top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-23

Always Invite Anna

https://sharif.io/anna-alexei

1 year ago

Nine things I learned in ninety years

http://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years.pdf

1 year ago

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

https://gist.github.com/avestura/ce2aa6e55dad783b1aba946161d5fef4

1 year ago

Find SF parking cops

https://walzr.com/sf-parking/

1 year ago

Libghostty is coming

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming

1 year ago

Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor

https://brutalita.com/

1 year ago

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

1 year ago

Go has added Valgrind support

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/674077

1 year ago

Getting AI to work in complex codebases

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md

1 year ago

Qwen3-VL

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=99f0335c4ad9ff6153e517418d48535ab6d8afef&from=research.latest-advancements-list

1 year ago

YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-reinstate-channels-banned-over-covid-content-policies-2025-9

1 year ago

MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

https://bbbprograms.org/media/newsroom/decisions/mrbeast-feastables

1 year ago

Zoxide: A Better CD Command

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

1 year ago

Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/the-war-on-roommates-why-is-sharing-a-house-illegal.html

1 year ago

Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/politics/secret-service-sim-cards-servers-un.html

1 year ago

Top Programming Languages 2025

https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025

1 year ago

Denmark wants to push through Chat Control

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-protokoll-daenemark-will-chatkontrolle-durchdruecken/

1 year ago

Altoids by the Fistful

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/altoids-by-the-fistful/

1 year ago

From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max

https://questdb.com/blog/rust-fetch-max-compiler-journey/

1 year ago

Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it

https://ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-tried-htmx-then-ditched-it

1 year ago

Fall Foliage Map 2025

https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map

1 year ago

YAML document from hell (2023)

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

1 year ago

Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/3-million

1 year ago

consumed.today

https://consumed.today/

1 year ago

Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs

https://parthsareen.com/blog.html#sampling.md

1 year ago

Bach Cello Suites (2024)

https://bachcellosuites.co.uk/

1 year ago

x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments

https://www.x402.org/

1 year ago

Is life a form of computation?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/

1 year ago

Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools

https://dayvster.com/blog/why-zig-feels-more-practical-than-rust-for-real-world-cli-tools/

1 year ago

NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?

https://tedium.co/2025/09/23/secret-service-raid-sim-bank-telecom-hardware/

1 year ago

I'm leaving Ruby Central

https://gist.github.com/simi/349d881d16d3d86947945615a47c60ca

1 year ago

800 Years of English Handwriting

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/800-years-of-english-handwriting/eAURodcOgMzFIw

1 year ago

Getting More Strategic

https://cate.blog/2025/09/23/getting-more-strategic/

1 year ago

Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite

https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/the-state-of-vector-search-in-sqlite

1 year ago

I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency

https://medium.com/@yingjunwu/the-case-for-hybrid-cache-for-object-stores-4b1f02ec6c9a

1 year ago

Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250918225001.htm

1 year ago

If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead

https://framinghamsource.com/index.php/2025/09/22/linda-m-brossi-murphy/

1 year ago

From MCP to shell: MCP auth flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more

https://verialabs.com/blog/from-mcp-to-shell/

1 year ago

How to draw construction equipment for kids

https://alyssarosenberg.substack.com/p/how-to-draw-construction-equipment

1 year ago

Apple A19 SoC die shot

https://chipwise.tech/our-portfolio/apple-a19-dieshot/

1 year ago

Wild performance tricks

https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/09/02/rustforge-wild-performance-tricks.html

1 year ago

Launch HN: Strata (YC X25) – One MCP server for AI to handle thousands of tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347914

1 year ago

Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

https://blog.google/products/photos/android-conversational-editing-google-photos/

1 year ago

Pocket Casts, you altered the deal, so I will alter your app

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/podcasts-you-altered-the-deal-so-i-will-alter-your-app/

1 year ago

Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64

http://64jim64.blogspot.com/2025/09/meshtastic-64-meshtastic-radio-for.html

1 year ago

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons

https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus

1 year ago

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (2022)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/

1 year ago

MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46357017/mlb-approves-robot-umpires-2026-part-challenge-system

1 year ago

Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study

https://news.uci.edu/2025/09/22/indoor-surfaces-act-as-massive-sponges-for-harmful-chemicals-uc-irvine-led-study-shows/

1 year ago

OpenDataLoader-PDF: An open source tool for structured PDF parsing

https://github.com/opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf

1 year ago

Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?

https://loiseaujc.github.io/posts/blog-title/fortran_vs_python.html

1 year ago

Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? Evidence from MBA students

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15443

1 year ago

State of AI-assisted software development

https://blog.google/technology/developers/dora-report-2025/

1 year ago

Zip Code Map of the United States

https://engaging-data.com/us-zip-code-map/

1 year ago

Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with colored rice (2021)

https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html

1 year ago

Abundant Intelligence

https://blog.samaltman.com/abundant-intelligence

1 year ago

Privacy Commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive data from children

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2025/nr-c_250923/

1 year ago

New Element Web and Desktop apps

https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/

1 year ago

Gamebooks and graph theory (2019)

https://notes.atomutek.org/gamebooks-and-graph-theory.html

1 year ago

Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in first open-water swim in nearly a century

https://chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/2025/09/21/swim-chicago-river-race-outdoors

1 year ago

Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence

https://weight.rocks

1 year ago