HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to 'unify all the national data and then feed to AI 20 21 3mo +4m fortune.com/2025/02/14/larry-ellison-ai-centralized-database-citizen-data 1[dead] ? 11 3mo +25m nytimes.com 2All the sad young terminally online men 62 74 3mo +35m derekthompson.org/p/all-the-sad-young-terminally-online 3Israel wants to train ChatGPT to be more pro-Israel 18 38 3mo +53m responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatgpt 4C2PA Investigations 6 22 3mo +3d tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/18/C2PA-Investigations 5Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity 19 101 3mo +9h blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-golfing-a-tiny-demo-using-maths-and-a-pinch-of-insanity.html 6Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia 46 59 3mo +32m ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09-24-any-level-alcohol-consumption-increases-risk-dementia 7Technology without humanity means nothing 11 69 3mo +23m moneo.com.tr/blog/technology-without-humanity-means-nothing 8Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026 65 145 3mo +1h theregister.com/2025/09/25/google_android_chromeos 9Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII 22 234 3mo +3d civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation 10Don't Become a Scientist (1999) 110 131 3mo +2h yangxiao.cs.ua.edu/Don%27t%20Become%20a%20Scientist!.htm 11Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio] 121 41 3mo +35m nytimes.com/2025/09/29/podcasts/the-daily/big-tech-told-kids-to-code-the-jobs-didnt-follow.html 12Jax: Fast Combinations Calculation 4 59 3mo +4m github.com/phoenicyan/combinadics 13If Odin Had Macros 26 37 3mo +3d gingerbill.org/article/2025/07/31/if-odin-had-macros 14Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) 941 299 3mo +2m 15California governor signs AI transparency bill into law 215 314 3mo +16m gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-sb-53-advancing-californias-world-leading-artificial-intelligence-industry 16Diagnosing a Linux Performance Regression 4 47 3mo +1h automattic.com/2024/03/14/systems-report-linux-performance-regression 17Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47 71 153 3mo +15m joanwestenberg.com/p/remember-kurt-vonnegut-was-47 18A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive 76 164 3mo +7h ethanseal.com/articles/ors-are-expensive 19Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor 16 14 3mo +25m bbc.com/news/articles/cpq51xp4e91o 20John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video] 85 121 3mo +5h youtube.com/watch?v=2Yguz5U-Nic 21Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol 357 244 3mo +3h openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt 22What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence? 45 59 3mo +46m arxiv.org/abs/2503.23923 23OpenAI and Stripe create Agentic Commerce Protocol 2 20 3mo +3h agenticcommerce.dev 24Care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard–here's why 9 20 3mo +2d arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/you-should-care-more-about-the-stabilizers-in-your-mechanical-keyboard-heres-why 25Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst 15 44 3mo +54m theregister.com/2025/09/29/oracle_ai_debt 26Gold hits all time high 133 86 3mo +15m goldprice.org 27‘Based on a True Story’ (2016-2019) 22 37 3mo +22m informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a-true-true-story 28Instant Checkout for Merchants in ChatGPT 1 100 3mo +1h chatgpt.com/merchants 29Show HN: Font Tester – Preview fonts on custom content 5 10 3mo +2d fonts.tomhadley.link 30`std::flip` 111 107 3mo +3d morwenn.github.io//c++/2025/09/25/TSB004-std-flip.html 31[dead] ? 47 3mo +25m apnews.com 32S&P affirms 'AA+' credit rating for US, cites impact of tariff revenue 14 24 3mo +15m reuters.com/business/sp-affirms-aa-credit-rating-us-cites-impact-tariff-revenue-2025-08-19 33ML on Apple ][+ 27 119 3mo +1h mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/k-means 34Google’s “G” gets a brighter look. 6 8 3mo +1h blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/gradient-g-logo-design 35Vercel CEO meets with Netanyahu to discuss AI education 63 171 3mo +9m twitter.com/rauchg/status/1972669025525158031 36Claude Sonnet 4.5 System Card [pdf] 1 38 3mo +11m assets.anthropic.com/m/12f214efcc2f457a/original/Claude-Sonnet-4-5-System-Card.pdf 37FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics 