top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-08-31

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html

3 months ago

2071 upvotes – 1203 comments

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/this-telegram-must-be-closely-paraphrased-before-being-communicated-to-anyone

3 months ago

775 upvotes – 135 comments

Eternal Struggle

https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/

3 months ago

680 upvotes – 136 comments

Notes on Managing ADHD

https://borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd

3 months ago

633 upvotes – 329 comments

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E

3 months ago

565 upvotes – 570 comments

Jujutsu for everyone

https://jj-for-everyone.github.io/

3 months ago

442 upvotes – 411 comments

Use One Big Server (2022)

https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/

3 months ago

350 upvotes – 323 comments

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

https://algassert.com/post/2500

3 months ago

340 upvotes – 197 comments

My phone is an ereader now

https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/minimal-phone/

3 months ago

332 upvotes – 118 comments

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/08/30/nintendo-switch-2-dock

3 months ago

298 upvotes – 193 comments

Git Diagramming "The Weave"

https://daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave/

3 months ago

282 upvotes – 76 comments

FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself criticizing vaccines

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos

3 months ago

269 upvotes – 156 comments

Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives

https://offbeatoregon.com/2501d1006d_biliousPills-686.077.html

3 months ago

240 upvotes – 94 comments

I Don't Have Spotify

https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/

3 months ago

234 upvotes – 132 comments

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

https://oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-british-empire/

3 months ago

233 upvotes – 342 comments

What to do with C++ modules?

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously-think-about-what.html

3 months ago

226 upvotes – 261 comments

Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code

3 months ago

215 upvotes – 376 comments

Run a legal LTE network at home for $100

https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/legal-lte-network-at-home-for-100-bucks.lantian/

3 months ago

166 upvotes – 26 comments

Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses

https://jfloren.net/b/2025/8/28/0

3 months ago

166 upvotes – 28 comments

A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux

3 months ago

166 upvotes – 47 comments

F-Droid site certificate expired

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/883

3 months ago

155 upvotes – 111 comments

Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes

https://savingcountrymusic.com/rick-beato-is-right-to-rant-about-music-copyright-strikes/

3 months ago

153 upvotes – 119 comments

Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45085014

3 months ago

151 upvotes – 148 comments

No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search

https://bradt.ca/blog/no-clicks-no-content/

3 months ago

139 upvotes – 185 comments

TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/tpde-llvm-10-20x-faster-llvm-o0-back-end/86664

3 months ago

137 upvotes – 5 comments

Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers

https://padailypost.com/2025/08/29/family-of-microsoft-employee-who-died-warn-tech-companies-not-to-overwork-workers/

3 months ago

134 upvotes – 99 comments

Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

https://piccalil.li/blog/are-peoples-bosses-really-making-them-use-ai/

3 months ago

125 upvotes – 104 comments

How is Ultrassembler so fast?

https://jghuff.com/articles/ultrassembler-so-fast/

3 months ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Quirks of Common Lisp Types

https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/cl-type-quirks

3 months ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Code Is Debt

https://tornikeo.com/code-is-debt/

3 months ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

A Crack in the Cosmos

https://drb.ie/articles/a-crack-in-the-cosmos/

3 months ago

114 upvotes – 18 comments

Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/plastic-before-plastic

3 months ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/inverting-the-xorshift128-random-number-generator/

3 months ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/08/25/edk2-uefi-for-the-rock-5-itx/

3 months ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

https://grist.org/accountability/chicago-lead-pipe-replacement-map-health/

3 months ago

105 upvotes – 156 comments

Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084759

3 months ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)

https://sheafification.com/the-fast-track/

3 months ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

https://github.com/red/red

3 months ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments
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