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November 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Electric Innovations
Tiny electric motor outperforms record holder by 40%

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)

Historical Tech Marvels
Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)

Web and AI Advances
ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

Programming and Methodology Insights
Why don't you use dependent types?

URLs are state containers

Fun and Creativity
Facts about throwing good parties
...more
3min
November 02, 2025Hacker News – 02 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Deep Learning Insights
Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

How I use every Claude Code feature

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography

Operating Systems and Compiler Innovations
Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

Notes by djb on using Fil-C (2025)

Database Management Tools
CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations

AI and Content Creation
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

Pomelli

Miscellaneous Tech Wonders
Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor

FlightAware Map Design
...more
4min
November 01, 2025Hacker News – 01 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Math and Algorithms
Show HN: Strange Attractors

Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book

Retro and Programming Insights
How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches

Security and Privacy
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

New Technologies and Innovations
Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser

Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video]

Startup Culture and Communication
The profitable startup

Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication
...more
4min
October 31, 2025Hacker News – 31 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Reasoning Models
Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't

Result is all I need

Claude.ai Is Down

Hardware Innovations
AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

Software and Tools
Affinity Studio now free

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times

Creative Tech and Culture
Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

Programming Philosophy
John Carmack on mutable variables

Free software scares normal people
...more
4min
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)
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4min

FAQs about HN Daily Digest:

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