Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
• (01:34) - Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
• (02:44) - 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
• (03:48) - What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
• (04:56) - Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
• (06:11) - The QNX Operating System
• (07:22) - Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
• (08:31) - Structured Procrastination
• (09:43) - Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
• (10:54) - Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
• (12:00) - Outro

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487044

1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
https://blog.archive.org/trillion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487476

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
https://fi-le.net/oss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483924

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806

The QNX Operating System
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481892

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480317

Structured Procrastination
https://structuredprocrastination.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488261

Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
https://www.srb2.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447226

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448747