top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-07

Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

10 months ago

German government comes out against Chat Control

https://xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/status/1975595307800142205

10 months ago

Vibe engineering

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/

10 months ago

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

10 months ago

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

https://timelinize.com

10 months ago

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-bill-would-strip-internet-access-from-specified-persons

10 months ago

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021

https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/

10 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/

10 months ago

Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloitte-to-pay-money-back-to-albanese-government-after-using-ai-in-440000-report

10 months ago

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html

10 months ago

Seeing like a software company

https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/

10 months ago

Doing Rails Wrong

https://www.bananacurvingmachine.com/articles/you-re-doing-rails-wrong

10 months ago

California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/dial-it-down-california-forces-netflix-hulu-to-lower-ad-volume-00595663

10 months ago

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/windows_11_local_account_loophole/

10 months ago

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

10 months ago

Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks

https://alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.html

10 months ago

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.'

https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/

10 months ago

User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys

10 months ago

Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/solar-energy-now-worlds-cheapest-source-power-surrey-study-finds

10 months ago

Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush

10 months ago

Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo

10 months ago

The day my smart vacuum turned against me

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

10 months ago

Become unbannable from your email

https://karboosx.net/post/PJOveGVa/become-unbannable-from-your-emailgmail

10 months ago

The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/twin-towers-construction-photographs/

10 months ago

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]

https://www.lua.org/doc/cola.pdf

10 months ago

Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/

10 months ago

A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry

https://www.motor1.com/news/774805/ford-ceo-complains-shortage-mechanics/

10 months ago

How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)

https://jherrm.github.io/knobs/

10 months ago

Erlang ARM32 JIT is born

https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-10-07-jit-arm32.3

10 months ago

America is now one big bet on AI

https://www.ft.com/content/6cc87bd9-cb2f-4f82-99c5-c38748986a2e

10 months ago

Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler

https://scheme.fail/

10 months ago

3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-3m-pfas-toxic-legacy-turnaround/

10 months ago

Putting a dumb weather station on the internet

https://colincogle.name/blog/byo-weather-station/

10 months ago

The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/09/30/the-murky-economics-of-the-data-centre-investment-boom

10 months ago

Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminating-contrails

10 months ago

The World's 2.75B Buildings

https://tech.marksblogg.com/building-footprints-gba.html

10 months ago

Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/

10 months ago

The Flummoxagon

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

10 months ago

Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251001-swiss-glaciers-shrank-by-a-quarter-in-past-decade-study

10 months ago

Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504127

10 months ago

Tcl-Lang Showcase

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Showcase

10 months ago

Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time

https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/gold-prices-top-4-000-for-first-time-d63ab2bd

10 months ago

Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects

https://pdoc.dev/

10 months ago

Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI

https://github.com/llama-farm/llamafarm

10 months ago

Hardware Stockholm Syndrome

https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/hardware-stockholm-syndrome

10 months ago

Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout

https://jacobsherin.com/posts/2025-08-18-bplustree-struct-hack/

10 months ago

Control your Canon Camera wirelessly

https://github.com/JulianSchroden/cine_remote

10 months ago

Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf]

https://www.iaarc.org/publications/fulltext/The_helix-tower_by_konrad_zuse_automated_con-_and_deconstruction.pdf

10 months ago

Ancient Patagonian hunter-gatherers took care of their injured and disabled

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-patagonian-hunter-disabled.html

10 months ago

The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

http://marcosh.github.io/post/2025/10/07/the-mondrian-introduction-to-functional-optics.html

10 months ago

Building a JavaScript Runtime using C

https://devlogs.xyz/blog/building-a-javaScript-runtime

10 months ago

California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/06/no-more-loud-commercials-governor-newsom-signs-sb-576/

10 months ago

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patterns-solve-a-major-physics-riddle-20251006/

10 months ago

Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes

https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-with-tursos-concurrent-writes

10 months ago

Learning a foreign language–before you're born

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/10/03/learning-a-foreign-language-before-you-re-born

10 months ago

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/06/upshot/us-international-student-travel.html

10 months ago

Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm

https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/disk-perf-git-and-pnpm

10 months ago

Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco

https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-financing-my-klarna-doritos

10 months ago

Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

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

10 months ago

The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research

https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/gain-of-function-research-tuberculosis-expert-nih/

10 months ago

The publishing industry has a gambling problem

https://thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-industry-has-a-gambling-problem/

10 months ago