8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 25, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

(01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

(03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

(04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

(05:42) - iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

(07:02) - Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence…