top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-10-05

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

a week ago

2078 upvotes – 933 comments

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports/

2 weeks ago

555 upvotes – 490 comments

Social Cooling (2017)

https://www.socialcooling.com/

2 weeks ago

432 upvotes – 276 comments

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/

a week ago

419 upvotes – 627 comments

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

https://blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/

a week ago

406 upvotes – 279 comments

The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-months

a week ago

362 upvotes – 324 comments

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data

https://fi-le.net/oss/

a week ago

348 upvotes – 82 comments

The QNX Operating System

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system

a week ago

322 upvotes – 138 comments

Ambigr.am

https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame

2 weeks ago

321 upvotes – 42 comments

Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify

https://bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setup_and_Security_Checklist_A_Complete_Self_Hosting_Guide

a week ago

306 upvotes – 156 comments
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