top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-09-19

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/

1 year ago

Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

https://deno.com/blog/javascript-tm-gofundme

1 year ago

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf

1 year ago

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders

1 year ago

Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks

https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/

1 year ago

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/

1 year ago

I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-regret-building-3000-pi-ai-cluster

1 year ago

Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306539

1 year ago

Markov chains are the original language models

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models

1 year ago

Nostr

https://nostr.com/

1 year ago