top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-11

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users

1 year ago

The <output> Tag

https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag

1 year ago

Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/entertainment/nobel-prize-winner-opts-for-suicide-in-switzerland-2619460.html

1 year ago

GNU Health

https://www.gnuhealth.org/about-us.html

1 year ago

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/

1 year ago

Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG

https://paddedinputs.substack.com/p/meta-superintelligences-surprising

1 year ago

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)

https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial

1 year ago

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553132

1 year ago

Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

https://reason.com/2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-million-bond-for-posting-facebook-meme/

1 year ago

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bombarded-with-ads/

1 year ago

LineageOS 23

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/

1 year ago

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing

1 year ago

AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/amd-and-sony-tease-new-chip-architecture-ahead-of-playstation-6/

1 year ago

Firefox is the best mobile browser

https://kelvinjps.com/blog/firefox-best-mobile-browser/

1 year ago

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD

1 year ago

AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025

https://videocardz.com/newz/av2-video-codec-delivers-30-lower-bitrate-than-av1-final-spec-due-in-late-2025

1 year ago

Microsoft Amplifier

https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier

1 year ago

Rating 26 years of Java changes

https://neilmadden.blog/2025/09/12/rating-26-years-of-java-changes/

1 year ago

CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code

https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/camoleak-critical-github-copilot-vulnerability-leaks-private-source-code

1 year ago

Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere

https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444/

1 year ago

How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

https://james-simon.github.io/blog/chicken-cooking/

1 year ago

Discord hack shows risks of online age checks

https://news.sky.com/story/discord-hack-shows-dangers-of-online-age-checks-as-internet-policing-hopes-put-to-the-test-13447618

1 year ago

A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

https://psyonik.tech/posts/a-guide-for-wireguard-vpn-setup-with-pi-hole-adblock-and-unbound-dns/

1 year ago

Heroin addicts often seem normal

https://justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal

1 year ago

How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/10/11/how-to-tame-a-user-interface-using-a-spreadsheet/

1 year ago

Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/62626

1 year ago

Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong

https://entropicthoughts.com/root-cause-analysis-youre-doing-it-wrong

1 year ago

Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtonwG3DXM

1 year ago

Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]

https://scamcouver.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/scam-capital.pdf

1 year ago

Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures

1 year ago

What is going on with all this radioactive shrimp?

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/radioactive-shrimp-explained-a5493175857/

1 year ago

Indonesia says 22 plants in industrial zone contaminated by caesium 137

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indonesia-says-22-plants-industrial-zone-near-jakarta-contaminated-by-caesium-2025-10-08/

1 year ago

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/datacenter_coal_power/

1 year ago

Diane Keaton has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/movies/diane-keaton-dead.html

1 year ago

Datastar response to misunderstandings

https://data-star.dev/essays/greedy_developer

1 year ago

Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs

https://cryptonews.com/news/early-bitcoin-whale-shorted-1-1b-right-before-tariffs-now-up-27m-how-did-he-know/

1 year ago

ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS

https://elementary.io/

1 year ago

Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/11/hackers-leak-qantas-data-containing-5-million-customer-records-after-ransom-deadline-passes

1 year ago

TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok"

https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1976786912154386828/

1 year ago

MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks

https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-physicists-improve-atomic-clocks-precision-1008

1 year ago

How to check for overlapping intervals

https://zayenz.se/blog/post/how-to-check-for-overlapping-intervals/

1 year ago

Read your way through Hà Nội

https://vietnamesetypography.com/samples/read-your-way-through-ha-noi/

1 year ago

They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

https://platformonomics.com/2025/10/they-dont-have-the-money-openai-edition/

1 year ago

Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096

1 year ago

Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/tech-megacaps-market-cap-mag-7.html

1 year ago

How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?

https://pracap.com/an-ai-addendum/

1 year ago

Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

1 year ago

US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms

https://www.ft.com/content/7a3cd922-88ed-4188-86ab-ba09fbe24d42

1 year ago

Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia

https://nswskc.wordpress.com/2002/10/24/incredible-journey-50/

1 year ago

Vietnam Airlines Data Breach

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/VietnamAirlines

1 year ago