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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. IRS open sources its fact graph

    330 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  2. Why Self-Host?

    330 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  3. Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

    329 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

    329 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  5. Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers

    329 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  6. Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels

    327 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  7. Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

    327 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  8. Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)

    326 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  9. The RSS feed reader landscape

    326 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  10. California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes

    325 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  11. ADS-B Exposed

    325 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  12. LineageOS 23

    324 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  13. No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

    324 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  14. Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

    324 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  15. Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

    323 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  16. Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

    323 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  17. Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto

    323 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  18. NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system

    322 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  19. Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices

    322 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  20. AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

    321 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  21. Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

    321 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  22. ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving

    319 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  23. Forth: The programming language that writes itself

    319 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  24. Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

    319 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  25. Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?

    318 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  26. Zig's New Async I/O

    318 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  27. We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"

    317 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  28. A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

    317 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  29. How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

    316 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  30. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

    316 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  31. ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

    316 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  32. You are how you act

    316 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  33. Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

    315 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  34. People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

    312 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  35. Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks

    312 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  36. Poison, Poison Everywhere

    311 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  37. The Beer Can (2023)

    310 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  38. You did no fact checking, and I must scream

    309 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  39. The QNX Operating System

    309 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  40. WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

    309 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  41. Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA

    308 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  42. Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation

    308 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  43. The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

    308 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  44. The Journey Before main()

    307 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  45. Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28

    307 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  46. My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

    306 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  47. How does gradient descent work?

    306 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  48. Poker Tournament for LLMs

    305 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  49. A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

    305 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  50. Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust

    304 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  51. People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses

    304 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  52. DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix

    304 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  53. Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target

    303 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  54. Ambigr.am

    303 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  55. Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

    303 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  56. Why I code as a CTO

    301 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  57. The decline of deviance

    301 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  58. The React Foundation

    300 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  59. Pixnapping Attack

    299 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  60. Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

    298 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  61. Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law

    298 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  62. LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions

    297 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  63. Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

    296 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  64. Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify

    296 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  65. Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]

    296 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  66. A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

    295 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  67. Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks

    295 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  68. We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source

    294 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  69. Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions

    294 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  70. Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game

    294 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  71. FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

    294 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  72. Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States

    294 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  73. React vs. Backbone in 2025

    293 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  74. Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

    293 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  75. Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions

    292 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  76. I switched from Htmx to Datastar

    292 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  77. Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame

    292 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  78. A definition of AGI

    292 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  79. HTTPS by default

    292 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  80. TigerBeetle is a most interesting database

    292 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  81. I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

    292 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  82. ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

    291 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  83. Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103

    291 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  84. A History of Large Language Models

    291 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  85. Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps

    289 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  86. Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)

    288 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  87. Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

    288 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  88. Feed the bots

    287 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  89. Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia

    287 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  90. AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did

    286 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  91. I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D

    286 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  92. What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers

    286 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  93. Pwning the Nix ecosystem

    285 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  94. A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code

    285 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  95. We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable

    285 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  96. Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

    283 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  97. Our efforts, in part, define us

    283 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  98. AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

    282 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

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

    282 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  100. SQL Anti-Patterns

    282 points • comment • oct 18, 2025