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October 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Python and Development Tools
Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

Iommi – your first pick for a Django power chord

Cloud and Server Innovations
Tell HN: Azure outage

Tailscale Peer Relays

IRCd service (2024)

Gaming and Community
Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

Environmental Tech
China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

Philosophy and Perception
Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality

How ancient people saw themselves
...more
4min
October 29, 2025Hacker News – 29 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Android Control and Freedom
Keep Android Open

What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

Health and Wellness in Tech
Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

Innovations in Technology
Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip

The Changing Landscape of Browsers and AI
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

Industry Updates and Reactions
YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
...more
4min
October 28, 2025Hacker News – 28 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Mental Health
OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

Claude for Excel

Tech Innovations and Tools
MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely

Historical Insights and Nostalgia
Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event

Pyrex catalog from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]

Science and Society
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

Dust samples from moon's far side show debris from rare, water-rich meteorites

Programming and Development
Easy RISC-V

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
...more
4min
October 27, 2025Hacker News – 27 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Travel & Adventure
The last European train that travels by sea

Tech & Security Insights
Recall for Linux

If Your Adversary Is the Mossad (2014) [pdf]

Innovations in Media & Programming
Why JPEG XL Ignoring Bit Depth Is Genius (and Why AVIF Can't Pull It Off)

Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files

Coding & Development Techniques
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)

Nostalgia & Reflections
Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot
...more
4min
October 26, 2025Hacker News – 26 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Innovations and Developments
Pico-Banana-400k

GenAI Image Editing Showdown

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

Cautionary Tales in Safety
A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites

Cultural Reflections and Historical Insights
Asbestosis

Cubical Quad Antennas and Margaret's Letter

Energy and Sustainability
California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

Programming Insights
The Journey Before main()

Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust
...more
5min
October 25, 2025Hacker News – 25 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Cross-Platform Innovations
The Swift SDK for Android

Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways

Health and Human Enhancement
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses

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

Emerging Technologies and Techniques
Luau's Performance

Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink

Code Like a Surgeon

Societal Impacts of Technology
Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts

Education and Learning
Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study

What Is Intelligence? (2024)
...more
4min
October 24, 2025Hacker News – 24 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Innovations & Updates
Roc Camera

Claude Memory

JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level

Gaming & Economics
Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall

Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18

Social & Cultural Commentary
Britain's most tattooed man says UK's age check told him to "remove his face"

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

Technical Challenges
When is it better to think without words?

How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go

Sustainability & Innovation
Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?

Cheap DIY solar fence design
...more
4min
October 23, 2025Hacker News – 23 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Audio & Development Innovations
VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT

Programming with Less Than Nothing

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

Security Concerns
Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

Quantum Computing Breakthroughs
Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

New Technologies & Tools
TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency

JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

Fun & Games
Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets

Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots
...more
4min
October 22, 2025Hacker News – 22 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Satellite Connectivity & Open Source Concerns
Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service

MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only

Guitar Apps & Go Programming Insights
Show HN: Cadence – A Guitar Theory App

Go Subtleties You May Not Know

Innovative Technologies & Engineering Marvels
Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo

The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls

AI Challenges & Security Discussions
LLMs can get "brain rot"

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

Software Development & Cost-Efficiency
Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python

Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
...more
3min
October 21, 2025Hacker News – 21 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Multilingual Innovations and Language Challenges
Language Support for Marginalia Search

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

Web Development and Gaming
Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use

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

Tech Insights and Historical Reflections
The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost

Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997)

Performance and Optimization Challenges
When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

Creative Projects and Unique Challenges
I made a small LED panel

Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor
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4min

FAQs about HN Daily Digest:

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