10.4.25 | Fluid Glass, Offline card payments by July 2026, Open Printer with DRM-free ink

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 4, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:17) - Fluid Glass
  • (01:16) - Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
  • (02:28) - Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
  • (03:44) - Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
  • (04:58) - PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
  • (06:02) - Zig builds are getting faster
  • (07:07) - Where it's at://
  • (08:11) - I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
  • (09:08) - Cancellations in async Rust
  • (10:17) - Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
  • (11:29) - Outro

Fluid Glass
https://chiuhans111.github.io/fluidglass/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422147

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467500

Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423404

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447536

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466086

Zig builds are getting faster
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468698

Where it's at://
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455164

I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463319

Cancellations in async Rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464632

Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464429
10.4.25 | Fluid Glass, Offline card payments by July 2026, Open Printer with DRM-free ink
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