Hacker News Highlights – Details, episodes & analysis

• (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) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
• (08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
• (09:32) - Clankers Die on Christmas
• (10:46) - The Storm Hits the Art Market
• (12:04) - Outro

Signal Secure Backups
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515

iPhone dumbphone
https://stopa.io/post/297
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

No adblocker detected
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624

Clankers Die on Christmas
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275

The Storm Hits the Art Market
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628

• (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 have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
• (05:14) - Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
• (06:25) - Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
• (07:38) - What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
• (08:56) - Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
• (10:05) - The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
• (11:20) - Formatting code should be unnecessary
• (12:30) - Outro

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163362

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152284

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155986

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160774

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118286

What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156826

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
https://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45161816

The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
https://www.datagubbe.se/sceneherit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162803

Formatting code should be unnecessary
https://maxleiter.com/blog/formatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163043

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• (01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1
• (02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
• (04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
• (05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again
• (06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
• (07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
• (09:00) - Wikipedia as a Graph
• (09:58) - How do I get into the game industry
• (11:06) - Outro

Grok Code Fast 1
https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258

Flunking my Anthropic interview again
https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329

Wikipedia as a Graph
https://wikigrapher.com/paths
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060

How do I get into the game industry
https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127109

Human coders are still better than LLMs
https://antirez.com/news/153
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739

FLUX.1 Kontext
https://bfl.ai/models/flux-kontext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128322

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
https://commandline.stribny.name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132673

I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
https://wave3.social
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131513

Buttplug MCP
https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706

Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio
https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131984

Why is everybody knitting chickens?
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108139

Making C and Python Talk to Each Other
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/making-c-and-python-talk-to-each
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105746

Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
https://desktopdocs.com/?v=2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118023

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779

Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117722

Long live American Science and Surplus
https://milwaukeerecord.com/city-life/long-live-american-science-surplus-which-needs-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120507

Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
https://slightknack.dev/blog/difflogic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118373

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly
https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101175

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states
https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120241

Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
https://github.com/livingbio/typed-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123098

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens
https://firedbg.sea-ql.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086429

Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth
https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117059

Square Theory
https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105965

Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110584

Show HN: Lazy Tetris
https://lazytetris.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44103839

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/comparing-pyrefly-vs-ty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105796

Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112326

LumoSQL
https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105619

The Level Design Book
https://book.leveldesignbook.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086973

The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
https://blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44086917

CSS Minecraft
https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

Owls in Towels
https://owlsintowels.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101349

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097144

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44096395

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100179

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech
https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099407

Claude 4 System Card
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085920

At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087150

Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089150

Google Shared My Phone Number
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094270

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
https://lottie.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088216

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090387

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089424

Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future
https://self-issued.info/?p=2708
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092102

Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087844

Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)
https://behind.pretix.eu/2018/01/20/cups-driver/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088682

I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081338

Reinvent the Wheel
https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083467

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084017

Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver
https://gitlab.com/sephalon/rotary_dial_kmod
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080803

Good Writing
https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081586

Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak
https://blog.siguza.net/tachy0n/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083388

The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
https://magnus919.com/2025/05/the-xenon-death-flash-how-a-camera-nearly-killed-the-raspberry-pi-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080533

Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/world/asia/hongkong-bamboo-scaffolding.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549

Why old games never die, but new ones do
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers
https://pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-programming-with-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081081

Postgres IDE in VS Code
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073588

Find Your People
https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074017

How to live on $432 a month in America
https://shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-live-on-432-a-month-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074340

Root for your friends
https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077533

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049619

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student-finalists/chloe-lee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077850

Why Algebraic Effects?
https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078434

Caesar's Last Breath
https://charliesabino.com/caesars-last-breath/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073185

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app
https://doublememory.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075451