top 50% 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

Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters

https://www.opentech.fund/news/who-owns-operates-and-develops-your-vpn-matters-an-analysis-of-transparency-vs-anonymity-in-the-vpn-ecosystem-and-implications-for-users/

1 year ago

We're Joining OpenAI

https://www.alexcodes.app/blog/alex-team-joins-openai

1 year ago

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/30/finnish-city-inaugurates-1-mw-100-mwh-sand-battery/

1 year ago

Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

https://gimletlabs.ai/blog/ai-generated-metal-kernels

1 year ago

Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome, a new study has found

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/science/biology-trees-microbiomes.html

1 year ago

Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

https://github.com/polarsys/b612

1 year ago

What is it like to be a bat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F

1 year ago

I want to be left alone (2024)

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-07-26-i-want-to-be-left-alone/

1 year ago

Eels are fish

https://eocampaign1.com/web-version?p=495827fa-8295-11f0-8687-8f5da38390bd&pt=campaign&t=1756227062&s=033ffe0494c7a7084332eb6e164c4feeeb6b4612e0de0df1aa1bf5fd59ce2d08

1 year ago

Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEr2CJruwEM

1 year ago

UK Electricity Generation Map

https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/map

1 year ago

The wall confronting large language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19703

1 year ago

Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/poor-mans-time-oriented-data-system/index.html

1 year ago

John Coltrane's Tone Circle

https://roelsworld.eu/blog-saxophone/coltrane-tone-circle/

1 year ago

Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/

1 year ago

Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan

https://blogs.cisco.com/security/detecting-exposed-llm-servers-shodan-case-study-on-ollama

1 year ago

Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

1 year ago

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-hollow-core-optical-fiber-transmits.html

1 year ago

A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions (2021)

https://galileo-unbound.blog/2021/06/28/a-random-walk-in-10-dimensions/

1 year ago

For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?

https://blog.tomayac.com/2025/09/03/for-all-thats-holy-can-you-just-leverage-the-web-please/

1 year ago

A queasy selling of the family heirlooms

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/a-queasy-selling-of-the-family-heirlooms/

1 year ago

Show HN: Writing Arabic in English

https://sherifelmetwally.com/writing/writing-arabic-in-english

1 year ago

A Technical Update on Submarine Cables [pdf]

https://www.swinog.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Liam-Taylor-David-Lloyd-Exa-A-Technical-Update-on-Submarine-Cables.pdf

1 year ago

AI is going great for the blind (2023)

https://robertkingett.com/posts/6230/

1 year ago

What Is the Fourier Transform?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/

1 year ago

Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

1 year ago

Apple's Assault on Standards

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

1 year ago

Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward

https://github.com/rougier/braincraft

1 year ago

Baby's first type checker

https://austinhenley.com/blog/babytypechecker.html

1 year ago

6NF File Format

https://habr.com/en/articles/942516/

1 year ago

All New Java Language Features Since Java 21

https://inside.java/2025/08/31/roadto25-java-language/

1 year ago

Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim

https://github.com/awslabs/amazonq.nvim

1 year ago

SomaFM 25th Anniversary

https://somafm.com/XXV/

1 year ago

Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them

https://klarasystems.com/articles/troubleshooting-zfs-common-issues-how-to-fix-them/

1 year ago

U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-military-strikes-drug-vessel-from-venezuela-killing-11-19661cc9

1 year ago

Gleam Gathering 2026

https://gleamgathering.com/

1 year ago