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Hacker News (Sep 2025)

  1. Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News

    266 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  2. Altoids by the Fistful

    266 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  3. 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details

    266 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  4. CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

    266 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  5. Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

    266 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  6. Clankers Die on Christmas

    265 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  7. Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source

    265 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  8. I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it

    265 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  9. ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

    264 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  10. Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)

    263 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  11. Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet

    263 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  12. Diff Algorithms

    263 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  13. The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

    262 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  14. Why language models hallucinate

    262 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  15. Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

    262 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  16. Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK

    261 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  17. Flipper Zero Geiger Counter

    261 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  18. The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list

    261 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  19. A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system

    261 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  20. Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

    261 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  21. Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

    261 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  22. A new experimental Go API for JSON

    261 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  23. Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

    260 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  24. All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

    260 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  25. I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

    260 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  26. Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

    258 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  27. OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

    258 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  28. U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis

    257 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  29. Take something you don’t like and try to like it

    257 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  30. The worst possible antitrust outcome

    256 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  31. I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

    256 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  32. Sora 2

    255 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  33. A dumb introduction to z3

    255 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  34. Tesla coast-to-coast FSD crashes after 60 miles

    255 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  35. Legal win

    255 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  36. Spiral

    255 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  37. Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)

    255 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  38. Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

    254 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  39. A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

    254 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  40. David Lynch LA House

    254 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  41. DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

    254 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  42. Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan

    253 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  43. Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

    253 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  44. The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer

    253 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  45. There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

    252 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  46. Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

    252 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  47. The future of 32-bit support in the kernel

    252 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  48. iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype

    251 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  49. The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review

    251 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  50. What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)

    251 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  51. Traefik's 10-year anniversary

    250 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  52. South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis

    249 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  53. I kissed comment culture goodbye

    248 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  54. Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex

    248 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  55. Read to forget

    247 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  56. A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system

    247 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  57. Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

    247 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  58. Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

    247 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  59. Fall Foliage Map 2025

    247 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  60. Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

    246 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  61. DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC

    246 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  62. From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max

    246 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  63. Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

    246 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  64. SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM

    245 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  65. CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

    245 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  66. Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

    244 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  67. Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it

    243 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  68. Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

    243 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  69. Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

    243 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  70. Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

    242 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  71. The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    241 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  72. Why use mailing lists?

    241 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  73. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

    241 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  74. Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?

    241 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  75. VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

    241 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  76. Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments

    241 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  77. Samsung now owns Denon, Bowers and Wilkins, Marantz, Polk, and more audio brands

    241 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  78. Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch

    240 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  79. A simple habit that saves my evenings

    240 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  80. TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

    240 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  81. The Storm Hits the Art Market

    240 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  82. Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful

    239 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  83. Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

    239 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  84. Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

    239 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  85. Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

    239 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  86. In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs

    238 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  87. The demo scene is dying, but that's alright

    238 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  88. An opinionated critique of Duolingo

    237 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  89. The Beauty of Programming (2001)

    237 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  90. FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics

    237 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  91. Vibe coding cleanup as a service

    237 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  92. Ships are sailing with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine

    237 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  93. Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes

    237 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  94. Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

    236 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  95. Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules

    235 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  96. Go ahead, write the “stupid” code

    235 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  97. Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

    234 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  98. Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII

    234 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  99. Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

    234 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  100. RIP pthread_cancel

    233 points • comment • sep 13, 2025