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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. John Searle has died

    136 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  2. RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis

    136 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  3. Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

    136 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  4. Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter

    136 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  5. State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview

    135 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  6. Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds

    135 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  7. Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector

    135 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  8. Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)

    135 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  9. Commodore 64 Ultimate

    135 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  10. Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)

    135 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  11. Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)

    134 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

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

    134 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  13. Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]

    134 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  14. Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting

    134 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  15. Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier

    134 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  16. Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing

    134 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  17. Matrices can be your friends (2002)

    133 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  18. SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

    133 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  19. The Tiny Teams Playbook

    133 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  20. Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown

    133 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  21. Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients

    132 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  22. The Flummoxagon

    132 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  23. Sora Update #1

    132 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  24. Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes

    132 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  25. Automating Algorithm Discovery: A Case Study in MoE Load Balancing

    132 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  26. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

    132 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

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

    132 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  28. Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

    132 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  29. Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) [video]

    131 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

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

    131 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  31. Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

    131 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  32. Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders

    131 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  33. Arenas in Rust

    131 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  34. US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans

    130 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  35. Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)

    130 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  36. "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore

    130 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  37. A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024)

    130 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  38. WebMCP

    130 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  39. Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

    130 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  40. Taking money off the table

    130 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  41. Packing the world for longest lines of sight

    130 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  42. US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety

    130 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  43. Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong

    129 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  44. The best worst hack that saved our bacon

    129 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    129 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  46. Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights

    129 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  47. Llamafile Returns

    129 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  48. Nostr and ATProto (2024)

    129 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  49. How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development

    129 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  50. Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants

    129 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  51. AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages

    129 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  52. 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)

    128 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  53. The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models

    128 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  54. TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

    128 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  55. How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries

    128 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  56. Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

    128 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  57. Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks

    128 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  58. The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge

    128 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  59. Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.)

    127 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  60. The Molecular Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog

    127 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  61. Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp

    127 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  62. New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours

    127 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  63. Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

    127 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  64. You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

    127 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  65. When ChatGPT turns informant

    126 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  66. Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

    126 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  67. Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser

    126 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  68. How we are building Audacity 4

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  69. What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?

    126 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  70. California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness

    126 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  71. It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it

    125 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  72. Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019)

    125 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  73. C64 Blood Money

    125 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  74. The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies

    125 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  75. Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

    125 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  76. What is going on with all this radioactive shrimp?

    125 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  77. US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low

    125 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  78. Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go

    124 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  79. Creating an all-weather driver

    124 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  80. GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)

    124 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  81. Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS

    124 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

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

    124 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  83. Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away

    123 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  84. Learning from failure to tackle hard problems

    123 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  85. Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean

    123 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  86. Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification

    123 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  87. MAML – A new configuration language

    123 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  88. The Programming Languages Zoo

    123 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  89. Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations

    122 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  90. Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World

    122 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  91. Just Use Curl

    122 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  92. Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?

    122 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  93. A liver transplant from start to finish

    121 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  94. Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode

    121 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  95. Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends

    121 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  96. Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers

    121 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  97. Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

    121 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  98. Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals

    121 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  99. Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec

    120 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  100. Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification

    120 points • comment • oct 12, 2025