top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-04

Tesla’s autonomous driving claims might be coming to an end [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltU9q1pKKM

11 months ago

Unix Conspiracy (1991)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix-conspiracy.html

11 months ago

Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?

https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/09/04/is-the-decline-of-reading-making-politics-dumber

11 months ago

I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

https://leshicodes.github.io/blog/spotify-migration/

11 months ago

What Is the Fourier Transform?

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

11 months ago

They blew up a boat far offshore, killed eleven people, and called it justice

https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/they-blew-up-a-boat-far-offshore

11 months ago

io_uring is faster than mmap

https://www.bitflux.ai/blog/memory-is-slow-part2/

11 months ago

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

11 months ago

SQLite's File Format

https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html

11 months ago

Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-rto-policy-costing-it-top-tech-talent-ai-recruiters-2025-9

11 months ago

ICPC 2025 World Finals Results

https://worldfinals.icpc.global/scoreboard/2025/index.html

11 months ago

The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

https://voltrondata.com/blog/the-race-to-build-a-distributed-gpu-runtime

11 months ago

Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns

https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2025/09/classic-mac-patterns.html

11 months ago

Action was the best 8-bit programming language

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/action-was-the-best-8-bit-programming

11 months ago

Hitting Peak File IO Performance with Zig

https://steelcake.com/blog/nvme-zig/

11 months ago

X-COM creator Julian Gollop discusses his most important games (2019)

https://www.pcgamer.com/collected-works-julian-gollop/

11 months ago

We Rarely Lose Technology (2023)

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/we-rarely-lose-technology

11 months ago

LLM Visualization

https://bbycroft.net/llm

11 months ago

The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)

https://kottke.org/25/09/the-thousands-of-atomic-bombs-exploded-on-earth

11 months ago

Saquon Barkley is playing for equity

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/saquon-barkley-investment-portfolio

11 months ago

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09430-z

11 months ago

Wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Built on Object Storage

https://trychroma.com/engineering/wal3

11 months ago

AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-09-04/ai-not-affecting-job-market-much-so-far-new-york-fed-says

11 months ago

A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

https://www.productcurious.com/p/a-pms-guide-to-ai-agent-architecture

11 months ago

Age Simulation Suit

https://www.age-simulation-suit.com/

11 months ago

How we built an interpreter for Swift

https://www.bitrig.app/blog/swift-interpreter

11 months ago

Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

https://tempo.xyz

11 months ago

Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129031

11 months ago

Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

https://yc.foundersaround.com/

11 months ago

Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/investigations/google-net-zero-sustainability

11 months ago

Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers

11 months ago

Cache

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache

11 months ago

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

11 months ago

Farewell to Meshnet

https://nordvpn.com/blog/meshnet-shutdown/

11 months ago

Look Out for Bugs

https://matklad.github.io/2025/09/04/look-for-bugs.html

11 months ago

WiFi signals can measure heart rate

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

11 months ago

Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

https://www.eurogamer.net/silksong-causes-server-chaos-on-xbox-steam-and-nintendo-as-platforms-grind-to-a-halt

11 months ago

Atlassian is acquiring the Browser Company

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

11 months ago

Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules

11 months ago

Browser Company (makers of Arc browser) Acquired By Atlassian for $610M

https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/your-tuesday-in-2030

11 months ago

How to build vector tiles from scratch

https://www.debuisne.com/writing/geo-tiles/

11 months ago

We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN6BEUA4jNU

11 months ago

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/attention

11 months ago

The company behind the Dia and Arc browsers is being acquired

https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian

11 months ago

Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

11 months ago

Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-mcp-connectors-memories

11 months ago

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electrochemistry-for-eye-surgeries

11 months ago

Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for

https://idiallo.com/byte-size/apple-liquid-glass

11 months ago

Hledger 1.50

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/releases/tag/1.50

11 months ago

The Color of the Future: A history of blue

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/the-color-of-the-future

11 months ago

Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

https://www.novinite.com/articles/234225/Google+Down+in+Eastern+Europe+%28UPDATED%29

11 months ago

How many dimensions is this?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-many-dimensions-is-this

11 months ago

Is Google Down? - EU networking issue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124458

11 months ago

Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library

https://pwy.io/posts/kruci-post-mortem/

11 months ago

Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/melvyn-bragg-decides-to-step-down-from-presenting-in-our-time/

11 months ago

30 minutes with a stranger

https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/

11 months ago

Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

https://www.tokyocowboy.co/articles/purikura-the-grandmother-of-the-selfie

11 months ago

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

https://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-launch/

11 months ago

Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

http://etoileos.com/

11 months ago

A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/high-school-student-ai-education/684088/

11 months ago

Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard

https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/why-rewriting-emacs-is-hard/

11 months ago

Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

https://github.com/shriram/anonymous-recursive-function

11 months ago

Neovim Pack

https://neovim.io/doc/user/pack.html#vim.pack

11 months ago

Not paying with cash

https://rubenerd.com/not-paying-with-cash/

11 months ago