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)

Plan mode is dead

Goodbye Google

Platform-Independent SIMD in Go

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

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

The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

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

Allow Carriers on Planes

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

Factorio that you can touch

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

Amiga Screens: A Primer

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

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

Yes, Claude can do nine loops

First Principles Thinking

Too AI; Didn't Read

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor

Boards of Casio

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

FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

An airport cooled by natural ventilation

Special Projects (2016)

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

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

Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue

What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)

Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

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

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

Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

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

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

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