top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-29

Claude Sonnet 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

11 months ago

F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

11 months ago

Claude Code 2.0

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code

11 months ago

What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/09/what-if-i-dont-want-videos-of-my-hobby-time-available-to-the-entire-world/

11 months ago

I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaeI9YgE1o8

11 months ago

Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

https://loadmo.re

11 months ago

Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%

https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-loneliness-epidemic-threatens-physical-health-like-smoking-e063220dde8b

11 months ago

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/taste/

11 months ago

California governor signs AI transparency bill into law

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-sb-53-advancing-californias-world-leading-artificial-intelligence-industry/

11 months ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418675

11 months ago

DeepSeek-v3.2-Exp

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

11 months ago

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners

https://ir.ea.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2025/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-55-Billion/default.aspx

11 months ago

iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype

https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/irobot-founder-dont-believe-the-ai-robotics-hype/

11 months ago

Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU

https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

11 months ago

A simple habit that saves my evenings

https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/

11 months ago

Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/

11 months ago

FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/fcc-accidentally-leaked-iphone-schematics-potentially-giving-rivals-a-peek-at-company-secrets-154551807.html

11 months ago

Write the damn code

https://antonz.org/write-code/

11 months ago

How to create an OS from scratch

https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial

11 months ago

The history of cataract surgery

https://www.asimov.press/p/cataracts

11 months ago

Vercel CEO meets with Netanyahu to discuss AI education

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1972669025525158031

11 months ago

Safe zero-copy operations in C#

https://ssg.dev/safe-zero-copy-operations-in-c/

11 months ago

Bad Apple but it's played inside Super Mario Bros

https://tasvideos.org/8991S

11 months ago

How I block all 26M of your curl requests

https://foxmoss.com/blog/packet-filtering/

11 months ago

Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording

https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-oracle-tiktok-deal-social-media/

11 months ago

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/vertical-solar-panels-are-out-standing/

11 months ago

Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/09/28/optimizing-a-6502-image-decoder-from-70-minutes-to-1-minute/

11 months ago

Tactility: An ESP32 OS

https://tactility.one

11 months ago

FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/faa_decides_it_trusts_boeing/

11 months ago

Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

https://www.zeroasic.com/blog/wildebeest-launch

11 months ago

LoRA Without Regret

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/lora/

11 months ago

A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive

https://ethanseal.com/articles/ors-are-expensive

11 months ago

Why friction is necessary for growth

https://jameelur.com/blog/overcoming-friction-leads-to-growth

11 months ago

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/remember-kurt-vonnegut-was-47

11 months ago

Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/google_android_chromeos/

11 months ago

Effective context engineering for AI agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents

11 months ago

Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024)

https://ontheseams.substack.com/p/a-brief-primer-on-fedexs-distribution

11 months ago

Show HN: Every single torrent is on this website

https://infohash.lol/

11 months ago

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

https://emschwartz.me/subtleties-of-sqlite-indexes/

11 months ago

Don't Become a Scientist (1999)

https://yangxiao.cs.ua.edu/Don%27t%20Become%20a%20Scientist!.htm

11 months ago

John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yguz5U-Nic

11 months ago

IP over Lasers

https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/ip_over_lasers.php

11 months ago

ML on Apple ][+

https://mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/k-means/

11 months ago

Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis

https://www.astro.org/news-and-publications/news-and-media-center/news-releases/2025/low-dose-radiation-therapy-offers-substantial-relief-to-people-with-painful-knee-osteoarthritis

11 months ago

Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/not-all-oculink-egpu-docks-are-created-equal

11 months ago

Electronic Arts Goes Private for $52.5B in Largest LBO

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/electronic-arts-to-go-private-in-55-billion-deal-a4a4479c

11 months ago

Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/china-worlds-highest-bridge-video-b2835886.html

11 months ago

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

https://blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-golfing-a-tiny-demo-using-maths-and-a-pinch-of-insanity.html

11 months ago

90%

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90-percent/

11 months ago

To AI or not to AI

https://antropia.studio/blog/to-ai-or-not-to-ai/

11 months ago

Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang

11 months ago

Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/marissa-mayer-will-close-her-old-startup-sell-assets-to-her-new-startup/

11 months ago

Instant Checkout for Merchants in ChatGPT

https://chatgpt.com/merchants

11 months ago

Consistent hashing

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/consistent-hashing/

11 months ago

Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

https://kriztalz.sh/traceroute-visualizer/

11 months ago

Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965

https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2025/9/28/map-of-near-and-middle-east-oil-1965

11 months ago

Tuning async IO in PostgreSQL 18

https://vondra.me/posts/tuning-aio-in-postgresql-18/

11 months ago

Queueing to publish in AI and CS

https://damaru2.github.io/general/queueing_to_publish_in_AI_or_CS/

11 months ago

Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over drug-resistant bacteria

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/24/what-are-nightmare-bacteria-and-why-are-infections-rising-in-the-us

11 months ago

Avalanche Studios NYC Retrospective – An Ambitious Company Ruined

https://probablydance.com/2025/09/28/avalanche-studios-nyc-retrospective-an-ambitious-company-ruined-by-bad-development-practices/

11 months ago

Gold hits all time high

https://goldprice.org/

11 months ago

Energy Dept. adds 'climate change' and 'emissions' to banned words list

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

11 months ago

Sandboxing AI agents at the kernel level

https://www.greptile.com/blog/sandboxing-agents-at-the-kernel-level

11 months ago

Cleaning house in Nx monorepo, how i removed unused deps safely

https://johnjames.blog/posts/cleaning-house-in-nx-monorepo-how-i-removed-120-unused-deps-safely

11 months ago

How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-balances-excitation-and-inhibition-20250929/

11 months ago

RISC-V Conditional Moves

https://www.corsix.org/content/riscv-conditional-moves

11 months ago

All the sad young terminally online men

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/all-the-sad-young-terminally-online

11 months ago

Technology without humanity means nothing

https://moneo.com.tr/blog/technology-without-humanity-means-nothing

11 months ago