top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-09

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

10 months ago

Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it

10 months ago

Examples are the best documentation

https://rakhim.exotext.com/examples-are-the-best-documentation

10 months ago

California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing

https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

10 months ago

Show HN: I built a web framework in C

https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula

10 months ago

Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard

https://github.com/mafik/keyer

10 months ago

Why is everything so scalable?

https://www.stavros.io/posts/why-is-everything-so-scalable/

10 months ago

Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-03

10 months ago

Why Self-Host?

https://romanzipp.com/blog/why-a-homelab-why-self-host

10 months ago

Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at

https://kix.dev/two-things-llm-coding-agents-are-still-bad-at/

10 months ago

The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

10 months ago

The React Foundation

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/open-source/introducing-the-react-foundation-the-new-home-for-react-react-native/

10 months ago

LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1976077806443569355

10 months ago

Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game

https://www.subwaybuilder.com/

10 months ago

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-event-september-2025/

10 months ago

New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice

https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/189235/new-nanotherapy-clears-amyloid-%CE%B2-reversing-alzheimers-in-mice/

10 months ago

Hacker News Live Feed

https://jerbear2008.github.io/hn-live/

10 months ago

Pointer Pointer (2012)

https://pointerpointer.com

10 months ago

The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/guilty-proven-innocent-fight-doctors-insurance-companies-downcoding-rcna230714

10 months ago

N8n raises $180M

https://blog.n8n.io/series-c/

10 months ago

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai

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

10 months ago

California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-first-in-the-nation-law-to-ban-ultra-processed-foods-from-school-lunches/

10 months ago

A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-neurons-brainstem-may-hold-key-treating-chronic-pain

10 months ago

Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much

https://www.wsj.com/economy/federal-budget-fiscal-2025-e8d21595

10 months ago

Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/french-post-office-rolls-out-croissant-scented-stamp/

10 months ago

The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive

https://divisbyzero.com/2025/10/08/the-unknotting-number-is-not-additive/

10 months ago

First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-device-based-optical-thermodynamics-route.html

10 months ago

MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers

https://micropythonos.com

10 months ago

Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)

https://ttchisholm.github.io/ethernet/2023/05/01/designing-10g-eth-1.html

10 months ago

Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC

https://danielmangum.com/posts/laptop-hdmi-monitor-sbc/

10 months ago

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform

https://sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt

10 months ago

I made a small LED panel

https://www.stavros.io/posts/really-small-led-panel/

10 months ago

The government ate my name

https://slate.com/life/2025/10/passport-name-change-united-states-mexico-spain-immigration.html

10 months ago

I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue)

https://nima101.github.io/io_multiplexing

10 months ago

Show HN: Open source, logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication

https://github.com/pgEdge/spock

10 months ago

Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-so-many-pedestrians-killed

10 months ago

Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewing-intels-chief-architect

10 months ago

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

10 months ago

ESP32 and Termux

https://blog.gavide.dev/blog/esp32-and-termux

10 months ago

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/mckinsey_ai_monetization/

10 months ago

Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go

https://github.com/wizenheimer/blaze

10 months ago

Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn

https://www.ketzu.net/dark-patterns-buying-a-bahncard-at-deutsche-bahn/

10 months ago

Python's splitlines does more than just newlines

https://yossarian.net/til/post/python-s-splitlines-does-a-lot-more-than-just-newlines/

10 months ago

How to write in Cuneiform

https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html

10 months ago

Incident with Webhooks

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/k7bhmjkblcwp

10 months ago

Resizeable Bar Support on the Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/resizeable-bar-support-on-raspberry-pi

10 months ago

3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station

https://3dpaws.comet.ucar.edu

10 months ago

The C++ programmer and educator Rainer Grimm has passed away

https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my-als-journey-31-31-the-end/

10 months ago

Finding a VS Code Memory Leak

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/finding-a-vs-code-memory-leak/

10 months ago

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it

10 months ago

US opens Tesla probe after more crashes involving its "full self-driving"

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-full-selfdriving-investigation-nhtsa-1f7fe4da8df2abfa03341c30a0f1b8b5

10 months ago

Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/cybersecurity-training-programs-dont-prevent-employees-from-falling-for-phishing-scams

10 months ago

CRDT and SQLite: Local-First Value Synchronization

https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/the-secret-life-of-a-local-first

10 months ago

Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/man-gets-drunk-wakes-up-with-a-medical-mystery-that-nearly-kills-him/

10 months ago

Goiaba: An experimental Go compiler, written in Rust

https://github.com/raphamorim/goiaba

10 months ago

A Early History of Algebraic Data Types

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history/

10 months ago

Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn't Your Enemy

https://byroot.github.io/opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html

10 months ago

Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/predator-drones-shift-from-border-patrol-to-protest-surveillance

10 months ago

Tonight's restaurant dinner fell off the Sysco truck

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/restaurant-consolidation-loss-local-identity/

10 months ago

US Launches Financial Rescue of Argentina, Treasury Buys Pesos

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/bessent-says-20-billion-us-argentina-currency-swap-finalized

10 months ago

Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010)

http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2010/01/13/zippers-making-functional-updates-efficient/

10 months ago

QUIC and the end of TCP sockets

https://codemia.io/blog/path/QUIC-and-the-End-of-TCP-Sockets-How-User-Space-Transport-Rewrites-Flow-Control

10 months ago