top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-04

Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/

11 months ago

SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/sec-approves-texas-stock-exchange-txse/

11 months ago

The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdoor-encryption-apple-users

11 months ago

Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices

11 months ago

How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-influence-politics/

11 months ago

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving

https://github.com/DebarghaG/proofofthought

11 months ago

Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_007.pdf

11 months ago

A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code

https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md

11 months ago

Self-hosting email like it's 1984

https://maxadamski.com/blog/2025/10/email.html

11 months ago

Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript

https://github.com/irony/aspipes

11 months ago

Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/alibaba_cloud_fpga/

11 months ago

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html

11 months ago

Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?

https://tomtunguz.com/nvidia_nortel_vendor_financing_comparison/

11 months ago

Blog Feeds

https://blogfeeds.net

11 months ago

$912 energy independence without red tape

https://sunboxlabs.com/

11 months ago

New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work

https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/new-antibiotic-targets-ibd-and-ai-predicted-how-it-would-work-before-scientists-could-prove-it/

11 months ago

The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing

https://www.buchstabenmuseum.de/en/

11 months ago

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commercial-failure

11 months ago

X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries

https://www.theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect

11 months ago

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

11 months ago

Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/02/scientists-are-discovering-a-powerful-new-way-to-prevent-cancer

11 months ago

Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/Thunderscan.html

11 months ago

Orcas are bringing humans gifts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2486216-orcas-are-bringing-humans-gifts-what-does-it-mean/

11 months ago

AI-powered open-source code laundering

https://github.com/SudoMaker/rEFui/blob/main/HALL_OF_SHAME.md

11 months ago

Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown

https://www.theverge.com/news/791533/google-apple-ice-tracking-app-store-red-dot-iceblock

11 months ago

Say Goodbye

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3717

11 months ago

Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/

11 months ago

Sora Update #1

https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-update-number-1

11 months ago

Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)

https://toyotatimes.jp/en/spotlights/1061.html

11 months ago

How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html

11 months ago

OpenAI's hunger for computing power

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sam-altman-asia-middle-east-7b660809

11 months ago

Binary Formats Gallery

https://formats.kaitai.io/

11 months ago

Matrix Core Programming on AMD GPUs

https://salykova.github.io/matrix-cores-cdna

11 months ago

Privacy Harm Is Harm

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/privacy-harm-harm

11 months ago

How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19371

11 months ago

Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-introduces-net-dollar-to-support-a-new-business-model-for-the-ai-driven-internet/

11 months ago

Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust

https://github.com/Esubaalew/run

11 months ago

Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages

https://microformats.org

11 months ago

Retrocide Mono – A monospaced font with no decenders

https://geonot.github.io/retrocide-mono/

11 months ago

Cuckoo hashing improves SIMD hash tables (and other hash table tradeoffs)

https://reiner.org/cuckoo-hashing

11 months ago

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12351

11 months ago

Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474346

11 months ago

Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-report-finds-that-doge-continues-to-operate-unchecked-likely-violating-federal-privacy-and-security-laws-and-putting-the-safety-of-americans-personal-information-in-danger/

11 months ago

Starship's eleventh flight test

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-11

11 months ago

XiangShan Vector Floating-Point Unit Design

https://docs.xiangshan.cc/projects/design/en/latest/backend/VFPU/

11 months ago

Empathy for Dummies

https://quarter--mile.com/empathy-for-dummies

11 months ago

A Mac-like experience on Linux

https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/a-mac-like-experience-on-linux/

11 months ago

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md

11 months ago