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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf]

    87 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  2. Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking

    86 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  3. Translating Cython to Mojo, a first attempt

    86 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  4. US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  5. Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test

    86 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  6. Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say

    86 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  7. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)

    86 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  8. Mic-E-Mouse – Covert eavesdropping through computer mice

    86 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  9. Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers

    86 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  10. State of AI Report 2025

    86 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  11. Being blocked from contributing to lodash

    86 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  12. Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

    85 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

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

    85 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  14. YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

    85 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  15. A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson

    85 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  16. Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

    85 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  17. Ancient Patagonian hunter-gatherers took care of their injured and disabled

    85 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  18. The product of the railways is the timetable

    85 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  19. WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World

    84 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  20. We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB

    84 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  21. A “knot dominated era” may have existed in the early universe: study

    84 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  22. Building a JavaScript Runtime using C

    84 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

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

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  24. The Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  25. Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

    84 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  26. Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence

    84 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  27. Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  28. Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms

    84 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

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

    84 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  30. UK once again demands backdoor to Apple's encrypted cloud storage

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  32. President Trump Pardons Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao

    83 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  33. Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019)

    83 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  34. Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE

    83 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  35. OpenAI is good at deals

    83 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  36. Cheese Crystals (2019)

    83 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  37. Tahoe's Elephant

    83 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  38. Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar

    83 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  39. In orbit you have to slow down to speed up

    83 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  40. Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B

    83 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  41. Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life in Cycles

    83 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  42. TiVo exiting legacy DVR business

    82 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  43. U.S. Sanctions Cambodian Conglomerate, Citing Role in 'Pig-Butchering' Scams

    82 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  44. Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood

    82 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  45. Advanced Matrix Multiplication Optimization on Multi-Core Processors (2024)

    82 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  46. Cdb: Add support for cdb64

    82 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  47. Show HN: Run a GitHub Actions step in a gVisor sandbox

    82 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  48. Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)

    82 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  49. Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG

    82 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  50. The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

    82 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  51. Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview

    82 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  52. How First Wap tracks phones around the world

    82 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  53. Kagi Specials

    82 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  54. Create a Custom Interactive dashboard using SVG

    82 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  55. Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

    81 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  56. A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty

    81 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  57. Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone

    81 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  58. The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  59. How to build a solar powered electric oven

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  60. Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating

    81 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  61. Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?

    81 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  62. Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code

    81 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  63. Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt

    81 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  64. Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted

    80 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  65. Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  66. Affinity by Canva

    80 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  67. The geometry of mathematical methods

    80 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  68. Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

    80 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  69. GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries

    80 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  70. Pico-100BASE-TX: Bit-Banged 100 MBit/s Ethernet and UDP Framer for RP2040/RP2350

    80 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  71. Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost applications

    80 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  72. Automatic K8s pod placement to match external service zones

    80 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  73. NanoMi: Source-available transmission electron microscope

    80 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  74. SpiderMonkey Garbage Collector

    80 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  75. SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight

    79 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  76. How to tile matrix multiplication (2023)

    79 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  77. Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi

    79 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  78. Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS

    79 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  79. GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

    79 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  80. Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines

    79 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  81. Smithsonian Open Access

    79 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  82. Vibe Coding in the 90s

    79 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  83. Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road

    79 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  84. Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer

    79 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  85. Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021)

    79 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  86. Htmx, Datastar, greedy developer

    79 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  87. Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes

    79 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  88. A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare

    79 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  89. Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023

    79 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  90. They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

    78 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  91. Who's Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?

    78 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  92. Long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria

    78 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  93. Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? – Miguelgrinberg.com

    78 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  94. ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations

    78 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  95. Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer

    78 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  96. Dimensions of everyday objects

    78 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  97. Unconventional Ways to Cast in TypeScript

    78 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  98. LaserTweezer – Optical Trap

    78 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  99. VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA`

    78 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  100. Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport

    77 points • comment • oct 22, 2025