top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-17

Apple Photos app corrupts images

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/

1 year ago

WASM 3.0 Completed

https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/

1 year ago

ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-trump-fcc-brendan-carr

1 year ago

GNU Midnight Commander

https://midnight-commander.org/

1 year ago

The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

1 year ago

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/

1 year ago

EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115215006562371435

1 year ago

A postmortem of three recent issues

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues

1 year ago

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/

1 year ago

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5

https://support.apple.com/en-us/125142

1 year ago

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/

1 year ago

How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

https://ashleyjanssen.com/how-to-motivate-yourself-to-do-a-thing-you-dont-want-to-do/

1 year ago

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20

https://news.futunn.com/en/post/62202518/alibaba-s-new-ai-chip-unveiled-key-specifications-comparable-to

1 year ago

Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337

1 year ago

DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/

1 year ago

DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/146536

1 year ago

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2025/anthropic-irks-white-house-with-limits-on-models-uswhite-house-with-limits-on-models-use

1 year ago

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors

https://clickhouse.com/blog/optimizing-clickhouse-intel-high-core-count-cpu

1 year ago

Claude can sometimes prove it

https://www.galois.com/articles/claude-can-sometimes-prove-it

1 year ago

Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/

1 year ago

Depression reduces capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events

https://www.eneuro.org/content/12/9/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

1 year ago

Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-benchmark-improving-results-smaller-models/

1 year ago

Slow social media

https://herman.bearblog.dev/slow-social-media/

1 year ago

UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47

1 year ago

Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-importer/issues/421

1 year ago

I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English

https://jeremyberman.substack.com/p/how-i-got-the-highest-score-on-arc-agi-again

1 year ago

PureVPN IPv6 Leak

https://anagogistis.com/posts/purevpn-ipv6-leak/

1 year ago

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-droughts-in-iraq-reveals-dozens-of-ancient-tombs-created-2300-years-ago-180987347/

1 year ago

Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

https://tane.dev/2025/09/oh-no-not-again...-a-meditation-on-npm-supply-chain-attacks/

1 year ago

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

https://buttondown.com/aethermug/archive/aether-mug-famous-cognitive-psychology/

1 year ago

Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem

https://sigh.dev/posts/ctrl-tinycolor-post-mortem/

1 year ago

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/discussions/416

1 year ago

In Praise of Idleness (1932)

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

1 year ago

Not Buying American Anymore

https://xd1.dev/2025/09/not-buying-american-anymore

1 year ago

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live from the Air 'Indefinitely'

https://www.vulture.com/article/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-from-the-air-indefinitely.html

1 year ago

Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/09/waymo-is-coming-to-nashville-in-partnership-with-lyft

1 year ago

Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem

https://stategraph.dev/blog/why-stategraph/

1 year ago

Procedural Island Generation (III)

https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/17/procedural-island-generation-iii.html

1 year ago

Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line

https://murex.rocks/

1 year ago

Knitted Anatomy

https://www.knitted-anatomy.at/cardiovascular-system/

1 year ago

R MCP Server

https://github.com/finite-sample/rmcp

1 year ago

A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

https://www.core77.com/posts/138492/A-3D-Printed-Business-Card-Embosser

1 year ago

Hyperion: Minecraft game engine for custom events

https://hyperion.rs/

1 year ago

A single adblock filter may have caused YouTube's global view drop

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375

1 year ago

Tesla is trying to hide 3 Robotaxi accidents

https://electrek.co/2025/09/17/tesla-hide-3-robotaxi-accidents/

1 year ago

Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/09/16/stephen-millers-quota-likely-drove-korean-arrests-in-immigration-raid/

1 year ago

Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278819

1 year ago

Moving off of TypeScript, 2.5M lines of code

https://engineering.usemotion.com/moving-off-of-typescript-e7bb1f3ad091

1 year ago

The State of AI and Tech Q2 2025 Industry Report

https://www.theaicolony.com/customer-stories/the-state-of-ai-and-tech-q2-2025-industry-report

1 year ago

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html

1 year ago

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/blob/main/python/tutorials/gluon/01-intro.py

1 year ago

What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion

1 year ago

Compiling with Continuations

https://swatson555.github.io/posts/2025-09-16-compiling-with-continuations.html

1 year ago

The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/

1 year ago

Show HN: Math2Tex – Convert handwritten math and complex notes to LaTeX text

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276501

1 year ago

Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-python

1 year ago

I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10881-i-just-want-an-80x25-console-but-thats-no-longer-possible

1 year ago

Launch HN: RunRL (YC X25) – Reinforcement learning as a service

https://runrl.com

1 year ago

Global Peace Index 2025

https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/

1 year ago

Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell

https://glocq.github.io/en/blog/20250428/

1 year ago

September 15, 2025: The Day the Industry Admitted AI Subscriptions Don't Work

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/why-ai-subscriptions-cannot-work

1 year ago