9.18.25 | Slack raises charges by $195k, Apple Photos corrupts images, WASM 3.0 completed
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
(01:39) - Apple Photos app corrupts images
(02:58) - WASM 3.0 Completed
(04:02) - Meta Ray-Ban Display
(05:02) - U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
(06:22) - YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
(07:35) - Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
(08:53) - A postmortem of three recent issues
(10:05) - Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
(11:11) - One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
(12:23) - Outro
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per yearhttps://skyfall.dev/posts/slackhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887Apple Photos app corrupts imageshttps://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277WASM 3.0 Completedhttps://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279384Meta Ray-Ban Displayhttps://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with Chinahttps://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009fhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockershttps://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEOhttps://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278279A postmortem of three recent issueshttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issueshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281139Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot ithttps://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hellohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenanthttps://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282497
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9.17.25 | UN finds Israel guilty of Gaza genocide, Shai-Hulud malware compromises Tinycolor and 40+ NPM packages, Software Defined Radio uses for 2024
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
(01:38) - Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
(02:51) - Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
(03:52) - Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
(05:12) - Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
(06:21) - About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
(07:41) - GNU Midnight Commander
(08:35) - How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
(09:49) - Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
(10:56) - I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
(11:54) - Outro
Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gazahttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gazahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259553Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromisedhttps://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-crowdstrike-npm-packageshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260741Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262835Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-outhttps://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/denmark-close-wiping-out-leading-cancer-causing-hpv-strains-after-vaccine-roll-outhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265745Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFOhttps://waymo.com/blog/#short-all-systems-go-at-sfo-waymo-has-received-our-pilot-permithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45264562About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5https://support.apple.com/en-us/125142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270108GNU Midnight Commanderhttps://midnight-commander.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271481How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieterhttps://noctua.at/en/how-to-make-the-framework-desktop-run-even-quieterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266039Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardwarehttps://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268269I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245050
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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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