top 50% 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

The Storm Hits the Art Market

https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512

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

I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

1 year ago

Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables

https://reiner.org/hashed-sorting

1 year ago

AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86

https://www.techpowerup.com/340779/amd-claims-arm-isa-doesnt-offer-efficiency-advantage-over-x86

1 year ago

Building my childhood dream PC

https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/

1 year ago

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-joins-world-nuclear-association-as-it-doubles-down-on-small-modular-reactors-and-fusion-energy

1 year ago

Alterego: Thought to Text

https://www.alterego.io/

1 year ago

Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4052428/google-gets-away-almost-scot-free-in-us-search-antitrust-case.html

1 year ago

AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/04/what-if-artificial-intelligence-is-just-a-normal-technology

1 year ago

The elegance of movement in Silksong

https://theahura.substack.com/p/the-elegance-of-movement-in-silksong

1 year ago

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

https://micahflee.com/iceblock-handled-my-vulnerability-report-in-the-worst-possible-way/

1 year ago

A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)

https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui

1 year ago

Job mismatch and early career success

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34215

1 year ago

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

https://ourworldindata.org/britain-safest-roads-history

1 year ago

Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

http://www.identity4.com/2025-racintosh-plus/

1 year ago

Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-yellow-fabric-blue.html

1 year ago

Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide

https://gitlab.com/ryanprior/emacs-org-data-starter

1 year ago

Classic GTK1 GUI Library

https://gitlab.com/robinrowe/gtk1

1 year ago

Anscombe's Quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet

1 year ago

Go for Bash Programmers – Part II: CLI Tools

https://github.com/go-monk/from-bash-to-go-part-ii

1 year ago

Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia

https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/17/bjo-2024-326872

1 year ago

How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video]

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

1 year ago

YouTube views are down (don't panic)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic

1 year ago

America is in a serious jobs slump

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/economy/us-jolts-job-openings-layoffs-july

1 year ago

A critique of package managers

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-managers-are-evil/

1 year ago

I don't like curved displays

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/curved

1 year ago

Writing code is easy, reading it isn't

https://idiallo.com/blog/writing-code-is-easy-reading-is-hard

1 year ago

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/09/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-adventure-prototype-recovered-for-the-commodore-64/

1 year ago

De-Clouding: Music

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/09/de-clouding-music/

1 year ago

The Helix Text Editor (2024)

https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/helix/

1 year ago

I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-queues

1 year ago

After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/48_years_voyager_1/

1 year ago

Plex Security Incident

https://links.plex.tv/s/vb/Vn7XtnwDSSaqqDUYoHu1P57ZgZ1FsHgTO2PTIBl6jEOUiHBH3LGmI3nLdDfopQa54PatUwZQhT0Bz8rKAi--jTM4ATdsBHpe4c1Yljr89VkoCOavEGH5wn5Fi_filLNeOMo-lnNqLSLpJpI/lOe98S8UWKdmPnp9StQz9R1-kOSTpWhr/12

1 year ago

Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/introduction_to_nyquist_and_lisp_programming.html

1 year ago

Browser Fingerprint Detector

https://fingerprint.goldenowl.ai/

1 year ago

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

https://ramp.com/velocity/san-francisco-tech-workers-996-schedule

1 year ago

Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad

https://www.navylookout.com/learning-the-lessons-the-loss-the-norwegian-frigate-helge-ingstad/

1 year ago

US Holocaust museum removes anti-genocide post after being corelatted with Gaza

https://hyperallergic.com/1040088/los-angeles-holocaust-museum-walks-back-never-again-statement-sparking-outcry/

1 year ago

Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

https://www.dash0.com/guides/logging-in-go-with-slog

1 year ago

Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)

https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/11/01/home-vpn-server-wireguard/

1 year ago

Distributing your own scripts via Homebrew

https://justin.searls.co/posts/how-to-distribute-your-own-scripts-via-homebrew/

1 year ago

GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions

1 year ago

C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs

https://chuanqixu9.github.io/c++/2025/08/14/C++20-Modules.en.html

1 year ago

Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-do-it-for-under-100m-start-up-joins-race-to-build-local-chatgpt-20250908-p5mt5o

1 year ago