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

Models of European metro stations

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/

1 year ago

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Why We Spiral

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

1 year ago

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

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

1 year ago

Read to forget

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

1 year ago

If my kids excel, will they move away?

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

1 year ago

Website is hosted on a disposable vape

http://ewaste.fka.wtf/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]

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

1 year ago

OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Gentoo AI Policy

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

1 year ago

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)

https://svg.nicubunu.ro/

1 year ago

Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes

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

1 year ago

Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000

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

1 year ago

SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs

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

1 year ago

Cat Aquariums

https://cataquariums.com/

1 year ago

Fukushima insects tested for cognition

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

My thoughts on renting versus buying

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

1 year ago

The Titania Programming Language

https://github.com/gingerBill/titania

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

How older parents divorce affects their adult children

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Trigger Crossbar

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

1 year ago

Gemini (2023)

https://geminiquickst.art/

1 year ago

Understanding Deflate

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

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

1 year ago

Gleam is my new obsession

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

1 year ago

AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Visual programming is stuck on the form

https://interjectedfuture.com/visual-programming-is-stuck-on-the-form/

1 year ago

Rereading books

https://maxgirkins.com/writings/on-rereading

1 year ago