The best of Hacker News - September 5, 2025

1.
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself

651 points

2.
Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

609 points

3.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

448 points

4.
WiFi signals can measure heart rate

325 points

5.
LLM Visualization

290 points

6.
Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

280 points

7.
What Is the Fourier Transform?

226 points

8.
Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

219 points

9.
Age Simulation Suit

162 points

10.
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

142 points

11.
io_uring is faster than mmap

137 points

12.
A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

132 points

13.
Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns

130 points

14.
ICPC 2025 World Finals Results

89 points

15.
Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

76 points

16.
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

55 points

17.
Action was the best 8-bit programming language

53 points

18.
Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC

37 points

19.
Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6

25 points

20.
Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

22 points

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