top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-02

Next.js is infuriating

https://blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2z

2 months ago

1033 upvotes – 579 comments

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html

2 months ago

864 upvotes – 632 comments

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/09/maths-for-llms

2 months ago

616 upvotes – 120 comments

Anthropic raises $13B Series F

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation

2 months ago

591 upvotes – 635 comments

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

https://www.thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it/

2 months ago

584 upvotes – 677 comments

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

https://www.sanity.io/blog/first-attempt-will-be-95-garbage

2 months ago

550 upvotes – 395 comments

The staff ate it later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_staff_ate_it_later

2 months ago

489 upvotes – 303 comments

The Little Book of Linear Algebra

https://github.com/the-litte-book-of/linear-algebra

2 months ago

478 upvotes – 129 comments

FreeDroidWarn

https://github.com/woheller69/FreeDroidWarn

2 months ago

408 upvotes – 322 comments

You don't want to hire "the best engineers"

https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/blog/no-you-dont-want-to-hire-the-best-engineers

2 months ago

394 upvotes – 319 comments

Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate

https://utkusen.substack.com/p/xtwitter-secretly-shadow-bans-turkish

2 months ago

389 upvotes – 189 comments

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a-pixel-5/

2 months ago

366 upvotes – 167 comments

Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/why-isnt-python-async-more-popular.html

2 months ago

324 upvotes – 295 comments

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509

2 months ago

323 upvotes – 61 comments

Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

https://kazeta.org/

2 months ago

312 upvotes – 157 comments

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep

2 months ago

297 upvotes – 108 comments

Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-must-face-us-nationwide-class-action-over-third-party-sales-2025-09-02/

2 months ago

294 upvotes – 104 comments

Physically based rendering from first principles

https://imadr.me/pbr/

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 92 comments

Take something you don’t like and try to like it

https://dynomight.net/liking/

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 221 comments

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

https://www.theverge.com/news/767344/apple-removes-itorrent-altstore-pal-ios-marketplace

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 199 comments
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