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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Jane Goodall has died

    1270 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  2. How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

    1101 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  3. Show HN: Autism Simulator

    749 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    634 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  5. Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

    624 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  6. Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

    572 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  7. Don't avoid workplace politics

    560 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  8. Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

    527 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  9. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss

    522 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  10. Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools

    512 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  11. Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]

    442 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  12. Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

    403 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  13. Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

    399 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  14. CDC File Transfer

    382 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  15. F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]

    378 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  16. Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

    372 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  17. I only use Google Sheets

    351 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  18. Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

    343 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  19. I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone

    332 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  20. NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system

    322 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  21. In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

    320 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  22. Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

    319 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  23. Litestream v0.5.0

    300 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  24. TigerBeetle is a most interesting database

    292 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  25. The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

    291 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  26. Our efforts, in part, define us

    283 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  27. Cormac McCarthy's personal library

    282 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  28. The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

    278 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  29. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%

    273 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  30. The Beer Can (2023)

    272 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  31. OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

    268 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  32. Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs

    261 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  33. Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys

    259 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  34. Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ

    250 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  35. Work is not school: Surviving institutional stupidity

    244 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  36. Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance

    242 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  37. FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go

    238 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  38. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)

    224 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  39. Gemini 3.0 Pro – early tests

    212 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  40. Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations

    211 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  41. EU funds are flowing into spyware companies and politicians demanding answers

    210 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  42. Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

    207 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  43. Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

    203 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  44. Blender 4.5 LTS

    198 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  45. The Company Man

    195 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  46. Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]

    192 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  47. Why I chose Lua for this blog

    192 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  48. U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor

    181 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  49. OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

    180 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  50. 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

    180 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  51. Social anxiety isn't about being liked

    177 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  52. How the AI Bubble Will Pop

    175 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  53. Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says

    172 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  54. N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables

    168 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  55. Keyhive – Local-first access control

    165 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  56. Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag

    165 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  57. Increasing your practice surface area

    163 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  58. I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy

    160 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  59. Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video

    157 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  60. Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

    156 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  61. Email immutability matters more in a world with AI

    155 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  62. An informational website about why I went to prison

    153 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  63. Cursor 1.7

    151 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  64. Announcing Tinker

    148 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  65. The gaslit asset class

    147 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  66. Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs

    141 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  67. Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

    139 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  68. High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping

    139 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  69. DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025

    137 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  70. Minimal files and config for a PWA

    137 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  71. Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

    136 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  72. The collapse of the econ PhD job market

    136 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  73. DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)

    134 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  74. Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it

    132 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  75. Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

    129 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  76. Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks

    128 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  77. The Faroes

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  78. PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  79. Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

    125 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  80. Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design

    124 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  81. Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

    115 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  82. Stdlib: A library of frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership

    111 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  83. Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts

    106 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  84. Cancelling async Rust

    104 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  85. Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  86. Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

    99 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  87. Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL

    98 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  88. US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan

    95 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  89. You Want Technology with Warts

    94 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  90. Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix

    94 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  91. Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years

    93 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  92. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

    93 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  93. Be Worried

    90 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  94. Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?

    85 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  95. Piracy Operator Goes from Jail to Getting Hired by a Tech Unicorn in a Month

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  96. ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

    84 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  97. The Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  98. Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  99. Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  100. Uxntal: A programming language for the Uxn virtual machine

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2025