top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-01

Jane Goodall has died

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead

11 months ago

Show HN: Autism Simulator

https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/

11 months ago

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

11 months ago

Don't avoid workplace politics

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/

11 months ago

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code

11 months ago

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/

11 months ago

CDC File Transfer

https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

11 months ago

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf

11 months ago

I only use Google Sheets

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/why-i-only-use-google-sheets/

11 months ago

The Beer Can (2023)

https://brr.fyi/posts/beer-can

11 months ago

TigerBeetle is a most interesting database

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/why-tigerbeetle-is-the-most-interesting-database-in-the-world

11 months ago

Our efforts, in part, define us

https://weakty.com/posts/efforts/

11 months ago

What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers

https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/

11 months ago

The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/the-rag-obituary-killed-by-agents

11 months ago

Cormac McCarthy's personal library

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/

11 months ago

Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%

https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54-percent/

11 months ago

OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series

https://www.opentslm.com/

11 months ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438503

11 months ago

U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/u-s-lost-32-000-jobs-in-september-says-payroll-processor-06528340

11 months ago

Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/

11 months ago

Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

https://codeberg.org/

11 months ago

The Company Man

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JH6tJhYpnoCfFqAct/the-company-man

11 months ago

Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6110/2015sp/textbook/Simon%20Thompson%20textbook.pdf

11 months ago

US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clylje0rmp2t

11 months ago

DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025

https://www.perl.com/article/duckduckgo-donates-25-000-to-the-perl-and-raku-foundation-v2025/

11 months ago

An informational website about why I went to prison

https://prison.josh.mn/

11 months ago

Increasing your practice surface area

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/lifestyle/increasing-your-practice-surface-area-agxYGi9bL0gd1WYYQZAu

11 months ago

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants

https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/ice-is-buying-a-tool-to-track-hundreds

11 months ago

Systems Programming with Zig

https://www.manning.com/books/systems-programming-with-zig

11 months ago

Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag

https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1e58

11 months ago

The gaslit asset class

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/09/the-gaslit-asset-class.html

11 months ago

Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video

https://github.com/tvlabs/edge264

11 months ago

Cursor 1.7

https://cursor.com/changelog/1-7

11 months ago

Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024)

https://distinctplace.com/2024/09/11/five-years-as-startup-cto-was-it-all-worth-it/

11 months ago

Announcing Tinker

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/announcing-tinker/

11 months ago

Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs

11 months ago

Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/microsoft_consumer_copilot_corporate/

11 months ago

Minimal files and config for a PWA

https://github.com/chr15m/minimal-pwa

11 months ago

High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10605

11 months ago

DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilities

11 months ago

The best worst hack that saved our bacon

https://jeffersonheard.ghost.io/the-best-worst-hack-that-saved-our-bacon/

11 months ago

Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design

https://app.chartdb.io/ai

11 months ago

Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks

https://www.databricks.com/blog/intelligent-kubernetes-load-balancing-databricks

11 months ago

Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp

https://github.com/newton-physics/newton

11 months ago

The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements

https://vincentrolfs.dev/blog/ts-var

11 months ago

Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods

https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10/01/walmart-u-s-moves-to-eliminate-synthetic-dyes-across-all-private-brand-food-products

11 months ago

Fossabot: AI code review for Dependabot/Renovate on breaking changes and impacts

https://fossa.com/blog/fossabot-dependency-upgrade-ai-agent/

11 months ago

Clavier: An FPGA-based mechanical keyboard with USB hub and comms interfaces

https://github.com/lsartory/Clavier

11 months ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438501

11 months ago

Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)

https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6739/is-pawn-promotion-to-rook-or-bishop-something-that-is-seen-in-play

11 months ago

Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix

https://cobbpg.github.io/articles/nuflix.html

11 months ago

Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git (2024)

https://lwn.net/Articles/966869/

11 months ago

Leveling Up My Homelab

https://cweagans.net/2025/09/leveling-up-my-homelab/

11 months ago

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple's encrypted cloud storage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/uk-once-again-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage/

11 months ago

Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots

https://cognition.ai/blog/blockdiff

11 months ago

Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating

https://deviantabstraction.com/2025/09/29/against-the-tech-inevitability/

11 months ago

Building an IoT Notification Device from Scratch

https://bertwagner.com/posts/splashflag-building-an-iot-swimming-notification-device-from-scratch/

11 months ago

JetBrains will start training AI on your code on non-commercial license

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

11 months ago

Uxntal: A programming language for the Uxn virtual machine

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal.html

11 months ago

Advanced Matrix Multiplication Optimization on Multi-Core Processors (2024)

https://salykova.github.io/gemm-cpu

11 months ago

Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436010

11 months ago

Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/hackers-strike-harrods-in-latest-uk-cyberattack

11 months ago

Long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria

https://www.asimov.press/p/hyperspectral

11 months ago

People want platforms, not governments, to be responsible for moderating content

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-people-want-platforms-not-governments-be-responsible-moderating-content

11 months ago

ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

11 months ago

US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/us_government_shutdown_it_seccurity/

11 months ago

Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams

https://singhkays.com/blog/netflix-av1-decode/

11 months ago

Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder

https://github.com/everydayanchovies/SpatialFinder

11 months ago

The Architecture of Learning: From Statistics to Intelligence

https://little-book-of.github.io/maths/books/en-US/chronicles-8.html

11 months ago

Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

https://rioterm.com/

11 months ago

Mathematical Models/Algorithms for Optimization of Lego Construction Problems [pdf]

https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/236623063/PhD_Thesis_Torkil_Kollsker.pdf

11 months ago

Baseball durations after the pitch clock

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/09/baseball-durations-after-the-pitch-clock/

11 months ago

Broadcom fails to disclose zero-day exploitation of VMware vulnerability

https://www.securityweek.com/broadcom-fails-to-disclose-zero-day-exploitation-of-vmware-vulnerability/

11 months ago

Aphantasia and Psychedelics

https://psychedelirium.substack.com/p/aphantasia-and-psychedelics

11 months ago

Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools

https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games/vega

11 months ago

Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365)

https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115298019560025791

11 months ago

USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans' social media (2021)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html

11 months ago