11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel
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, a multi-platform graphical web browser
(08:02) - NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
(09:05) - ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
(10:10) - Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
(11:13) - Outro
Solarpunk is happening in Africahttps://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happeninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190End of Japanese communityhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repairhttps://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repairhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815419Ratatui – App Showcasehttps://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829Why aren't smart people happier?https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happierhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824864Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browserhttps://github.com/dillo-browser/dillohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266NY school phone ban has made lunch loud againhttps://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-againhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to othershttps://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825965Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anywayhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offlinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783467
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11.5.25 | Mr TIFF, Robert Morris's 1988 worm, Pg_lake integrates Postgres with Iceberg
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) - Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
(07:20) - Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
(08:36) - Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
(09:43) - Whole Earth Index
(10:52) - By the Power of Grayscale
(12:01) - Outro
Mr TIFFhttps://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816853This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous wormhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hourshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812024Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake accesshttps://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812606I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollarshttps://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816041Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or nothttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817167Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe Ithttps://cognition.ai/blog/codemapshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813767Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Resultshttps://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells stateshttps://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319Whole Earth Indexhttps://wholeearth.info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734259By the Power of Grayscalehttps://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151
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11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence
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 recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
(07:53) - State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
(09:09) - You can't cURL a Border
(10:16) - When stick figures fought
(11:12) - Outro
The Case Against PGVectorhttps://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479AI's Dial-Up Erahttps://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-erahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorshttps://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernelhttps://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074Things you can do with diodeshttps://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805900First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbackshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Championshttps://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799478You can't cURL a Borderhttps://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806263When stick figures foughthttps://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-foughthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806348
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11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state containers, djb's notes on Fil-C
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 DeepResearch
(07:06) - Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
(08:10) - Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
(09:24) - Why don't you use dependent types?
(10:37) - X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland
(11:44) - Outro
Facts about throwing good partieshttps://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794032URLs are state containershttps://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789474Notes by djb on using Fil-Chttps://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788040Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787993Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun againhttps://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789424Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearchhttps://tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789602Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/paris-had-a-moving-sidewalk-in-1900.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strengthhttps://nickvsnetworking.com/simple-trick-to-increase-coverage-lying-to-users-about-signal-strength/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795036Why don't you use dependent types?https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790827X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwaylandhttps://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790015
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11.2.25 | ArXiv CS review article updates, Visopsys OS by single developer since 1997, Show HN on LLM coding experiment
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 the browser
(06:24) - SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
(07:39) - SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
(08:54) - How I use every Claude Code feature
(10:01) - The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
(11:00) - Pomelli
(12:11) - Outro
Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS categoryhttps://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782136Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997https://visopsys.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785858Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)https://github.com/samrolken/nokodehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783640Claude Code can debug low-level cryptographyhttps://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784179GHC now runs in the browserhttps://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782981SQLite concurrency and why you should care about ithttps://jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781298SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSeshttps://sailfishos.org/info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785840How I use every Claude Code featurehttps://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-featurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786738The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMshttps://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbookhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762160Pomellihttps://blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786324
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