Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 14, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569350

No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
https://steveblank.com/2025/10/13/no-science-no-startups-the-unseen-engine-were-switching-off/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567877

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566644

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568700

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users
https://sqliteonline.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567770

Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575391

Smartphones and being present
https://herman.bearblog.dev/being-present/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568613

New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575755

JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
https://github.com/rictic/jsonriver
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45518033

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 13, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Wireguard FPGA
https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559857

Free software hasn't won
https://dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562286

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428

Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
https://ambisounds.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558611

Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
https://xenodium.com/introducing-agent-shell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561672

Show HN: Baby's first international landline
https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-international-landline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515978

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formally-verified-code-can-go-wrong-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555727

Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487232

A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559767

John Searle has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563627

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 12, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551504

GNU Health
https://www.gnuhealth.org/about-us.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550049

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547344

Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper
https://paddedinputs.substack.com/p/meta-superintelligences-surprising
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553577

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549434

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547359

LineageOS 23
https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553835

The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/twin-towers-construction-photographs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498055

Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/06/datablocks-white-label-drives/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45489497

Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553764

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 11, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539943

Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR
https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536694

I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
https://fulghum.io/album-cards
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543475

Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
https://data-star.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536618

Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
https://blog.tangled.org/intro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543899

Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
https://orb.net/blog/does-speed-make-wifi-suck
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542444

(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544228

HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547566

OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
https://www.supergoodcode.com/mesh-shaders-in-the-current-year/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537890

Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
https://alew.is/lava.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535183

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529587

Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524702

My first contribution to Linux
https://vkoskiv.com/first-linux-patch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490652

Show HN: I built a web framework in C
https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45526890

Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527402

Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
https://github.com/mafik/keyer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529393

Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
https://www.subwaybuilder.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530744

LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1976077806443569355
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530486

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/summary/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536700

A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-neurons-brainstem-may-hold-key-treating-chronic-pain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532685

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 9, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516000

A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920

One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514433

SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/sec-approves-texas-stock-exchange-txse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474301

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521738

California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523033

After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
https://www.readonlymemo.com/mame-hyper-neo-geo-support-sound-emulation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516968

A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519575

OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-nvidia-amd-deals-boost-1-trillion-ai-boom-with-circular-deals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521629

Kurt Got Got
https://fly.io/blog/kurt-got-got/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520615

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 8, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502541

German government comes out against Chat Control
https://xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/status/1975595307800142205
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506143

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507936

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
https://timelinize.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504973

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-bill-would-strip-internet-access-from-specified-persons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502216

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501189

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504470

An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-introduction-to-linear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490713

Vibe engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503867

Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492489

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 7, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493358

Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469376

The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
https://thecascade.dev/article/least-amount-of-css/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497624

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497384

Apps SDK
https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45494558

Indefinite Backpack Travel
https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452472

OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492803

Mise: Monorepo Tasks
https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491621

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
https://animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crunchyroll-subtitles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458973

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
https://physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449015

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 6, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487044

1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
https://blog.archive.org/trillion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487476

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
https://fi-le.net/oss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483924

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806

The QNX Operating System
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481892

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480317

Structured Procrastination
https://structuredprocrastination.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488261

Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
https://www.srb2.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447226

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448747

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
https://github.com/DebarghaG/proofofthought
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475529

Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_007.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472319

A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473861

Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427972

Social Cooling (2017)
https://www.socialcooling.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479165

Blog Feeds
https://blogfeeds.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475808

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477206

What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435606

Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
https://github.com/newton-physics/newton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440071