top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-07

Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

https://mitchivin.com/

1 year ago

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge

https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261

1 year ago

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver

1 year ago

Serverless Horrors

https://serverlesshorrors.com/

1 year ago

Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

https://molecheck.info/

1 year ago

Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

https://picocss.com

1 year ago

Formatting code should be unnecessary

https://maxleiter.com/blog/formatting

1 year ago

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/

1 year ago

Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission

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

1 year ago

Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02844-9

1 year ago

What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)

https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html

1 year ago

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

https://mahesh-hegde.github.io/posts/what_debugger_can/

1 year ago

Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/

1 year ago

The demo scene is dying, but that's alright

https://www.datagubbe.se/sceneherit/

1 year ago

Belling the Cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

1 year ago

Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)

https://twitter.com/grapheneos/status/1964561043906048183

1 year ago

The “impossibly small” Microdot web framework

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034121/

1 year ago

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)

https://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now/

1 year ago

Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

https://www.neowin.net/news/unofficial-windows-11-requirements-bypass-tool-now-allows-you-to-disable-all-ai-features/

1 year ago

Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations

https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-arc-pro-b50-gpu-launched-at-for-compact-workstations/

1 year ago

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

1 year ago

The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

https://stlab.cc/tips/about-mvc.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings

https://github.com/BeaconBay/ck

1 year ago

Axial twist theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_twist_theory

1 year ago

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-story-of-creative-technology

1 year ago

Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

https://bottlefire.dev/

1 year ago

Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Expression-Problem/

1 year ago

Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

https://aidarwinawards.org/nominees/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru.html

1 year ago

Show HN: Lightweight tool for managing Linux virtual machines

https://github.com/ccheshirecat/flint

1 year ago

Google's new AI mode is good, actually

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/ai-mode/

1 year ago

Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

https://www.dw.com/en/postal-traffic-to-us-down-by-over-80-amid-tariffs-un-says/a-73905988

1 year ago

More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/news-avoidance-high-anxiety

1 year ago

The Claude Code Framework Wars

https://shmck.substack.com/p/claude-code-framework-wars

1 year ago

mitchivin.com

https://mitchivin.com/

1 year ago

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]

https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf

1 year ago

US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/adjudicating-nonimmigrant-visa-applicants-in-their-country-of-residence-sep-6-2025.html

1 year ago

SQLite's Use of Tcl (2017)

https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/tcl2017/assets/talk93/Paper.html

1 year ago

The Expression Problem and its solutions (2016)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-and-its-solutions/

1 year ago

South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610

1 year ago

Some thoughts on personal Git hosting

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/some-thoughts-on-personal-git-hosting/

1 year ago

Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/asia/nepal-bans-social-media-platforms.html

1 year ago

Knowledge and memory

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/knowledge-and-memory/

1 year ago

Semantic Line Breaks (2017)

https://sembr.org

1 year ago

Algebraic Effects in Practice with Flix

https://www.relax.software/blog/flix-effects-intro/

1 year ago

Blogs used to be different

https://jetgirl.art/blogs-used-to-be-very-different/

1 year ago

Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

https://www.valleyofdoubt.com/p/taking-buildkite-from-a-side-project

1 year ago

Paper Folding Assembly Line [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhUuhl9iWpQ

1 year ago

How the tz database works (2020)

https://yatsushi.com/blog/tz-database/

1 year ago

South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid

https://apnews.com/article/us-south-korea-ice-raid-georgia-hyundai-ee8781d965c74a5ee18525ce87959ba4

1 year ago

How to make metals from Martian dirt

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2025/August/Metals-out-of-martian-dirt

1 year ago

Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire

1 year ago

Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use

https://theconversation.com/how-your-electric-bill-may-be-paying-for-big-data-centers-energy-use-257794

1 year ago

A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch/

1 year ago

Cities obey the laws of living things

https://nautil.us/cities-obey-the-laws-of-living-things-1236057/

1 year ago