top 50% 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/

1 year ago

Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

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

1 year ago

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

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

1 year 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

1 year 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/

1 year 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

1 year ago

The email they shouldn't have read

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

1 year 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

1 year ago

Kurt Got Got

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

1 year 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/

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

The RSS feed reader landscape

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

1 year ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

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

1 year ago

Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law

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

1 year ago

WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

https://www.winboat.app/

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year 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/

1 year ago

JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in

https://github.com/rictic/jsonriver

1 year ago

Ortega hypothesis

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

1 year ago

Show HN: Baby's first international landline

https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-international-landline/

1 year ago

Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration

https://hforsten.com/synthetic-aperture-radar-autofocus-and-calibration.html

1 year ago

Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance

https://chuniversiteit.nl/papers/svelte-is-fast

1 year ago

Julia 1.12 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2025/10/julia-1.12-highlights/

1 year ago

Hacking the Humane AI Pin

https://writings.agg.im/posts/hacking_ai_pin/

1 year ago

Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@joseairosa/recall

1 year ago

Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3

https://github.com/pytauri/pytauri

1 year ago

The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/brain-navigates-new-spaces-by-flickering-between-reality-and-old-mental-maps/

1 year ago

The weaponization of travel blacklists

https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/06/the-weaponization-of-travel-blacklists/

1 year ago

Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-cli-extensions/

1 year ago

Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI

https://www.ft.com/content/fe474cff-564c-41d2-aaf7-313636a83e5b

1 year ago

Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/08/report-apple-defined-ice-as-a-protected-class-in-blocking-discriminatory-anti-ice-apps.html

1 year ago

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly10275v5zo

1 year ago

The Tiny Teams Playbook

https://www.latent.space/p/tiny

1 year ago

Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-10-02-from-millions-to-billions/

1 year ago

Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/25/study-of-1m-year-old-skull-points-to-earlier-origins-of-modern-humans

1 year ago

Portland is not burning. Here's live context and sourced fact checks

https://isportlandburning.com/

1 year ago

Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL

https://pglinter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

1 year ago

Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting

https://github.com/gue-ni/redstart

1 year ago

I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

https://blog.rchase.com/i-played-1-000-hands-of-online-poker-and-built-a-web-app-with-cursor-ai/

1 year ago

Show HN: CSS Extras

https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-extras

1 year ago

Show HN: FleetCode – Open-source UI for running multiple coding agents

https://github.com/built-by-as/FleetCode

1 year ago

GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-azure-over-feature-development/

1 year ago

Vectrex Mini

https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-details/

1 year ago

Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons

https://ohyahapp.com

1 year ago

The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/09/the-paradoxical-efficient-market-hypothesis.html

1 year ago

Beyond indexes: How open table formats optimize query performance

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/10/8/beyond-indexes-how-open-table-formats-optimize-query-performance

1 year ago

PWA Browser Scorecards

https://pwascore.com/

1 year ago

C++ Reflection and Qt MOC

https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc

1 year ago

Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0465

1 year ago

Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

https://feelingof.com/episodes/078/

1 year ago

A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/a-clausewitzian-lens-on-modern-urban-warfare/

1 year ago

TiVo exiting legacy DVR business

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting-legacy-dvr-business/

1 year ago

Circular AI deals among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD are raising eyebrows

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-08/the-circular-openai-nvidia-and-amd-deals-raising-fears-of-a-new-tech-bubble

1 year ago

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/civil-military-crisis-trump-hegseth/684486/

1 year ago

NanoMi: Source-available transmission electron microscope

https://nanomi.org/

1 year ago

Automatic K8s pod placement to match external service zones

https://github.com/toredash/automatic-zone-placement

1 year ago

EPA Moves to Roll Back Drinking Water Standards

https://www.newsweek.com/epa-drinking-water-pfas-standards-10839033

1 year ago

AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/more_researchers_use_ai_few_confident/

1 year ago

Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app

https://wherever.audio

1 year ago

Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents

https://paid.ai/blog/ai-agents/paid-gitlaw-introducing-legal-contracts-built-for-ai-agents

1 year ago

All-New Next Gen of UniFi Storage

https://blog.ui.com/article/all-new-next-gen-of-unifi-storage

1 year ago

Dr. Jane Goodall's final message to the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfLKHY52ERc

1 year ago

Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic plastics

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/imitation-ivory-and-power-play

1 year ago

HATEOAS for Haunted Houses

https://www.sanfordtech.xyz/posts/hateoas-for-haunted-houses/

1 year ago

Interactive Double Pendulum Playground

https://theabbie.github.io/DoublePendulum/

1 year ago

Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries

https://clockss.org/

1 year ago