The best of Hacker News - September 8, 2025

1.
The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge

664 points

2.
Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

369 points

3.
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

317 points

4.
I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D

199 points

5.
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

189 points

6.
Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)

180 points

7.
Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)

162 points

8.
What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)

159 points

9.
The demo scene is dying, but that's alright

131 points

10.
Formatting code should be unnecessary

87 points

11.
Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

78 points

12.
No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]

68 points

13.
Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

51 points

14.
How to make metals from Martian dirt

50 points

15.
Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

46 points

16.
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

43 points

17.
Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

35 points

18.
'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful

32 points

19.
How many dimensions is this?

31 points

20.
Truco and clones: the beginnings of Argentinian computer gaming

18 points

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