{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5c0220ef\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":812,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nHow Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs\nhttps://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237\nXiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded\nhttps://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873\nMS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID\nhttps://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421158\nThe entire city of San Francisco as a video game\nhttps://sf.thijs.gg/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784\niCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com\nhttps://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564\nJabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence\nhttps://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421536\nWhere did all the public bathrooms go?\nhttps://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422800\nSeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64\nhttps://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49418255\nMoon (2024)\nhttps://ciechanow.ski/moon/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466\nOctopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in-a-never-before-seen-mutation-that-helps-them-accurately-build-proteins-180989319/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423539","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}