11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence

Hacker News Highlights · Nov 4, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - The Case Against PGVector

(01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era

(02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)

(03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

(04:45) - WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel

(05:52) - Things you can do with diodes

(06:43) - First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

(07:53) - State of Terminal…