top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-11

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476

1 year ago

Why our website looks like an operating system

https://posthog.com/blog/why-os

1 year ago

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-verizon-claim-that-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal/

1 year ago

Nano Banana image examples

https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/blob/main/README_en.md

1 year ago

Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465

1 year ago

Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s

https://www.shloked.com/writing/claude-memory

1 year ago

Behind the scenes of Bun Install

https://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install

1 year ago

AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-restricted/

1 year ago

Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782

1 year ago

GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164133992525834

1 year ago

GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/13107-grapheneos-and-forensic-extraction-of-data

1 year ago

Reshaped is now open source

https://reshaped.so/blog/reshaped-oss

1 year ago

Gregg Kellogg has died

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-json-ld-wg/2025Sep/0012.html

1 year ago

Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1218025.html

1 year ago

From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

https://gothamist.com/news/from-burner-phones-to-decks-of-cards-nyc-teens-are-adjusting-to-the-smartphone-ban

1 year ago

Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsungs-us-market-share-apple-rivalry-foldable-phones.html

1 year ago

Spiral

https://spiraldb.com/post/announcing-spiral

1 year ago

Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes

https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/

1 year ago

How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data

https://theconversation.com/when-the-government-can-see-everything-how-one-company-palantir-is-mapping-the-nations-data-263178

1 year ago

Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

https://github.com/iannuttall/fartscroll-lid

1 year ago

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

https://alignmentalignment.ai

1 year ago

Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bulletproof-host-stark-industries-evades-eu-sanctions/

1 year ago

Conway's Game of Life, but musical

https://www.hudsong.dev/digital-darwin

1 year ago

Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages

https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/11/rails-on-sqlite-exciting-new-ways-to-cause-outages/

1 year ago

Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0911/1532957-rte-eurovision/

1 year ago

The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/the-us-is-now-the-largest-investor-in-commercial-spyware/

1 year ago

Native ACME support comes to Nginx

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/09/11/native-acme-for-nginx

1 year ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms

https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/unreasonable/text.md

1 year ago

‘Robber bees’ invade apiarist’s shop in attempted honey heist

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robber-bees-terrace-bc-apiary-1.7627532

1 year ago

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/an-engineering-history-of-the-manhattan

1 year ago

Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat

https://asxiv.org/

1 year ago

A Web Framework for Zig

https://www.jetzig.dev/

1 year ago

Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

https://www.pipelinecomics.com/beginning-bd-smurfs-hats-origin/

1 year ago

NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

https://www.crowdfense.com/nt-os-kernel-information-disclosure-vulnerability-cve-2025-53136/

1 year ago

Analyzing the memory ordering models of the Apple M1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383762124000390

1 year ago

PgEdge Goes Open Source

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/pgedge-goes-open-source

1 year ago

The rise of async AI programming

https://www.braintrust.dev/blog/async-programming

1 year ago

Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/09/08/orange-rivers-signal-toxic-shift-arctic-wilderness

1 year ago

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/ssa_doge_whistleblower_demand/

1 year ago

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eu_chat_control/

1 year ago

AI's $344B 'language model' bet looks fragile

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-11/ai-s-344-billion-language-model-bet-looks-fragile

1 year ago

Making io_uring pervasive in QEMU [pdf]

https://vmsplice.net/~stefan/stefanha-kvm-forum-2025.pdf

1 year ago

DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/deepcodebench-real-world-codebase-understanding-by-qa-benchmarking/

1 year ago

CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_09112025.htm

1 year ago

Four Fallacies of Modern AI

https://blog.apiad.net/p/the-four-fallacies-of-modern-ai

1 year ago

Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/?page_id=45

1 year ago

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup

1 year ago

Randomly selecting points inside a triangle

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/11/random-inside-triangle/

1 year ago

A Trick for Backpropagation of Linear Transformations

https://tripplyons.com/blog/backprop-trick

1 year ago

A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825

1 year ago

BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+

https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/

1 year ago

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984

1 year ago

Learning Lens Blur Fields

https://blur-fields.github.io/

1 year ago

Sandboxing Browser AI Agents

https://www.earlence.com/blog.html#/post/cellmate

1 year ago

We Melted iPhones for Science

https://accelerateordie.com/p/we-melted-iphones-for-science

1 year ago

My Favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns

https://tselai.com/virtual-gencolumns

1 year ago