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September 29, 2025Hacker News – 29 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Academic Insights and Publishing Challenges
Queueing to publish in AI and CS

Users Only Care About 20% of Your Application

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

Privacy and Security in Tech
F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying

Gaming and Interactive Experiences
Play snake in the URL address bar

Show HN: Swapple, a little daily puzzle on linear reversible circuit synthesis

Emerging Tools and Technologies
Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

Fernflower Java Decompiler

Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer

Explorations of Culture and Industry
The Long Trip from Silica to Smartphone

Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024)

Patagonian Welsh
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4min
September 28, 2025Hacker News – 28 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Gaming Innovations
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet

I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game

Medical Milestones
Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

Do not do this unless you want magic black smoke

Programming and Development Trends
Python developers are embracing type hints

Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union

Cultural Connections
Learn to play Go

The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding

Tech and Security Concerns
A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails

High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
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3min
September 27, 2025Hacker News – 27 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Innovations in Language and Communication
Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance

Open Social

Advancements in Science and Technology
SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think

Litex: The First Formal Language Learnable in 1-2 Hours

New math revives geometry's oldest problems

Exciting Projects and Celebrations
Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed

Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64

Traefik's 10-year anniversary

Cautionary Tales in Tech
CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

If you are harassed by lasers

The Business of Risk
How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets

Auth.js is now part of Better Auth

US cities pay too much for buses
...more
4min
September 26, 2025Hacker News – 26 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Flight Simulations and Gaming Fixes
Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod

AI and Creativity Concerns
The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike

ChatGPT Pulse

Tech Innovations and Historical Insights
Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

Chess, Libraries, and Compiler Exploration
No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves

Ode to Libraries from a Remote Worker

Walking around the compiler
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4min
September 25, 2025Hacker News – 25 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Return to Office Policies: A Double-Edged Sword
RTO: WTAF

Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students

Innovations in Programming and Tools
Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns

Helium Browser

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

Health Tech Breakthroughs
Huntington's disease treated for first time

Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

Geospatial Innovations and Visualization
SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust

Low Earth Orbit Visualization

Final Thoughts on Tech and Humanity
Quicksort explained IKEA-style

Perhaps my last post – we'll see (2016)
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4min
September 24, 2025Hacker News – 24 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Misunderstandings and Innovations
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

Find SF parking cops

Libghostty is coming

Gaming and Performance Updates
Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads

AI and Computational Advances
Qwen3-VL

Getting AI to work in complex codebases

Is life a form of computation?

Programming Trends and Insights
Top Programming Languages 2025

Markov chains are the original language models

Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Creative Solutions and Unique Perspectives
A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system

You didn't see it coming

Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop
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September 23, 2025Hacker News – 23 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Life Reflections and Work Culture
Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years

Altoids by the Fistful

Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

Innovations in AI and Tech
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video

Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents

The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Software Development and Tools
Zoxide: A Better CD Command

Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers

Based C++

Hardware and Applications
I built a dual RTX 3090 rig for local AI in 2025 (and lessons learned)

Kevo app shutdown

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text
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September 22, 2025Hacker News – 22 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
AI Missteps and Learning Curves
You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

Security and Privacy Insights
Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]

Download responsibly

Tech Nostalgia and Innovation
SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM

Simulating a Machine from the 80s

Document and Communication Advances
Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection

How can I influence others without manipulating them?
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4min
September 21, 2025Hacker News – 21 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Generative Models and CAD Design
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

Teardowns and Tech Reviews
iFixit iPhone Air teardown

Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

AI and Software Development
AI was supposed to help juniors shine. why does it mostly make seniors stronger?

Vibe coding cleanup as a service

Education and Learning Challenges
Universities should be more than toll gates

Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms

Art and Innovation
Knitted Anatomy

Hololuminescent Display
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3min
September 20, 2025Hacker News – 20 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Security and Software Development
Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration

Innovations in Learning and Content Creation
Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

Understanding Software and Coding Concepts
If all the world were a monorepo

Compiling with Continuations

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

Science and Technology Intersection
Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
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FAQs about HN Daily Digest:

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