10.19.25 | IDEs from 30 years ago, ./watch tool, Root System Drawings

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 19, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

(01:34) - ./watch

(02:35) - Root System Drawings

(03:34) - Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

(04:45) - Tinnitus Neuromodulator

(05:46) - When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

(06:56) - Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103

(08:07) - Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on…