top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-12

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy

1 year ago

UTF-8 is a brilliant design

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design

1 year ago

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/

1 year ago

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/

1 year ago

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/

1 year ago

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS

1 year ago

Qwen3-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=4074cca80393150c248e508aa62983f9cb7d27cd&from=research.latest-advancements-list

1 year ago

Float Exposed

https://float.exposed/

1 year ago

Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU

https://twitter.com/TutaPrivacy/status/1966384776883142661

1 year ago

Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

1 year ago

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

https://ffglitch.org/gallery/

1 year ago

3D modeling with paper

https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper

1 year ago

Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/11/debtz/

1 year ago

Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

https://log.bede.im/2025/09/12/zstandard-long-range-genomes.html

1 year ago

Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html

1 year ago

Ships are sailing with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/over-100-ships-have-sailed-without-legitimate-insurance-from-the-norwegian-company-ro-marine-1.17565216

1 year ago

Becoming the person who does the thing

https://www.fredrivett.com/2025/09/10/becoming-the-person-who-does-the-thing/

1 year ago

Show HN: I made a generative online drum machine with ClojureScript

https://dopeloop.ai/beat-maker/

1 year ago

I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode

https://edoput.it/2025/04/16/emacs-paradigm-shift.html

1 year ago

The challenge of maintaining curl

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034966/

1 year ago