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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization (01:25) - Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? (02:43) - Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first (03:46) - Sequoia backs Zed (05:03) - Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering (06:10) - Code review can be better (07:14) - An Update on Pytype (08:19) - Introduction to AT Protocol (09:24) - D4d4 (10:28) - Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts (11:51) - Outro Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualizationhttps://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962066Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-firsthttps://github.com/zedless-editor/zedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964916Sequoia backs Zedhttps://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkeringhttps://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/12_gemma3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962059Code review can be betterhttps://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08-04-code-review-can-be-better/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44967469An Update on Pytypehttps://github.com/google/pytypehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963724Introduction to AT Protocolhttps://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965233D4d4https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932401Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkoutshttps://petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-depot-sued-for-secretly-using-facial-recognition-technology-on-self-checkout-cameras/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962771 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.