The best of Hacker News - September 6, 2025

1.
I ditched Docker for Podman

911 points

2.
Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

565 points

3.
Purposeful animations

365 points

4.
I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

340 points

5.
Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from 10/25/2025

237 points

6.
ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

237 points

7.
Making a font of my handwriting

216 points

8.
MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

131 points

9.
The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

125 points

10.
My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

122 points

11.
Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

122 points

12.
Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

89 points

13.
Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

74 points

14.
GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

69 points

15.
Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

67 points

16.
Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

40 points

17.
A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI)

16 points

18.
Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data 45% faster with record low loss

14 points

19.
Museum of Color

13 points

20.
What Is the Fourier Transform?

8 points

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