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Friday, September 5, 2025

Hey buddy,

Man, you wouldn't believe what was popping off on Hacker News today, Friday. I was just skimming through, and there were some wild ones. Lemme give you the quick rundown:

I ditched Docker for Podman

First up, this dude wrote a whole thing about how he ditched Docker for Podman and thinks everyone else should too. He was really pushing the security angle, saying Podman doesn't need that big daemon running all the time, which is apparently a win for security.

But of course, the comments went wild. Lots of people were like, "Yeah, but what about Docker Compose support? That's a deal-breaker for me!" And some real security nerds were chiming in, saying if you *really* want security, you should just use a full VM, not just containers. One guy even pointed out that if you're worried about a bad curl | bash command, it could do damage with or without Docker, so it's kinda moot.

Anthropic agrees to pay $1

All Stories from Today

I ditched Docker for Podman (codesmash.dev)

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors (www.nytimes.com)

I'm absolutely right (absolutelyright.lol)

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (fil-c.org)

Purposeful animations (emilkowal.ski)

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf (www.jeffgeerling.com)

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices (ec.europa.eu)

Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others (www.aljazeera.com)

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner (signalsandthreads.com)

Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25 (community.hubitat.com)

Making a font of my handwriting (chameth.com)

South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility (www.nbcnews.com)

OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart (www.theregister.com)

A computer upgrade shut down BART (www.bart.gov)

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr (6octaves.com)

Development speed is not a bottleneck (pawelbrodzinski.substack.com)

US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs (www.cnn.com)

I kissed comment culture goodbye (sustainableviews.substack.com)

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023) (fathy.fr)

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf] (kcsrk.info)

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4 (jan.wildeboer.net)

MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS (github.com)

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years (www.atlasoftheuniverse.com)

Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt (helpthisbook.com)

Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app (github.com)

Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy (electrek.co)

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

Age verification doesn’t work (pornbiz.com)

SQL needed structure (www.scattered-thoughts.net)

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves (laist.com)