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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Picturing Mathematics

    107 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  2. David Byrne Radio

    107 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  3. Be Careful with Obsidian

    107 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  4. I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

    107 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  5. SATisfying Solutions to Difficult Problems

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  6. Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power

    107 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  7. Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python

    107 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  8. If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?

    107 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  9. Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android

    106 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  10. Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

    106 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

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

    106 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  12. What I Self Host

    106 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  13. Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?

    106 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  14. Cancer survival rates are misleading

    105 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  15. 3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station

    105 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  16. Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI

    105 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  17. Django 6.0 beta 1 released

    105 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  18. Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data

    105 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  19. The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video]

    104 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  20. Make any TypeScript function durable

    104 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  21. Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded

    104 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  22. The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

    104 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  23. Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)

    104 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  24. Multi-Core by Default

    104 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  25. Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial

    104 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  26. Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

    104 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  27. Clavier: An FPGA-based mechanical keyboard with USB hub and comms interfaces

    104 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  28. Welcome to hell; please drive carefully

    104 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  29. Linux disk I/O diagram (2024)

    104 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  30. It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

    103 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  31. Forgejo v13.0 Is Available

    103 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  32. How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs

    103 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  33. All-natural geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune

    103 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  34. How to build a 747 – A WorldFlight Story

    103 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  35. Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser

    103 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  36. Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users

    103 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  37. VisiCalc on the Apple II

    103 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  38. AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

    102 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  39. Singing bus horns in West Sumatra

    102 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

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

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  41. Show HN: CSS Extras

    102 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

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

    102 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  43. Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI

    102 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  44. Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

    102 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  45. Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables

    102 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  46. Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes

    101 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  47. Abstraction, not syntax

    101 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  48. Why does Swiss cheese have holes?

    101 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  49. Estimating AI energy use

    101 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  50. Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles

    101 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  51. The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)

    100 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  52. Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (2020)

    100 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  53. André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023)

    100 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  54. Neutts-air – Open-source, on device TTS

    100 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  55. Encoding x86 Instructions

    100 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  56. Interior cancels largest solar project in North America

    100 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  57. When you get to be smart writing a macro

    100 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  58. Vectrex Mini

    100 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  59. Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?

    100 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  60. Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf]

    100 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  61. Hardware Stockholm Syndrome

    100 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  62. Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps

    100 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  63. Wasp Blower

    100 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  64. The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018)

    100 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  65. When O3 is 2x slower than O2

    100 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  66. Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024)

    100 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  67. Where's the AI design Renaissance?

    99 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  68. In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical

    99 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  69. Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr

    99 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  70. Privacy Harm Is Harm

    99 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  71. Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)

    98 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  72. The C++ programmer and educator Rainer Grimm has passed away

    98 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  73. ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS

    98 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  74. Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

    98 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  75. Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

    98 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  76. Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator

    98 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  77. Skibidi Toilet and the monstrous digital

    98 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  78. Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot

    98 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  79. Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025

    98 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  80. How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)

    98 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  81. A Tower on Billionaires' Row Is Full of Cracks. Who's to Blame?

    97 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  82. Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)

    97 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  83. FlightAware Map Design (2024)

    97 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  84. Show HN: ASCII Automata

    97 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  85. The Farmer Was Replaced [video]

    97 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  86. Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time

    97 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  87. Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars

    97 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  88. Datastar response to allegations

    97 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  89. An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS

    97 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  90. Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors

    96 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  91. TextEdit and the relief of simple software

    96 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  92. Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git (2024)

    96 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  93. Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  94. Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops

    96 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  95. Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?

    96 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  96. Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021)

    96 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  97. The Continual Learning Problem

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  98. Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes

    96 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  99. Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout

    96 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

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

    95 points • comment • oct 01, 2025