top 50% 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

10 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/

10 months ago

Social Cooling (2017)

https://www.socialcooling.com/

10 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/

10 months ago

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

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

10 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

10 months ago

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data

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

10 months ago

Ambigr.am

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

10 months ago

The QNX Operating System

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

10 months ago

Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify

https://bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setup_and_Security_Checklist_A_Complete_Self_Hosting_Guide

10 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

10 months ago

NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece

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

10 months ago

Retiring Test-Ipv6.com

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

10 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/

10 months ago

BYD builds fastest car

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

10 months ago

Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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

10 months ago

Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

Benefits of choosing email over messaging

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

10 months ago

NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System

https://nfs40.online/

10 months ago

Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/as-microsoft-lays-off-thousands-and-jacks-up-game-pass-prices-former-ftc-chair-says-i-told-you-so-the-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-harming-both-gamers-and-developers/

10 months ago

Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT

https://github.com/ksdme/ut

10 months ago

Lánczos Interpolation Explained (2022)

https://mazzo.li/posts/lanczos.html

10 months ago

If the University of Chicago won't defend the humanities, who will?

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/08/university-chicago-humanities-doctorate/684004/

10 months ago

Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/business/sharpie-us-production-cost-cutting-d9ba2abd

10 months ago

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyperscape-technology-to-turn-real-world-spaces-into-vr/

10 months ago

The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics/

10 months ago

After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/after-nine-years-of-grinding-replit-finally-found-its-market-can-it-keep-it/

10 months ago

Ken Parker, famed luthier, has died

https://kenparkerarchtops.com

10 months ago

Packing the world for longest lines of sight

https://tombh.co.uk/packing-world-lines-of-sight

10 months ago

Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders

https://github.com/ludo-technologies/pyscn

10 months ago

86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)

https://github.com/ashtonsix/perf-portfolio/tree/main/bytepack

10 months ago

Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL

https://github.com/daniellionel01/parrot

10 months ago

Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board

https://www.delopsu.com/draw.html

10 months ago

Aerocart cargo gliders

https://www.aerolane.com/

10 months ago

1Password CLI Vulnerability

https://codeberg.org/manchicken/1password-cli-vuln-disclosure

10 months ago

Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

https://github.com/landley/toybox

10 months ago

Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power

https://zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power

10 months ago

Estimating AI energy use

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use

10 months ago

The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing

https://joinreboot.org/p/lighthouses-in-the-sky

10 months ago

Focus Is Saying No

https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/software-modernization-projects-dilemma-part-2-7f6002c4b6f1

10 months ago

Rule-Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments (1984)

https://www.shortliffe.net/Buchanan-Shortliffe-1984/MYCIN%20Book.htm

10 months ago

Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485089

10 months ago

You can't parse XML with regex. Let's do it anyways

https://sdomi.pl/weblog/26-nobody-here-is-free-of-sin/

10 months ago

Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar

https://www.grumpygamer.com/git_json_markdown/

10 months ago

When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/intellijollamaconnectionmystery/

10 months ago

I do not want to be a programmer anymore

https://mindthenerd.com/i-do-not-want-to-be-a-programmer-anymore-after-losing-an-argument-to-ai-and-my-wife/

10 months ago

Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer

https://richardsapperdesign.com/products/mod-5140/

10 months ago