9.9.25 | NPM packages compromised, Signal backups secured, iPhone as a dumbphone

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
• (01:31) - Signal Secure Backups
• (02:35) - iPhone dumbphone
• (03:44) - No adblocker detected
• (04:54) - Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
• (06:07) - Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
• (07:11) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
• (08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
• (09:32) - Clankers Die on Christmas
• (10:46) - The Storm Hits the Art Market
• (12:04) - Outro

Signal Secure Backups
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515

iPhone dumbphone
https://stopa.io/post/297
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200

No adblocker detected
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624

Clankers Die on Christmas
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275

The Storm Hits the Art Market
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628