The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2025

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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year mahadk.com · JustSkyfall · 18 Sep 2025

3.4k pts 1.5k comments

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A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet messenger.abeto.co · thecupisblue · 27 Sep 2025

2.1k pts 338 comments

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com · adocomplete · 29 Sep 2025

1.6k pts 786 comments

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F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree f-droid.org · gumby271 · 29 Sep 2025

1.5k pts 564 comments

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Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says reuters.com · mriguy · 19 Sep 2025

1.5k pts 1.9k comments

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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza middleeasteye.net · Qem · 16 Sep 2025

1.4k pts 1.4k comments

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Hosting a website on a disposable vape bogdanthegeek.github.io · BogdanTheGeek · 15 Sep 2025

1.4k pts 472 comments

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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised aikido.dev · universesquid · 8 Sep 2025

1.4k pts 757 comments

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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image bitbytebit.substack.com · recroad · 24 Sep 2025

1.3k pts 723 comments

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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads github.com · phewlink · 24 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 611 comments

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Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised socket.dev · jamesberthoty · 16 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com · pattyj · 17 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 439 comments

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I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens sethpurcell.com · arch_deluxe · 10 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 392 comments

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Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search anycrap.shop · kafked · 13 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 333 comments

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You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here hackerone.com · redbell · 22 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 542 comments

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Always Invite Anna sharif.io · walterbell · 23 Sep 2025

1.2k pts 178 comments

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Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured digitalcourage.social · xyzal · 11 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 359 comments

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Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? phishyurl.com · jordigh · 18 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 320 comments

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I ditched Docker for Podman codesmash.dev · codesmash · 5 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 654 comments

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30 minutes with a stranger pudding.cool · MaxLeiter · 4 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 375 comments

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ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps metalhearf.fr · Metalhearf · 25 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 631 comments

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Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal github.com · mmulet · 9 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 144 comments

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Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah nbcnews.com · david927 · 10 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 3.3k comments

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WASM 3.0 Completed webassembly.org · todsacerdoti · 17 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 494 comments

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Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly mathstodon.xyz · bertman · 24 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 565 comments

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That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus cybersect.substack.com · sixhobbits · 24 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 622 comments

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996 lucumr.pocoo.org · genericlemon24 · 6 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 532 comments

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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy weplanet.org · mpweiher · 12 Sep 2025

1.1k pts 1.2k comments

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Next.js is infuriating blog.meca.sh · Bogdanp · 2 Sep 2025

1k pts 579 comments

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Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio mitchivin.com · mitchivin · 7 Sep 2025

1k pts 323 comments

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The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge twitter.com · leephillips · 7 Sep 2025

1k pts 489 comments

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Nvidia buys $5B in Intel tomshardware.com · stycznik · 18 Sep 2025

1k pts 616 comments

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Nine things I learned in ninety years edwardpackard.com · coderintherye · 23 Sep 2025

1k pts 382 comments

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Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node reddit.com · heavyset_go · 16 Sep 2025

1k pts 369 comments

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Open Social overreacted.io · knowtheory · 26 Sep 2025

991 pts 388 comments

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Signal Secure Backups signal.org · keyboardJones · 8 Sep 2025

990 pts 442 comments

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors nytimes.com · acomjean · 5 Sep 2025

989 pts 737 comments

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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024) blinry.org · mihau · 16 Sep 2025

976 pts 167 comments

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Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out gavi.org · slu · 16 Sep 2025

968 pts 360 comments

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Kagi News blog.kagi.com · grappler · 30 Sep 2025

942 pts 440 comments

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Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; gist.github.com · avestura · 23 Sep 2025

941 pts 802 comments

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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me anniemueller.com · wonger_ · 22 Sep 2025

931 pts 444 comments

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver dmitrybrant.com · dmitrybrant · 7 Sep 2025

929 pts 318 comments

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iPhone Air apple.com · excerionsforte · 9 Sep 2025

907 pts 1.9k comments

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Sora 2 openai.com · skilled · 30 Sep 2025

905 pts 878 comments

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KDE is now my favorite desktop kokada.dev · todsacerdoti · 18 Sep 2025

892 pts 742 comments

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Just let me select text aartaka.me · ayoisaiah · 24 Sep 2025

875 pts 596 comments

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Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" greeneuropeanjournal.eu · robtherobber · 10 Sep 2025

873 pts 947 comments

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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians theguardian.com · helsinkiandrew · 25 Sep 2025

873 pts 773 comments

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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory joshfonseca.com · vuciv · 10 Sep 2025

869 pts 185 comments

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Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts cnbc.com · colesantiago · 2 Sep 2025

864 pts 632 comments

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Play snake in the URL address bar demian.ferrei.ro · macote · 28 Sep 2025

860 pts 92 comments

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Find SF parking cops walzr.com · alazsengul · 23 Sep 2025

849 pts 470 comments

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UTF-8 is a brilliant design iamvishnu.com · vishnuharidas · 12 Sep 2025

849 pts 348 comments

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Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying privacybadger.org · doener · 28 Sep 2025

849 pts 334 comments

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Claude Code 2.0 npmjs.com · polyrand · 29 Sep 2025

842 pts 413 comments

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We all dodged a bullet xeiaso.net · WhyNotHugo · 9 Sep 2025

830 pts 484 comments

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Libghostty is coming mitchellh.com · kingori · 23 Sep 2025

828 pts 266 comments

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Ultrasonic Chef's Knife seattleultrasonics.com · hemloc_io · 20 Sep 2025

824 pts 671 comments

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Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo tempo.xyz · _nvs · 4 Sep 2025

808 pts 1.1k comments