122 237 3mo +1m engadget.com/big-tech/fcc-accidentally-leaked-iphone-schematics-potentially-giving-rivals-a-peek-at-company-secrets-154551807.html 38Sandboxing AI agents at the kernel level 26 89 3mo +34m greptile.com/blog/sandboxing-agents-at-the-kernel-level 39Claude Code 2.0 403 833 3mo +1m npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code 40How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition 5 82 3mo +1h quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-balances-excitation-and-inhibition-20250929 41Show HN: Every single torrent is on this website 84 130 3mo +51m infohash.lol 42Subtleties of SQLite Indexes 54 130 3mo +1h emschwartz.me/subtleties-of-sqlite-indexes 43The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux 24 110 3mo +3d lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1038715/e4a2f8f50c244545 44Claude Sonnet 4.5 774 1551 3mo +4m anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 45Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal 32 115 3mo +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/not-all-oculink-egpu-docks-are-created-equal 46Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup 109 102 3mo +18m techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/marissa-mayer-will-close-her-old-startup-sell-assets-to-her-new-startup 47Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web 54 385 3mo +25m loadmo.re 48Using Cesium-137 testing to find counterfeit wine 39 50 3mo +1d kitchensisters.org/hiddenkitchens/atomic-wine 49Write the damn code 77 223 3mo +6m antonz.org/write-code 50Haiku Validator 33 30 3mo +2d haikuvalidator.com 51Grok is now the most popular model on OpenRouter 46 57 3mo +12m openrouter.ai/rankings#market-share 52[dead] ? 18 3mo +20m newarab.com 53Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing 167 197 3mo +6m hackaday.com/2025/09/25/vertical-solar-panels-are-out-standing 54Electronic Arts Goes Private for $52.5B in Largest LBO 4 110 3mo +14m wsj.com/business/deals/electronic-arts-to-go-private-in-55-billion-deal-a4a4479c 55Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32% 161 355 3mo +29m lightcapai.medium.com/the-loneliness-epidemic-threatens-physical-health-like-smoking-e063220dde8b 56Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander 3 72 3mo +3d masteringemacs.org/article/thoughts-on-mechanical-keyboards-zsa-moonlander 57Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965 62 97 3mo +17m davidrumsey.com/blog/2025/9/28/map-of-near-and-middle-east-oil-1965 58Why friction is necessary for growth 78 156 3mo +10m jameelur.com/blog/overcoming-friction-leads-to-growth 59EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners 431 289 3mo +39m 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 60Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs 118 61 3mo +44m businessinsider.com/computer-science-students-job-search-ai-hany-farid-2025-9 61Denmark bans civilian drones as it ramps up security ahead of EU summit 15 42 3mo +1h news.sky.com/story/denmark-bans-civilian-drones-as-it-ramps-up-security-ahead-of-eu-summit-as-sweden-and-france-contribute-equipment-13440812 62Why are interviews harder than the job? 87 56 3mo +18m mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3702 63Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording 201 204 3mo +2m fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-oracle-tiktok-deal-social-media 64Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++ 89 58 3mo +2d eloqdata.com/blog/2024/10/26/why-cpp 65To AI or not to AI 86 101 3mo +51m antropia.studio/blog/to-ai-or-not-to-ai 66Avalanche Studios NYC Retrospective – An Ambitious Company Ruined 14 90 3mo +2h probablydance.com/2025/09/28/avalanche-studios-nyc-retrospective-an-ambitious-company-ruined-by-bad-development-practices 67Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute 28 193 3mo +1h colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/09/28/optimizing-a-6502-image-decoder-from-70-minutes-to-1-minute 68Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU 132 255 3mo +4h thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history 69Tuning async IO in PostgreSQL 18 23 97 3mo +14m vondra.me/posts/tuning-aio-in-postgresql-18 70Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement 1 28 3mo +3d lwn.net/Articles/1037577 71What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world? 721 662 3mo +17m neilzone.co.uk/2025/09/what-if-i-dont-want-videos-of-my-hobby-time-available-to-the-entire-world 72Does AI Get Bored? 