top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-06

Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601

10 months ago

The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)

https://thecascade.dev/article/least-amount-of-css/

10 months ago

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/

10 months ago

1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

10 months ago

My first contribution to Linux

https://vkoskiv.com/first-linux-patch/

10 months ago

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

10 months ago

Gem.coop

https://gem.coop/

10 months ago

Structured Procrastination (1995)

https://structuredprocrastination.com

10 months ago

Apps SDK

https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/

10 months ago

An illustrated introduction to linear algebra

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-introduction-to-linear

10 months ago

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake

https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-signs-ai-chip-supply-deal-with-openai-gives-it-option-take-10-stake-2025-10-06/

10 months ago

OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework/

10 months ago

Mise: Monorepo Tasks

https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6564

10 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/

10 months ago

Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-browser

10 months ago

A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

https://kau.sh/blog/usbi/

10 months ago

A History of Large Language Models

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2025/10/01/large-language-models/

10 months ago

Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490740

10 months ago

Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker

https://write-it-down.com

10 months ago

One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/

10 months ago

It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/well/sam-terblanche-virus-death-columbia.html

10 months ago

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20251003175/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-and-four-times-subprime-this-analyst-argues

10 months ago

Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)

https://gist.github.com/swatson555/8cc36d8d022d7e5cc44a5edb2c4f7d0b

10 months ago

Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server

https://www.codedge.de/posts/modern-messaging-running-your-own-xmpp-server

10 months ago

Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/valorants-128-tick-servers

10 months ago

State Terror, American Style

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terror-american-style

10 months ago

Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/06/datablocks-white-label-drives/

10 months ago

Uv overtakes pip in CI

https://wagtail.org/blog/uv-overtakes-pip-in-ci/

10 months ago

Ohno Type School: A (2020)

https://ohnotype.co/blog/ohno-type-school-a

10 months ago

More random home lab things I've recently learned

https://chollinger.com/blog/2025/10/more-homelab-things-ive-recently-learned/

10 months ago

OpenAI ChatKit

https://github.com/openai/chatkit-js

10 months ago

CodeMender: an AI agent for code security

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security/

10 months ago

The Debugging Book

https://www.debuggingbook.org/

10 months ago

Global Village Construction Set

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

10 months ago

CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go

https://skoredin.pro/blog/golang/cpu-cache-friendly-go

10 months ago

Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest/

10 months ago

Why we need SIMD

https://parallelprogrammer.substack.com/p/why-we-need-simd-the-real-reason

10 months ago

Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-discover-prime-number-pattern-in-fractal-chaos/

10 months ago

Under the hood: Vec<T>

https://marma.dev/articles/2025/under-the-hood-vec-t

10 months ago

Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/parallel-coding-agents/

10 months ago

Flightcontrol: A PaaS that deploys to your AWS account

https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

10 months ago

Apple's Unlawful Evil

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/rogue-capitalism/#orphaned-syrian-refugees-need-not-apply

10 months ago

Show HN: A Digital Twin of my coffee roaster that runs in the browser

https://autoroaster.com/

10 months ago

A quiet change to RSA

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/06/a-quiet-change-to-rsa/

10 months ago

RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-redis-rce-cve-2025-49844

10 months ago

Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)

https://deflock.me/

10 months ago

Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing

https://batteringram.eu/

10 months ago

"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore

https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/be-different-doesnt-work-for-building

10 months ago

When ChatGPT turns informant

https://www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/when-chatgpt-turns-snitch

10 months ago

A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch

https://gpuopen.com/learn/pytorch-windows-amd-llm-guide/

10 months ago

Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-democracy/zurich-voters-ban-petrol-powered-leaf-blowers/90082192

10 months ago

Talk Python in Production

https://talkpython.fm/books/python-in-production

10 months ago

Chess.com regional pricing: A case study

https://mobeigi.com/blog/economics/chesscom-regional-pricing/

10 months ago

ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs

https://github.com/scribeocr/scribeocr

10 months ago

Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024)

https://blog.adacore.com/should-i-choose-ada-spark-or-rust-over-c-c

10 months ago

FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign

10 months ago

Neutts-air – Open-source, on device TTS

https://github.com/neuphonic/neutts-air

10 months ago

Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-signal-heartbeat-detection

10 months ago

OpenAI is good at deals

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-06/openai-is-good-at-deals

10 months ago

Mic-E-Mouse – Covert eavesdropping through computer mice

https://sites.google.com/view/mic-e-mouse

10 months ago

The product of the railways is the timetable

https://springbett.substack.com/p/the-product-of-the-railways-is-the

10 months ago

Being blocked from contributing to lodash

https://c.ruatta.com/on-being-blocked-from-contributing-to-lodash/

10 months ago

Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251005085621.htm

10 months ago

Translating Cython to Mojo, a first attempt

https://fnands.com/blog/2025/sklearn-mojo-dbscan-inner/

10 months ago

Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS

https://catgirl.online/2025/10/01/libtorrent-socks-woes

10 months ago

GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

https://github.com/psalias2006/gpu-hot

10 months ago

Dimensions of everyday objects

https://www.dimensions.com/

10 months ago

Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

https://stratechery.com/2025/sora-ai-bicycles-and-meta-disruption/

10 months ago