top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-02

Next.js is infuriating

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

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

11 months ago

Anthropic raises $13B Series F

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

11 months ago

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/

11 months ago

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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

11 months ago

The staff ate it later

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

11 months ago

The Little Book of Linear Algebra

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

11 months ago

FreeDroidWarn

https://github.com/woheller69/FreeDroidWarn

11 months ago

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

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

11 months ago

Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate

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

11 months ago

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/

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

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

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

11 months ago

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

https://kazeta.org/

11 months ago

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

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

11 months ago

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/

11 months ago

Physically based rendering from first principles

https://imadr.me/pbr/

11 months ago

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

https://dynomight.net/liking/

11 months ago

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

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

11 months ago

OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police

https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

11 months ago

CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web

https://causenet.org/

11 months ago

Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/torontos-underground-labyrinth

11 months ago

<template>: The Content Template element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/template

11 months ago

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/

11 months ago

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

https://www.quantamagazine.org/world-models-an-old-idea-in-ai-mount-a-comeback-20250902/

11 months ago

Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux

https://www.grisp.org/software

11 months ago

The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250829-the-bomber-that-became-ww2s-most-expensive-weapon

11 months ago

The Old Robots Web Site

https://www.theoldrobots.com/index2.html

11 months ago

U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

https://www.theenergymix.com/u-s-emissions-rise-chinas-fall-in-massive-shift-between-worlds-biggest-climate-polluters/

11 months ago

ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

11 months ago

Static sites enable a good time travel experience

https://hamatti.org/posts/static-sites-enable-a-good-time-travel-experience/

11 months ago

Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas

https://blog.adacore.com/introduction-to-ada-a-project-based-exploration-with-rosettas

11 months ago

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

https://idiallo.com/blog/performing-for-the-job-title

11 months ago

Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

https://www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-norc-economic-poll-73bce003

11 months ago

Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/microsoft_rewarded_for_security_failures/

11 months ago

Passkeys and Modern Authentication

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/2/passkeys/

11 months ago

RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2025/09/rubymine-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

11 months ago

What's New with Firefox 142

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0.1/whatsnew/?oldversion=139.0.4&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_source=update&utm_campaign=142

11 months ago

Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

https://openai.com/index/vijaye-raji-to-become-cto-of-applications-with-acquisition-of-statsig/

11 months ago

Imgur's community was in revolt

https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/

11 months ago

WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat

11 months ago

New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-knot-theory-discovery-overturns-long-held-mathematical-assumption/

11 months ago

I miss using em dashes

https://bassi.li/articles/i-miss-using-em-dashes

11 months ago

Keyboards from my collection (2023)

https://aresluna.org/50-keyboards-from-my-collection/

11 months ago

Removing Guix from Debian

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1035491/d8100135a8ae4246/

11 months ago

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

https://micahflee.com/unfortunately-the-iceblock-app-is-activism-theater/

11 months ago

Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1n6cjw1/europol_said_chat_control_doesnt_go_far_enough/

11 months ago

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

https://anadodik.github.io/publication/meschers/

11 months ago

Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

11 months ago

FBI arrests US Army veteran for 'conspiracy' over protest against ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest

11 months ago

How big are our embeddings now and why?

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/how-big-are-our-embeddings-now-and-why/

11 months ago

Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries

https://github.com/ericschmar/moribito

11 months ago

Indices, not Pointers

https://joegm.github.io/blog/indices-not-pointers/

11 months ago

All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time

https://networkoftime.com/

11 months ago

The Tariffs Are Still Illegal

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-09-02/the-tariffs-are-still-illegal

11 months ago

The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ and Rust

https://www.nablag.com/rust_cpp_missing_ampersand

11 months ago

Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/01/fax/

11 months ago

Parallel AI agents are a game changer

https://morningcoffee.io/parallel-ai-agents-are-a-game-changer.html

11 months ago

State of Permanent Fake Emergency

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/emergency-authority-power-trump-democracy/684053/

11 months ago

Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots

https://www.koyeb.com/blog/scale-to-zero-wake-vms-in-200-ms-with-light-sleep-ebpf-and-snapshots

11 months ago

Apertus 8B and 70B – a new open multilingual LLM from Switzerland

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-lang/

11 months ago

iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

https://github.com/inaturalist/inatVisionAPI

11 months ago

A gentle introduction to CP/M

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-gentle-introduction-to-cp-m/

11 months ago