top 50% 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

Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

https://stephenfollows.com/p/which-colours-dominate-movie-posters-and-why

1 year ago

OpenAI Grove

https://openai.com/index/openai-grove/

1 year ago

The effects of algorithms on the public discourse

https://tekhne.dev/internet-resist/

1 year ago

PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

https://xeon.me/gnome/pythonbpf/

1 year ago

NASA's Guardian Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-guardian-tsunami-detection-tech-catches-wave-in-real-time/

1 year ago

Crates.io phishing attempt

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/crates-io-phishing-attempt

1 year ago

Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-6KI3m31M

1 year ago

How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html

1 year ago

A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

https://blog.tjll.net/a-beginners-guide-to-extending-emacs/

1 year ago

Death to type classes

https://jappie.me/death-to-type-classes.html

1 year ago

Polylaminin, a drug considered capable of reversing spinal cord injury

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2025/09/groundbreaking-brazilian-drug-considered-capable-of-reversing-spinal-cord-injury-presented-in-sao-paulo.shtml

1 year ago

Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot

https://toddlerbot.github.io/

1 year ago

People Who Hunt Down Old TVs

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250911-the-people-who-hunt-down-old-tvs

1 year ago

Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15206

1 year ago

Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM

https://sporks.space/2025/08/28/tips-for-installing-windows-98-in-qemu-utm/

1 year ago

Human writers have always used the em dash

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini

1 year ago

VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm/

1 year ago

Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs"

https://locusmag.com/2025/09/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

1 year ago

Oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec Viewer

https://github.com/plutov/oq

1 year ago

Migrating to React Native's new architecture

https://shopify.engineering/react-native-new-architecture

1 year ago

An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/an-embarrassing-failure-of-the-us-patent-system-videogame-ip-lawyer-says-nintendos-latest-patents-on-pokemon-mechanics-should-not-have-happened-full-stop/

1 year ago

I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

https://interconnected.org/home/2022/10/10/servers

1 year ago

Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M

https://www.vectroid.com/blog/why-and-how-we-built-Vectroid

1 year ago

Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu//jhbrown/scheme/continuationslides04.pdf

1 year ago

UK launches Project Octopus to deliver interceptor drones to Ukraine

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/air-warfare/dsei-2025-uk-launches-project-octopus-to-deliver-thousands-of-interceptor-drones-to-ukraine/

1 year ago

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-your-father-is-a-magician-what-do-you-believe/

1 year ago

Revanced Team Gets DMCA from Spotify

https://revanced.app/announcements/15-spotify-dmca-notice-seeking-legal-help

1 year ago

Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

https://electrek.co/2025/09/11/hyundai-now-delaying-ev-battery-plant-raided-by-ice/

1 year ago

Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/humanely-dealing-with-humungus-crawlers

1 year ago

Astrophysics Source Code Library

http://ascl.net/

1 year ago

Steam Censorship of Adult Games Shows How Payment Processors Wield Immense Power

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-censorship-of-adult-games-highlights-how-payment-processors-wield-immense-power-that-even-nations-cant-control-says-japanese-politician

1 year ago

Doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax, LSP and Alire support

https://github.com/tomekw/doom-ada

1 year ago

Examples from The LaTeX Companion book (3rd edition)

https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples

1 year ago

Pasadena man recounts 13 days in ICE's 'basement'

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-11/tunisian-man-recounts-13-days-in-ice-custody-downtown-l-a

1 year ago

Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/08/31/why-do-browsers-throttle-javascript-timers/

1 year ago

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembly-gets-automated-in-reverse-of-game-of-life-20250910/

1 year ago