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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool (01:19) - California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind (02:25) - The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel (03:32) - Pico-Banana-400k (04:35) - The Journey Before main() (05:42) - Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations (06:42) - Rock Tumbler Instructions (07:46) - Why I code as a CTO (08:56) - D2: Diagram Scripting Language (09:52) - Outro A worker fell into a nuclear reactor poolhttps://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZL1FfGE7TYHVw#en57996:~:text=TRANSPORT%20OF%20CONTAMINATED%20PERSON%20OFFSITEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behindhttps://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-without-a-flex-alerthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706527The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernelhttps://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707658Pico-Banana-400khttps://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708524The Journey Before main()https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-mainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706380Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizationshttps://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdrawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706792Rock Tumbler Instructionshttps://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45705125Why I code as a CTOhttps://www.assembled.com/blog/why-i-code-as-a-ctohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695979D2: Diagram Scripting Languagehttps://d2lang.com/tour/intro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707539 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.