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

1 year ago

“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

1 year ago

Eternal Struggle

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

1 year ago

Notes on Managing ADHD

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Jujutsu for everyone

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

1 year ago

Use One Big Server (2022)

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

1 year ago

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

https://algassert.com/post/2500

1 year ago

My phone is an ereader now

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

1 year ago

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

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

1 year ago

Git Diagramming "The Weave"

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

1 year ago

FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself criticizing vaccines

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

1 year ago

Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives

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

1 year ago

I Don't Have Spotify

https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

What to do with C++ modules?

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses

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

1 year ago

A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

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

1 year ago

F-Droid site certificate expired

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

1 year ago

Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

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

1 year ago

How is Ultrassembler so fast?

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

1 year ago

Quirks of Common Lisp Types

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

1 year ago

Code Is Debt

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

1 year ago

A Crack in the Cosmos

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator

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

1 year ago

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

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

1 year ago

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

https://github.com/red/red

1 year ago

ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies

https://www.signalbloom.ai/etf/stats

1 year ago

My Foray into Vlang

https://kristun.dev/posts/my-foray-into-vlang/

1 year ago

Abstract Machine Models (2022)

https://dr-knz.net/abstract-machine-models.html

1 year ago

New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support

https://github.com/taf2/curb/blob/master/ChangeLog.md

1 year ago

Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45081752

1 year ago

Replacing a cache service with a database

https://avi.im/blag/2025/db-cache/

1 year ago

Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B

https://cline.bot/blog/local-models

1 year ago

Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-30/scottish-maclean-brothers-finish-pacific-ocean-row/105711488

1 year ago

Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)

https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/

1 year ago

Lively Linear Lisp (1992) [pdf]

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/research/hash-cons/hash-cons-papers/BakerLinearLisp.pdf

1 year ago

Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors

https://theconversation.com/how-to-poop-outdoors-in-a-way-that-wont-harm-the-environment-and-other-hikers-262426

1 year ago

Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight

https://www.moondaily.com/reports/Lunar_soil_machine_developed_to_build_bricks_using_sunlight_999.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification

https://gist.github.com/JWally/bf4681f79c0725eb378ec3c246cf0664

1 year ago