Top Hacker News Stories – September 25, 2026 (Summarized)

Recent discussions on Hacker News highlight the release of F-Droid 2.0, marking a significant update for Android users seeking free and open-source apps, with 87 comments reflecting strong community interest. Additionally, a notable outage at GitLab affected many developers, drawing 3 points and 1 comment. In the open-source software domain, Whiteboard, an IDE developed during YC W26, gained attention with 32 points and 30 comments, emphasizing ongoing innovation in developer tools.

Top Hacker News Stories – September 25, 2026 (Summarized)

Platform-Independent SIMD in Go

Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

Allow Carriers on Planes

Factorio that you can touch

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

I'm Tired of Being on the Network

The Test

Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

Yes, Claude can do nine loops

First Principles Thinking

Too AI; Didn't Read

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor

Boards of Casio

Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special

Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev

Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair

Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

What even is an OS now?

Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

KICKI: a DECsystem1060

Tell HN: Codex Is Down

Jev Plays Pokémon Red

Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'

Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding

Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)

Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year

"Someone just sent me an ad that features an AI version of me. What do I do?"

xAI Moves to Buy Out Southaven Residents Who Agree Not to Sue over Plant Noise

Mdash as a Service

Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage

Pope: AI must serve humans not become tool of domination

Trump administration gutted data collection on US education

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

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