Hacker News on Monday, 15 September 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of bogdanthegeek.github.io: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

1317 points by BogdanTheGeek 1 year ago | 442 comments

A blog post by Bogdan Ionescu describing how he repurposed the microcontroller from a disposable vape to host a website.

disposable-vape microcontrollers arm embedded

Screenshot of lorenstew.art: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

React is winning by default and slowing innovation (lorenstew.art)

640 points by dbushell 1 year ago | 729 comments

A blog post arguing that React's dominance as the default frontend framework carries hidden costs and stifles innovation, urging deliberate framework choices.

react svelte solidjs qwik

Screenshot of feddit.org: Linux phones are more important now than ever

Linux phones are more important now than ever (feddit.org)

627 points by wicket 1 year ago | 394 comments

A Lemmy forum post arguing Linux phone development must accelerate as Android becomes more closed, citing AOSP changes and bootloader lock removals.

linux-phones android aosp bootloader-unlocking

Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

611 points by dmazin 1 year ago | 246 comments

Blog post by Bogdan Ionescu describing how he repurposed the microcontroller from a disposable vape to host a website.

disposable-vape microcontrollers arm embedded

macOS Tahoe (apple.com)

583 points by Wingy 1 year ago | 879 comments

Apple's official product page for macOS Tahoe, the latest version of the Mac operating system, with the tagline "Fresh faced. Timelessly Mac."

macos-tahoe macos apple operating-systems

Screenshot of kennedn.com: Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link (kennedn.com)

522 points by kennedn 1 year ago | 162 comments

A blog post about reverse-engineering a TP-Link Tapo camera bought to monitor a dog, and what the author discovered about TP-Link's systems.

tp-link tapo ip-camera reverse-engineering

Screenshot of morrick.me: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers (morrick.me)

521 points by mgrayson 1 year ago | 492 comments

Blog post by writer Riccardo Mori, titled "The awe keeps dropping", arguing Apple has lost alignment with long-time customers.

apple macos user-experience tech-criticism

Screenshot of newsroom.paypal-corp.com: PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin (newsroom.paypal-corp.com)

475 points by DocFeind 1 year ago | 363 comments

PayPal newsroom press release announcing a revamped peer-to-peer payments experience across apps, borders, and currencies, reportedly including crypto support.

paypal peer-to-peer-payments bitcoin ethereum

Screenshot of shkspr.mobi: How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?(shkspr.mobi)

374 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 448 comments

Terence Eden's blog post calculating how large a home battery would be needed to store summer solar output and make a London house fully self-sufficient.

solar-power home-batteries energy-storage self-sufficiency

GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)

367 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 115 comments

OpenAI announcement of upgrades to Codex, including GPT-5-Codex, making it faster and more reliable across terminal, IDE, web, and mobile.

openai codex gpt-5-codex coding-agents

Screenshot of blog.jim-nielsen.com: The Mac app flea market

The Mac app flea market (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

361 points by ingve 1 year ago | 136 comments

Blog post by Jim Nielsen on how searching "AI chat" in the Mac App Store surfaces many knockoff apps with ChatGPT-like icons, likened to a counterfeit flea market.

mac-app-store apple chatgpt copycat-apps

Screenshot of mastodon.social: Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty (mastodon.social)

360 points by belter 1 year ago | 226 comments

Mastodon post by Fight Chat Control quoting Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard saying private encrypted messaging is not a civil liberty.

chat-control encryption eu-regulation denmark

Screenshot of github.com: RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch (github.com)

357 points by amazonhut 1 year ago | 170 comments

GitHub repository for RustGPT, a transformer-based large language model written entirely in Rust from scratch.

rust transformer llm from-scratch

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement (arstechnica.com)

350 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 148 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive's copyright lawsuit with music publishers over digitized 78rpm records has ended in a settlement.

internet-archive copyright music-publishers great-78-project

Screenshot of newyorker.com: The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

The Sagrada Família takes its final shape (newyorker.com)

349 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 185 comments

A New Yorker magazine article on the Sagrada Família nearing completion and whether Gaudí's basilica is a masterpiece or kitsch.

sagrada-familia architecture antoni-gaudi barcelona

Screenshot of nickyoder.com: Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions

Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions (nickyoder.com)

336 points by lawrenceyan 1 year ago | 119 comments

A blog post explaining how language models represent vast numbers of concepts in 12,000-dimensional embedding spaces using near-orthogonality and the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma.

johnson-lindenstrauss embeddings high-dimensional-geometry language-models

Screenshot of lcamtuf.substack.com: Folks, we have the best π