HN Buddy Daily Digest
Monday, September 15, 2025
Hey buddy,
Man, you wouldn't believe what was cooking on Hacker News today. Some wild stuff, lemme tell ya.
Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Okay, first up, get this – some genius actually hosted a website on a disposable vape! Seriously! And get this, the site totally crashed because so many people from HN tried to check it out. Hilarious, right? People in the comments were cracking up about that, and then, weirdly, some folks got into a whole discussion about how bad disposable vapes are for the environment, and someone even mentioned food poisoning from bread. Like, where did that come from?
React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Then there was a big kerfuffle about React. Someone wrote that it's just 'winning by default' and actually slowing down innovation in web development. The comments were a total battlefield – some people agreed it's a messy spaghetti code situation, while others argued it's super simple because it's just JavaScript functions. You know how those framework debates go.
Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
Switching gears, Denmark's Justice Minister is apparently pretty anti-encrypted messaging, calling it a 'false civil liberty.' People on HN were naturally pretty fired up about that, bringing up the whole 'you can't outlaw math' argument and worrying about some real dystopian futures where even our personal devices aren't private