Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 18, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
• (01:39) - Apple Photos app corrupts images
• (02:58) - WASM 3.0 Completed
• (04:02) - Meta Ray-Ban Display
• (05:02) - U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
• (06:22) - YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
• (07:35) - Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
• (08:53) - A postmortem of three recent issues
• (10:05) - Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
• (11:11) - One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
• (12:23) - Outro

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

Apple Photos app corrupts images
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277

WASM 3.0 Completed
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279384

Meta Ray-Ban Display
https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278279

A postmortem of three recent issues
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281139

Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284311

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282497