top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-14

Models of European metro stations

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/

a month ago

742 upvotes – 159 comments

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

https://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058

a month ago

570 upvotes – 698 comments

ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway

https://disobey.net/@yawnbox/115203365485529363

a month ago

558 upvotes – 452 comments

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-025-06815-2

a month ago

531 upvotes – 243 comments

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/epa-seeks-to-roll-back-pfas-drinking-water-rules-keeping-millions-exposed-to-toxic-forever-chemicals-in-tap-water

a month ago

387 upvotes – 473 comments

Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose

https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/08/can-grapevines-help-slow-plastic-waste-problem

a month ago

384 upvotes – 344 comments

Why We Spiral

https://behavioralscientist.org/why-we-spiral/

a month ago

380 upvotes – 108 comments

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/

a month ago

350 upvotes – 69 comments

Read to forget

https://mo42.bearblog.dev/read-to-forget/

a month ago

254 upvotes – 64 comments

If my kids excel, will they move away?

https://jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/where-will-my-kids-go.html

a month ago

240 upvotes – 130 comments

Website is hosted on a disposable vape

http://ewaste.fka.wtf/

a month ago

237 upvotes – 43 comments

Bank of Thailand freezes 3M accounts, sets daily transfer limits to curb fraud

https://www.thaienquirer.com/57752/bot-freezes-3-million-accounts-sets-daily-transfer-limits-of-50000-200000-baht-to-curb-6-billion-baht-scam-losses/

a month ago

228 upvotes – 194 comments

macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1223p.pdf

a month ago

221 upvotes – 194 comments

OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/06/ocsp-service-has-reached-end-of-life

a month ago

217 upvotes – 101 comments

A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-single-naked-black-hole-rewrites-the-history-of-the-universe-20250912/

a month ago

196 upvotes – 99 comments

Gentoo AI Policy

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

a month ago

191 upvotes – 188 comments

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)

https://svg.nicubunu.ro/

a month ago

172 upvotes – 97 comments

Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-cannabis-quadrupled-diabetes-million-adults.html

a month ago

161 upvotes – 98 comments

Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/09/refurb-weekend-silicon-graphics-indigo.html

a month ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs

https://github.com/BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B

a month ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

Cat Aquariums

https://cataquariums.com/

a month ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Fukushima insects tested for cognition

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/fukushima-insects-tested-for-cognition

a month ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters-but-they-say-its-worth-it/

a month ago

127 upvotes – 114 comments

How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/12/how-the-restoration-of-ancient-babylon-is-helping-to-draw-tourists-back-to-iraq

a month ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

My thoughts on renting versus buying

https://milesbarr.me/posts/my-thoughts-on-renting-versus-buying/

a month ago

116 upvotes – 312 comments

Titania Programming Language

https://github.com/gingerBill/titania

a month ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch – RISC-V/OpenSBI/Zig

https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/

a month ago

103 upvotes – 3 comments

High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)

https://studioq.com/blog/2021/5/30/high-altitude-living-8000-ft-and-above-2450-meters

a month ago

101 upvotes – 81 comments

Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/14/eye-drops-could-replace-glasses-surgery-longsighted-study

a month ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

How older parents divorce affects their adult children

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250912-how-grey-divorce-affects-adult-children

a month ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

a month ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio "Thought Police" Power to Revoke U.S. Passports

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/

a month ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B

https://webhosting.today/2025/09/12/cvc-acquires-majority-stake-in-namecheap-for-1-5-billion/

a month ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Trigger Crossbar

https://serd.es/2025/09/14/Trigger-crossbar.html

a month ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Gemini (2023)

https://geminiquickst.art/

a month ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Understanding Deflate

https://jjrscott.com/to-deflate-or-not/

a month ago

83 upvotes – 7 comments

California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/california-advances-effort-to-check-kids-ages-online-amid-safety-concerns-00563005

a month ago

79 upvotes – 84 comments

The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-pc-was-never-a-true-ibmer

a month ago

78 upvotes – 126 comments

Gleam is my new obsession

https://ericcodes.io/blog/gleam-my-new-obsession.html

a month ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2025/2025-09-11-gigabyte-mz33-ar1-blob-analysis/

a month ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-scraping-free-for-all-by-openai-google-meta-ending.html

a month ago

70 upvotes – 69 comments

China is ditching the dollar, fast: Officials believe the yuan has come of age

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/09/10/china-is-ditching-the-dollar-fast

a month ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

World emissions hit record high, but the EU leads trend reversal

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/world-emissions-hit-record-high-eu-leads-trend-reversal-2025-09-09_en

a month ago

69 upvotes – 122 comments
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