top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-08

A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/

10 months ago

Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

10 months ago

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/

10 months ago

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

10 months ago

One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill

https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/

10 months ago

OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-nvidia-amd-deals-boost-1-trillion-ai-boom-with-circular-deals

10 months ago

The email they shouldn't have read

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/08/the-email-they-shouldnt-have-read/

10 months ago

Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251007-how-ultrasound-is-ushering-a-new-era-of-surgery-free-cancer-treatment

10 months ago

Kurt Got Got

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-got-got/

10 months ago

A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

10 months ago

After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64

https://www.readonlymemo.com/mame-hyper-neo-geo-support-sound-emulation/

10 months ago

The RSS feed reader landscape

https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive

10 months ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

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

10 months ago

Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law

https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/

10 months ago

WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

https://www.winboat.app/

10 months ago

Suspicionless ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115337976340299372

10 months ago

Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chatgpt-palisades-fire-suspect-1235443216/

10 months ago

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025

https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-growth-zero-first-half-2025-jason-furman-harvard-economist/

10 months ago

JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in

https://github.com/rictic/jsonriver

10 months ago

Ortega hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortega_hypothesis

10 months ago