Hacker News on Friday, 26 September 2025

Open Social(overreacted.io)

882 points by knowtheory 1 year ago | 353 comments

Dan Abramov's overreacted blog post arguing that social media should follow open source's path, built on open protocols like AT Protocol.

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers(reuters.com)

462 points by alex77456 1 year ago | 707 comments

News report that the UK government plans a mandatory digital ID, the 'Brit Card', for all adults as proof of the right to live and work, aimed at curbing illegal immigration.

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think(github.com)

453 points by kevlened 1 year ago | 126 comments

GitHub repository from Apple for SimpleFold, a protein folding model accompanying an arXiv paper.

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras(evanstonroundtable.com)

392 points by ptk 1 year ago | 244 comments

Evanston RoundTable news article reporting the city sent a cease-and-desist after Flock Safety reinstalled license plate reader cameras.

Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta(system76.com)

370 points by agluszak 1 year ago | 193 comments

System76 download page for the beta release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, its Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.

No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves(lichess.org)

333 points by emporas 1 year ago | 169 comments

Lichess blog post arguing/proving that no reachable chess position has more than 218 legal moves.

Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust(max-inden.de)

328 points by Bender 1 year ago | 64 comments

Blog post by Max Inden on replacing Firefox's NSPR-based UDP I/O with a faster Rust implementation to support HTTP/3 and QUIC traffic.

US cities pay too much for buses(bloomberg.com)

328 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 528 comments

Bloomberg CityLab article on a paper arguing that limited competition, custom features, and Buy America rules inflate US transit bus costs.

Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed(moondream.ai)

266 points by kristianp 1 year ago | 39 comments

Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D(vazgriz.com)

252 points by hggh 1 year ago | 123 comments

My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod(joewintergreen.com)

249 points by jonny_eh 1 year ago | 144 comments

Why use mailing lists?(mailarchive.ietf.org)

219 points by cnst 1 year ago | 153 comments

If you are harassed by lasers(laserpointersafety.com)

209 points by 1970-01-01 1 year ago | 199 comments

Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII(civilization.2k.com)

208 points by Areibman 1 year ago | 15 comments

Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW(suno.com)

187 points by debrisapron 1 year ago | 224 comments

Auth.js is now part of Better Auth(better-auth.com)

167 points by ShaggyHotDog 1 year ago | 65 comments

Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now(runnercode.com)

154 points by zmccormick7 1 year ago | 152 comments

Show HN: A little notebook for learning linear algebra with Python(little-book-of.github.io)

150 points by tamnd 1 year ago | 35 comments

A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports(jordanmechner.com)

149 points by michelangelo 1 year ago | 34 comments

Modular Manifolds(thinkingmachines.ai)

148 points by babelfish 1 year ago | 53 comments

Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots(spectrum.ieee.org)

141 points by vmayoral 1 year ago | 80 comments

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander(masteringemacs.org)

138 points by TheFreim 1 year ago | 190 comments

New math revives geometry's oldest problems(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by pykello 1 year ago | 10 comments

Evolving the Multi-User Spaceport(spacex.com)

131 points by thsName 1 year ago | 55 comments

Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer(nyulangone.org)

130 points by bmau5 1 year ago | 63 comments

How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets(riskvest.io)

120 points by rrjjww 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog(eblong.com)

117 points by exvi 1 year ago | 39 comments

When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(lithub.com)

114 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 59 comments

Genode OS Framework(genode.org)

109 points by justinclift 1 year ago | 33 comments

`std::flip`(morwenn.github.io)

97 points by ashvardanian 1 year ago | 98 comments

Why do we remember some life moments but not others?(bu.edu)

97 points by hhs 1 year ago | 49 comments

Design of the SCHEME-78 Lisp-based microprocessor (1980)(dl.acm.org)

96 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 31 comments

How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)(capnfabs.net)

90 points by dsego 1 year ago | 46 comments

How to stop AI's "lethal trifecta"(economist.com)

86 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 year ago | 94 comments

Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks(arxiv.org)

85 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 36 comments

DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale(lukehinds.github.io)

85 points by decodebytes 1 year ago | 16 comments

The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike(itsnicethat.com)

71 points by CrociDB 1 year ago | 50 comments

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander(masteringemacs.org)

70 points by signa11 1 year ago | 37 comments

A recent chess controversy(chicagobooth.edu)

67 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 106 comments

Israel hacked every Gaza cellphone to stream PM Netanyahu's UN Speech live(twitter.com)

62 points by Zaheer 1 year ago | 38 comments

Managing Dotfiles with Make(matheusmoreira.com)

62 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 35 comments

RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter?(owlposting.com)

61 points by abhishaike 1 year ago | 8 comments

Software CEO to Catholic panel: AI is more mass stupidity than mass unemployment(theregister.com)

60 points by rntn 1 year ago | 41 comments

Implementing a Kalman Filter in Postgres(neon.com)

58 points by carlotasoto 1 year ago | 9 comments

Cloudflare Data Platform(blog.cloudflare.com)

58 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 15 comments

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 18 comments

Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer(blog.cloudflare.com)

54 points by cmsparks 1 year ago | 14 comments

Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers(medium.com)

54 points by sgammon 1 year ago | 16 comments

Spending time with the material(robinsloan.com)

49 points by thomasjb 1 year ago | 6 comments

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables(phoronix.com)

48 points by dabinat 1 year ago | 8 comments

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus(garymarcus.substack.com)

47 points by zdw 1 year ago | 28 comments

Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US(theguardian.com)

46 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 50 comments

We still chose C++ (instead of Rust) for new database development(eloqdata.com)

45 points by the_precipitate 1 year ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Dreamtap – Make your AI more creative(dreamtap.xyz)

45 points by neural_thing 1 year ago | 9 comments

Ode to Libraries from a Remote Worker(sibervepunk.com)

43 points by siberpunk 1 year ago | 29 comments

The von Neumann bottleneck is impeding AI computing?(research.ibm.com)

42 points by Nezteb 1 year ago | 23 comments

A Look into Intel Xeon 6's Memory Subsystem(chipsandcheese.com)

40 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 0 comments

The effect of H-1B quota on employment and selection of foreign-born labor (2018)(doi.org)

39 points by johntfella 1 year ago | 19 comments

Visualizing Automorphisms of S6(travisdoesmath.github.io)

35 points by downboots 1 year ago | 2 comments

Bell Labs Scientists Accidentally Proved the Big Bang Theory(spectrum.ieee.org)

33 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 13 comments