HN Daily Digest episodes:

• October 19, 2025Hacker News – 19 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and Discoveries

  Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

  How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams

  K8s with 1M nodes

  Cultural Reflections and Societal Trends

  GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries

  Why the open social web matters now

  Historical Insights and Scientific Breakthroughs

  Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years

  Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

  Creative Concepts and Design Exploration

  Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code

  ./watch

  Engaging Tutorials and Practical Applications

  Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application

  Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider

  ...more

  

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• October 18, 2025Hacker News – 18 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Audio Innovations

  StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source

  AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

  AI and Future Technologies

  Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

  Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

  Software and Development

  Ruby Blocks

  Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

  Culture and Society

  New Work by Gary Larson

  The pivot

  Miscellaneous Insights

  Live Stream from the Namib Desert

  4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence

  ...more

  

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• October 17, 2025Hacker News – 17 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  DRM and Content Access

  How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

  Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing

  AI Innovations

  Claude Skills

  Codex Is Live in Zed

  Social and Ethical Implications

  Ring to partner with Flock, a network of cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

  Meow.camera

  Data and Development

  Reworking Memory Management in CRuby

  Your data model is your destiny

  ...more

  

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• October 16, 2025Hacker News – 16 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Open Source Controversies

  Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch

  TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

  Innovations in Coding

  New coding models and integrations

  Claude Haiku 4.5

  Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development

  Tech Tools and Resources

  JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool

  Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist)

  Hardware Highlights

  Apple M5 chip

  Are hard drives getting better?

  Social Issues in Tech

  Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules

  The Economic Cost of Antisemitism

  Quirky Tech Insights

  Pica Numbers

  Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

  ...more

  

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• October 15, 2025Hacker News – 15 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Open Source & Software Freedom

  FSF announces Librephone project

  Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores

  Updating Desktop Rust

  AI & Security Innovations

  Pixnapping Attack

  Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

  How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

  Hardware Developments

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

  How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?

  Hacking the Humane AI Pin

  Cloud & Performance Benchmarks

  Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks

  Just Talk to It – The No-Bs Way of Agentic Engineering

  Can we know whether a profiler is accurate?

  Digital Sovereignty & Design Choices

  Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update

  How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface

  Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system

  ...more

  

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• October 14, 2025Hacker News – 14 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI Innovations and Challenges

  NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

  Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?

  LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation

  Programming Language Insights

  Why Study Programming Languages

  Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial

  vali, a C library for Varlink

  Security and Technological Developments

  Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves

  Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

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

  Health Tech and Societal Reflections

  Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment

  Smartphones and being present

  America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom

  Nostalgia in Tech

  Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy

  ...more

  

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• October 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  PDF Tools and Innovations

  Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

  MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

  Networking and Security

  Wireguard FPGA

  A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler

  Programming and Development Tools

  Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3

  MAML – A new configuration language

  Community Projects and Collaboration

  Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

  3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station

  Tech in Culture

  Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France

  HTTP3 Explained

  ...more

  

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• October 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI Insights and Innovations

  Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper

  Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial

  Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers

  Database Developments

  Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

  I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue)

  Tools and Applications

  Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

  Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits

  Blossom – Heroku-like deploys on your servers; cheaper, no lock-in

  Privacy and Ethics

  Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

  CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

  Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

  Nostalgia and Reflection

  Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

  ...more

  

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• October 11, 2025Hacker News – 11 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Web Innovations

  HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag

  Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense

  Gaming and Graphics

  AMD and Sony's PS6 Chipset Aims to Rethink the Current Graphics Pipeline

  OpenGL: Mesh Shaders in the Current Year

  Creative Technologies

  I Built Physical Album Cards with NFC Tags to Teach My Son Music Discovery

  Show HN: A Digital Twin of My Coffee Roaster That Runs in the Browser

  Codec Developments

  AV2 Video Codec Delivers 30% Lower Bitrate than AV1

  Lánczos Interpolation Explained

  Curiosities and Oddities

  How Hard Do You Have to Hit a Chicken to Cook It? (2020)

  Ryanair Flight Landed at Manchester Airport with Six Minutes of Fuel Left

  ...more

  

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• October 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Oct 2025

  Table of Contents

  Nobel News and Frameworks

  Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Mar\u00eda Corina Machado

  Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps

  Development Strategies and AI Vulnerabilities

  My approach to building large technical projects (2023)

  A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

  Innovative Technologies and Programming Practices

  Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders

  Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?

  Consumer Awareness and Robotics

  I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played

  Introducing Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

  ...more

  

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