Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:19) - I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
  • (01:44) - Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
  • (02:52) - Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
  • (04:09) - KDE launches its own distribution
  • (05:22) - ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
  • (06:31) - Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
  • (07:36) - Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
  • (08:40) - DOOMscrolling: The Game
  • (09:40) - Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
  • (10:55) - Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
  • (12:07) - Outro

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181535

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520

KDE launches its own distribution
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204393

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/developer-mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199713

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-verizon-claim-that-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209366

DOOMscrolling: The Game
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrolling-the-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205232

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200925

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
https://jiratui.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198481

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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.