Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 13, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:20) - EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
  • (01:39) - The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
  • (02:57) - UTF-8 is a brilliant design
  • (04:11) - Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
  • (05:22) - Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
  • (06:27) - QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
  • (07:46) - 3D modeling with paper
  • (08:45) - Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
  • (09:54) - FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
  • (11:00) - Legal win
  • (12:04) - Outro

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274

UTF-8 is a brilliant design
https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224156

3D modeling with paper
https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222369

Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227212

Legal win
https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228692

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