Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 4, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/claude-code-via-acp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116688

30 minutes with a stranger
https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124003

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117230

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
https://obviouslywrong.substack.com/p/the-bitter-lesson-is-misunderstood
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057283

How to Give a Good Talk
https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/how-to-give-a-good-talk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45076992

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-paper/pro-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121721

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
https://rti.github.io/gptvis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116957

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
https://vgel.me/posts/c500/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117668

Neovim Pack
https://neovim.io/doc/user/pack.html#vim.pack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121915

Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
https://gimletlabs.ai/blog/ai-generated-metal-kernels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118111

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108548

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
https://www.sanity.io/blog/first-attempt-will-be-95-garbage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45107962

The Little Book of Linear Algebra
https://github.com/the-litte-book-of/linear-algebra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45103436

The staff ate it later
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_staff_ate_it_later
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104289

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that
https://www.thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106011

%CPU utilization is a lie
https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110688

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)
https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108066

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a-pixel-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110209

Take something you don’t like and try to like it
https://dynomight.net/liking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45102512

Physically based rendering from first principles
https://imadr.me/pbr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106846

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 2, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Making Minecraft Spherical
https://www.bowerbyte.com/posts/blocky-planet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055205

Bear is now source-available
https://herman.bearblog.dev/license/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092490

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2025/08/30/foil-sticker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095460

Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095849

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093090

FreeDroidWarn
https://github.com/woheller69/FreeDroidWarn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098722

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-talent-wars-internal-document-2025-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095603

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Specs-Repo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45091493

The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1035727/4837b0d3dccf1cbb/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095475

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 1, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087396

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/this-telegram-must-be-closely-paraphrased-before-being-communicated-to-anyone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082731

Eternal Struggle
https://yoavg.github.io/eternal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086020

Jujutsu for everyone
https://jj-for-everyone.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083952

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
https://algassert.com/post/2500
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082587

Use One Big Server (2022)
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45085029

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/08/30/nintendo-switch-2-dock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087971

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
https://oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-british-empire/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084913

What to do with C++ modules?
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously-think-about-what.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086210

Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083635

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 31, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Cognitive load is what matters
https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074248

Are we decentralized yet?
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077291

Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-business-price-impact-37b630c8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077937

You Have to Feel It
https://mitchellh.com/writing/feel-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075048

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147

Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
https://andrewmarder.net/firefox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073746

AI models need a virtual machine
https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/29/ai-models-need-a-virtual-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074467

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
https://lwn.net/Articles/1035736/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074312

Git Diagramming "The Weave"
https://daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080720

Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/condors-cuzco-risc-v-core-at-hot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074895

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091

Grok Code Fast 1
https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258

Flunking my Anthropic interview again
https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]
https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329

Wikipedia as a Graph
https://wikigrapher.com/paths
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060

How do I get into the game industry
https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054260

Uncertain
https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054703

Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058688

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/generative-ai-reshapes-us-job-market-stanford-study-shows-entry-level-young-workers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052423

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055641

My startup banking story (2023)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056177

Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com&torchCursor=true&comicSans=true&fakeCursors=true&peskyFly=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057020

You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056878

Python: The Documentary [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058171

The Synology End Game
https://lowendbox.com/blog/they-used-to-be-good-but-now-theyve-turned-to-evil-the-synology-end-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060920

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 28, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045398

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
https://lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-productivity-curve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041286

Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-cxm3-wv7p-598c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496

The GitHub website is slow on Safari
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037365

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046916

VIM Master
https://github.com/renzorlive/vimmaster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041315

Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line
https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-is-recycling-old-ev-batteries-to-help-power-mazdas-production-line
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998010

Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
https://yamanot.es/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045307

Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development
https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/object-oriented-design-patterns-in-osdev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45023857

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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048419

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 27, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026719

Claude for Chrome
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030760

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034537

Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment
https://reclaimthenet.org/michigan-supreme-court-rules-phone-search-warrants-must-be-specific
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029764

US Intel
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45024786

One universal antiviral to rule them all?
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-universal-antiviral-rule-them-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026792

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026886

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
https://commonsware.com/blog/2025/08/26/uncomfortable-questions-android-developer-verification.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035699

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
https://fortune.com/2025/08/23/neuralink-participant-1-noland-arbaugh-18-months-post-surgery-life-changed-elon-musk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002688

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009760

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2025.

• (00:00) - Intro

Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
https://menial.co.uk/base/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014131

A visual introduction to big O notation
https://samwho.dev/big-o/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002182

Google's Liquid Cooling
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/googles-liquid-cooling-at-hot-chips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016720

macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/macos_26_tahoes_dead_canary_utility_app_icons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45020685

Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022184

A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation
https://b.43z.one/2025-07-22/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013737

DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
https://www.aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002092

macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022383

The Annotated Transformer (2022)
https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002896