top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-01

Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

https://bsky.app/profile/bennjordan.bsky.social/post/3lxojrbessk2z

1 year ago

Bear is now source-available

https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/

1 year ago

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2025/08/30/foil-sticker

1 year ago

Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

1 year ago

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights

https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights

1 year ago

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-scholars-group-says

1 year ago

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-talent-wars-internal-document-2025-8

1 year ago

The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1n5lztw/the_time_picker_on_the_iphones_alarm_app_isnt/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093192

1 year ago

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1035727/4837b0d3dccf1cbb/

1 year ago

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Specs-Repo/

1 year ago

Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=175675287220070&w=2

1 year ago

Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21141

1 year ago

Minesweeper thermodynamics

https://oscarcunningham.com/792/minesweeper-thermodynamics/

1 year ago

Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC

https://github.com/mindbrix/Rasterizer

1 year ago

I should have loved electrical engineering

https://blog.tdhttt.com/post/love-ee/

1 year ago

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge

1 year ago

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

https://github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon/NeuroPriest

1 year ago

Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-09-01-Thoughts-on-Amazonian-Leadership.html

1 year ago

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

https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richard-axe-second-hand-books-yorkshire

1 year ago

AR Fluid Simulation Demo

https://danybittel.ch/fluid

1 year ago

Steve Ballmer Interview

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-steve-ballmer-interview

1 year ago

Detecting and countering misuse of AI

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-aug-2025

1 year ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093190

1 year ago

Don't Build Multi-Agents

https://cognition.ai/blog/dont-build-multi-agents

1 year ago

Search engine referral report for 2025 Q2

https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/search-engine-market-share-2025-q2

1 year ago

OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/09/OSMAnd_vs_Organic_Maps.html

1 year ago

The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

https://howtogrow.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-sales

1 year ago

What Is Complexity in Chess?

https://lichess.org/@/Toadofsky/blog/what-is-complexity/pKo1swFh

1 year ago

UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

https://www.nationalgrid.com/national-grid-connects-uks-largest-battery-storage-facility-tilbury-substation

1 year ago

Vetinari's Clock (2011)

https://www.waitingforfriday.com/?p=264

1 year ago

De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes

https://imrannazar.com/articles/degoogle-otp

1 year ago

We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American's Health

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html

1 year ago

Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45090872

1 year ago

The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-drawn-hits-that-hollywood

1 year ago

AI enters the grant game, picking winners

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-enters-grant-game-picking-winners

1 year ago

Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns (2020) [pdf]

https://martindemaine.org/papers/ThinTetris_JIP/paper.pdf

1 year ago

A programmable display using microfluidics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf-efIZI_Dg

1 year ago

Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)

https://grechin.org/2023/05/06/git-and-reaper.html

1 year ago

Preserving Order in Concurrent Go Apps: Three Approaches Compared

https://destel.dev/blog/preserving-order-in-concurrent-go

1 year ago

Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

https://cloud.disroot.org/s/Ec4xTMFDteTrFio

1 year ago

Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

https://hemath.dev/blog/say-bye-with-javascript-beacon/

1 year ago

Lessons from building an AI data analyst

https://www.pedronasc.com/articles/lessons-building-ai-data-analyst

1 year ago

The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom

https://blog.scaramuzza.me/articles/the_car_is_not_the_future.html

1 year ago

Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside

https://blog.jutty.dev/posts/half-an-year-on-alpine/

1 year ago

Israeli campaign in Gaza meets definition of genocide, say scholars

https://www.ft.com/content/470b61ff-aa1c-487f-a9ae-477b5c142a53

1 year ago

Thunk: Build Rust program to support Windows XP, Vista and more

https://github.com/felixmaker/thunk

1 year ago

A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer

https://nicole.express/2025/a-computer-in-your-home.html

1 year ago

Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

https://github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest

1 year ago

Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092204

1 year ago

Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02992

1 year ago

I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-data-center-water

1 year ago