Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1214 points by rickybule | 657 comments
Ask HN thread where an Indonesian user asks for VPN alternatives after the government blocked Twitter, Discord, and Cloudflare WARP during unrest.
828 points by iamwil | 115 comments
A blog post describing how the author built a spherical, Minecraft-style voxel planet, shown with a rendered blocky globe.
472 points by martinald | 438 comments
Blog post by Martin Alderson doing napkin-math estimates of whether OpenAI and Anthropic actually lose money serving LLM inference at scale.
463 points by zora_goron | 364 comments
Apple developer documentation page with the Xcode 26 Beta 7 release notes, covering new SDKs and features including Claude Sonnet integration.
416 points by samtheprogram | 93 comments
NSHipster article by Mattt introducing Uncertain<T>, a Swift generic type for modeling uncertain values with probability distributions.
393 points by pseudolus | 567 comments
CNBC article on a Stanford study finding workers aged 22–25 saw a 13% relative employment decline since 2022 in jobs most exposed to AI.
391 points by todsacerdoti | 221 comments
A blog post on lyra's blog arguing that modern HTML and CSS features can replace much of what JavaScript frameworks are used for on the web.
378 points by floverfelt | 347 comments
Martin Fowler's blog post sharing scattered thoughts on the state of LLMs and AI and their effect on software development.
335 points by JnBrymn | 218 comments
A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.
325 points by LawnGnome | 132 comments
Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.
324 points by zdkaster | 214 comments
Broadcom community blog post explaining upcoming Bitnami changes, including deletion of the docker.io/bitnami public catalog postponed to September 29 with scheduled brownouts.
296 points by dvrp | 140 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Python: The Documentary [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/29/2c0e5bcf-eb71-4f91-aba7-0b2658311393.jpg)
238 points by chmaynard | 77 comments
225 points by the-mitr | 114 comments
212 points by edverma2 | 85 comments
211 points by pimienta | 36 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/1/a8de7325-be05-4771-8486-40641178de34.jpg)
157 points by donohoe | 26 comments
151 points by punnerud | 99 comments
![Screenshot of social.treehouse.systems: PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/28/048e0ba5-dd7e-4034-8c7b-2e0ca7066729.jpg)
132 points by rbinv | 67 comments
124 points by sebg | 26 comments
119 points by sg5421 | 208 comments
102 points by rbanffy | 111 comments
![Screenshot of digitaleconomy.stanford.edu: Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of AI [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/28/6d3f80bf-4660-4997-956a-5fbf2dbd381d.jpg)
76 points by LorenDB | 97 comments
67 points by ananddtyagi | 55 comments
