top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-27

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

1 year ago

Monodraw

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

1 year ago

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html

1 year ago

Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

1 year ago

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

https://lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-productivity-curve

1 year ago

Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/

1 year ago

The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident

1 year ago

The GitHub website is slow on Safari

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758

1 year ago

Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-cxm3-wv7p-598c

1 year ago

I Am An AI Hater

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

1 year ago

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

https://commonsware.com/blog/2025/08/26/uncomfortable-questions-android-developer-verification.html

1 year ago

VIM Master

https://github.com/renzorlive/vimmaster

1 year ago

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html

1 year ago

Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

https://yamanot.es/

1 year ago

Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/

1 year ago

QEMU 10.1.0

https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.1

1 year ago

F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml

1 year ago

Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44429.html

1 year ago

SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-launches-starship-flight-10-critical-test-flight-video

1 year ago

A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks

https://www.nordbayern.de/news-in-english/paypal-security-systems-down-german-banks-block-payments-in-the-billions-1.14811187

1 year ago

Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store

https://torrentfreak.com/apple-revokes-eu-distribution-rights-for-torrent-client-developer-left-in-the-dark/

1 year ago

GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?

https://gmplib.org/gmp-zen5

1 year ago

AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

https://www.praf.me/ai-coding

1 year ago

How do I get into the game industry

https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry

1 year ago

Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor

https://acmail.idreesinc.com

1 year ago

Hermes 4

https://hermes4.nousresearch.com/

1 year ago

Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

https://news.fsu.edu/news/education-society/2025/08/26/on-screen-and-now-irl-fsu-researchers-find-evidence-suggesting-chatgpt-influences-how-we-speak/

1 year ago

Show HN: PageIndex – Vectorless RAG

https://github.com/VectifyAI/PageIndex/blob/main/cookbook/pageindex_RAG_simple.ipynb

1 year ago

Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041185

1 year ago

Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers

https://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-entanglements-mapping-connections-of-anti-offshore-wind-groups-and-their-lawyers-in-the-easte

1 year ago

House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5473331-wikipedia-bias-probe-republicans/

1 year ago

Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

https://zed.dev/blog/bring-your-own-agent-to-zed

1 year ago

Typepad is shutting down

https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

1 year ago

Implementing Forth in Go and C

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/implementing-forth-in-go-and-c/

1 year ago

How to slow down a program and why it can be useful

https://stefan-marr.de/2025/08/how-to-slow-down-a-program/

1 year ago

Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

https://dev.37signals.com/running-our-docker-registry-on-prem-with-harbor/

1 year ago

Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost

https://cdm.link/bitwig-studio-6-details/

1 year ago

Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

1 year ago

SQL Design Patterns (2010)

https://vadimtropashko.wordpress.com/%e2%80%9csql-design-patterns%e2%80%9d-book/about/

1 year ago

ASCIIFlow

https://asciiflow.com/

1 year ago

Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

https://www.firefox.com

1 year ago

Delete tests

https://andre.arko.net/2025/06/30/you-should-delete-tests/

1 year ago

Pig lung transplanted into a human

https://www.sciencealert.com/pig-lung-transplanted-into-a-human-in-major-scientific-first

1 year ago

Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-product-management-bottleneck-coding-ai-startups-2025-8

1 year ago

What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-08-27-traces-and-spans-in-opentelemetry/view

1 year ago

Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

https://github.com/polaroi8d/cactoide

1 year ago

A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot

1 year ago

WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser

https://docs.weblibre.eu/

1 year ago

Malleable Software

https://www.mdubakov.me/malleable-software-will-eat-the-saas-world/

1 year ago

A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/db-ksvd/

1 year ago

Acoustic Panels as Wall Coverings in Star Trek: The Next Generation

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/acoustic-panels.htm

1 year ago

Thrashing

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/08/26/thrashing/

1 year ago

Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say

https://www.stilldrinking.org/stop-talking-to-technology-executives-like-they-have-anything-to-say

1 year ago

Show HN: An ncurses CUDA-based fluid simulation

https://github.com/seanwevans/fluid-sims

1 year ago

Kiwi.com flight search MCP server

https://mcp-install-instructions.alpic.cloud/servers/kiwi-com-flight-search

1 year ago

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

1 year ago

Efficient Array Programming

https://github.com/razetime/efficient-array-programming

1 year ago

Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/08/26/intels-clearwater-forest-xeon-7-e-core-cpu-will-be-a-beast/

1 year ago

I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own

https://eli.li/to-the-surprise-of-literally-no-one-im-working-on-implementing-a-programming-language-all-my-own

1 year ago

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/

1 year ago

The man with a Home Computer (1967) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Ka42eyudA

1 year ago

Terminal sessions you can bookmark

https://poor.dev/blog/building-zellij-web-terminal/

1 year ago

I Wasn't Worried About the Fed. Now I Am

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-27/trump-the-fed-and-independence-now-i-m-worried

1 year ago

Tipping point in Gulf Stream may be reached as early as mid-century

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JC022651

1 year ago

RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month

https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-promises-to-reveal-the-cause-of-autism-next-month-2000648934

1 year ago

This is my brain on leeches

https://todaythings.substack.com/p/this-is-my-brain-on-leeches

1 year ago

A24's Empire of Auteurs

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs

1 year ago

AI Bubble 2027

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-2027/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036708

1 year ago

What we find in the sewers

https://www.asimov.press/p/sewers

1 year ago

Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine

https://andrewlock.net/fixing-an-old-dotnet-core-native-library-loading-issue-on-alpine/

1 year ago

Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

https://www.alnewkirk.com/bidirectional-accountability/

1 year ago

The Grammar According to West

https://dwest.web.illinois.edu/grammar.html

1 year ago

Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-find-no-hair-on-black-holes-20250827/

1 year ago