top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-12

Wireguard FPGA

https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga

10 months ago

No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

https://idiallo.com/byte-size/say-no-to-onedrive-backup

10 months ago

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

10 months ago

Macro Splats 2025

https://danybittel.ch/macro.html

10 months ago

Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email

https://news.itsfoss.com/schleswig-holstein-email-system-migration/

10 months ago

Free software hasn't won

https://dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon/

10 months ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428

10 months ago

Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions

https://ambisounds.app/

10 months ago

Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1977055831720862101

10 months ago

Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)

https://xenodium.com/introducing-agent-shell

10 months ago

How I'm using Helix editor

https://rushter.com/blog/helix-editor/

10 months ago

Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/acsandmann/rift

10 months ago

China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains

https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-new-rare-earth-and-magnet-restrictions-threaten-us-defense-supply-chains

10 months ago

AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference

https://www.together.ai/blog/adaptive-learning-speculator-system-atlas

10 months ago

Edge AI for Beginners

https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners

10 months ago

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formally-verified-code-can-go-wrong-in/

10 months ago

Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook

https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript

10 months ago

Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18636-0

10 months ago

JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs

https://www.pinaraf.info/2025/10/jit-so-you-want-to-be-faster-than-an-interpreter-on-modern-cpus/

10 months ago

The reason GCC is not a library (2000)

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html

10 months ago

Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2025/10/01/psql-pipeline.html

10 months ago

After the AI boom: what might we be left with?

https://blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/after-the-ai-boom-what-might-we-be-left-with/

10 months ago

A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler

https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237

10 months ago

Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

https://www.walmart.com/ip/SANTA-SMAGICAL-PHONE/16364964771

10 months ago

A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

https://the-ventureweaver.itch.io/tlote4111

10 months ago

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors/

10 months ago

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish

10 months ago

The App Store was always authoritarian

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

10 months ago

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical

https://theconversation.com/in-1776-thomas-paine-made-the-best-case-for-fighting-kings-and-for-being-skeptical-266448

10 months ago

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot_claim_the_Earth_is_not_flat

10 months ago

Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7483367/v1

10 months ago

Nostr and ATProto (2024)

https://shreyanjain.net/2024/07/05/nostr-and-atproto.html

10 months ago

'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

10 months ago

The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-of-bletchley-park-you-didnt-see-in-the-movies

10 months ago

GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/github-copilot-remote-code-execution-via-prompt-injection/

10 months ago

A liver transplant from start to finish

https://press.asimov.com/articles/liver

10 months ago

MAML – A new configuration language

https://maml.dev/

10 months ago

Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification

https://snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification/

10 months ago

VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503399122

10 months ago

Silver Snoopy Award

https://www.nasa.gov/space-flight-awareness/silver-snoopy-award/

10 months ago

The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY

10 months ago

Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/economics/article/wall-street-first-brands-private-credit-bubble-risk-363q2tcds

10 months ago

Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025

https://nanochess.org/ecs_basic_2.html

10 months ago

An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS

https://reactos.org/blogs/investigating-wddm/

10 months ago

Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program

https://www.WellObserve.com/OurPaint/index_en.html

10 months ago

The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)

https://www.wired.com/2003/05/wifirevolution/

10 months ago

Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/extreme-weather-caused-more-than-usd100-billion-in-damage-by-june-smashing-us-records

10 months ago

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-gobi-wall-mongolia-2674588

10 months ago

Tahoe's Elephant

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/12/last-week-on-my-mac-tahoes-elephant/

10 months ago

How to Enter a City Like a King

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-to-enter-a-city-like-a-king

10 months ago

We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB

https://kuzudb.com

10 months ago

Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/10/quantum-dynamics-on-your-laptop.html

10 months ago

Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum

10 months ago

Updating Desktop Rust

https://tritium.legal/blog/update

10 months ago

Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)

https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc58.2018/AlpertAlienPrequels/index.html

10 months ago

Fractal Imaginary Cubes

https://www.i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/users/tsuiki/icube/fractal/index-e.html

10 months ago

Indiana city doesn't have to pay innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked home

https://reason.com/2025/10/10/this-indiana-city-doesnt-have-to-pay-an-innocent-mom-16000-after-police-wrecked-her-home-court-rules/

10 months ago

Novelty Automation

https://www.novelty-automation.com/

10 months ago

I audited 47 failed startups' codebases

https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1o4jup6/i_audited_47_failed_startups_codebases_and_the/

10 months ago

Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"

https://praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_rhombus

10 months ago