6.25.25 | Joy in toy software, Exploring uv and PEP 723, New PNG spec

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2025.

Writing toy software is a joyhttps://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367084

Fun with uv and PEP 723https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369388

A new PNG spechttps://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373504

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foodshttps://www.plasticlist.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366548

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROMhttps://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365806

Basic Facts about GPUshttps://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365320

MCP is eating the worldhttps://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338793

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenizationhttps://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366494

Microsoft Edithttps://github.com/microsoft/edithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372380

Ancient X11 scaling technologyhttps://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369646