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Hacker News (Sep 2025)

  1. The Wetware Crisis: The Thermocline of Truth (2008)

    37 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  2. In C++ modules globally unique module names seem to be unavoidable

    37 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  3. Detroit's Carmakers to Save Billions in Emissions Rollback

    37 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  4. Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method

    37 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  5. Computers are for Girls

    37 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  6. Cognitive ability (probably) peaks between 50 and 60

    37 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  7. GDPVal: Measuring the performance of our models on real-world tasks

    37 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  8. Why Things Go to Shit

    37 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  9. How far can you go by train in 5 hours? (interactive map)

    37 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  10. Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know

    36 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  11. What to know about encodings and character sets to work with text (2011)

    36 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  12. The U.S. is losing manufacturing jobs, analysis finds

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  13. AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

    36 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  14. Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV

    36 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  15. Show HN: Freeing GPUs stuck by runaway jobs

    36 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  16. UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  17. Disney is raising the price of Disney+ and Hulu

    36 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  18. A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

    36 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  19. Trump Posts AI Video Which Promotes a Magic 'Med Bed' That Can Cure Any Disease

    36 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  20. World Lung Cancer Expert Diagnosed with Advanced Lung Cancer

    36 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  21. Show HN: A web version of Pips game (NYT domino game)

    36 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  22. Coinbase CEO Revealed He Fired Engineers Who Didn't Use AI Tools

    36 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  23. The 100MHz 6502

    36 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  24. Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

    36 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  25. Denmark bans civilian drones as it ramps up security ahead of EU summit

    36 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  26. Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet (2015)

    36 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  27. Action was the best 8-bit programming language

    36 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  28. History of Telecommunications T-Carrier

    36 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  29. AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital

    36 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  30. US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission

    36 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  31. The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)

    36 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  32. Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

    36 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  33. How to waste CPU like a Professional

    35 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  34. Reveal – Read Eval Visualize Loop for Clojure

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  35. XeroxNostalgia.com

    35 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  36. Tesla Doors Can Trap People Desperate to Escape

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  37. Perrinn 424 – An open access electric hyper car designed for racing

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  38. Performance-focused forks of styled-components

    35 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  39. JIT-ing a stack machine (with SLJIT)

    35 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  40. Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?

    35 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  41. RFC9460: SVCB and HTTPS DNS Records

    35 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  42. If Odin Had Macros

    35 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  43. David Walker's Paper Clip Collection

    35 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  44. SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix

    35 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  45. Trump to Add $100k Fee to H-1B Visas

    35 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  46. Zuckerberg caught on hot mic promoting fake investment figures to support Trump

    35 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  47. A GNOME developer now homeless in Nashville USA, needs place to stay

    35 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  48. Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strongman

    35 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  49. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza (2024)

    35 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  50. Why are interviews harder than the job?

    35 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  51. Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic

    35 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  52. Google confirms fraudulent account created in law enforcement portal

    35 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  53. From unit tests to whole universe tests (with will wilson of antithesis) [video]

    35 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  54. AI hype is crashing into reality. Stay calm

    35 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  55. The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

    35 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  56. The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  57. API Blueprint

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  58. Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation–Report

    35 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  59. Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov

    35 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  60. How to Build a High-Performance UR5 Inverse Kinematics Solver with IK-Geo

    35 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  61. Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

    35 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  62. Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio]

    35 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  63. This Month in Ladybird

    35 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  64. State media (owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government)

    34 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  65. Emacs China

    34 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  66. A primer for using weather surveillance radar to study bird migration

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  67. Show HN: An Open Source XR(AR/VR) Operating System

    34 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  68. Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  69. Metamaterials, AI, and the Road to Invisibility Cloaks

    34 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  70. Linkgraphs are fun

    34 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  71. Yes, America Has a Housing Emergency – Paul Krugman

    34 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  72. What happens when 10k AI agents are left to self-govern in a virtual world?

    34 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  73. Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  74. Elements of C Style (1994)

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  75. EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embedding

    34 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  76. Hedge funds have to be big

    34 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  77. Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  78. Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  79. Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  80. Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

    34 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  81. Show HN: We built an open-source alternative to expensive pair programming apps

    34 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  82. Show HN: Open-source AI data generator (now hosted)

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  83. Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

    34 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  84. The Many Broken Feeds

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  85. Microsoft launches 'vibe working' in Excel and Word

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  86. Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting

    34 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  87. ‘Based on a True Story’ (2016-2019)

    34 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  88. Explore a new digital edition of "Printing Types" from 1922

    34 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  89. Pablo Picasso's poetry

    34 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  90. Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  91. The Kafka Replication Protocol with KIP-966

    34 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  92. Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine rebuilt every 20yrs for more than a millennium

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  93. AP Live: View from Gaza as Israel Begins Expanded Operation in Gaza City

    34 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  94. A joint statement from OpenAI and Microsoft

    34 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  95. U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N

    34 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  96. Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100

    34 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  97. X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values

    33 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  98. The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)

    33 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  99. Recession Probability Surges to 93%: UBS

    33 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  100. Windows 3.11 in your browser with working dial-up internet, IRC, FTP and more

    33 points • comment • sep 28, 2025