top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-03

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-reveal-biological-basis-of-long-covid-brain-fog/

10 months ago

C++26: `Std:Optional<T&>`

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/01/cpp26-optional-of-reference

10 months ago

RacketCon (fifteenth) October 4-5, 2025

https://con.racket-lang.org/

10 months ago

S.F. speed cameras are generating mountains of tickets and fines

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/speed-camera-tickets-data-21076408.php

10 months ago

Update on a security incident involving third-party customer service

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

10 months ago

Almost 1B Salesforce records stolen, hacker group claims

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/almost-1-billion-salesforce-records-stolen-hacker-group-claims-2025-10-03/

10 months ago

Windows 7 usage seemingly skyrockets in wake of Windows 10 end of support

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-7-usage-skyrockets-as-users-refuse-to-upgrade-to-windows-11-in-wake-of-windows-10-end-of-support

10 months ago

When private practices merge with hospital systems, costs go up

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/when-private-practices-merge-with-hospital-systems-costs-go-up

10 months ago

Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd1j02y88do

10 months ago

Discord's customer service system compromised

https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1974243103990014154

10 months ago

Zig builds are getting faster

https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster

10 months ago

Cyber-attackers slammed the brakes on Jaguar Land Rover's manufacturing

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-cyber-slammed-jaguar-rover-uk.html

10 months ago

Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/everyone-but-china-has-pretty-much-stopped-littering-in-low-earth-orbit/

10 months ago

What Is a Semantic Layer?

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/what-is-a-semantic-layer

10 months ago

Groups File Suit over Trump's $100k H-1B Visa Fee

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/h-1b-visa-fee-lawsuit.html

10 months ago

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

10 months ago

Beyond papers: rethinking science in the era of artificial intelligence

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/03/beyond-papers-rethinking-science-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence/

10 months ago

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-ai-designed-proteins-create-a-biosecurity-vulnerability/

10 months ago

'Thought We Got Nuked': Aerial View of LA Refinery Inferno [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe73mAVbTCw

10 months ago

Reading Hacker News RSS with DuckDB

https://zaferbalkan.com/reading-hackernews-rss-with-duckdb/

10 months ago