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Monday, September 15, 2025

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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

All Stories from Today

Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

React is winning by default and slowing innovation (www.lorenstew.art)

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty (mastodon.social)

macOS Tahoe (www.apple.com)

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin (newsroom.paypal-corp.com)

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link (kennedn.com)

The Mac app flea market (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions (nickyoder.com)

RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch (github.com)

Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content (alastair.is)

Folks, we have the best π (lcamtuf.substack.com)

Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format (blog.asciinema.org)

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? (shkspr.mobi)

GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment (www.gadgetreview.com)

Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004) (bearcave.com)

A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams (arxiv.org)

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space (www.jeffgeerling.com)

Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

US lawmakers introduce bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism (thecradle.co)

Which NPM package has the largest version number? (adamhl.dev)

Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee (9to5mac.com)

How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts (blog.velocifyer.com)

Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps (news.ycombinator.com)

Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space (celestiaproject.space)

Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help (news.ycombinator.com)

Boring work needs tension (iaziz786.com)

Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release (news.itsfoss.com)