top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-15

Hosting a website on a disposable vape

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

1 year ago

React is winning by default and slowing innovation

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/

1 year ago

Hosting a website on a disposable vape

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

1 year ago

macOS Tahoe

https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

1 year ago

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/

1 year ago

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-09-15-PayPal-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Peer-to-Peer-Payments,-Reimagining-How-Money-Moves-to-Anyone,-Anywhere

1 year ago

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115204439983078498

1 year ago

The Mac app flea market

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app-flea-market/

1 year ago

GPT-5-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/

1 year ago

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/how-big-a-solar-battery-do-i-need-to-store-all-my-homes-electricity/

1 year ago

RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

https://github.com/tekaratzas/RustGPT

1 year ago

Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions

https://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/

1 year ago

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-ends-in-settlement/

1 year ago

Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

https://alastair.is/apple-has-a-private-css-property-to-add-liquid-glass-effects-to-web-content/

1 year ago

Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format

https://blog.asciinema.org/post/three-point-o/

1 year ago

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment

https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment

1 year ago

Folks, we have the best π

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/folks-we-have-the-best

1 year ago

I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0

1 year ago

Boring is good

https://jenson.org/boring/

1 year ago

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)

http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html

1 year ago

Leatherman (vagabond)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond)

1 year ago

A dumb introduction to z3

https://asibahi.github.io/thoughts/a-gentle-introduction-to-z3/

1 year ago

Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card-addendum-gpt-5-codex/

1 year ago

Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251624

1 year ago

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cubesats-are-fascinating-learning-tools-space

1 year ago

A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821

1 year ago

Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/

1 year ago

How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf

1 year ago

How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

https://blog.velocifyer.com/Posts/3,0,0,2025-8-13,+how+to+self+host+a+font+from+google+fonts.html

1 year ago

US lawmakers introduce bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/33135

1 year ago

What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

https://blog.ivankahl.com/csharp-14-null-conditional-assignments/

1 year ago

Which NPM package has the largest version number?

https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/

1 year ago

Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

https://kyrylo.org/software/2025/08/21/why-do-software-developers-love-complexity.html

1 year ago

Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720

1 year ago

Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/meta-allegedly-bypassed-apple-privacy-measure-and-fired-employee-who-flagged-it/

1 year ago

Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034603/

1 year ago

Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250553

1 year ago

Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space

https://celestiaproject.space/

1 year ago

Boring work needs tension

https://iaziz786.com/blog/boring-work-needs-tension/

1 year ago

The Ruliology of Lambdas

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/09/the-ruliology-of-lambdas/

1 year ago

Ghost kitchens are dying

https://davidrmann3.substack.com/p/ghost-kitchens-are-dying-heres-the

1 year ago

Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1218475.html

1 year ago

Programming Deflation

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/programming-deflation

1 year ago

Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7-3/

1 year ago

For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

https://forgoodfirstissue.github.com/

1 year ago

Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

https://riscv.org/ecosystem-news/2025/09/orange-pi-rv2-40-risc-v-sbc-friendly-gateway-to-iot-and-ai-projects/

1 year ago

Not all browsers perform revocation checking

https://revoked-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/

1 year ago

The U.S. Government's Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-us-governments-extraordinary-pursuit-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia

1 year ago

TIC-80 – Tiny Computer

https://tic80.com/

1 year ago

The Culture novels as a dystopia

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2025/09/14/the-culture-novels-as-a-dystopia/

1 year ago

Algebraic Types are not Scary

https://blog.aiono.dev/posts/algebraic-types-are-not-scary,-actually.html

1 year ago

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/total-porn-ban-proposed-michigan-lawmakers

1 year ago

AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year

https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/

1 year ago

Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of use?

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/09/15/samsung-870-qvo/

1 year ago

Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages Compromised

https://socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-supply-chain-attack-affects-40-packages

1 year ago

Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers

https://cindori.com/backdrop

1 year ago

The madness of SaaS chargebacks

https://medium.com/@citizenblr/the-10-payment-that-cost-me-43-95-the-madness-of-saas-chargebacks-5c308d5a49cc

1 year ago

How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-filesystem-from-scratch

1 year ago

Korea's major US investment projects halted

https://www.kedglobal.com/business-politics/newsView/ked202509080002

1 year ago

Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework

https://daggerjs.org

1 year ago

PostgreSQL Maintenance Without Superuser

https://boringsql.com/posts/postgresql-predefined-roles/

1 year ago

AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2

https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/AOMedia-Announces-Year-End-Launch-of-Next-Generation-Video-Codec-AV2-on-10th-Anniversary/

1 year ago

Pgstream: Postgres streaming logical replication with DDL changes

https://github.com/xataio/pgstream

1 year ago

Noise cancelling a fan

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/noise-cancelling-a-fan

1 year ago

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

https://www.starlink.com/

1 year ago

Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now

https://cari.institute/

1 year ago

Varnish Cache to be renamed Vinyl Cache project

https://varnish-cache.org/#new-release-8-0-0-with-bonus-project-news

1 year ago

California reached a union deal with tech giants

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/14/california-uber-lyft-union-00562680

1 year ago

Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS

https://github.com/mroboff/omarchy-on-cachyos

1 year ago

Show HN: Daffodil – Open-Source Ecommerce Framework to connect to any platform

https://github.com/graycoreio/daffodil

1 year ago