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602428Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563576Your data model is your destinyhttps://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destinyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583786Meow.camerahttps://meow.camera/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenixhttps://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45605501Codex Is Live in Zedhttps://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606698
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10.16.25 | Apple M5 chip, Claude Haiku 4.5, Zed available on Windows
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 architecture
(04:47) - Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
(06:08) - Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
(07:10) - TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
(08:27) - Are hard drives getting better?
(09:29) - Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
(10:34) - F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
(11:50) - Outro
Apple M5 chiphttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591799Claude Haiku 4.5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595403Zed is now available on Windowshttps://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-herehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594920Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecturehttps://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590756Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new ruleshttps://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602179Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC clienthttps://github.com/squidowl/halloyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590949TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-freehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601750Are hard drives getting better?https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595724Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLMhttps://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599727F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source codehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592271
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10.15.25 | FSF's Librephone project, Discrepancies in American death reporting, Misconceptions about AI vs. regular software
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 applied to AI
(03:55) - A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
(05:05) - Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
(06:14) - How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
(07:21) - Why Is SQLite Coded In C
(08:30) - Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
(09:44) - How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
(10:59) - SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
(12:00) - Outro
FSF announces Librephone projecthttps://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339What Americans die from vs. what the news reports onhttps://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-fromhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583336Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AIhttps://boydkane.com/essays/bosshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583180A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepehttps://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498887Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarkshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584281How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-behttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462Why Is SQLite Coded In Chttps://www.sqlite.org/whyc.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584464Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universehttps://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-xhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580699How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clustershttps://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581735SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD systemhttps://smolbsd.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758
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