top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-02

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/middleeast/gaza-famine-causes-vis-intl

11 months ago

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

https://signal.org/blog/spqr/

11 months ago

OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss

https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025

11 months ago

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/

11 months ago

Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/22546

11 months ago

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997

11 months ago

Indefinite Backpack Travel

https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/

11 months ago

Litestream v0.5.0

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-v050-is-here/

11 months ago

Where it's at://

https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/

11 months ago

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

https://github.com/paaatrick/playball

11 months ago

NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/judge-in-the-bits-of-freedom-vs-meta-lawsuit-meta-must-respect-users-choice/

11 months ago

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh

11 months ago

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target

https://physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target/

11 months ago

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html

11 months ago

Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame

https://www.srb2.org/

11 months ago

Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys

https://www.nad.com/news/anti-aging-breakthrough-stem-cells-reverse-signs-of-aging-in-monkeys

11 months ago

Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs

https://entropicthoughts.com/why-stick-to-emacs-blog

11 months ago

Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/tolleson/two-amazon-delivery-drones-crash-into-crane-in-commercial-area-of-tolleson

11 months ago

Work is not school: Surviving institutional stupidity

https://www.leadingsapiens.com/surviving-institutional-stupidity/

11 months ago

Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-confirms-security-incident-after-hackers-claim-github-breach/

11 months ago

Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project

https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html

11 months ago

Gemini 3.0 Pro – early tests

https://twitter.com/chetaslua/status/1973694615518880236

11 months ago

How the AI Bubble Will Pop

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-will-pop

11 months ago

EU funds are flowing into spyware companies and politicians demanding answers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/eu_spyware_funding/

11 months ago

Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

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

11 months ago

10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life

https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups

11 months ago

The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit

https://ut21.github.io/blog/triton.html

11 months ago

Why I chose Lua for this blog

https://andregarzia.com/2025/03/why-i-choose-lua-for-this-blog.html

11 months ago

N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables

https://community.n8n.io/t/data-tables-are-here/192256

11 months ago

Old Stockholm Telephone Tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

11 months ago

Keyhive – Local-first access control

https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/

11 months ago

Email immutability matters more in a world with AI

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/not-written-with-ai/

11 months ago

Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/01/autism-should-not-be-seen-as-single-condition-with-one-cause-say-scientists

11 months ago

Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it

https://blog.railway.com/p/product-planning-improvement

11 months ago

Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends

https://hannahilea.com/blog/birdnet-intro/

11 months ago

What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?

https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/what-makes-5-of-ai-agents-actually

11 months ago

Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-marketshare-jumps-to-nearly-10-as-windows-10-enters-final-weeks-of-support/

11 months ago

DHH Is Worse Than I Thought

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

11 months ago

Gov workers say their shutdown out-of-office replies were forcibly changed

https://www.wired.com/story/government-workers-say-their-out-of-office-replies-were-forcibly-changed-to-blame-democrats-for-shutdown/

11 months ago

Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-10-01-solveit-full.html

11 months ago

Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451567

11 months ago

US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for fed funds

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-sets-hiring-foreign-enrolment-terms-colleges-get-funding-advantage-2025-10-02/

11 months ago

Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021)

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/

11 months ago

Piracy Operator Goes from Jail to Getting Hired by a Tech Unicorn in a Month

https://torrentfreak.com/sports-piracy-operator-goes-from-jail-to-getting-hired-by-a-tech-unicorn-in-a-month/

11 months ago

The Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google

https://blog.google/technology/research/scaling-quantum-computing-even-faster-with-atlantic-quantum/

11 months ago

Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/106972.107003

11 months ago

Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to factory workers in 2023

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ceo-epiphany-talking-gen-161600158.html

11 months ago

Pharma is a small component of US health care spending

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/10/02/does-big-pharma-gouge-americans

11 months ago

Mamdani says he would phase out NYC gifted program for early grades

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/mamdani-schools-gifted-and-talented-program.html

11 months ago

Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1nw5s9f/ford_locking_basic_navigation_behind_a/

11 months ago

Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments

https://dynomight.net/ai-risk/

11 months ago

Typepad is closed for business

https://www.typepad.com

11 months ago

The biggest semantic mess in Futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2025-09-26-the-biggest-semantic-mess.html

11 months ago

Writing high-performance matrix multiplication kernels for Blackwell

https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/pallas/gpu/blackwell_matmul.html

11 months ago

Moving PHP open source forward

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/10/moving-php-open-source-forward/

11 months ago

Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling

https://pirg.org/articles/why-the-end-of-support-for-windows-10-is-uniquely-troubling/

11 months ago

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/windows_10_statcounter/

11 months ago