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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2025.(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Line scan camera image processing for train photography (01:27) - What makes Claude Code so damn good (02:31) - RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode (03:40) - How to build a coding agent (04:45) - The cost of interrupted work (2023) (05:54) - Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips (07:04) - How can AI ID a cat? (08:16) - Why was Apache Kafka created? (09:35) - A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt (10:37) - Acronis True Image costs performance when not used (11:50) - Outro Line scan camera image processing for train photographyhttps://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44996938What makes Claude Code so damn goodhttps://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998295RFC 9839 and Bad Unicodehttps://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995640How to build a coding agenthttps://ghuntley.com/agent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001051The cost of interrupted work (2023)https://blog.oberien.de/2023/11/05/23-minutes-15-seconds.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999373Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chipshttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987078How can AI ID a cat?https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964800Why was Apache Kafka created?https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-createdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988845A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-2000-year-old-sun-hat-worn-by-a-roman-soldier-in-egypt-goes-on-view-after-a-century-in-storage-180987192/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998514Acronis True Image costs performance when not usedhttps://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/acronis-true-image-costs-performance-when-not-used/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960718 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.