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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating

    81 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    81 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  3. Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    79 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

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

    78 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    75 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

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

    74 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    72 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

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

    72 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    72 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  11. Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams

    71 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    70 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    68 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    68 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

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

    66 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  16. The biggest sign of an AI bubble is starting to appear – debt

    66 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  17. Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

    65 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  18. US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for fed funds

    64 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  19. Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription

    62 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  20. Typepad is closed for business

    62 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  21. The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

    61 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

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

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  23. Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime

    60 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  24. ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

    59 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

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

    59 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    58 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  27. Aphantasia and Psychedelics

    57 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    57 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  29. The biggest semantic mess in Futhark

    57 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  30. Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools

    56 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  31. Moving PHP open source forward

    55 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  32. Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack

    55 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

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

    54 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  34. TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'

    54 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  35. Researchers develop molecular qubits that communicate at telecom frequencies

    54 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  36. Claude was down

    52 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  37. USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans' social media (2021)

    52 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  38. FlowSynx – Orchestrate Declarative, Plugin-Driven DAG Workflows on .NET

    51 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  39. Pre-record your demos

    51 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  40. Amber Room

    51 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  41. Tinker by Thinking Machines

    50 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  42. Gov Workers Say Their Shutdown Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed

    50 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  43. Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling

    49 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  44. Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers

    49 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  45. Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

    48 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  46. Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI

    48 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  47. Egg-Shaped Curves (2007)

    47 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  48. Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365)

    47 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  49. Austria's armed forces switch to LibreOffice

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  50. LLMs are the ultimate demoware

    46 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  51. Basic Dialects, IDEs, and Tutorials

    45 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  52. Self-supervised learning, JEPA, world models, and the future of AI [video]

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  53. Apple Pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

    45 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  54. JetBrains will start training AI on your code on non-commercial license

    45 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  55. Drone No-Fly Zone Imposed over Greater Chicago Area

    44 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  56. Warming climate–not overgrazing–is biggest threat to rangelands, study suggests

    44 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  57. Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

    44 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  58. Dropping Trust in US Media

    42 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  59. LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles

    42 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  60. The AI emperor has no clothes

    41 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  61. A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness

    41 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  62. Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

    40 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  63. Apple removes ICEBlock, won't allow apps that report locations of ICE agents

    39 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  64. Kairos: Immutable Distro for K8s at the Edge

    39 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  65. Divorce plunged in Kentucky – equal custody for fathers is a big reason why

    39 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  66. We Gave Our AI Agents Twitter and Now They're Demanding Lambos

    37 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  67. Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? – The PyCharm Blog

    37 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  68. Supreme Court lets Fed Governor Cook keep job pending oral argument in January

    36 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  69. California Needs to Learn from Houston and Dallas about Homelessness

    36 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  70. Silicone bakeware as source of human exposure to cyclic siloxanes

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  71. Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice (2022)

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  72. The Answer (1954)

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  73. Implementing /Usr Merge in Alpine

    34 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  74. GenAI Predictions

    33 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  75. FSF confirms Ian Kelling as its new president

    33 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  76. Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses

    33 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  77. Writing an LLM from scratch, part 20 – starting training, and cross entropy loss

    33 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  78. No Figma, I won't fit in your little box

    33 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

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

    33 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  80. The god mode vulnerability that should kill "Trust Microsoft" forever

    32 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  81. US government shuts down after Democrats refuse to back Republican funding plan

    32 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  82. Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia

    31 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  83. Move over Dijkstra: New Algorithm Just Rewrote 70 Years of Computer Science

    31 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  84. Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice

    31 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  85. Japan's ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals

    31 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  86. Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed more than 20 years later

    30 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  87. Signal threatens to leave Europe if Chat Control is accepted

    30 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  88. Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man

    30 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  89. Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

    28 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  90. Distracting software engineers is more harmful than most managers think

    28 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  91. OpenAI Valuation Hits $500B

    27 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  92. PortalVR: XR Without a Headset

    26 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  93. Ytterby

    26 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  94. Icebird: JavaScript Iceberg Reader

    26 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  95. Show HN: Resterm – A terminal-based REST/GraphQL and gRPC client

    25 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  96. Talent Is Alignment

    25 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  97. 0-Day iOS Exploit "Caught in the Wild" Released

    24 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  98. Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits

    24 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  99. Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

    23 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  100. White House ballroom construction to continue through shutdown, official says

    23 points • comment • oct 01, 2025