top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-06

996

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

2 days ago

981 upvotes – 514 comments

AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/ai-surveillance-should-be-banned

2 days ago

583 upvotes – 216 comments

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

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

2 days ago

415 upvotes – 296 comments

We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/rbi-hacked-drive-thrus/

2 days ago

410 upvotes – 212 comments

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

https://dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-kimsuky-leak-how-the-kim-dump-exposed-north-koreas-credential-theft-playbook/

2 days ago

390 upvotes – 159 comments

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-weaving.html

2 days ago

359 upvotes – 60 comments

Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5

https://github.com/b4rtaz/distributed-llama/discussions/255

2 days ago

340 upvotes – 154 comments

Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

https://kanadojo.com

2 days ago

280 upvotes – 85 comments

Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1036465/e80ebbc4cee39bfb/

2 days ago

269 upvotes – 162 comments

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

2 days ago

269 upvotes – 209 comments

Why language models hallucinate

https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/

2 days ago

261 upvotes – 209 comments

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

https://www.consumer.org.hk/en/press-release/528-sunscreen-test

2 days ago

232 upvotes – 199 comments

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

https://www.wedesoft.de/software/2025/09/05/clojure-game/

2 days ago

221 upvotes – 101 comments

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-4.5

2 days ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time

https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/stop-writing-cli-validation-parse-it-right-the-first-time

2 days ago

194 upvotes – 154 comments

Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea"

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

2 days ago

184 upvotes – 51 comments

Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah

https://www.gatesnotes.com/utahs-hottest-new-power-source-is-below-the-ground

2 days ago

179 upvotes – 121 comments

Being good isn't enough

https://joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isnt-enough/

2 days ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Oldest recorded transaction

https://avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-txn/

2 days ago

177 upvotes – 94 comments

Zuckerberg Caught in Revealing Hot Mic Moment During White House Dinner

https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-caught-in-revealing-hot-mic-moment-during-white-house-dinner

2 days ago

165 upvotes – 85 comments
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