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Hacker News (Sep 2025)

  1. How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)

    109 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  2. For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

    109 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  3. Litex: The First Formal Language Learnable in 1-2 Hours

    109 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

    109 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  5. Teen safety, freedom, and privacy

    108 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  6. Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer

    108 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  7. An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents

    108 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  8. YouTube views are down (don't panic)

    108 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  9. Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

    108 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  10. Patagonian Welsh

    108 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  11. UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

    108 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  12. Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons

    108 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  13. Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

    107 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  14. How to build vector tiles from scratch

    107 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  15. Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  16. A Beautiful Maths Game

    107 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  17. Procedural Island Generation (III)

    107 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  18. Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

    107 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  19. Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]

    107 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  20. A queasy selling of the family heirlooms

    107 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  21. Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web

    107 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  22. The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister

    106 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  23. How to become a pure mathematician or statistician (2008)

    106 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  24. Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)

    106 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  25. How big are our embeddings now and why?

    106 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  26. `std::flip`

    106 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  27. What Is Complexity in Chess?

    106 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  28. Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study

    106 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  29. The Helix Text Editor (2024)

    105 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  30. R MCP Server

    105 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  31. UK launches Project Octopus to deliver interceptor drones to Ukraine

    105 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  32. Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android

    105 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  33. Contracts for C

    105 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  34. China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world

    105 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  35. Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

    105 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  36. Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

    105 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  37. De-Clouding: Music

    105 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  38. She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

    105 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  39. After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

    105 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  40. DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale

    105 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  41. Rail travel is booming in America

    104 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  42. GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

    104 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  43. Questions to ask when you think need to finish something

    104 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  44. I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

    104 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  45. Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation

    104 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  46. Things managers do that leaders never would

    104 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  47. After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus

    104 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  48. My thoughts on renting versus buying

    103 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  49. How to stop functional programming (2016)

    103 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  50. Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally

    103 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  51. Writing code is easy, reading it isn't

    103 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  52. Wind turbine blade transportation challenges

    103 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  53. Electronic Arts Goes Private for $52.5B in Largest LBO

    103 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  54. Organize your Slack channels by "How Often", not "What"

    103 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  55. Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

    102 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  56. Based C++

    102 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  57. Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?

    102 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  58. Were RNNs all we needed? A GPU programming perspective

    102 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  59. Using Claude Code SDK to reduce E2E test time

    102 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  60. Google CTF 2025 – webz : Exploiting zlib's Huffman Code Table

    102 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  61. A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

    102 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  62. Titania Programming Language

    102 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  63. SWE-Bench Pro

    101 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  64. New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency

    101 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  65. The Expression Problem and its solutions (2016)

    101 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  66. De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes

    101 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  67. OpenDataLoader-PDF: An open source tool for structured PDF parsing

    101 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  68. ICPC 2025 World Finals Results

    101 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  69. A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

    101 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  70. Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

    101 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  71. Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)

    101 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  72. A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

    101 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  73. The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin()

    100 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  74. How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  75. Why do some gamers invert their controls?

    100 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  76. Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

    100 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  77. Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL

    100 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  78. UTF-8 history (2003)

    100 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  79. Björk on nature and technology (2016)

    100 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  80. Some thoughts on personal Git hosting

    100 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  81. The Lambda Calculus (2023)

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  82. Vetinari's Clock (2011)

    100 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  83. Writing an operating system kernel from scratch – RISC-V/OpenSBI/Zig

    100 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  84. Exploring GrapheneOS secure allocator: Hardened Malloc

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  85. A Technical Update on Submarine Cables [pdf]

    99 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  86. OneDev – Self-hosted Git server with CI/CD, Kanban, and packages

    99 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  87. Hyperion: Minecraft game engine for custom events

    99 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  88. The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making

    99 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  89. Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries

    99 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  90. Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

    99 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  91. The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

    99 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  92. Not all browsers perform revocation checking

    99 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  93. Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators

    99 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  94. Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

    98 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  95. Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd ed

    98 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  96. Knowledge and memory

    98 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  97. High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)

    98 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  98. Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

    98 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  99. Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks

    98 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  100. Apple Debuts iPhone 17

    98 points • comment • sep 09, 2025