The best of Hacker News - September 4, 2025

1.
Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

536 points

2.
Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

416 points

3.
Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

291 points

4.
Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

256 points

5.
The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood

203 points

6.
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

175 points

7.
Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

170 points

8.
ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

158 points

9.
Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

154 points

10.
We're Joining OpenAI

148 points

11.
What is it like to be a bat?

131 points

12.
The wall confronting large language models

115 points

13.
Neovim Pack

96 points

14.
Eels are fish

90 points

15.
New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

82 points

16.
Minesweeper thermodynamics

78 points

17.
Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

77 points

18.
Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses

46 points

19.
Evaluating Agents

31 points

20.
AR Fluid Simulation Demo

24 points

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