top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-03

Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

1 year ago

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/claude-code-via-acp

1 year ago

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/

1 year ago

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

https://microsoft.github.io/VibeVoice/

1 year ago

%CPU utilization is a lie

https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.html

1 year ago

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear

1 year ago

Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying

1 year ago

Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-Voyager

1 year ago

The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive

https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/

1 year ago

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

https://rti.github.io/gptvis/

1 year ago

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502

1 year ago

Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

https://lit.dev

1 year ago

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

https://blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

1 year ago

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-paper/pro-move

1 year ago

The worst possible antitrust outcome

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/

1 year ago

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

https://vgel.me/posts/c500/

1 year ago

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/

1 year ago

Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/2025/09/02/kernel-hack-drill-and-CVE-2024-50264.html

1 year ago

Tufte CSS

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

1 year ago

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

https://larstofus.com/2025/09/02/speeding-up-the-unreal-editor-launch-by-not-spawning-38000-tooltips/

1 year ago