top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-03

Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-tracking-app-after-pressure-from-ag-bondi

10 months ago

Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

10 months ago

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/

10 months ago

Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

10 months ago

Zig builds are getting faster

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

10 months ago

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

https://peps.python.org/pep-0810/

10 months ago

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

https://animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crunchyroll-subtitles

10 months ago

I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-spent-the-day-trying-to-teach-seniors-how-to-use-an-iphone-and-it-was-a-nightmare.2468117/

10 months ago

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

10 months ago

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298

10 months ago

How does gradient descent work?

https://centralflows.github.io/part1/

10 months ago

Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html

10 months ago

Social anxiety isn't about being liked

https://chrislakin.blog/p/social-anxiety

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

I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy

https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/

10 months ago

FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go

https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk

10 months ago

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

10 months ago

Cancellations in async Rust

https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/

10 months ago

The collapse of the econ PhD job market

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-econ-phd-job

10 months ago

Which table format do LLMs understand best?

https://www.improvingagents.com/blog/best-input-data-format-for-llms

10 months ago

Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API

https://jules.google/docs/changelog/

10 months ago

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/anduril-palantir-ngc2-deep-flaws-army.html

10 months ago

OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

10 months ago

Blender 4.5 LTS

https://lwn.net/Articles/1036262/

10 months ago

Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/microsoft-wants-to-mainly-use-its-own-ai-chips-in-the-future.html

10 months ago

The Faroes

https://photoblog.nk412.com/Faroe2025/Faroes/n-cPCNFr

10 months ago

Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night

https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/

10 months ago

Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?

https://www.alexmolas.com/2025/07/28/unexpected-benefit-llm.html

10 months ago

Using Deno as my game engine

https://explodi.tubatuba.net/2025/09/26/using-deno-as-my-game-engine

10 months ago

AMD's EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-epyc-9355p-inside-a-32-core

10 months ago

How we are building Audacity 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38

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

WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home

https://garrido.io/notes/wireguard-topologies-for-self-hosting-at-home/

10 months ago

Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/digital-id-the-new-chains-of-capitalist-surveillance/

10 months ago

California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness

https://www.governance.fyi/p/california-needs-to-learn-from-houston

10 months ago

Arenas in Rust

https://russellw.github.io/arenas

10 months ago

Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL

https://github.com/jmsdnns/webbol

10 months ago

Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019)

https://www.sciencealert.com/ants-trapped-in-an-old-soviet-nuclear-bunker-survived-for-years-by-turning-on-their-own

10 months ago

Stdlib: A library of frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership

https://debuggingleadership.com/stdlib

10 months ago

Mister Macintosh (2004)

https://folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html

10 months ago

Delimited continuations in lone Lisp

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/delimited-continuations-in-lone-lisp

10 months ago

Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack

https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-russia-drones-hybrid-war/

10 months ago

Be Worried

https://dlo.me/archives/2025/10/03/you-should-be-worried/

10 months ago

You Want Technology with Warts

https://entropicthoughts.com/you-want-technology-with-warts

10 months ago

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c

10 months ago

Arbitrary code execution in Unity Runtime

https://flatt.tech/research/posts/arbitrary-code-execution-in-unity-runtime/

10 months ago

The biggest sign of an AI bubble is starting to appear – debt

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/03/ai-bubble-meta-oracle-microsoft

10 months ago

Ink deformation

https://www.inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/ink-deformation-review/

10 months ago

Apple removes ICEBlock and similar tracking apps from the App Store

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/apple-removes-iceblock-and-similar-tracking-apps-from-the-app-store/

10 months ago

Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/10/send-gmail-end-to-end-encrypted-emails-in-gmail.html

10 months ago

Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines

https://buttondown.com/blog/ringo-email-as-an-ai-interface

10 months ago

'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer

https://venturebeat.com/ai/western-qwen-ibm-wows-with-granite-4-llm-launch-and-hybrid-mamba-transformer

10 months ago

How to tile matrix multiplication (2023)

https://alvinwan.com/how-to-tile-matrix-multiplication/

10 months ago

Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer

https://dcmlr.inf.fu-berlin.de/rojas/index.html%3Fp=560.html

10 months ago

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles

https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

10 months ago

Show HN: FLE v0.3 – Claude Code Plays Factorio

https://jackhopkins.github.io/factorio-learning-environment/versions/0.3.0.html

10 months ago

Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward a Mass Market

https://technicshistory.com/2025/10/03/microcomputers-the-second-wave-towards-a-mass-market/

10 months ago

Tesla Cybertruck Isn't Allowed in Germany, Not Even the US Army Can Change That

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a68133176/us-armed-forces-service-members-no-tesla-cybertruck/

10 months ago

Divorce plunged in Kentucky – equal custody for fathers is a big reason why

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/the-equal-custody-experiment-41e1f7a6

10 months ago

TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/03/tiktok-child-accounts-pornographic-content-accessible

10 months ago

Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open

https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-cybertruck-car-door-malfunction-2043976

10 months ago

Reasons to Not Use ChatGPT

https://stallman.org/chatgpt.html

10 months ago

White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/02/trump-publishes-enemies-list-to-white-house-website-and-its-just-democrats-speaking-the-truth/

10 months ago

Apple Pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

10 months ago

Apple removes ICEBlock, won't allow apps that report locations of ICE agents

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-bends-to-trump-admin-demand-to-remove-ice-tracking-apps-like-iceblock/

10 months ago