top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-05

I ditched Docker for Podman

https://codesmash.dev/why-i-ditched-docker-for-podman-and-you-should-too

1 year ago

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.bTTt.Zir9wmtPaTp2&smid=url-share

1 year ago

I'm absolutely right

https://absolutelyright.lol/

1 year ago

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

https://fil-c.org/fugc

1 year ago

Purposeful animations

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations

1 year ago

Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

https://electrek.co/2025/09/05/tesla-changes-meaning-full-self-driving-give-up-promise-autonomy/

1 year ago

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-bought-cheapest-ev-used-nissan-leaf

1 year ago

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1992

1 year ago

Making a font of my handwriting

https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/

1 year ago

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

https://signalsandthreads.com/why-ml-needs-a-new-programming-language/

1 year ago

Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/nepal-moves-to-block-facebook-x-youtube-and-others

1 year ago

Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

https://community.hubitat.com/t/nest-1st-gen-and-2nd-gen-thermostats-no-longer-supported-by-google-from-10-25-2025/152952

1 year ago

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html

1 year ago

A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system

https://rustcurious.com/elements/

1 year ago

South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-hyundai-plant-georgia-enforcement-action-rcna229148

1 year ago

I kissed comment culture goodbye

https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/the-day-i-kissed-comment-culture

1 year ago

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/

1 year ago

Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/04/why-is-japan-still-investing-in-custom-floating-point-accelerators/

1 year ago

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr

https://6octaves.com/2025/09/interview-with-demoscener-0b5vr.html

1 year ago

OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/openai_jobs_board/

1 year ago

A computer upgrade shut down BART

https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250905

1 year ago

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/My-DNS-Part-1/

1 year ago

MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS

1 year ago

What to do with an old iPad

http://odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/hosting-my-blog-on-an-iPad-2.html

1 year ago

Development speed is not a bottleneck

https://pawelbrodzinski.substack.com/p/development-speed-is-not-a-bottleneck

1 year ago

US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/economy/us-jobs-report-august-final

1 year ago

The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/key-points-of-working-effectively-with-legacy-code/

1 year ago

Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM

1 year ago

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

https://fathy.fr/carbonyl

1 year ago

Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

https://helpthisbook.com/lou-franco/swimming-in-tech-debt

1 year ago

Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/rfk-tylenol-autism-kenvue-stock-for-url.html

1 year ago

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

https://hsu.cy/2025/09/is-ooxml-artificially-complex/

1 year ago

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

https://kcsrk.info/slides/Evolution_Ashoka_2025.pdf

1 year ago

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

https://laist.com/news/transportation/guardrails-aluminum-theft

1 year ago

SQL needed structure

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/sql-needed-structure/

1 year ago

Seedship – Text-Based Game

https://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play/index.html

1 year ago

I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1963803025572770212

1 year ago

Age verification doesn’t work

https://pornbiz.com/post/17/the_scam_of_age_verification

1 year ago

Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/

1 year ago

Poisoning Well

https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/

1 year ago

Contracts for C

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/contracts-for-c/

1 year ago

Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-tech-ceo-rose-garden-dinner-1fee2de3

1 year ago

Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

https://nickb.dev/blog/default-musl-allocator-considered-harmful-to-performance/

1 year ago

1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/1tb-raspberry-pi-ssd-on-sale-now-for-70/

1 year ago

The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-math-of-shuffling-cards-almost-brought-down-an-online-poker-empire/

1 year ago

Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/phone-use-hemorrhoids-bathroom-social-media-scrolling-rcna228080

1 year ago

Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop

https://soranews24.com/2021/08/21/tokyo-has-a-completely-unmanned-honor-system-electronics-and-appliance-shop%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91/

1 year ago

Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga

https://stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/

1 year ago

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sap_sovereign_cloud/

1 year ago

Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

1 year ago

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/practical-data-modeling-clickhouse/

1 year ago

Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book

https://github.com/basketballguy999/Quantum-Mechanics-Concise-Book

1 year ago

Learning the soroban as an adult (2022)

https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/learning%20the%20soroban%20as%20an%20adult.md

1 year ago

NYT says US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-special-forces-killed-north-korean-civilians-in-botched-2019-mission-nyt-says-2025-09-05/

1 year ago

Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/should-we-revisit-xp-in-the-age-of-ai

1 year ago

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin

1 year ago

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-08-20/

1 year ago

A Top Secret Seal Team 6 Mission into North Korea Fell Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-trump-2019.html

1 year ago

Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/type-checking-is-a-symptom-not-a

1 year ago

Why RDF is the natural knowledge layer for AI systems

https://bryon.io/why-rdf-is-the-natural-knowledge-layer-for-ai-systems-a5fd0b43d4c5

1 year ago

Dark Academia Grows Up

https://www.publicbooks.org/dark-academia-grows-up/

1 year ago

Realtek RTL8127 10GbE PCIe cards and M.2 modules are starting to show up

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/05/buy-realtek-rtl8127-10gbe-pcie-cards-and-m2-modules/

1 year ago