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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. 'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

    77 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  2. That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler

    77 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  3. Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

    77 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  4. CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization

    77 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  5. Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize

    77 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  6. Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

    77 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  7. When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery

    77 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  8. Zorin OS 18

    77 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  9. GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development

    77 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  10. Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance

    77 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  11. Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

    77 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  12. Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling

    77 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  13. In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

    77 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  14. Show HN: Lights Out: my 2D Rubik's Cube-like Game

    77 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  15. Against SQL (2021)

    77 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  16. AI Is Too Big to Fail

    77 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  17. EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

    76 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  18. Show HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Agent Builder to create agents in code or visually

    76 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  19. NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation

    76 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  20. Cuckoo hashing improves SIMD hash tables (and other hash table tradeoffs)

    76 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  21. Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

    76 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  22. The Goon Squad

    76 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  23. C++26: range support for std:optional

    76 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  24. Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

    76 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  25. Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm

    76 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  26. Clone-Wars: 100 open-source clones of popular sites

    76 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  27. Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum

    76 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  28. Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

    75 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  29. Learning a foreign language–before you're born

    75 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  30. 4000 gone: Inside NASA's brain drain

    75 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  31. Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example

    75 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  32. Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App

    75 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  33. People want platforms, not governments, to be responsible for moderating content

    74 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  34. UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)

    74 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  35. The Architecture of Learning: From Statistics to Intelligence

    74 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  36. Birth of Prettier

    74 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  37. Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets

    74 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  38. Show HN: Research Hacker News, ArXiv & Google with Hierarchical Bayesian Models

    74 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  39. Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

    74 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  40. California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services

    74 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  41. Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a NASA Office's Sudden Closure

    73 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  42. Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams

    73 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  43. Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

    73 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  44. It's the “hardware”, stupid

    73 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  45. Measuring characteristics of TCP connections at Internet scale

    73 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  46. Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails

    73 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  47. Tough truths about climate

    73 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  48. Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches

    73 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  49. The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View

    73 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  50. Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?

    73 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  51. Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

    73 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  52. Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

    72 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  53. Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raising Eyebrows

    72 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  54. Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

    72 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  55. Pharma is a small component of US health care spending

    72 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  56. OpenBSD 7.8 Highlights

    72 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  57. Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road

    72 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  58. The Pentagon Press Corps Is Gone

    72 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  59. Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder

    72 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  60. Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

    72 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  61. YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark

    72 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  62. Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

    72 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  63. Vietnam Airlines Data Breach

    72 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  64. ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants

    72 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  65. TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok"

    72 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  66. Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store

    72 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  67. Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets

    72 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  68. The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It

    71 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  69. SierraDB: A distributed event store built in Rust

    71 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  70. Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny

    71 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  71. ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  72. My first fifteen compilers (2019)

    71 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  73. LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles

    71 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  74. Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams

    71 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  75. The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop

    71 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  76. Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw

    71 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  77. SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database

    71 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  78. Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward a Mass Market

    71 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  79. U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families

    70 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  80. Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box

    70 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  81. Wacl – A Tcl Distribution for WebAssembly

    70 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  82. "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

    70 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  83. Show HN: OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive

    70 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  84. Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia

    70 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  85. Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents

    70 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  86. MD RAID or DRBD can be broken from userspace when using O_DIRECT

    70 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  87. Mathematical Models/Algorithms for Optimization of Lego Construction Problems [pdf]

    70 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  88. The Tonnetz

    70 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  89. Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software

    70 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  90. From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

    70 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  91. How to Enter a City Like a King

    70 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  92. ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day

    70 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  93. Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022)

    70 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  94. Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

    70 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  95. Fast-DLLM: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM

    69 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  96. The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

    69 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  97. OpenBSD 7.8

    69 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  98. Show HN: FLE v0.3 – Claude Code Plays Factorio

    69 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  99. Show HN: I built an 8-bit CPU simulator in Python from scratch

    69 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  100. Why Nigeria accepted GMOs

    69 points • comment • oct 27, 2025