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September 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
AI Innovations
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

Knowledge and Memory

Gaming and Nostalgia
I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory

All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Tech Trends and Developments
E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

Education and Ethics
US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

How to study people who are drunk

Emerging Hardware
Interesting PEZY-SC4s

Hypervisor in 1k Lines
...more
4min
September 09, 2025Hacker News – 09 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Funding and Partnerships in AI
Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

Tech Innovations and Security
Signal Secure Backups

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

Web Development and Design
Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

Is OOXML Artificially Complex?

Social and Environmental Challenges
How can England possibly be running out of water?

CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines

Gaming and AI Developments
The elegance of movement in Silksong

Alterego: Thought to Text
...more
3min
September 08, 2025Hacker News – 08 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Code Innovations
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

Show HN: TheAuditor – Offline security scanner for AI-generated code

Formatting code should be unnecessary

How big are our embeddings now and why?

Gadgets and Hardware News
The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge

Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations

Show HN: C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

Cultural and Historical Insights
Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

Unique Projects and Innovations
Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner

Show HN: Stroboscopic Instrument Tuner

Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
...more
5min
September 07, 2025Hacker News – 07 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Nostalgia Meets Innovation
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

Frameworks & Standards
RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework

The Claude Code Framework Wars

Tech Innovations & Tools
Show HN: Lightweight tool for managing Linux virtual machines

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time

Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

Security & Cyber Threats
How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

Nature & Technology
Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome, a new study has found

A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution
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5min
September 06, 2025Hacker News – 06 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Legal Landmarks in AI
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

Open Source Dynamics
Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

Speeding Up Development Tools
Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

Innovations in Communication Tech
Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

Mathematics and Graphics in Tech
The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
...more
3min
September 05, 2025Hacker News – 05 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Memory Management Innovations
Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

io_uring is faster than mmap

SQL Needed Structure

Electric Vehicles and Their Impact
I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

Advanced Tech and Visualization
LLM Visualization

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

Tech Culture and Reflection
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns
...more
4min
September 04, 2025Hacker News – 04 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Human Stories and Insights
30 minutes with a stranger

A Rebel Writer's First Revolt

Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

Tech Innovations and Developments
Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

Neovim Pack

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Creative Tech and Gaming
Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

AR Fluid Simulation Demo

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Science and Mathematics
New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

Minesweeper thermodynamics

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

Current Events
Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood

William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)
...more
5min
September 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Security Insights
Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan

%CPU utilization is a lie

Development Tools & Libraries
Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim

Innovative Projects
Magic Lantern Is Back

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

Society & Technology
We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

AI is going great for the blind (2023)

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
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5min
September 02, 2025Hacker News – 02 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
Framework Frustrations
Next.js Is Infuriating

FreeDroidWarn

AI and Causality
Collecting All Causal Knowledge

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war

Gaming and Nostalgia
Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

Making Minecraft Spherical

Practical Tech Insights
Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)

Philosophical Reflections
A motto for programmers: "Tuere usorem, data, veritatem"

Bear is now source-available
...more
0min
September 01, 2025Hacker News – 01 Sep 2025
Table of Contents
User Rights and Hardware
We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

C++ and Programming Innovations
C++: Strongly Happens Before?

What to do with C++ modules?

Creative Projects and Tools
Eternal Struggle

Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code

History and Unique Insights
This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone

Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives

Tech Startups and Trends
Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and interns [on-site Berlin]

Use One Big Server (2022)
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