Hacker News on Sunday, 31 August 2025

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own(hugotunius.se)

1941 points by K0nserv 1 year ago | 1130 comments

Blog post arguing what common debates about sideloading miss, prompted by Google's announced new restrictions on sideloading apps in Android.

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”(history.stackexchange.com)

720 points by azeemba 1 year ago | 126 comments

A History Stack Exchange question asking why WWII telegrams carried the notice that they must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.

Eternal Struggle(yoavg.github.io)

611 points by yurivish 1 year ago | 126 comments

An interactive web page by Yoav Goldberg showing a yin-yang symbol animation titled Eternal Struggle, with a change-background link.

Notes on Managing ADHD(borretti.me)

409 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 211 comments

A personal essay by Fernando Borretti on managing ADHD, divided into high-level strategies and micro-level tactics for tricking yourself into productivity.

Jujutsu for everyone(jj-for-everyone.github.io)

403 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 342 comments

A beginner-oriented tutorial for the Jujutsu (jj) version control system that assumes no prior experience with Git or other version control.

Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video](youtube.com)

383 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 341 comments

Louis Rossmann YouTube video criticizing Google's plan to require permission/developer verification for installing apps on Android phones.

Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?(algassert.com)

312 points by ingve 1 year ago | 178 comments

Use One Big Server (2022)(specbranch.com)

300 points by antov825 1 year ago | 256 comments

My phone is an ereader now(davepagurek.com)

292 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 102 comments

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility(lttlabs.com)

269 points by croes 1 year ago | 155 comments

Git Diagramming "The Weave"(daverupert.com)

250 points by tobr 1 year ago | 63 comments

Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives(offbeatoregon.com)

224 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 78 comments

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire(oikofuge.com)

211 points by bediger4000 1 year ago | 268 comments

What to do with C++ modules?(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

202 points by ingve 1 year ago | 173 comments

Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated(fastly.com)

200 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 324 comments

FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself criticizing vaccines(theguardian.com)

187 points by NewJazz 1 year ago | 97 comments

I Don't Have Spotify(idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com)

174 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 103 comments

F-Droid site certificate expired(gitlab.com)

149 points by kxxt 1 year ago | 88 comments

A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool(github.com)

148 points by LelouBil 1 year ago | 46 comments

Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++(github.com)

130 points by lowsun 1 year ago | 18 comments

Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses(jfloren.net)

120 points by floren 1 year ago | 22 comments

Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes(savingcountrymusic.com)

105 points by breve 1 year ago | 77 comments

10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End (2020)(discourse.llvm.org)

100 points by signa11 1 year ago | 6 comments

No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search(bradt.ca)

99 points by bradt 1 year ago | 115 comments

How is Ultrassembler so fast?(jghuff.com)

98 points by netr0ute 1 year ago | 35 comments

Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator(littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)

95 points by rurban 1 year ago | 39 comments

Code Is Debt(tornikeo.com)

93 points by tornikeo 1 year ago | 56 comments

Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows

92 points by alepeak 1 year ago | 48 comments

A Crack in the Cosmos(drb.ie)

92 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 15 comments

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs(interfacinglinux.com)

88 points by aaronday 1 year ago | 34 comments

Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century(worldhistory.substack.com)

86 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling

84 points by angelochecked 1 year ago | 82 comments

Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022)(sheafification.com)

84 points by atomicnature 1 year ago | 38 comments

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation(grist.org)

81 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 81 comments

Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL(github.com)

81 points by Levitating 1 year ago | 55 comments

My Foray into Vlang(kristun.dev)

80 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 31 comments

New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support(github.com)

79 points by taf2 1 year ago | 2 comments

Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?(piccalil.li)

77 points by soraminazuki 1 year ago | 55 comments

ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies(signalbloom.ai)

77 points by GodelNumbering 1 year ago | 71 comments

Abstract Machine Models (2022)(dr-knz.net)

69 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 6 comments

Lively Linear Lisp (1992) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)

68 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 1 comments

Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers(padailypost.com)

63 points by christhecaribou 1 year ago | 38 comments

Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors(theconversation.com)

60 points by rntn 1 year ago | 38 comments

Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight(moondaily.com)

59 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 31 comments

Replacing a cache service with a database(avi.im)

55 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 55 comments

Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)(commaok.xyz)

54 points by eric_khun 1 year ago | 52 comments

Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation

54 points by rakshithbellare 1 year ago | 38 comments

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave(arstechnica.com)

48 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 year ago | 37 comments

This Page Is a Quine (2021)(pranavg.me)

47 points by ycombyourhair 1 year ago | 7 comments

Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease(bbc.com)

46 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 1 year ago | 40 comments

Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf](vldb.org)

45 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification(gist.github.com)

43 points by jwally 1 year ago | 58 comments

eBPF 101: Your First Step into Kernel Programming(journal.hexmos.com)

42 points by R41 1 year ago | 4 comments

How many HTTP requests/second can a Single Machine handle?(binaryigor.com)

41 points by BinaryIgor 1 year ago | 29 comments

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours(nature.com)

39 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 39 comments

A 'Third Way' Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-Ops Say They've Found It(nytimes.com)

37 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Spotilyrics – See synchronized Spotify lyrics inside VS Code(github.com)

36 points by therepanic 1 year ago | 5 comments

Sniffly – Claude Code Analytics Dashboard(github.com)

29 points by rand_num_gen 1 year ago | 10 comments

Spacing Over Cards(smagin.fyi)

28 points by smagin 1 year ago | 4 comments

Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes(ian.mccowan.space)

28 points by YeGoblynQueenne 1 year ago | 11 comments