Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2025.

Writing toy software is a joy
https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084

Fun with uv and PEP 723
https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388

A new PNG spec
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373504

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods
https://www.plasticlist.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366548

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806

Basic Facts about GPUs
https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365320

MCP is eating the world
https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338793

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366494

Microsoft Edit
https://github.com/microsoft/edit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372380

Ancient X11 scaling technology
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369646