top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-13

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

10 months ago

Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/

10 months ago

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html

10 months ago

No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off

https://steveblank.com/2025/10/13/no-science-no-startups-the-unseen-engine-were-switching-off/

10 months ago

America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/13/manufacturing-artificial-intelligence/

10 months ago

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/

10 months ago

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

https://sqliteonline.com/

10 months ago

Smartphones and being present

https://herman.bearblog.dev/being-present/

10 months ago

Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

10 months ago

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/

10 months ago

Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/spotlight-on-pdfly.html

10 months ago

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

https://verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get-consistent-classification

10 months ago

Go subtleties

https://harrisoncramer.me/15-go-sublteties-you-may-not-already-know/

10 months ago

Modern Linux tools

https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/linux/linux-modern-tools/

10 months ago

Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser

https://strudel.cc

10 months ago

America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-future-could-hinge-on-whether

10 months ago

Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09272

10 months ago

Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them

https://allvpv.org/haotic-journey-through-envvars/

10 months ago

American solar farms

https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms.html

10 months ago

Why did containers happen?

https://buttondown.com/justincormack/archive/ignore-previous-directions-8-devopsdays/

10 months ago