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Hacker News (Oct 2025)

  1. How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

    188 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  2. CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go

    188 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  3. China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains

    187 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  4. Attention is a luxury good

    187 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  5. America’s semiconductor boom [video]

    187 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  6. Julia 1.12 highlights

    186 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  7. Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication

    185 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  8. Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy

    185 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  9. The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls

    184 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  10. Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting

    184 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  11. X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries

    184 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  12. Nix Derivation Madness

    184 points • comment • oct 31, 2025

  13. Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time

    183 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  14. 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

    183 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  15. I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86

    183 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  16. US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic

    183 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  17. Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

    182 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  18. Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise

    182 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  19. Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

    182 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  20. Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules

    181 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  21. U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor

    181 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  22. Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years

    181 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  23. OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage

    181 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  24. Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem

    181 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  25. California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

    181 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  26. The Faroes

    181 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  27. Hacking the Humane AI Pin

    180 points • comment • oct 08, 2025

  28. Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

    180 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  29. OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

    180 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  30. Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18

    180 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  31. StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source

    180 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  32. Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable

    180 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  33. Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience

    180 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  34. How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)

    179 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  35. Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night

    179 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  36. Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks

    179 points • comment • oct 26, 2025

  37. KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

    179 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  38. HTTP3 Explained

    179 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  39. Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset

    179 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  40. Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?

    179 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  41. Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

    179 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  42. Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss

    179 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  43. Getting syntax highlighting wrong

    178 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  44. Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

    178 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  45. Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

    178 points • comment • oct 04, 2025

  46. The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive

    178 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  47. Developers are choosing older AI models

    177 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  48. Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer

    177 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  49. Fastmail desktop app

    177 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  50. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice

    177 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  51. Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

    176 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  52. Apple reports fourth quarter results

    176 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  53. Why we need SIMD

    176 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  54. Language Support for Marginalia Search

    176 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  55. Why do some radio towers blink?

    176 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  56. Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

    176 points • comment • oct 29, 2025

  57. Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp

    176 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  58. Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

    176 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  59. Edge AI for Beginners

    176 points • comment • oct 12, 2025

  60. How the AI Bubble Will Pop

    175 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  61. Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink

    175 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  62. Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation

    175 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  63. Free Programing Books

    175 points • comment • oct 18, 2025

  64. DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

    175 points • comment • oct 13, 2025

  65. NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System

    174 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  66. Zoo of array languages

    173 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  67. How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep

    173 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  68. Disable AI in Firefox

    173 points • comment • oct 24, 2025

  69. The last European train that travels by sea

    173 points • comment • oct 27, 2025

  70. AppLovin nonconsensual installs

    173 points • comment • oct 14, 2025

  71. GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

    173 points • comment • oct 19, 2025

  72. Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits

    172 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  73. Signs of introspection in large language models

    171 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  74. First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches

    171 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  75. Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?

    171 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  76. Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does

    171 points • comment • oct 23, 2025

  77. The illegible nature of software development talent

    170 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  78. Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

    170 points • comment • oct 16, 2025

  79. Benefits of choosing email over messaging

    170 points • comment • oct 05, 2025

  80. Under the hood: Vec<T>

    170 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  81. What is intelligence? (2024)

    170 points • comment • oct 25, 2025

  82. Using Deno as my game engine

    170 points • comment • oct 03, 2025

  83. Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos

    170 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  84. Designing software for things that rot

    170 points • comment • oct 21, 2025

  85. MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

    170 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  86. AI has a cargo cult problem

    169 points • comment • oct 17, 2025

  87. What do we do if SETI is successful?

    169 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  88. OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year

    169 points • comment • oct 10, 2025

  89. A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

    169 points • comment • oct 11, 2025

  90. x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger

    169 points • comment • oct 20, 2025

  91. N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables

    169 points • comment • oct 02, 2025

  92. Google's Requirement for Developers to Be Verified Threatens App Store F-Droid

    168 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  93. Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much

    168 points • comment • oct 09, 2025

  94. Some people can't see mental images

    168 points • comment • oct 30, 2025

  95. Erlang ARM32 JIT is born

    168 points • comment • oct 07, 2025

  96. Starcloud

    168 points • comment • oct 22, 2025

  97. Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account

    168 points • comment • oct 06, 2025

  98. Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

    168 points • comment • oct 28, 2025

  99. Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs

    168 points • comment • oct 15, 2025

  100. TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation

    168 points • comment • oct 26, 2025