top 50% hacker news stories for today

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop

an hour ago

16 upvotes – 18 comments

Uncertain<T>

https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/

8 hours ago

236 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054260

8 hours ago

698 upvotes – 400 comments

Important machine learning equations

https://chizkidd.github.io//2025/05/30/machine-learning-key-math-eqns/

13 hours ago

272 upvotes – 27 comments

Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050502

14 hours ago

267 upvotes – 169 comments

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/

15 hours ago

431 upvotes – 414 comments

Sci-Hub has been blocked in India

https://sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocked-india

20 hours ago

265 upvotes – 146 comments

The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2025/08/18/how-to-prepare-for-the-bitnami-changes-coming-soon

20 hours ago

329 upvotes – 225 comments

Open Source is one person

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

a day ago

339 upvotes – 145 comments

CDC officials’ resignation emails

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-read-three-top-cdc

a day ago

235 upvotes – 126 comments

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411

a day ago

517 upvotes – 285 comments
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