top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-25

ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps

https://metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcontrol-wants-your-private-messages/

11 months ago

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians

11 months ago

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-rates-rose-hospital-ers-private-equity-firms-took-study-finds-rcna233211

11 months ago

Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/

11 months ago

ChatGPT Pulse

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/

11 months ago

Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/continuing-to-bring-you-our-latest-models-with-an-improved-gemini-2-5-flash-and-flash-lite-release/

11 months ago

Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02851-w

11 months ago

The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers

https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/

11 months ago

Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isnt-replacing-radiologists

11 months ago

Raspberry Pi 500+

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-ultimate-all-in-one-pc-raspberry-pi-500-plus-on-sale-now-at-200/

11 months ago

Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-community/

11 months ago

Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-secures-historic-25-billion-settlement-against-amazon

11 months ago

Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres

https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/

11 months ago

Ollama Web Search

https://ollama.com/blog/web-search

11 months ago

Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns

https://t0mpr1c3.github.io/knotty/index.html

1 year ago

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/

11 months ago

Zlib visualizer

https://lynn.github.io/flateview/

11 months ago

Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311

11 months ago

Resurrect the Old Web

https://stevedylandev.bearblog.dev/resurrect-the-old-web/

11 months ago

The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review

https://meks.quest/blogs/the-theatre-of-pull-requests-and-code-review

11 months ago

U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/us-new-low-world-happiness-report

11 months ago

RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS

https://doc.redox-os.org/book/redoxfs.html

11 months ago

This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG

https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

11 months ago

Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?

https://toao.com/blog/can-we-really-see-brambles-from-space

11 months ago

Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts

https://www.reuters.com/world/austria-hails-brain-gain-luring-25-academics-away-us-after-cuts-2025-09-25/

11 months ago

Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting

11 months ago

As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/as-many-as-2-million-cisco-devices-affected-by-actively-exploited-0-day/

11 months ago

PostgreSQL 18 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/

11 months ago

Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/testing-raspberry-pi-500s-new-mechanical-keyboard

11 months ago

Fernflower Java Decompiler

https://github.com/JetBrains/fernflower

11 months ago

Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)

https://www.learnui.design/tools/data-color-picker.html

11 months ago

Illiteracy Is a Policy Choice

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choice

11 months ago

The Long Trip from Silica to Smartphone

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-long-strange-trip-from-silica-to-smartphone

11 months ago

Windows ML is generally available

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/09/23/windows-ml-is-generally-available-empowering-developers-to-scale-local-ai-across-windows-devices/

11 months ago

Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)

https://www.newsweek.com/homeowner-baffled-washing-machine-uses-3-6gb-internet-1862675

1 year ago

Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373008

11 months ago

Litex: The First Formal Language Learnable in 1-2 Hours

https://github.com/litexlang/golitex

1 year ago

The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1038715/e4a2f8f50c244545/

11 months ago

Patagonian Welsh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh

1 year ago

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners

https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

11 months ago

The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent

https://ifp.org/the-wage-level-mirage/

1 year ago

Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26

https://www.redox-os.org/news/development-priorities-2025-09/

11 months ago

Comparing Rust to Carbon

https://lwn.net/Articles/1036912/

1 year ago

The Wind, a Pole, and the Dragon

https://entropicthoughts.com/the-wind-a-pole-and-the-dragon

11 months ago

Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu

11 months ago

The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-hacker-folk-art-of-esoteric-coding/

11 months ago

Accenture to 'exit' staff that cannot be retrained for age of AI

https://www.ft.com/content/a74f8564-ed5a-42e9-8fb3-d2bddb2b8675

11 months ago

RTO: WTAF

https://wordsrightman.beehiiv.com/p/rto-wtaf

11 months ago

Time travel? Or, just clever technology

https://www.syncdna.com/blog/time-travel-or-just-clever-tech

11 months ago

U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar

https://www.twz.com/air/new-info-on-how-u-s-military-was-caught-off-guard-by-israeli-strike-on-qatar

11 months ago

Immich mobile app sync V2

https://immich.app/blog/sync-v2

11 months ago

Tracing JITs in the Real World CPython Core Dev Sprint

https://antocuni.eu/2025/09/24/tracing-jits-in-the-real-world--cpython-core-dev-sprint/

11 months ago

The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/the-word-made-lifeless

11 months ago

Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-15-brings-ai-agents-into-the-physical-world/

11 months ago

RPi 500 arrives with mechanical switches, RGB LED backlit keys

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus

11 months ago

Apple Demands EU Repeal the Digital Markets Act

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/apple-demands-eu-repeal-the-digital-markets-act/

11 months ago

Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles

https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/message-from-brian-an-important-update/

11 months ago

Bluesky Alt Text Stream

https://bobbiec.github.io/bluesky-alt-text.html

11 months ago

Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-vn0v/implementing-ui-translation-in-sumatrapdf-a-c-windows-application.html

11 months ago

Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar

https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-introduces-net-dollar-to-support-a-new-business-model-for-the-ai-driven-internet/

11 months ago

DOGE might be storing every American's SSN on an insecure cloud server

https://www.theverge.com/news/785706/doge-insecure-cloud-server-social-security-numbers

11 months ago

FBI ex-chief Comey criminally charged as Trump targets critics, source says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-ex-chief-comey-criminally-charged-trump-targets-critics-source-says-2025-09-25/

11 months ago