top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-16

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza

1 year ago

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-crowdstrike-npm-packages

1 year ago

Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

https://reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldnt_get_my_husband_to_decrypt_his_tor/

1 year ago

Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

1 year ago

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/denmark-close-wiping-out-leading-cancer-causing-hpv-strains-after-vaccine-roll-out

1 year ago

Linux phones are more important now than ever

https://feddit.org/post/18353777

1 year ago

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

https://waymo.com/blog/#short-all-systems-go-at-sfo-waymo-has-received-our-pilot-permit

1 year ago

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

https://morrick.me/archives/10137

1 year ago

"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces

https://adamsilver.io/blog/your-vs-my-in-user-interfaces/

1 year ago

I’m Not a Robot

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

1 year ago

Robert Redford has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html

1 year ago

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31

1 year ago

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f

1 year ago

Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

https://bewildered.substack.com/p/i-was-scammed-out-of-130000-and-google

1 year ago

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/is-the-sagrada-familia-a-masterpiece-or-kitsch

1 year ago

Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces

https://weberdominik.com/blog/rules-user-interfaces/

1 year ago

How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter

https://noctua.at/en/how-to-make-the-framework-desktop-run-even-quieter

1 year ago

Java 25 officially released

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/announce/2025-September/000360.html

1 year ago

When the job search becomes impossible

https://www.jeffwofford.com/wp/?p=2240

1 year ago

If all the world were a monorepo

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo

1 year ago

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)

https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/

1 year ago

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

1 year ago

Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5425555

1 year ago

Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

https://www.theverge.com/report/778641/microsoft-visual-studio-code-anthropic-claude-4

1 year ago

Public static void main(String[] args) is dead

https://mccue.dev/pages/9-16-25-psvm

1 year ago

Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats

https://casualarchivist.substack.com/p/order-up

1 year ago

Show the Physics

https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/showthephysics/Introduction/About.html

1 year ago

In Defense of C++

https://dayvster.com/blog/in-defense-of-cpp/

1 year ago

A new experimental Google app for Windows

https://blog.google/products/search/google-app-windows-labs/

1 year ago

Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/

1 year ago

CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom

1 year ago

Plugin System

https://iina.io/plugins/

1 year ago

Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

https://davekeating.substack.com/p/after-escaping-russian-energy-dependence

1 year ago

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes

http://tom7.org/ruperts/

1 year ago

I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269827

1 year ago

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585

1 year ago

Just Use HTML

https://gomakethings.com/just-use-html/

1 year ago

The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-tech-scene-dorky-now-terrifying-21042943.php

1 year ago

Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-trucker-built-a-scale-model-of-nyc-over-21-years-its-drawing-museums-attention

1 year ago

Should we drain the Everglades?

https://rabbitcavern.substack.com/p/should-we-drain-the-everglades

1 year ago

Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video

https://kguttag.com/2025/09/16/meta-rayban-ar-glasses-shows-lumus-waveguide-structures-in-leaked-video/

1 year ago

Implicit ODE solvers are not universally more robust than explicit ODE solvers

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/implicit-ode-solvers-are-not-universally-more-robust-than-explicit-ode-solvers-or-why-no-ode-solver-is-best/

1 year ago

Teen safety, freedom, and privacy

https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy

1 year ago

The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin()

https://css-tricks.com/the-most-hated-css-feature-cos-and-sin/

1 year ago

The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm019.html

1 year ago

Tesla Faces US Auto Safety Investigation over Door Handles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/tesla-tsla-faces-probe-by-us-auto-safety-agency-over-door-handles

1 year ago

The Linux Process Journey (2023) [pdf]

https://thelearningjourneyebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TheLinuxProcessJourney_v6_Sep2023.pdf

1 year ago

AP Live: View from Gaza as Israel Begins Expanded Operation in Gaza City

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

1 year ago

Safepoints and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/safepoints

1 year ago

Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn't Spy on Americans. Here's What He's Not Saying

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/palantir-spy-nsa-snowden-surveillance/

1 year ago

Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reichstag-fire-decree

1 year ago