top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-10

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/

1 year ago

Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-shooting-charlie-kirk-event-utah-rcna230437

1 year ago

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/

1 year ago

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory

https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/animal-crossing-llm

1 year ago

KDE launches its own distribution

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/

1 year ago

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-what

1 year ago

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/developer-mode

1 year ago

DOOMscrolling: The Game

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrolling-the-game/

1 year ago

OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

https://supabase.com/blog/orioledb-patent-free

1 year ago

We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/the-scam-called-you-dont-have-to-remember-anything/

1 year ago

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/

1 year ago

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell

https://jiratui.sh/

1 year ago

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/

1 year ago

NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831112449.htm

1 year ago

Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines

1 year ago

Introduction to GrapheneOS

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.html

1 year ago

Kerberoasting

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/09/10/kerberoasting/

1 year ago

The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works

https://mindthenerd.com/the-socratic-journal-method-a-simple-journaling-method-that-actually-works/

1 year ago

Show HN: Small Transfers – charge from 0.000001 USD per request for your SaaS

https://smalltransfers.com/

1 year ago

Performance Improvements in .NET 10

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-10/

1 year ago

Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

https://zoox.com/journal/las-vegas

1 year ago

“No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/no-tax-on-tips-guidance-creators-trump-treasury-1236366513/

1 year ago

Three farmers on monopolies and mismanagement in U.S. agriculture

https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms

1 year ago

API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]

https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/k6gkm2b8cjk9

1 year ago

Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

https://github.com/juhovh/tailguard

1 year ago

Tarsnap is cozy

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/tarsnap-is-cozy/

1 year ago

'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/block-everything-protests-sweep-across-france-scores-arrested-2025-09-10/

1 year ago

Minerals represent potential biosignatures in the search for life on Mars

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0

1 year ago

Microsoft PowerToys

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

1 year ago

R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05004

1 year ago

Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

https://m17project.org/2025/08/18/first-linht-tests/

1 year ago

A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/news/a-love-letter-to-the-csv-format/

1 year ago

Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201692

1 year ago

Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/10/windows-10-resists-its-end-usage-share-climbs-while-windows-11s-falls/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199648

1 year ago

Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter

1 year ago

Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL

https://signoz.io/blog/query-builder-v5/

1 year ago

Dynamic Bird Migration Map

https://explorer.audubon.org/explore/species?sidebar=expand

1 year ago

The origin story of merge queues

https://mergify.com/blog/the-origin-story-of-merge-queues

1 year ago

Show HN: Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

https://thealliance.ai/blog/building-a-deep-research-agent-using-mcp-agent

1 year ago

Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07257

1 year ago

Delphi 13 Florence Released

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-13-florence/

1 year ago

Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

https://haystackeditor.com

1 year ago

Intel's E2200 "Mount Morgan" IPU at Hot Chips 2025

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-e2200-mount-morgan-ipu-at

1 year ago

You Need to See Epstein's Birthday Book for Yourself

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-conspiracy-theories/684157/

1 year ago

Children and young people's reading in 2025

https://literacytrust.org.uk/research-services/research-reports/children-and-young-peoples-reading-in-2025/

1 year ago

Rayhunter: IMSI Catchers We Have Found So Far

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far

1 year ago

Observable Notebooks Data Loaders

https://observablehq.com/notebook-kit/data-loaders

1 year ago

Lexy: A parser combinator library for C++17

https://github.com/foonathan/lexy

1 year ago

Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels

https://pion.ly/blog/making-a-game-with-pion/

1 year ago

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa

1 year ago

Bending Spoons acquires Vimeo for $1.38B

https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138

1 year ago

Jeopardy’s most controversial moment was years in the making

https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/jeopardy-game-watson-questions-final-ken-jennings.html

1 year ago

Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/homeowners-insurance-is-pricing-people-out-in-disaster-prone-cities/1813821

1 year ago

Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-shoots-down-drones-its-airspace-during-russian-attack-ukraine-2025-09-09/

1 year ago

The rules behing Rust functions

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/the-hidden-rules-behind-rust-functions

1 year ago

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature in 2024

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/

1 year ago

Insufficiently sanitized data allows unauthenticated access to FreePBX Admin

https://labs.watchtowr.com/you-already-have-our-personal-data-take-our-phone-calls-too-freepbx-cve-2025-57819/

1 year ago