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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-25

  1. F-Droid 2.0 f-droid.org - 364 comments 1265 points
  2. Two-tier encryption in the UK macanorak.com - 410 comments 465 points
  3. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? dynomight.substack.com - 219 comments 423 points
  4. Show HN: Whiteboard - YC W26 – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design github.com - 119 comments 323 points
  5. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges arstechnica.com - 305 comments 298 points
  6. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos launchvideo.io - 143 comments 284 points
  7. Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS www.dawo.community - 112 comments 267 points
  8. GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks successfulsoftware.net - 112 comments 258 points
  9. California is chasing wealth that has feet blog.landeconomics.org - 671 comments 251 points
  10. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it’s getting close to a Raspberry Pi www.xda-developers.com - 114 comments 228 points
  11. Goodbye Google robert.ocallahan.org - 236 comments 195 points
  12. Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space blog.google - 384 comments 192 points
  13. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance koi.rest - 54 comments 187 points
  14. Best LLM for every budget, updated daily bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com - 109 comments 175 points
  15. Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity www.cell.com - 186 comments 168 points
  16. ‘That’s so AI ’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us www.theguardian.com - 224 comments 164 points
  17. Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits arstechnica.com - 183 comments 158 points
  18. Oracle cites ‘force majeure’ to shield itself on controversial data center www.bloomberg.com - 138 comments 143 points
  19. Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers medium.com - 49 comments 137 points
  20. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters resobscura.substack.com - 30 comments 137 points
  21. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs - XSS in ansi2html blog.arusekk.pl - 24 comments 125 points
  22. Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and ‘use AI instead’ www.afr.com - 181 comments 120 points
  23. AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley www.verysane.ai - 29 comments 117 points
  24. Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless www.economist.com - 117 comments 108 points
  25. Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering blog.madhukaraphatak.in - 40 comments 107 points
  26. Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 www.texastribune.org - 167 comments 106 points
  27. Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error www.votebeat.org - 174 comments 97 points
  28. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds - 2014 grantland.com - 48 comments 90 points
  29. New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators arstechnica.com - 28 comments 85 points
  30. Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton www.tomshardware.com - 124 comments 83 points