top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-09-30

Kagi News

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

11 months ago

942 upvotes – 440 comments

Sora 2

https://openai.com/index/sora-2/

11 months ago

905 upvotes – 878 comments

Fluid Glass

https://chiuhans111.github.io/fluidglass/

11 months ago

705 upvotes – 115 comments

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol

https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-health/

11 months ago

647 upvotes – 381 comments

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out

11 months ago

590 upvotes – 703 comments

I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

https://ryansouthgate.com/goodbye-disqus/

11 months ago

565 upvotes – 392 comments

Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html

11 months ago

553 upvotes – 172 comments

Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/

11 months ago

532 upvotes – 338 comments

Modern Font Stacks

https://modernfontstacks.com/

11 months ago

352 upvotes – 76 comments

Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173685

11 months ago

314 upvotes – 554 comments

Software essays that shaped me

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/software-essays-that-shaped-me/

11 months ago

308 upvotes – 47 comments

Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df

11 months ago

303 upvotes – 481 comments

Diff Algorithms

https://flo.znkr.io/diff/

11 months ago

289 upvotes – 62 comments

Designing agentic loops

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loops/

11 months ago

284 upvotes – 117 comments

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-open-source/

11 months ago

274 upvotes – 77 comments

Sora 2

https://openai.com/index/sora-2/

11 months ago

271 upvotes – 9 comments

Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm

11 months ago

269 upvotes – 271 comments

There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

https://workweave.dev/blog/hiring-only-senior-engineers-is-killing-companies

11 months ago

263 upvotes – 423 comments

Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/business/charlie-javice-frank-sentenced-jpmorgan-intl

11 months ago

262 upvotes – 346 comments

An opinionated critique of Duolingo

https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025/duolingo/

11 months ago

251 upvotes – 310 comments

Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1040120/

11 months ago

239 upvotes – 211 comments

European Union Public Licence (EUPL)

https://eupl.eu/

11 months ago

222 upvotes – 125 comments

Selling Lemons

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/

11 months ago

213 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

https://blog.craigie.dev/introducing-glide/

11 months ago

207 upvotes – 52 comments

How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/how-the-ai-bubble-ate-y-combinator/91240632

11 months ago

206 upvotes – 223 comments

Pasta Cooking Time

https://www.jefftk.com/p/pasta-cooking-time

11 months ago

206 upvotes – 202 comments

Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

https://huijzer.xyz/posts/111/companies-are-lying-about-ai-layoffs

11 months ago

199 upvotes – 179 comments

Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22906

11 months ago

195 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code

https://imbue.com/sculptor/

11 months ago

176 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS

https://benbridle.com/projects/cobalt.html

11 months ago

174 upvotes – 31 comments

Launch HN: Airweave (YC X25) – Let agents search any app

https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave

11 months ago

164 upvotes – 30 comments

AI tools I wish existed

https://sharif.io/28-ideas-2025

11 months ago

161 upvotes – 109 comments

Dgsh – Directed graph shell

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/

11 months ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments

Mind the encryptionroot: How to save your data when ZFS loses its mind

https://sambowman.tech/blog/posts/mind-the-encryptionroot-how-to-save-your-data-when-zfs-loses-its-mind/

11 months ago

158 upvotes – 58 comments

Geolocation and Starlink

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-09/starlinkgeo.html

11 months ago

151 upvotes – 71 comments

Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects

https://shujisado.org/2025/09/30/why-heavy-codes-of-conduct-are-unnecessary-for-most-open-source-projects/

11 months ago

146 upvotes – 251 comments

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07272

11 months ago

143 upvotes – 33 comments

How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-has-mathematics-gotten-so-abstract

11 months ago

139 upvotes – 207 comments

Random Attractors – Found using Lyapunov Exponents (2001)

https://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/

11 months ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G

https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/series-g

11 months ago

126 upvotes – 75 comments

Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/30/making-sure-ai-serves-people-and-knowledge-stays-human-wikimedia-foundation-publishes-a-human-rights-impact-assessment-on-the-interaction-of-ai-and-machine-learning-with-wikimedia-projects/

11 months ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/can-you-use-gdpr-to-circumvent-blueskys-adult-content-blocks/

11 months ago

122 upvotes – 139 comments

Some dogs can classify their toys by function

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/some-dogs-can-classify-their-toys-by-function/

11 months ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

https://devbox.ar0.eu/

11 months ago

116 upvotes – 63 comments

Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Federal Workers Quit

https://www.newsweek.com/largest-mass-resignation-in-us-history-as-100000-federal-workers-quit-10802162

11 months ago

114 upvotes – 161 comments

Answering questions about Android developer verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html

11 months ago

109 upvotes – 122 comments

Organize your Slack channels by "How Often", not "What"

https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/09/30/organize-your-slack-channels-by-how-often-not-what/

11 months ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

Google CTF 2025 – webz : Exploiting zlib's Huffman Code Table

https://velog.io/@0range1337/CTF-Google-CTF-2025-webz-Exploiting-zlibs-Huffman-Code-Table-English

11 months ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)

https://yuri.is/not-julia/

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

AI will happily design the wrong thing for you

https://www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-will-happily-design-the-wrong-thing-for-you/

11 months ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Discrete Fourier Transform

https://nima101.github.io/dft

11 months ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Our stewardship: Where we are, what's changing and how we'll engage

https://rubycentral.org/news/our-stewardship-where-we-are-whats-changing-and-how-well-engage/

11 months ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Awakening Bell

https://awakeningbell.org/

11 months ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe

https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/u-s-army-confirms-tesla-cybertruck-cant-be-imported-in-europe/

11 months ago

84 upvotes – 88 comments

Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors

https://www.dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-business-of-sports-betting-is

11 months ago

76 upvotes – 82 comments

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0

11 months ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Senators try to halt shuttle move, saying "little evidence" of public demand

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/senators-to-appropriators-leave-space-shuttle-discovery-in-smithsonian/

11 months ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

The ABS programming language

https://www.abs-lang.org/

11 months ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

Trump Makes It Clear They Will Turn TikTok into a Right Wing Propaganda Machine

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/trump-makes-it-very-clear-theyre-going-to-turn-tiktok-into-a-right-wing-propaganda-machine/

11 months ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Deml: Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language

https://github.com/Mcmartelle/deml

11 months ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Defer: Resource cleanup in C with GCCs magic

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/defer-resource-cleanup-in-c-with-gccs-magic

11 months ago

66 upvotes – 96 comments

Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/01/artificial-intelligence-em-dashes-ai-stealing-my-livelihood

11 months ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

Orbiting the Hénon Attractor

https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/orbiting-the-henon-attractor

11 months ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

BrowserPod: In-browser full-stack environments for IDEs and Agents via WASM

https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/browserpod-annoucement

11 months ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52B in largest private equity buyout

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/electronic-arts-acquired-largest-ever-private-equity-buyout-rcna234432

11 months ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments
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