11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel

Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Solarpunk is happening in Africa
• (01:23) - End of Japanese community
• (02:31) - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
• (03:35) - I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
• (04:41) - Ratatui – App Showcase
• (05:50) - Why aren't smart people happier?
• (07:06) - Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
• (08:02) - NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
• (09:05) - ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
• (10:10) - Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
• (11:13) - Outro

Solarpunk is happening in Africa
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190

End of Japanese community
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995

I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815419

Ratatui – App Showcase
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829

Why aren't smart people happier?
https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824864

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539

ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825965

Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783467