9.3.25 | Google barred from exclusive contracts, staff engineer's journey with Claude Code, The Little Book of Linear Algebra

Hacker News Highlights · Sep 3, 2025 · 12m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 3, 2025.

(00:00) - Intro

(00:22) - Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

(01:40) - A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

(02:56) - The Little Book of Linear Algebra

(04:00) - The staff ate it later

(05:03) - We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

(06:23) - %CPU utilization is a lie

(07:36) - Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

(08:45) - This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

(09:51) - Take something you don’t like and…