HN blogs - 29/10/25
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason https://daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-destroying-its-subtitles-for-no-good-reason/ (HN source)
What Context Can Bring to Terminal Mouse Clicks https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/what_context_can_bring_to_terminal_mouse_clicks.html (HN source)
I Don’t Want Ads on My Refrigerator
Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On https://brianschrader.com/archive/maintaining-a-music-library-ten-years-on/ (HN source)
Backpressure in Distributed Systems https://blog.pranshu-raj.me/posts/backpressure/ (HN source)
Building Production Apps with Deno Fresh 2 https://brettchalupa.com/blog/building-with-deno-fresh-2 (HN source)
So Cursor 2.0 is still based on VSCode from 8 months ago https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/cursor-2-0/ (HN source)
I built a multiplayer math game. It flopped https://blog.juhawilppu.com/i-built-a-multiplayer-math-game-it-flopped (HN source)
Video at scale: The hard problem Spotify solves https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/spotify/ (HN source)
Phantom in the Light: The story of early spectroscopy https://chrisdempewolf.com/posts/phantom-in-the-light/ (HN source)
You Don’t Need a New Laptop https://thinkhuman.com/you-dont-need-a-new-laptop/ (HN source)
We Continually Delivery Software https://wedgworth.dev/how-we-continually-deliver-software/ (HN source)
Building a Robot Dog (with an airsoft gun) https://erikschluntz.com/hardware/2025/10/26/robot-dog.html (HN source)
3 Minutes to Start Your Research in Nearest Neighbor Search https://romanbikbulatov.bearblog.dev/nearest-neighbor-search-intro/ (HN source)
Ranking by Profit and Popularity in Elasticsearch https://alexmarquardt.com/ranking-by-profit-and-popularity-in-elasticsearch/ (HN source)
Let Us Open URL’s in a Specific Browser Profile https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/open-urls-in-specific-browser-profile/ (HN source)
You’re all staff engineers now https://jdauriemma.com/programming/youre-all-staff-engineers-now (HN source)
Debugging a 32,767 Thread Leak in Apache Hadoop ABFS https://mattduran.info/2025/10/2025-10-24-debugging-memory-leak (HN source)
Speculations about DeepSeek-OCR and Quantization https://dgsq.net/posts/2025-10-29-deepseek-ocr.html (HN source)
So Apparently I’ve Been Using Claude Wrong This Whole Time https://www.ministryoftesting.com/memories/so-apparently-i-ve-been-using-claude-wrong-this-whole-time (HN source)
Packing Neovim with Fennel https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2025/10/29/packing_neovim_with_fennel/ (HN source)
I Love My Job and It’s Exhausting https://www.codecabin.dev/post/i-love-my-job-and-its-exhausting (HN source)
What I Don’t Care About in Software https://blainsmith.com/articles/i-dont-care/ (HN source)
Intelligence as flavor, like umami, or just heat? https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/10/28/thunk (HN source)