top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-24

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google

1 year ago

1291 upvotes – 723 comments

Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

1 year ago

1244 upvotes – 611 comments

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677

1 year ago

1060 upvotes – 565 comments

That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story

1 year ago

1058 upvotes – 622 comments

Just let me select text

https://aartaka.me/select-text.html

1 year ago

875 upvotes – 596 comments

Huntington's disease treated for first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

1 year ago

709 upvotes – 121 comments

US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/american-joins-delta-southwest-united-and-other-us-airlines-push-to-strip-away-travelers-rights-and-add-more-fees-by-rolling-back-key-protections-in-new-deregulation-move/

1 year ago

663 upvotes – 648 comments

Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

https://larian.com/support/faqs/steam-deck-native-version_121

1 year ago

626 upvotes – 449 comments

Helium Browser

https://helium.computer/

1 year ago

611 upvotes – 547 comments

EU age verification app not planning desktop support

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/issues/22

1 year ago

584 upvotes – 423 comments

Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow

1 year ago

480 upvotes – 130 comments

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts

https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts

1 year ago

459 upvotes – 137 comments

My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1np6kyn/my_games_server_is_blocked_in_spain_whenever/

1 year ago

431 upvotes – 226 comments

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webassembly

1 year ago

399 upvotes – 158 comments

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/how-aws-s3-scales-with-tens-of-millions-of-hard-drives

1 year ago

365 upvotes – 167 comments

How to be a leader when the vibes are off

https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/

1 year ago

364 upvotes – 191 comments

Product Hunt is dead

https://sedimental.org/product_hunt_is_dead.html

1 year ago

325 upvotes – 115 comments

Python developers are embracing type hints

https://pyrefly.org/blog/why-typed-python/

1 year ago

318 upvotes – 566 comments

CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-hidden-risks-in-the-battery-supply-chain

1 year ago

287 upvotes – 124 comments

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-server-motherboards-can-be-infected-with-unremovable-malware/

1 year ago

265 upvotes – 145 comments

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

https://cjauvin.github.io/posts/learning-persian/

1 year ago

265 upvotes – 90 comments

Traefik's 10-year anniversary

https://traefik.io/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-traefik

1 year ago

253 upvotes – 147 comments

How did sports betting become legal in the US?

https://shreyashariharan.substack.com/p/how-did-sports-betting-become-legal

1 year ago

247 upvotes – 357 comments

The Beauty of Programming (2001)

https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/departments-programs/computer-science/beauty-programming

1 year ago

241 upvotes – 62 comments

I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ridepods-race-with-head/id6752268828

1 year ago

222 upvotes – 44 comments

New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03546

1 year ago

220 upvotes – 174 comments

Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students

https://www.ycombinator.com/early-decision

1 year ago

219 upvotes – 268 comments

Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop

https://www.sify.com/ai-analytics/greatest-irony-of-the-ai-age-humans-being-increasingly-hired-to-clean-ai-slop/

1 year ago

208 upvotes – 117 comments

Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-mandatory-digital-id/

1 year ago

206 upvotes – 147 comments

Docker Hub Is Down

https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68d47a2f93c09e05486d93a9

1 year ago

199 upvotes – 100 comments

SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust

https://sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/2025/09/24/introducing-sedonadb-a-single-node-analytical-database-engine-with-geospatial-as-a-first-class-citizen/

1 year ago

197 upvotes – 49 comments

SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”

https://github.com/goudvuur/sonyshell

1 year ago

185 upvotes – 113 comments

Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

https://zed.dev/blog/pricing-change-llm-usage-is-now-token-based

1 year ago

182 upvotes – 197 comments

New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38239-hundreds-of-new-bacteria-and-two-potential-antibiotics-found-in-soil/

1 year ago

182 upvotes – 64 comments

Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/laptops-and-tablets/snapdragon-x2-elite

1 year ago

163 upvotes – 216 comments

SEC forgives three scammers who bilked Americans out of millions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-s-sec-forgives-three-scammers-who-bilked-americans-out-of-millions-opinion/ar-AA1NeBPg

1 year ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2025/02/13/dating-app-tinder-hinge-cover-up

1 year ago

158 upvotes – 137 comments

Show HN: Vibe Linking

https://vb.lk/

1 year ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyperspectral-imaging

1 year ago

152 upvotes – 87 comments

America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides

https://www.ft.com/content/e93e56df-dd9b-40c1-b77a-dba1ca01e473

1 year ago

132 upvotes – 108 comments

The DHS has been harvesting DNA from Americans for years

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/

1 year ago

128 upvotes – 28 comments

Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250924-00/?p=111624

1 year ago

124 upvotes – 124 comments

How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-go-simulating-millions-of-particles-on-a-smart-tv

1 year ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol

https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-to-end-the-mmr-is

1 year ago

109 upvotes – 123 comments

Questions to ask when you think need to finish something

https://cassidoo.co/post/questions-when-i-need-to-finish-something/

1 year ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Exploring GrapheneOS secure allocator: Hardened Malloc

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploring-grapheneos-secure-allocator-hardened-malloc

1 year ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

The Lambda Calculus (2023)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lambda-calculus/

1 year ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362914

1 year ago

103 upvotes – 78 comments

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC

https://maoni0.medium.com/preparing-for-the-net-10-gc-88718b261ef2

1 year ago

102 upvotes – 60 comments

My Ed(1) Toolbox

https://aartaka.me/my-ed.html

1 year ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Engineering a fixed-width bit-packed integer vector in Rust

https://lukefleed.xyz/posts/compressed-fixedvec/

1 year ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard

1 year ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments
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