Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683152

Claude Memory
https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458

PyTorch Monarch
https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680237

Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688006

Roc Camera
https://roc.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690251

I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681200

FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687227

Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613327

Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
https://prog21.dadgum.com/210.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690045

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2025.

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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675015

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670052

Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
https://ian.sh/fia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673130

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670443

JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
https://stalw.art/blog/jmap-collaboration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672336

I see a future in jj
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672280

VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-8-0-sdk-released/1011988
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678549

Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
https://github.com/character-ai/Ovi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674166

Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1980397031542989305
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658928

Rivian's TM-B electric bike
https://www.theverge.com/news/804157/rivian-tm-b-electric-bike-price-specs-helmet-quad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672844

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2025.

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ChatGPT Atlas
https://chatgpt.com/atlas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658479

Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661253

Build your own database
https://www.nan.fyi/database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657827

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557599

LLMs can get "brain rot"
https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656223

Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655161

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657287

NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-landing-contract-sean-duffy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655188

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657345

Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
https://www.dagens.com/technology/greenland-ditches-starlink-for-french-satellite-service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665796

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2025.

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Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178

Claude Code on the web
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647166

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632429

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643163

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645349

BERT is just a single text diffusion step
https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644328

ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582958

How to stop Linux threads cleanly
https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589156

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
https://verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get-consistent-classification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571423

x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger
https://x64.halb.it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646958

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Major AWS Outage Happening
https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640772

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635533

Space Elevator
https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637744

Airliner hit by possible space debris
https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636285

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
https://zenodo.org/records/14179366
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639995

DeepSeek OCR
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640594

AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45577181

Compare Single Board Computers
https://sbc.compare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636365

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2025.

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IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626910

./watch
https://dotslashwatch.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626130

Root System Drawings
https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627394

Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/tragic-oceangate-titan-submersibles-usd62-sandisk-memory-card-found-undamaged-at-wreckage-site-12-stills-and-nine-videos-have-been-recovered-but-none-from-the-fateful-implosion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613898

Tinnitus Neuromodulator
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenerator.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628391

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251014-00/?p=111681
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609986

Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/18/WS68f3170ea310f735438b5bf2.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45625229

Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627692

K8s with 1M nodes
https://bchess.github.io/k8s-1m/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611252

How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
https://maxlangenkamp.substack.com/p/how-to-sequence-your-dna-for-2k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629970

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2025.

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Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619329

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618790

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619537

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614713

Live Stream from the Namib Desert
https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615931

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614148

EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
https://restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615237

New Work by Gary Larson
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622365

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45593358

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025.

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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226

Claude Skills
https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607117

Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
https://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607758

Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
https://hyperflask.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604673

Elixir 1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602428

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563576

Your data model is your destiny
https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583786

Meow.camera
https://meow.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047

DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45605501

Codex Is Live in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606698

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025.

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Apple M5 chip
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591799

Claude Haiku 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595403

Zed is now available on Windows
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594920

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590756

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602179

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
https://github.com/squidowl/halloy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590949

TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601750

Are hard drives getting better?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595724

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599727

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592271

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

FSF announces Librephone project
https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583336

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
https://boydkane.com/essays/boss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583180

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498887

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584281

How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

Why Is SQLite Coded In C
https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584464

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580699

How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581735

SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
https://smolbsd.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758