Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:18) - Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
  • (01:21) - Claude Memory
  • (02:33) - /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
  • (03:34) - PyTorch Monarch
  • (04:36) - Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
  • (05:46) - Roc Camera
  • (06:51) - I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
  • (08:13) - FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
  • (09:13) - Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
  • (10:21) - Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
  • (11:36) - Outro

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683152

Claude Memory
https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458

PyTorch Monarch
https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680237

Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688006

Roc Camera
https://roc.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690251

I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681200

FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687227

Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613327

Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
https://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690045

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