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

2 days ago

716 upvotes – 464 comments

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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

3 days ago

674 upvotes – 405 comments

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/

3 days ago

588 upvotes – 563 comments

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

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

3 days ago

444 upvotes – 168 comments

%CPU utilization is a lie

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

3 days ago

429 upvotes – 158 comments

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear

3 days ago

378 upvotes – 281 comments

Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

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

2 days ago

339 upvotes – 336 comments

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

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

3 days ago

320 upvotes – 225 comments

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/

3 days ago

301 upvotes – 69 comments

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

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

3 days ago

290 upvotes – 24 comments

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

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

2 days ago

276 upvotes – 372 comments

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

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

3 days ago

276 upvotes – 193 comments

Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

https://lit.dev

3 days ago

274 upvotes – 174 comments

The worst possible antitrust outcome

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

2 days ago

266 upvotes – 208 comments

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

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

3 days ago

243 upvotes – 95 comments

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

3 days ago

237 upvotes – 38 comments

Tufte CSS

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

3 days ago

202 upvotes – 47 comments

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/

3 days ago

200 upvotes – 192 comments

We're Joining OpenAI

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

3 days ago

196 upvotes – 149 comments

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery

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

3 days ago

190 upvotes – 180 comments

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

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

3 days ago

184 upvotes – 30 comments

Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

https://github.com/polarsys/b612

3 days ago

181 upvotes – 96 comments

What is it like to be a bat?

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

3 days ago

179 upvotes – 280 comments

I want to be left alone (2024)

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

3 days ago

178 upvotes – 128 comments

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

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

3 days ago

174 upvotes – 68 comments

Eels are fish

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

3 days ago

169 upvotes – 156 comments

UK Electricity Generation Map

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

3 days ago

169 upvotes – 98 comments

Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

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

3 days ago

168 upvotes – 52 comments

John Coltrane's Tone Circle

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

3 days ago

165 upvotes – 63 comments

Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

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

3 days ago

165 upvotes – 73 comments

The wall confronting large language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19703

3 days ago

164 upvotes – 183 comments

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

3 days ago

160 upvotes – 38 comments

Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan

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

3 days ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions (2021)

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

3 days ago

131 upvotes – 18 comments

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/

3 days ago

129 upvotes – 174 comments

AI is going great for the blind (2023)

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

3 days ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

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/

3 days ago

96 upvotes – 110 comments

Apple's Assault on Standards

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

3 days ago

86 upvotes – 104 comments

Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim

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

3 days ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

6NF File Format

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

3 days ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments
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