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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Keep Android Open

    2623 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  2. AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

    2216 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  3. Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

    2157 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  4. Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

    2060 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  5. Space Elevator

    1773 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  6. How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

    1730 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  7. FSF announces Librephone project

    1562 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  8. 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea

    1552 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  9. What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

    1505 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  10. NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

    1497 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  11. Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

    1446 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  12. Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

    1327 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  13. Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

    1293 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  14. It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts

    1279 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  15. Jane Goodall has died

    1270 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  16. Apple M5 chip

    1255 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  17. A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

    1208 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  18. Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

    1191 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  19. Affinity Studio now free

    1183 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  20. A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

    1175 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  21. How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

    1145 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  22. German government comes out against Chat Control

    1096 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  23. Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

    1092 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  24. Major AWS Outage Happening

    1048 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  25. Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

    1025 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  26. Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

    1017 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  27. Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

    1015 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  28. Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

    1000 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  29. DeepSeek OCR

    976 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  30. Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

    976 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  31. Replacement.ai

    942 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  32. Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

    935 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  33. Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

    934 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  34. TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

    897 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  35. Free software scares normal people

    891 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  36. Tell HN: Azure outage

    878 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  37. I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

    835 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  38. The <output> Tag

    832 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  39. We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

    822 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  40. Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

    807 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  41. Claude Skills

    800 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  42. The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation

    787 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  43. Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

    778 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  44. Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

    778 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  45. Show HN: Strange Attractors

    777 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  46. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

    773 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  47. ChatGPT Atlas

    763 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  48. EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

    760 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  49. Show HN: Autism Simulator

    749 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  50. Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

    749 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  51. The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)

    747 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  52. What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?

    741 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  53. One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill

    736 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  54. Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?

    734 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  55. Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

    724 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  56. Claude Haiku 4.5

    724 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  57. US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

    722 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  58. Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

    721 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  59. MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

    719 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  60. PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

    715 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  61. Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left

    712 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  62. AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

    711 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  63. Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

    709 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  64. No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off

    707 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  65. The Swift SDK for Android

    692 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  66. What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

    685 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  67. My first contribution to Linux

    680 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  68. A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

    672 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  69. Claude for Excel

    669 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  70. 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

    668 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  71. Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

    665 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  72. Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

    663 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  73. Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

    662 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  74. Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler

    657 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  75. China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

    655 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  76. Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

    653 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  77. Meow.camera

    650 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  78. VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT

    650 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  79. Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways

    646 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  80. Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR

    641 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  81. Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died

    636 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  82. Typst 0.14

    636 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  83. You already have a Git server

    634 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  84. Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

    634 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  85. Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

    631 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  86. 987654321 / 123456789

    630 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  87. Wireguard FPGA

    629 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  88. Vibe engineering

    629 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  89. Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

    623 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  90. Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

    617 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  91. Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

    612 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  92. A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]

    607 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  93. Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

    606 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  94. SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades

    604 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  95. /dev/null is an ACID compliant database

    602 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  96. IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

    599 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  97. Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update

    598 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  98. Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

    596 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  99. Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

    594 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  100. Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

    591 points • comment • oct 31, 2025