top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-18

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack

1 year ago

3406 upvotes – 1470 comments

Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

https://phishyurl.com/

1 year ago

1127 upvotes – 320 comments

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidia-and-intel-announce-jointly-developed-intel-x86-rtx-socs-for-pcs-with-nvidia-graphics-also-custom-nvidia-data-center-x86-processors-nvidia-buys-usd5-billion-in-intel-stock-in-seismic-deal

1 year ago

1018 upvotes – 616 comments

KDE is now my favorite desktop

https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/

1 year ago

892 upvotes – 742 comments

Meta Ray-Ban Display

https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/

1 year ago

639 upvotes – 962 comments

Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello

1 year ago

568 upvotes – 193 comments

Apple: SSH and FileVault

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html

1 year ago

507 upvotes – 185 comments

Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1nkbig7/metas_live_staged_demo_fails_the_ai_recording/

1 year ago

466 upvotes – 342 comments

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad

1 year ago

461 upvotes – 211 comments

This map is not upside down

https://www.maps.com/this-map-is-not-upside-down/

1 year ago

365 upvotes – 514 comments

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

https://research.google/blog/learn-your-way-reimagining-textbooks-with-generative-ai/

1 year ago

359 upvotes – 236 comments

CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)

https://computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch/index.shtml

1 year ago

348 upvotes – 49 comments

When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"

https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way-break-out-content-jail

1 year ago

311 upvotes – 166 comments

Scream cipher

https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher

1 year ago

300 upvotes – 102 comments

American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana

https://earthhope.substack.com/p/victory-for-public-access-american

1 year ago

291 upvotes – 191 comments

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter

https://kasiin.top/blog/2025-08-04-flipper_zero_geiger_counter_module/

1 year ago

270 upvotes – 83 comments

U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis

https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/us-already-has-critical-minerals-it-needs-theyre-being-thrown-away-new-analysis-shows

1 year ago

266 upvotes – 390 comments

Yes, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was government censorship

https://www.theverge.com/policy/781148/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-monologue-brendan-carr-censorship-first-amendment

1 year ago

254 upvotes – 77 comments

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/

1 year ago

251 upvotes – 109 comments

Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/thirty-years-later-simcity-2000-hasnt-changed-but-i-have/

1 year ago

249 upvotes – 345 comments

Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/10.16

1 year ago

238 upvotes – 146 comments

Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

https://www.chargerlab.com/teardown-of-apple-40w-dynamic-power-adapter-with-60w-max-a3365/

1 year ago

235 upvotes – 220 comments

This website has no class

https://aaadaaam.com/notes/no-class/

1 year ago

224 upvotes – 89 comments

MapSCII – World map in terminal

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

1 year ago

218 upvotes – 21 comments

AI tools are making the world look weird

https://strat7.com/blogs/weird-in-weird-out/

1 year ago

217 upvotes – 191 comments

You Had No Taste Before AI

https://matthewsanabria.dev/posts/you-had-no-taste-before-ai/

1 year ago

210 upvotes – 189 comments

Chrome's New AI Features

https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-ai-features-for-chrome/

1 year ago

197 upvotes – 140 comments

I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/i-uncovered-an-acpi-bug-in-my-dell-inspiron-5667-it-was-plaguing-me-for-8-years/

1 year ago

194 upvotes – 28 comments

Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398

1 year ago

191 upvotes – 117 comments

40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-be-the-earliest-written-language.html

1 year ago

189 upvotes – 131 comments

Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

https://luau.org/

1 year ago

186 upvotes – 92 comments

Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/geizhals-donates-to-tprf/

1 year ago

179 upvotes – 69 comments

Hypervisor 101 in Rust

https://tandasat.github.io/Hypervisor-101-in-Rust/

1 year ago

174 upvotes – 20 comments

The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/

1 year ago

170 upvotes – 123 comments

Configuration files are user interfaces

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/configuration-files-are-user-interfaces/

1 year ago

165 upvotes – 135 comments

UC Berkeley gives personal information for 150 students and staff to government

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150-students-and-staff-to-federal/article_a4aad3e1-bbba-42cc-92d7-a7964d9641c5.html

1 year ago

161 upvotes – 68 comments

Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

https://farhanhossain.substack.com/p/how-we-shipped-100-hardware-units

1 year ago

155 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig

https://github.com/botirk38/OS-1000-lines-zig

1 year ago

151 upvotes – 34 comments

President says broadcasters should lose licenses for criticizing him

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/18/us/trump-news

1 year ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs

https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory

1 year ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

Jimmy kimmel should have strong odds at the Supreme Court

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-supreme-court-first-amendment-lawsuit-00570697

1 year ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

1 year ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

https://www.livescience.com/animals/ants/almost-like-science-fiction-european-ant-is-the-first-known-animal-to-clone-members-of-another-species

1 year ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

1 year ago

126 upvotes – 121 comments

Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus

1 year ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-designates-anti-fascist-antifa-movement-terrorist-organization-2025-09-18/

1 year ago

120 upvotes – 107 comments

OpenTelemetry collector: What it is, when you need it, and when you don't

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-09-18-what-is-opentelemetry-collector-and-why-use-one/view

1 year ago

119 upvotes – 37 comments

Towards a Physics Foundation Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805

1 year ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Obsidian Note Codes

https://ezhik.jp/obsidian/note-codes/

1 year ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Were RNNs all we needed? A GPU programming perspective

https://dhruvmsheth.github.io/projects/gpu_pogramming_curnn/

1 year ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

OneDev – Self-hosted Git server with CI/CD, Kanban, and packages

https://onedev.io/

1 year ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Tldraw SDK 4.0

https://tldraw.dev/blog/tldraw-sdk-4-0

1 year ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

https://xmonad.org/news/2023/10/06/wayland.html

1 year ago

95 upvotes – 77 comments

Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey

https://connorboyle.io/2025/09/11/fft-cooley-tukey.html

1 year ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates

https://github.com/Leoneq/iNapGPU

1 year ago

92 upvotes – 15 comments

Calculator Forensics (2002)

https://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/miscprj/results.htm

1 year ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831/

1 year ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant

https://aanthonymax.github.io/ant-and-apples/

1 year ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Nvidia to Invest $5B in Intel

https://www.ft.com/content/be8d4c0c-66ff-4dfd-9b43-af6c0b290ada

1 year ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

https://the-ventureweaver.itch.io/

1 year ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air After FCC Pressure

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html

1 year ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database

https://www.manyminiapps.com/

1 year ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

Evals in 2025: going beyond simple benchmarks to build models people can use

https://github.com/huggingface/evaluation-guidebook/blob/main/yearly_dives/2025-evaluations-for-useful-models.md

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/17/learning-languages-with-the-help-of-algorithms/

1 year ago

80 upvotes – 41 comments

ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/ice-unit-signs-new-3-million-contract-for-phone-hacking-tech/

1 year ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Simulating a Machine from the 80s

https://rmazur.io/blog/fahivets.html

1 year ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

History of the Gem Desktop Environment

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-desktop-environment

1 year ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/the-numerical-analysis-of-differentiable-simulation-automatic-differentiation-can-be-incorrect/

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqc_vt95GJg

1 year ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments
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