Hacker News Highlights

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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
• (01:25) - Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
• (02:34) - I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
• (03:47) - Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
• (05:03) - Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
• (06:08) - Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
• (07:21) - (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
• (08:25) - HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
• (09:31) - OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
• (10:41) - Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
• (12:01) - Outro

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539943

Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536694

I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
https://fulghum.io/album-cards
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543475

Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
https://data-star.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536618

Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
https://blog.tangled.org/intro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543899

Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
https://orb.net/blog/does-speed-make-wifi-suck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542444

(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544228

HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547566

OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
https://www.supergoodcode.com/mesh-shaders-in-the-current-year/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537890

Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
https://alew.is/lava.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535183