16 24 3mo +26m timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09/27/boredom 73DeepSeek-v3.2-Exp 50 305 3mo +28m github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74Translation and Taste 0 14 3mo +2d hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/translation-and-taste 75Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century 3 36 3mo +1h scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth 76The graduate 'jobpocalypse': Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? [video] 34 27 3mo +17m youtube.com/watch?v=IeTFpsuCor8 77Lockless MPSC/SPMC/MPMC queues are not queues 31 39 3mo +9h alexsaveau.dev/blog/opinions/performance/lockness/lockless-queues-are-not-queues 78Users only care about 20% of your application 186 394 3mo +1d idiallo.com/blog/users-only-care-about-20-percent 79Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer 18 61 3mo +2d blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-2-shard-and-conquer 80Queueing to publish in AI and CS 54 94 3mo +1m damaru2.github.io/general/queueing_to_publish_in_AI_or_CS 81Reusable grocery bags durability test 52 19 3mo +2d cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7643243 82Show HN: Swapple, a little daily puzzle on linear reversible circuit synthesis 33 71 3mo +18h swapple.fuglede.dk 83What is “good taste” in software engineering? 227 336 3mo +20m seangoedecke.com/taste 84Myoelectric Stimulation Silent Subwoofer for Body-Sensory Acoustic Sensation 5 36 3mo +3d ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10979899 85The Simple Mathematics of Chinese Innovation 33 32 3mo +2d marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/the-simple-mathematics-of-chinese-innovation.html 86Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events 13 26 3mo +4h apps.apple.com/us/app/reminders-alarms-beacon/id6752361800 87The elusive roots of rosin potatoes (2022) 6 33 3mo +2h bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-elusive-roots-of-rosin-potatoes 88High-Level Synthesis Synthesis 1 27 3mo +1h stefanabikaram.com/writing/hls-synthesis 89Workings of Science: Debunked Software Theories (2022) [pdf] 2 16 3mo +3d dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3512338 90F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree 554 1443 3mo +2h f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html 91Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool 54 183 3mo +19m zeroasic.com/blog/wildebeest-launch 92Fernflower Java Decompiler 39 134 3mo +3d github.com/JetBrains/fernflower 93Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme 110 148 3mo +1d cbsnews.com/news/sec-rev-ponzi-scheme-tai-lopez-alex-mehr 94The Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled factories, outsourced cybersecurity 8 33 3mo +38m theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/20/jaguar-land-rover-hack-factories-cybersecurity-jlr 95Reader Response to "AI Overinvestment" 76 61 3mo +39m mbi-deepdives.com/reader-response-to-ai-overinvestment 96The Long Trip from Silica to Smartphone 21 116 3mo +3d spectrum.ieee.org/the-long-strange-trip-from-silica-to-smartphone 97Cleaning house in Nx monorepo, how i removed unused deps safely 28 88 3mo +34m johnjames.blog/posts/cleaning-house-in-nx-monorepo-how-i-removed-120-unused-deps-safely 98Zlib visualizer 32 316 3mo +3d lynn.github.io/flateview 99Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024) 41 141 3mo +22m ontheseams.substack.com/p/a-brief-primer-on-fedexs-distribution 100Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs 61 74 3mo +2h skeptrune.com/posts/use-the-accept-header-to-serve-markdown-instead-of-html-to-llms 101Patagonian Welsh 65 109 3mo +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_Welsh 102Imagination as General Intelligence: Reconciling Consciousness and Free Will 7 14 3mo +1h zenodo.org/records/17109096 103Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over drug-resistant bacteria 36 92 3mo +8m aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/24/what-are-nightmare-bacteria-and-why-are-infections-rising-in-the-us 104A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans 159 183 3mo +45m academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/9/msaf189/8245036?login=false 105Why Microsoft Has Lower Borrowing Costs Than the U.S. 11 21 3mo +1h wsj.com/finance/investing/why-microsoft-has-lower-borrowing-costs-than-the-u-s-de841633 106 More... 2025.09.28