689
133
Quicksort explained IKEA-style
https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/
3 weeks ago
602
503
They Thought They Were Free (1955)
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
473
240
Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
https://github.com/rxi/sj.h
461
466
AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
https://elma.dev/notes/ai-makes-seniors-stronger/
443
352
Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-bankruptcy-after-ban-on-criticising-company
421
156
Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
https://www.modernretail.co/operations/amazon-to-end-commingling-program-after-years-of-complaints-from-brands-and-sellers/
400
197
LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain
https://reclaimthenet.org/laligas-anti-piracy-crackdown-triggers-widespread-internet-disruptions
360
223
iFixit iPhone Air teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
319
65
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
https://www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1
287
86
DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
https://slugcat.systems/post/25-09-21-dxgi-debugging-microsoft-put-me-on-a-list/
271
428
Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK
https://hotminute.co.uk/2025/09/19/oxford-loses-top-3-university-ranking-for-the-first-time/
264
109
I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
https://www.pixelpusher.club/p/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in
258
Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
https://www.theverge.com/tech/781387/backpacking-ultralight-haribo-power-bank
251
46
The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05136
250
144
Vibe coding cleanup as a service
https://donado.co/en/articles/2025-09-16-vibe-coding-cleanup-as-a-service/
246
297
UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/21/keir-starmer-palestine-recognition-announcement-gaza-uk-politics-live
232
221
How can I influence others without manipulating them?
https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-influence-others-without-manipulating
196
342
Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus-hell-and-earth-an-eden-20250915/
69
Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo
https://forum.modular.com/t/apple-silicon-gpu-support-in-mojo/2295
146
30
Unified Line and Paragraph Detection by Graph Convolutional Networks (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09638
140
136
Universities should be more than toll gates
https://www.waliddib.com/posts/universities-should-be-more-than-toll-gates/
137
177
What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/what-happens-when-coding-agents-stop-feeling-like-dialup/
135
102
California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5548532/newsom-trump-masked-ice-agents
134
The bloat of edge-case first libraries
https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries
100
Be careful with Go struct embedding
https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/be-careful-with-go-struct-embedding.html
130
13
Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
https://github.com/google/timesketch
125
67
UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18
https://www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7
123
50
Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25299
121
191
Rail travel is booming in America
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/09/21/rail-travel-is-booming-in-america
116
150
In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
111
64
Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/19/disk-utility-still-cant-check-and-repair-apfs-volumes-and-containers/
107
120
How to stop functional programming (2016)
https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
104
171
A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of-the
60
New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250919085242.htm
101
The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel better
https://lithub.com/the-link-between-trauma-drug-use-and-our-search-to-feel-better/
98
47
A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5
https://github.com/phith0n/collision-webshell
96
55
Show HN: Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks
https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices
89
62
My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name
https://blog.plover.com/2025/09/21/#what-changed-twice
77
105
LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/llms-are-still-surprisingly-bad-at-simple-tasks/
73
4
Procedural Island Generation (VI)
https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/28/procedural-island-generation-vi.html
72
EU to block Big Tech from new financial data sharing system
https://www.ft.com/content/6596876f-c831-482c-878c-78c1499ef543
54
Liberté, égalité, Radioactivité
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/liberte-egalite-radioactivite/
A16Z-funded Startup Copied Our Open-source Project by Pretending to Help
https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1nlhta0/a_company_approached_my_opensource_project/
12
US companies laid off 40k+ US tech workers, replaced them with H-1B visa holders
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/american-companies-laid-off-over-40-000-us-tech-workers-replaced-them-with-h-1b-visa-holders-white-house-101758431251767.html
66
27
Behind closed doors, top CEOs say Trump is bad for business
https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/behind-closed-doors-ceos-say-trump-is-bad-for-business-and-its-time-to-make-america-into-america-again/
17
How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy
https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/