The best of Hacker News - September 3, 2025

1.
Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

613 points

2.
The Little Book of Linear Algebra

331 points

3.
A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

307 points

4.
The staff ate it later

230 points

5.
%CPU utilization is a lie

183 points

6.
Physically based rendering from first principles

181 points

7.
Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

180 points

8.
<template>: The Content Template element

175 points

9.
Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas

164 points

10.
Static sites enable a good time travel experience

162 points

11.
'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

162 points

12.
This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

152 points

13.
Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser

62 points

14.
Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps

54 points

15.
Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023)

54 points

16.
10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End – Code Generation

37 points

17.
Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

27 points

18.
Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

23 points

19.
Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

22 points

20.
Magic Lantern Is Back

14 points

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