top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-28

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054260

1 year ago

Making Minecraft Spherical

https://www.bowerbyte.com/posts/blocky-planet/

1 year ago

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411

1 year ago

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/

1 year ago

Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

1 year ago

Uncertain<T>

https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/

1 year ago

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/generative-ai-reshapes-us-job-market-stanford-study-shows-entry-level-young-workers.html

1 year ago

Open Source is one person

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

1 year ago

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html

1 year ago

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood

https://obviouslywrong.substack.com/p/the-bitter-lesson-is-misunderstood

1 year ago

The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2025/08/18/how-to-prepare-for-the-bitnami-changes-coming-soon

1 year ago

My startup banking story (2023)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story

1 year ago

Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos

https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com&torchCursor=true&comicSans=true&fakeCursors=true&peskyFly=true

1 year ago

RSS is awesome

https://evanverma.com/rss-is-awesome

1 year ago

Python: The Documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

1 year ago

Important machine learning equations

https://chizkidd.github.io//2025/05/30/machine-learning-key-math-eqns/

1 year ago

Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050502

1 year ago

Sci-Hub has been blocked in India

https://sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocked-india

1 year ago

CDC officials’ resignation emails

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-read-three-top-cdc

1 year ago

Expert: LSP for Elixir

https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert

1 year ago

What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness

https://bigthink.com/business/brain-surgery-fragile-gift-of-consciousness/

1 year ago

China is eating the world

https://apropos.substack.com/p/china-is-eating-the-world

1 year ago

A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code

https://miguel-martin.com/blog/nim2-review

1 year ago

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-install-truenas-on-raspberry-pi

1 year ago

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx

1 year ago

Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures

https://old.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1n1sgxx/windows_11_update_kb5063878_causing_ssd_failures/

1 year ago

Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

https://martinfowler.com/articles/build-own-coding-agent.html

1 year ago

The National Design Studio is a scam

https://www.chrbutler.com/the-national-design-studio-is-a-scam

1 year ago

Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

https://github.com/soulim/bookmarks.txt

1 year ago

Claude Code Checkpoints

https://claude-checkpoints.com/

1 year ago

Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue

1 year ago

Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/vibe-coding-as-a-coding-veteran-cd370fe2be50

1 year ago

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

1 year ago

Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

1 year ago

Pong Clock

https://bigjobby.com/pong/?v=2.0/

1 year ago

PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

https://social.treehouse.systems/@pine64/115027515081143369

1 year ago

Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

https://www.fossjobs.net/

1 year ago

Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

https://tj401.com/blog/formd/index.html

1 year ago

Mosh Mobile Shell

https://mosh.org

1 year ago

White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-.html

1 year ago

Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01718-25

1 year ago

The Math Behind GANs (2020)

https://jaketae.github.io/study/gan-math/

1 year ago

Certificates for Onion Services

https://onionservices.torproject.org/research/proposals/usability/certificates/

1 year ago

Service members deserve the right to repair

https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2025/07/11/why-service-members-deserve-the-right-to-repair/

1 year ago

Sometimes CPU cores are odd

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2025/cpu-core-odd/

1 year ago

Rendering a game in real time with AI

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/rendering-a-game-in-real-time-with-ai

1 year ago

Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent

https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/08/28/uncovering-lesser-known-mobile-adtech-domains/

1 year ago

Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5498669

1 year ago

That boolean should probably be something else

https://ntietz.com/blog/that-boolean-should-probably-be-something-else/

1 year ago

I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2025/08/28/ill_only_buy_devices_with_grapheneos/

1 year ago

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of AI [pdf]

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf

1 year ago

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

https://gleam.run/case-studies/strand/

1 year ago

Bayes, Bits and Brains

https://bayesbitsbrains.github.io/

1 year ago

Trade in War

https://news.mit.edu/2025/why-countries-trade-each-other-while-fighting-mariya-grinberg-book-0828

1 year ago

C++: Strongly Happens Before?

https://nekrozqliphort.github.io/posts/happens-b4/

1 year ago

Rupert's Property

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-polyhedron-without-ruperts-property/

1 year ago

The sisters “paradox” – counter-intuitive probability

https://blog.engora.com/2025/08/the-sisters-paradox-counter-intuitive.html

1 year ago

Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

https://verdagon.dev/blog/group-borrowing

1 year ago

GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection

https://github.com/b0nes164/GPUPrefixSums

1 year ago

Web Bot Auth

https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/bot-verification/web-bot-auth/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054040

1 year ago

Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

https://github.com/mi12labs/SwiftAI

1 year ago

The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World

https://www.splinter.com/the-stock-market-is-selling-its-soul-and-the-feds-independence-to-trump-because-zirp-broke-the-world

1 year ago

Bash Prompts Collection

https://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/

1 year ago

The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-08-27-the_cost_of_transparency

1 year ago

Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now

https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/every-industry-is-an-overcrowded

1 year ago

The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome

https://debramaymacleod.com/blog/the-last-vestal-virgin-and-the-fall-of-rome

1 year ago

The ABC Programming Language

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/

1 year ago

Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/28/brazil-offers-america-a-lesson-in-democratic-maturity

1 year ago

Google debuts device-bound session credentials against session hijacking

https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_128_google_debuts_device_bound_session_credentials_against_session_hijacking

1 year ago