top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-08

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised

1 year ago

Signal Secure Backups

https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

1 year ago

Chat Control Must Be Stopped

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/

1 year ago

iPhone dumbphone

https://stopa.io/post/297

1 year ago

14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/massive-protests-in-nepal-over-social-media-ban/

1 year ago

Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

1 year ago

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-research-child-safety-virtual-reality/

1 year ago

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/

1 year ago

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/

1 year ago

Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/08/meta-user-data-lawsuit-whatsapp

1 year ago

How RSS beat Microsoft

https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice

1 year ago

Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-them

1 year ago

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/doorbell-prankster-that-tormented-residents-of-german-apartments-turns-out-to-be-a-slug

1 year ago

OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

https://openwrt.org/

1 year ago

Clankers Die on Christmas

https://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/

1 year ago

All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/

1 year ago

Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-market-share-us-drops-lowest-since-2017-competition-heats-up-2025-09-08/

1 year ago

A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system

https://rustcurious.com/elements/

1 year ago

The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer

https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5

1 year ago

VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/vmware_in_court_opinion/

1 year ago