top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-26

Open Social

https://overreacted.io/open-social/

10 months ago

991 upvotes – 388 comments

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-introduce-mandatory-digital-id-cards-2025-09-26/

10 months ago

525 upvotes – 780 comments

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think

https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold

10 months ago

471 upvotes – 132 comments

Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta

https://system76.com/pop/pop-beta/

10 months ago

435 upvotes – 231 comments

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/

10 months ago

411 upvotes – 264 comments

Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust

https://max-inden.de/post/fast-udp-io-in-firefox/

10 months ago

367 upvotes – 108 comments

No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves

https://lichess.org/@/Tobs40/blog/there-is-no-reachable-chess-position-with-more-than-218-moves/a5xdxeqs

10 months ago

365 upvotes – 181 comments

US cities pay too much for buses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses

10 months ago

355 upvotes – 578 comments

Investigating a Forged PDF

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

10 months ago

319 upvotes – 50 comments

Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed

https://moondream.ai/blog/moondream-3-preview

10 months ago

286 upvotes – 41 comments

My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod

https://www.joewintergreen.com/my-deus-ex-lipsyncing-fix-mod-making-of/

10 months ago

275 upvotes – 177 comments

Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

https://vazgriz.com/762/f-16-flight-sim-in-unity-3d/

10 months ago

263 upvotes – 124 comments

Why use mailing lists?

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/q6A_anL1u-Y9iXe-vboiOYamsl0/

10 months ago

248 upvotes – 197 comments

If you are harassed by lasers

https://www.laserpointersafety.com/harassment.html

10 months ago

237 upvotes – 221 comments

Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII

https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation/

10 months ago

236 upvotes – 22 comments

Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW

https://suno.com/studio-welcome

10 months ago

208 upvotes – 303 comments

Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now

https://runnercode.com/blog/context-is-the-bottleneck-for-coding-agents-now

10 months ago

196 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: A little notebook for learning linear algebra with Python

https://little-book-of.github.io/linear-algebra/books/en-US/lab.html

10 months ago

190 upvotes – 46 comments

A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports

https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-news/#a-platform-jumping-prince

10 months ago

189 upvotes – 39 comments

Auth.js is now part of Better Auth

https://www.better-auth.com/blog/authjs-joins-better-auth

10 months ago

179 upvotes – 79 comments

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/thoughts-on-mechanical-keyboards-zsa-moonlander

10 months ago

178 upvotes – 277 comments

Modular Manifolds

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/modular-manifolds/

10 months ago

161 upvotes – 54 comments

Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots

https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit

10 months ago

155 upvotes – 83 comments

Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

https://nyulangone.org/news/oral-microbes-linked-increased-risk-pancreatic-cancer

10 months ago

150 upvotes – 77 comments

How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets

https://riskvest.io/riskvest-insights/transforming-insurance-risk

10 months ago

145 upvotes – 43 comments

New math revives geometry's oldest problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-revives-geometrys-oldest-problems-20250926/

10 months ago

144 upvotes – 10 comments

Genode OS Framework

https://genode.org

10 months ago

142 upvotes – 39 comments

Evolving the Multi-User Spaceport

https://www.spacex.com/updates#multiuser-spaceport

10 months ago

141 upvotes – 64 comments

When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

https://lithub.com/when-bruce-lee-trained-with-kareem-abdul-jabbar/

10 months ago

140 upvotes – 90 comments

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

https://eblong.com/infocom/

10 months ago

126 upvotes – 53 comments

Why do we remember some life moments but not others?

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/why-do-we-remember-some-moments-but-not-others/

10 months ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

How to stop AI's "lethal trifecta"

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/25/how-to-stop-ais-lethal-trifecta

10 months ago

115 upvotes – 116 comments

Design of the SCHEME-78 Lisp-based microprocessor (1980)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359024.359031

10 months ago

114 upvotes – 48 comments

How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)

https://capnfabs.net/posts/fuji-raf-compression-algorithm/

10 months ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

`std::flip`

https://morwenn.github.io//c++/2025/09/25/TSB004-std-flip.html

10 months ago

108 upvotes – 112 comments

DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale

https://lukehinds.github.io/deepfabric/

10 months ago

106 upvotes – 19 comments

Israel took control of Gaza cellphones to stream PM Netanyahu's UN Speech live

https://twitter.com/israelipm/status/1971570108322480350

10 months ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07025

10 months ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/26/iktok-abu-dhabi-royal-family-stake-trump-deal-mgx

10 months ago

99 upvotes – 114 comments

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Coreutils-Makeself

10 months ago

97 upvotes – 79 comments

A recent chess controversy

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/did-us-chess-champion-cheat

10 months ago

87 upvotes – 124 comments

Cloudflare Data Platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-data-platform/

10 months ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-great-sameness-light-and-shade-digital-220925

10 months ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Software CEO to Catholic panel: AI is more mass stupidity than mass unemployment

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/ai_catholic_uni/

10 months ago

83 upvotes – 109 comments

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-for-pure-llms-even-turing

10 months ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/the-digital-markets-act-time-for-a-reset/

10 months ago

75 upvotes – 164 comments

Managing dotfiles with Make

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-with-make

10 months ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-and-prince-andrew-named-in-latest-epstein-files-release-13438742

10 months ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Kagi News (iOS)

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/kagi-news/id6748314243

10 months ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers

https://medium.com/graalvm/writing-truly-memory-safe-jit-compilers-f79ad44558dd

10 months ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/thoughts-on-mechanical-keyboards-zsa-moonlander

10 months ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Implementing a Kalman Filter in Postgres

https://neon.com/blog/implementing-a-kalman-filter-in-postgres-to-smooth-gps-data

10 months ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter?

https://www.owlposting.com/p/rna-structure-prediction-is-hard

10 months ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Today is Stanislav Petrov day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

10 months ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-titanics-sister-ship-the-britannic-sank-in-1916-for-the-first-time-ever-divers-have-recovered-artifacts-from-its-wreck-180987402/

10 months ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Dreamtap – Make your AI more creative

https://dreamtap.xyz/

10 months ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Ode to libraries (the book ones)

https://sibervepunk.com/ode-to-libraries/

10 months ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Spending time with the material

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/actually-readable/

10 months ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-2-shard-and-conquer/

10 months ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

The von Neumann bottleneck is impeding AI computing?

https://research.ibm.com/blog/why-von-neumann-architecture-is-impeding-the-power-of-ai-computing

10 months ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Family Chess: Play across firewalls and Internet cultures

https://github.com/kelvinq/family-chess

10 months ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++

https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2024/10/26/why-cpp

10 months ago

58 upvotes – 90 comments

A Look into Intel Xeon 6's Memory Subsystem

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/a-look-into-intel-xeon-6s-memory

10 months ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments

Ex-Meta workers tell Congress tech giant stifled research on youth harm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/09/meta-children-safety-privacy-virtual-reality/

10 months ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments
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