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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Case Against PGVector (01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era (02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) (03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors (04:45) - WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel (05:52) - Things you can do with diodes (06:43) - First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022) (07:53) - State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions (09:09) - You can't cURL a Border (10:16) - When stick figures fought (11:12) - Outro The Case Against PGVectorhttps://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479AI's Dial-Up Erahttps://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-erahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorshttps://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernelhttps://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074Things you can do with diodeshttps://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805900First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbackshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Championshttps://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799478You can't cURL a Borderhttps://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806263When stick figures foughthttps://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-foughthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806348 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.