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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. Cormac McCarthy's personal library

    282 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  2. SQL Anti-Patterns

    282 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

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

    282 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  4. AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process

    281 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  5. Just use a button

    281 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  6. Asbestosis

    280 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  7. Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware

    280 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  8. The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

    278 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  9. D2: Diagram Scripting Language

    276 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  10. When is it better to think without words?

    275 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  11. Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers

    275 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  12. Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

    275 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  13. The scariest "user support" email I've received

    274 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  14. Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?

    273 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  15. Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

    273 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  16. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%

    273 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  17. The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain

    272 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  18. OpenBSD 7.8

    272 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  19. I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

    272 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  20. Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code

    271 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  21. (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore

    271 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  22. Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.'

    271 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  23. K8s with 1M nodes

    271 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  24. SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

    271 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  25. User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

    271 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  26. Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half

    270 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  27. Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

    270 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  28. How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?

    269 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  29. S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine

    269 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  30. Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players

    268 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  31. Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files

    268 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  32. "Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education

    268 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  33. OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

    268 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  34. ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety

    268 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  35. Firefox is the best mobile browser

    268 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  36. Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs

    267 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  37. I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy

    267 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  38. Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

    266 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  39. Social anxiety isn't about being liked

    266 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  40. Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?

    266 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  41. Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js

    266 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  42. Codex Is Live in Zed

    266 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  43. New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice

    265 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  44. Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence

    265 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  45. Code like a surgeon

    265 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  46. Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings

    265 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  47. Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates

    264 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  48. Suspicionless ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law

    264 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  49. Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

    263 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  50. KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

    263 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  51. NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece

    262 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  52. AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025

    262 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  53. By the Power of Grayscale

    262 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  54. Retiring Test-Ipv6.com

    261 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  55. Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

    261 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  56. RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

    260 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  57. Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

    260 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  58. Self-hosting email like it's 1984

    260 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  59. Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks

    260 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  60. AI scrapers request commented scripts

    260 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  61. Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

    260 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  62. Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys

    259 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  63. The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS

    258 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  64. Springs and bounces in native CSS

    258 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  65. FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go

    257 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  66. Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond

    256 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  67. Cloudflare Sandbox SDK

    256 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  68. Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

    256 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  69. Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker

    256 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  70. Hacker News Live Feed

    256 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  71. Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews

    255 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  72. Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

    255 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  73. Whole Earth Index

    255 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  74. Are hard drives getting better?

    255 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  75. Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript

    255 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  76. The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs

    254 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  77. The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe

    254 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  78. Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

    254 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  79. Element: setHTML() method

    254 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  80. Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+

    253 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  81. EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers

    253 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  82. Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe

    252 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  83. Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration

    252 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  84. Microsoft Amplifier

    252 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  85. The Programmer Identity Crisis

    251 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  86. Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

    251 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  87. How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

    251 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  88. Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients

    250 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  89. Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ

    250 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  90. Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

    250 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  91. Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study

    250 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  92. SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system

    250 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  93. From VS Code to Helix

    249 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  94. Living Dangerously with Claude

    248 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  95. Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

    248 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  96. Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM

    248 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  97. One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

    247 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  98. GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

    247 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  99. GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders

    247 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  100. Radios, how do they work? (2024)

    247 points • comment • oct 23, 2025