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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

    95 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  2. You Want Technology with Warts

    95 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  3. Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua

    95 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  4. OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

    95 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  5. The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)

    95 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  6. Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation

    95 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  7. The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing

    95 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  8. MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks

    95 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

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

    95 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  10. The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)

    95 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  11. Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures

    95 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  12. Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

    95 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  13. Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust

    95 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  14. Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there

    94 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  15. SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval

    94 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  16. Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware

    94 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  17. Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test

    94 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  18. Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime

    94 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  19. FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president

    94 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  20. Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix

    94 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  21. When models manipulate manifolds: The geometry of a counting task

    94 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  22. Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin

    94 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  23. Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst

    93 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  24. Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

    93 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  25. Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems

    93 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

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

    93 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  27. Beyond indexes: How open table formats optimize query performance

    93 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  28. The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

    93 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  29. Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)

    93 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  30. Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (2024)

    93 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  31. With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed

    93 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  32. The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root

    93 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  33. Leveling Up My Homelab

    93 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  34. Zram Performance Analysis

    93 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  35. Continuous Nvidia CUDA Profiling in Production

    93 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  36. FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."

    93 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  37. Do not accept terms and conditions

    93 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  38. Show HN: Git for LLMs – A context management interface

    92 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  39. Control your Canon Camera wirelessly

    92 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  40. Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0

    92 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  41. The FSF considers large language models

    92 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  42. NewPipe Is Turning 10

    92 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  43. Focus Is Saying No

    92 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  44. Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR

    92 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  45. Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

    92 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  46. Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires

    92 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  47. Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

    92 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  48. NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN

    92 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  49. Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)

    92 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  50. The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)

    92 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  51. Apple's Unlawful Evil

    92 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  52. Finding a VS Code Memory Leak

    91 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  53. Show HN: FleetCode – Open-source UI for running multiple coding agents

    91 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  54. How to check for overlapping intervals

    91 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  55. CRDTs: Convergence without coordination

    91 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  56. Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June

    91 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  57. Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels

    91 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  58. New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

    91 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  59. C++ Reflection and Qt MOC

    91 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  60. New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

    91 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  61. Making the Electron Microscope

    91 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  62. PWA Browser Scorecards

    91 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  63. Be Worried

    90 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  64. Bertie the Brain

    90 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  65. Rule-Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments (1984)

    90 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  66. Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues

    90 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  67. ChunkLLM: A Lightweight Pluggable Framework for Accelerating LLMs Inference

    90 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  68. Show HN: LLM Rescuer – Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Ruby

    90 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  69. Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program

    90 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  70. Read your way through Hà Nội

    90 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  71. Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon

    89 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  72. When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance

    89 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  73. European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers

    89 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  74. Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument

    89 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  75. I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

    89 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  76. Vite+ – The Unified Toolchain for the Web

    89 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  77. Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games

    89 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  78. US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML

    89 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  79. Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

    88 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  80. TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers

    88 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  81. Prefix sum: 20 GB/s (2.6x baseline)

    88 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  82. x86 architecture 1 byte opcodes

    88 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  83. What Dynamic Typing Is For

    88 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  84. Luau's performance

    88 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  85. Roadmap for improving the type checker

    88 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  86. Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One

    88 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  87. The Great SaaS Gaslight

    88 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  88. Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers

    88 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  89. Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots

    88 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  90. How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams

    88 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  91. ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    88 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  92. The Lottery-fication of Everything

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  93. Ink deformation

    88 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  94. Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000

    87 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  95. What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

    87 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  96. If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do? (2018)

    87 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  97. Let's Not Encrypt (2019)

    87 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  98. You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways

    87 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  99. Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf]

    87 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  100. Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down

    87 points • comment • oct 29, 2025