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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix

    62 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

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

    62 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  3. Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription

    62 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  4. Using Emacs as a TUI

    62 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  5. QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

    62 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  6. Fractal Imaginary Cubes

    62 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  7. Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools

    62 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  8. A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset

    62 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  9. State Terror, American Style – Paul Krugman

    62 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  10. Paying AIs to read my books

    62 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  11. I do not want to be a programmer anymore

    62 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  12. Finding my rhythm again

    62 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  13. Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders

    62 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  14. Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010)

    61 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  15. HATEOAS for Haunted Houses

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  16. Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

    61 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  17. 3D solar tower increases capacity factor 50%, triples solar surface area

    61 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  18. Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems

    61 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  19. Updating Desktop Rust

    61 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  20. Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

    61 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  21. Show HN: Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs

    61 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  22. GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me

    61 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  23. Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That

    61 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  24. Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)

    61 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  25. Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium

    61 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  26. US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs

    61 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  27. The Geometry of Schemes [pdf]

    60 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  28. What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?

    60 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  29. Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data

    60 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  30. Springs and Bounces in Native CSS

    60 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  31. Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers

    60 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  32. Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

    60 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  33. Mamdani says he would phase out NYC gifted program for early grades

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  34. State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments

    60 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  35. How one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world was uncovered in the UK

    60 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  36. Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad

    60 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  37. Reasons to Not Use ChatGPT

    60 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  38. Trap the Critters with Paint

    60 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  39. Recreating a Homebrew Game System from 1987

    60 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  40. Novelty Automation

    60 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  41. The Majority AI View

    59 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  42. US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

    59 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  43. Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

    59 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  44. Keyboard Holders, Generation 1

    59 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  45. Resolution limit of the eye – how many pixels can we see?

    59 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  46. Quarter of American employees haven't taken a vacation day in the past year

    59 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  47. Show HN: I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book

    59 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  48. Open-Source Agentic AI

    59 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  49. Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP

    59 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  50. AI and Home-Cooked Software

    59 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  51. The 1924 New Mexico regional banking panic

    59 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  52. Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG

    59 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  53. Launch HN: Extend (YC W23) – Turn your messiest documents into data

    59 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  54. Bringing NumPy's type-completeness score to nearly 90%

    59 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  55. When 'perfect' code fails

    59 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  56. RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers

    59 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  57. Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him

    59 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  58. Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  59. Broadcom Fails to Disclose Zero-Day Exploitation of VMware Vulnerability

    58 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  60. First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code

    58 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  61. The mad king's digital killswitch

    58 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  62. Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?

    58 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  63. Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?

    58 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  64. The worrying kink in this job openings, unemployment curve

    58 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  65. Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy

    58 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  66. Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram

    58 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  67. What Julia has that Rust desperately needs

    58 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  68. GoFundMe created 1.4M donation pages for nonprofits; organizations had no clue

    58 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  69. Why China is winning the trade war

    58 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  70. How the US got left behind in the electric car race

    58 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  71. Empathy for Dummies

    58 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  72. Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr

    58 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  73. Best xkcd

    58 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  74. Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing

    58 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  75. In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important

    58 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  76. LoC is a dumb metric for functions

    58 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  77. ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions [FR]

    58 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  78. Movycat – A terminal movie player written in Zig

    58 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  79. Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies

    58 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  80. Most expensive laptops

    58 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  81. The biggest semantic mess in Futhark

    57 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  82. Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments

    57 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  83. The Science of Satiety per Calorie

    57 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  84. Reasoning is not model improvement

    57 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  85. 2025 MacArthur Fellows

    57 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  86. Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring

    57 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  87. Show HN: HyprMCP – Analytics, logs and auth for MCP servers

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  88. Wilson's Algorithm

    57 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  89. New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires

    57 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  90. Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICEBlock

    57 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  91. Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

    57 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  92. Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor

    57 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  93. The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

    57 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  94. Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  95. The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis

    57 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  96. Aphantasia and Psychedelics

    57 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  97. Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider

    57 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  98. Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

    57 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  99. Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open

    57 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  100. A classic graphic reveals nature's most efficient traveler

    56 points • comment • oct 23, 2025