top 20 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

11 months ago

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/

11 months ago

Social Cooling (2017)

https://www.socialcooling.com/

11 months ago

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

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

11 months ago

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

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

11 months ago

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

11 months ago

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data

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

11 months ago

The QNX Operating System

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

11 months ago

Ambigr.am

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

11 months ago

Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify

https://bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setup_and_Security_Checklist_A_Complete_Self_Hosting_Guide

11 months ago

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

11 months ago

NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece

https://erichartford.com/the-demonization-of-deepseek

11 months ago

Retiring Test-Ipv6.com

https://retire.test-ipv6.com/

11 months ago

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks

https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/

11 months ago

BYD builds fastest car

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/content/news/byd-builds-world-s-fastest-car

11 months ago

Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management

11 months ago

Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

11 months ago

Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/10/05/memory13.html

11 months ago

Benefits of choosing email over messaging

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20250926/?li

11 months ago

NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System

https://nfs40.online/

11 months ago