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

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war

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

11 months ago

363 upvotes – 660 comments

Bear is now source-available

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

11 months ago

551 upvotes – 480 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

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

11 months ago

267 upvotes – 449 comments

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

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

11 months ago

124 upvotes – 362 comments

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel

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

11 months ago

263 upvotes – 301 comments

Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

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

11 months ago

698 upvotes – 278 comments

Steve Ballmer Interview

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

11 months ago

143 upvotes – 205 comments

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says

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

11 months ago

381 upvotes – 200 comments

Detecting and countering misuse of AI

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

11 months ago

141 upvotes – 146 comments

Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership

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

11 months ago

155 upvotes – 138 comments

UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

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

11 months ago

111 upvotes – 137 comments

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights

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

11 months ago

386 upvotes – 137 comments

De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes

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

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 135 comments

I should have loved electrical engineering

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

11 months ago

159 upvotes – 133 comments

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/

11 months ago

270 upvotes – 116 comments

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

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

11 months ago

71 upvotes – 114 comments

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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

11 months ago

248 upvotes – 113 comments

The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making

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

11 months ago

103 upvotes – 105 comments

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

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

11 months ago

104 upvotes – 93 comments

Don't Build Multi-Agents

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

11 months ago

123 upvotes – 89 comments

OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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

11 months ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

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

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

11 months ago

428 upvotes – 82 comments

Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21141

11 months ago

206 upvotes – 78 comments

What Is Complexity in Chess?

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

11 months ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

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

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

11 months ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

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

11 months ago

75 upvotes – 63 comments

AI enters the grant game, picking winners

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

11 months ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

Minesweeper thermodynamics

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

11 months ago

206 upvotes – 62 comments

The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

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

11 months ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

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

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

11 months ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

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

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

11 months ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

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

https://github.com/mindbrix/Rasterizer

11 months ago

169 upvotes – 56 comments

Search engine referral report for 2025 Q2

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

11 months ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

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

11 months ago

511 upvotes – 51 comments

Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

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

11 months ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

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

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

11 months ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)

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

11 months ago

232 upvotes – 36 comments

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

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

11 months ago

159 upvotes – 35 comments

Vetinari's Clock (2011)

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

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside

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

11 months ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption

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

11 months ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

AR Fluid Simulation Demo

https://danybittel.ch/fluid

11 months ago

147 upvotes – 28 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02992

11 months ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Preserving Order in Concurrent Go Apps: Three Approaches Compared

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

11 months ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

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

https://github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon/NeuroPriest

11 months ago

155 upvotes – 24 comments

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

https://github.com/felixmaker/thunk

11 months ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments

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

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

11 months ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

https://github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest

11 months ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Lessons from building an AI data analyst

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

11 months ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer

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

11 months ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

A programmable display using microfluidics [video]

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

11 months ago

87 upvotes – 6 comments

Israeli campaign in Gaza meets definition of genocide, say scholars

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

11 months ago

68 upvotes – 5 comments
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