top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-09-28

Play snake in the URL address bar

https://demian.ferrei.ro/snake/

11 months ago

860 upvotes – 92 comments

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying

https://privacybadger.org/

11 months ago

849 upvotes – 334 comments

The AI coding trap

https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09/28/the-ai-coding-trap

11 months ago

685 upvotes – 409 comments

When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”

https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-09-28-alphabetic-order/

11 months ago

594 upvotes – 367 comments

We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-09-28-tp-llama-main

11 months ago

504 upvotes – 110 comments

Farewell friends

https://humbledollar.com/forum/farewell-friends/

11 months ago

355 upvotes – 69 comments

Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]

https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/book/BDA3.pdf

11 months ago

347 upvotes – 68 comments

UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

11 months ago

313 upvotes – 350 comments

Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

https://toolbrew.co/

11 months ago

269 upvotes – 58 comments

Why I gave the world wide web away for free

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

11 months ago

243 upvotes – 137 comments

Go ahead, write the “stupid” code

https://spikepuppet.io/posts/write-the-stupid-code/

11 months ago

242 upvotes – 152 comments

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/20/epa-scientists-research-publications/

11 months ago

213 upvotes – 190 comments

Scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC

https://git.lain.faith/iitalics/scm2wasm

11 months ago

189 upvotes – 29 comments

The Demon-Haunted World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

11 months ago

188 upvotes – 100 comments

A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/9/msaf189/8245036?login=false

11 months ago

185 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404760

11 months ago

176 upvotes – 165 comments

Solar panels + cold = A potential problem

https://www.linspyre.com/ecoholics/temps.html

11 months ago

172 upvotes – 218 comments

Linus Learns Analog Circuits

https://github.com/torvalds/GuitarPedal

11 months ago

171 upvotes – 42 comments

The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming

https://sanixdk.xyz/blogs/the-weird-concept-of-branchless-programming

11 months ago

170 upvotes – 90 comments

China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-america-is-run-by-lawyers/

11 months ago

164 upvotes – 289 comments
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