top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-27

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet

https://messenger.abeto.co/

1 year ago

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/

1 year ago

Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

https://matduggan.com/greenland-is-a-beautiful-nightmare/

1 year ago

SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3

1 year ago

★ 4.9k Go Apache-2.0

Users only care about 20% of your application

https://idiallo.com/blog/users-only-care-about-20-percent

1 year ago

Learn to play Go

https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go

1 year ago

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

http://music.ishkur.com/

1 year ago

A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails

https://www.koi.security/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft

1 year ago

I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it

https://www.theroom.lol

1 year ago

Samsung now owns Denon, Bowers and Wilkins, Marantz, Polk, and more audio brands

https://www.theverge.com/news/784390/samsung-harman-masimo-audio-acquisition-complete

1 year ago

Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-say-x-formerly-twitter-has-lost-its-professional-edge-and-bluesky-is-taking-its-place/

1 year ago

Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust

https://handy.computer/

1 year ago

High-power microwave defeats drone swarm

https://www.epirusinc.com/press-releases/epirus-leonidas-high-power-microwave-defeats-49-drone-swarm-100-of-drones-flown-at-live-fire-demonstration

1 year ago

Thoughts on Cloudflare

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/thoughts-on-cloudflare/

1 year ago

Why today's humanoids won't learn dexterity

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

1 year ago

The death of east London's most radical bookshop

https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-letters-closure-left-wing-bookshop/

1 year ago

A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/09/lifetime-social-ties-adds-healthy-aging

1 year ago

GPT-OSS Reinforcement Learning

https://docs.unsloth.ai/new/gpt-oss-reinforcement-learning

1 year ago

The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024

https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.175874118.83695562/v1

1 year ago

Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-rev-ponzi-scheme-tai-lopez-alex-mehr/

1 year ago

Show HN: The Unite real time operating system

https://jacquesmattheij.com/unite-operating-system/

1 year ago

Why We Think

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking/

1 year ago

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

https://signoz.io/blog/llm-observability-opentelemetry/

1 year ago

2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2025-small-world-in-motion-competition

1 year ago

The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

1 year ago

Washi: The Japanese paper crafted to last 1000 years [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0m4mg2j/washi-the-japanese-paper-crafted-to-last-1-000-years

1 year ago

We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4

https://modal.com/blog/reverse-engineer-flash-attention-4

1 year ago

AI model trapped in a Raspberry Pi

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/09/26/ai-model-trapped-in-raspberry-pi-piday-raspberrypi/

1 year ago

iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a19-becomes-the-fastest-single-core-cpu-in-the-world-on-passmark-beating-pc-chips-and-apples-own-m3-ultra-passively-cooled-iphone-17-chip-catapults-past-power-hungry-competitors

1 year ago

NSPM-7 labels common beliefs as terrorism 'indicators'

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

1 year ago

NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828

1 year ago

Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPoL03tFBtU

1 year ago

Norway to monitor airborne radioactivity in Svalbard

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/norway-monitor-airborne-radioactivity-svalbard

1 year ago

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221

1 year ago

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd ed

https://szeliski.org/Book/

1 year ago

The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/the-amazon-kindle-war-against-piracy

1 year ago

Drunk CSS

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/drunk-css/

1 year ago

Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/

1 year ago

The Other Linux Logo

https://ecogex.com/the-other-linux-logo/

1 year ago

Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life

https://three-cells.com

1 year ago

AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-investment-is-starting-to-look-like-a-slush-fund.html

1 year ago

Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

1 year ago

Trump Orders US Troops to Portland, Authorizes 'Full Force'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-27/trump-orders-us-troops-to-portland-authorizes-full-force

1 year ago

Xeres: Uncensorable Peer-to-Peer Communications

https://xeres.io/

1 year ago

Measuring My DIY Air Purifier

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/measuring-my-diy-air-purifier

1 year ago

The Prehistory of Computing, Part II

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing-2/

1 year ago

Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/cost-delusion-artificial-general-intelligence

1 year ago

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo-rages-with-61-death-rate-and-funding-running-dry/

1 year ago

The doctor who says we can improve our vision – at any age

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/how-to-improve-vision-any-age-doctor-advice-gjnftx5dm

1 year ago

Are We in an A.I. Bubble? I Suspect So

https://gideons.substack.com/p/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-i-suspect

1 year ago