top 50% 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/

3 weeks ago

1476 upvotes – 1862 comments

Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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

3 weeks ago

714 upvotes – 345 comments

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

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

3 weeks ago

710 upvotes – 249 comments

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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

3 weeks ago

579 upvotes – 243 comments

Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks

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

3 weeks ago

522 upvotes – 259 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

478 upvotes – 158 comments

I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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

3 weeks ago

468 upvotes – 360 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

459 upvotes – 565 comments

Markov chains are the original language models

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models

3 weeks ago

452 upvotes – 174 comments

Nostr

https://nostr.com/

3 weeks ago

393 upvotes – 332 comments

Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon

https://eletric-vehicles.com/nikola/trevor-miltons-nikola-case-dropped-by-sec-following-trump-pardon/

3 weeks ago

327 upvotes – 236 comments

Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/ticketmaster-intentionally-screwed-fans-out-of-billions-ftc-lawsuit-says/

3 weeks ago

327 upvotes – 131 comments

The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/17/the-health-benefits-of-sunlight-may-outweigh-the-risk-of-skin-cancer

3 weeks ago

292 upvotes – 247 comments

Gemini in Chrome

https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/

3 weeks ago

279 upvotes – 226 comments

A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

https://dayvster.com/blog/dev-culture-is-dying-the-curious-developer-is-gone/

3 weeks ago

278 upvotes – 287 comments

David Lynch LA House

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/david-lynch-house-los-angeles-for-sale

3 weeks ago

262 upvotes – 133 comments

After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/arts/penn-teller-magic-circle.html

3 weeks ago

230 upvotes – 100 comments

Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100

https://ashvardanian.com/posts/stringwars-on-gpus/

3 weeks ago

216 upvotes – 26 comments

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support

https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/

3 weeks ago

214 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

https://weuseelixir.com/

3 weeks ago

213 upvotes – 60 comments

As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideload-offline-3598988/

3 weeks ago

210 upvotes – 198 comments

After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/after-getting-jimmy-kimmel-suspended-fcc-chair-threatens-abcs-the-view/

3 weeks ago

192 upvotes – 229 comments

Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration

https://www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion

3 weeks ago

183 upvotes – 54 comments

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

https://feedmaker.fly.dev

3 weeks ago

173 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

https://github.com/barddoo/zedis

3 weeks ago

158 upvotes – 111 comments

Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)

https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5

3 weeks ago

154 upvotes – 85 comments

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

3 weeks ago

140 upvotes – 16 comments

25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1l0zsv7/25l_portable_nvlinked_dual_3090_llm_rig/

3 weeks ago

139 upvotes – 121 comments

iTerm2 Web Browser

https://iterm2.com/documentation-web.html

3 weeks ago

139 upvotes – 111 comments

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/your-very-own-humane-interface-try-jef-raskins-ideas-at-home/

3 weeks ago

130 upvotes – 22 comments

An untidy history of AI across four books

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/perplexity

3 weeks ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Intel Arc Celestial dGPU seems to be first casualty of Nvidia partnership

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Arc-Celestial-dGPU-seems-to-be-first-casualty-of-Nvidia-partnership-while-Intel-Arc-B770-is-allegedly-still-alive.1118962.0.html

3 weeks ago

125 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Run Qwen3-Next-80B on 8GB GPU at 1tok/2s throughput

https://github.com/Mega4alik/ollm

3 weeks ago

123 upvotes – 17 comments

The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit

https://unherd.com/2025/09/the-sordid-truth-about-retriement-villages/

3 weeks ago

122 upvotes – 129 comments

Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-minute-take-home-test-may-identify-symptoms-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-years-before-a-traditional-diagnosis-180987281/

3 weeks ago

116 upvotes – 67 comments

Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

https://github.com/msuzen/isingLenzMC

3 weeks ago

115 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301499

3 weeks ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Themis (European Reusable Rocket) is assembled on launch pad

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-themis-pad-fully.html

3 weeks ago

113 upvotes – 104 comments

Based C++

https://github.com/SheafificationOfG/based-cpp

3 weeks ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

BYD unveils world's largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/09/19/byd-unveils-worlds-largest-14-5-mwh-dc-energy-storage-system/

3 weeks ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Bluefin LTS Is Released

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-lts-ga/

3 weeks ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-19/multimillion-dollar-hacking-spree-scattered-spider-teen-s-jailhouse-confessions

3 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

Bravo Apple! Calculator app has a memory leak

https://xcancel.com/neogoose_btw/status/1968757466570621251

3 weeks ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

3 weeks ago

77 upvotes – 85 comments

Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/electric-cars/man-and-two-children-burn-alive-inside-a-tesla-with-rescuers-unable-to-open-the-car-s-door/ar-AA1MPAol

3 weeks ago

77 upvotes – 103 comments

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/court_lets_nsf_keep_swinging/

3 weeks ago

76 upvotes – 64 comments

The EU Just Killed ARR

https://paid.ai/blog/ai-monetization/eu-data-act-killed-arr

3 weeks ago

75 upvotes – 94 comments

Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019)

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/revamping-an-old-tv-as-a-gift/

3 weeks ago

74 upvotes – 33 comments

Slow Liquid

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/slow-liquid/

3 weeks ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review [pdf]

https://kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookReview.pdf

3 weeks ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments
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