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Hacker News (Sep 2025)

  1. Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs

    157 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  2. IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025

    156 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  3. Modular Manifolds

    156 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  4. An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

    156 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  5. Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

    155 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  6. Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

    155 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  7. Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

    155 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  8. DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)

    154 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  9. ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps

    154 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  10. Choose Your Own Adventure

    154 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  11. Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes

    154 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  12. Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

    154 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  13. A Web Framework for Zig

    154 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  14. If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead

    154 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  15. Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again

    153 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  16. Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat

    153 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  17. Mind the encryptionroot: How to save your data when ZFS loses its mind

    153 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  18. Dgsh – Directed graph shell

    153 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  19. A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)

    153 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  20. Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

    153 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  21. I want to be left alone (2024)

    153 points • comment • sep 03, 2025

  22. DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

    153 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  23. Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

    152 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  24. I should have loved electrical engineering

    152 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  25. Linus Learns Analog Circuits

    152 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  26. Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

    152 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  27. Why friction is necessary for growth

    152 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  28. PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

    151 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  29. Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)

    151 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  30. Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

    151 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  31. AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

    151 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  32. Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

    151 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  33. Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

    150 points • comment • sep 19, 2025

  34. Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

    150 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  35. Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47

    149 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  36. How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

    149 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  37. Geolocation and Starlink

    149 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  38. Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel

    148 points • comment • sep 15, 2025

  39. Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

    148 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  40. Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

    148 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  41. One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

    148 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  42. LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

    148 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  43. Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral

    148 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  44. Crates.io phishing attempt

    148 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  45. Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs

    148 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  46. Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]

    147 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  47. Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents

    147 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  48. Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig

    147 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  49. Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

    147 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  50. Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

    147 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  51. From MCP to shell: MCP auth flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more

    147 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  52. Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

    147 points • comment • sep 18, 2025

  53. Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

    146 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  54. Job mismatch and early career success

    146 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  55. Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots

    146 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  56. SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs

    146 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  57. Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts

    146 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  58. Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes

    145 points • comment • sep 16, 2025

  59. AR Fluid Simulation Demo

    145 points • comment • sep 01, 2025

  60. A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

    145 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  61. Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo

    145 points • comment • sep 21, 2025

  62. Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

    145 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  63. Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

    144 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  64. Why We Think

    144 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  65. Show HN: Vibe Linking

    144 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  66. macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls

    144 points • comment • sep 20, 2025

  67. Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

    144 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  68. How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

    143 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  69. Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

    143 points • comment • sep 06, 2025

  70. We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]

    143 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  71. A replica of Citizen Quartz watch based on Harel's paper introducing statecharts

    143 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  72. Cache

    143 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  73. New math revives geometry's oldest problems

    142 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  74. Effective context engineering for AI agents

    142 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  75. AI tools I wish existed

    142 points • comment • sep 30, 2025

  76. Show HN: The Unite real time operating system

    142 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  77. NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    142 points • comment • sep 11, 2025

  78. An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur

    142 points • comment • sep 13, 2025

  79. In Praise of Idleness (1932)

    142 points • comment • sep 17, 2025

  80. Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme

    142 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  81. CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

    142 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  82. Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording

    141 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  83. Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps

    141 points • comment • sep 24, 2025

  84. Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

    141 points • comment • sep 10, 2025

  85. LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

    141 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  86. Apple A19 SoC die shot

    141 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  87. As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

    141 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  88. Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026

    141 points • comment • sep 29, 2025

  89. How to draw construction equipment for kids

    140 points • comment • sep 23, 2025

  90. Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide

    140 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  91. Show HN: Software Freelancers Contract Template

    140 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  92. How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets

    140 points • comment • sep 26, 2025

  93. SQL needed structure

    140 points • comment • sep 05, 2025

  94. How Ruby executes JIT code

    140 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  95. China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers

    140 points • comment • sep 28, 2025

  96. Cat Aquariums

    139 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  97. New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

    139 points • comment • sep 02, 2025

  98. Atlassian is acquiring the Browser Company

    139 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  99. Show HN: Lightweight tool for managing Linux virtual machines

    139 points • comment • sep 07, 2025

  100. ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live from the Air 'Indefinitely'

    139 points • comment • sep 17, 2025