top 50% 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

California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-10-08/essential-california-california-dumps-coal-power

10 months ago

Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app

https://cadenceguitar.com/

10 months ago

HTTP3 Explained

https://http3-explained.haxx.se

10 months ago

Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy

https://retrohax.net/sony-playstation-2-fixing-frenzy/

10 months ago

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/4chan_ofcom_fine/

10 months ago

Fastmail desktop app

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop-app/

10 months ago

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/

10 months ago

Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally

https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/despite-whats-happening-in-the-usa-renewables-are-winning-globally/

10 months ago

MPTCP for Linux

https://www.mptcp.dev/

10 months ago

John Searle has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html

10 months ago

For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-korean-food

10 months ago

LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation

https://blog.burkert.me/posts/llm_evolution_character_manipulation/

10 months ago

Matrices can be your friends (2002)

https://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/matrices_can_be_your_friends.html

10 months ago

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/summary/

10 months ago

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean

https://spillhistorie.no/2025/10/03/legends-of-the-games-industry-roger-dean/

10 months ago

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/no-fix-yet-for-attack-that-lets-hackers-pluck-2fa-codes-from-android-phones/

10 months ago

A16Z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

https://www.reuters.com/business/a16z-backed-data-firms-fivetran-dbt-labs-merge-all-stock-deal-2025-10-13/

10 months ago

Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial

https://www.stavros.io/posts/switch-to-jujutsu-already-a-tutorial/

10 months ago

AI and the Future of American Politics

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/ai-and-the-future-of-american-politics.html

10 months ago

Who invented deep residual learning?

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-residual-neural-networks.html

10 months ago

Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded

https://www.thestack.technology/jeep-software-update-bricks-vehicles-leaves-owners-stranded/

10 months ago

Wasp Blower

https://softsolder.com/2025/08/12/wasp-blower/

10 months ago

Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf]

https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf

10 months ago

Abstraction, not syntax

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/abstraction-not-syntax

10 months ago

The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)

https://www.datagubbe.se/crt2/

10 months ago

Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572130

10 months ago

The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChownRestrictionEarlyHistory

10 months ago

State of AI Report 2025

https://www.stateof.ai/

10 months ago

Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument

https://medium.com/@gabiteodoru/dont-force-your-llm-to-write-terse-code-an-argument-from-information-theory-for-q-kdb-developers-04077c5b7038

10 months ago

AI Is Too Big to Fail

https://sibylline.dev/articles/2025-10-12-ai-is-too-big-to-fail/

10 months ago

How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams

https://ducktypelabs.com/how-does-turbo-listen-for-turbo-streams/

10 months ago

Create a Custom Interactive dashboard using SVG

https://0xmm.in/posts/custom_dash/

10 months ago

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-discover-the-optimal-way-to-optimize-20251013/

10 months ago

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-replaces-microsoft-exchange-and-outlook-with-open-source-email/

10 months ago

LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761

10 months ago

Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79

https://mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about

10 months ago

US Junk Bonds Post Worst Losses in Six Months, Spreads Widen

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/us-junk-bonds-post-worst-losses-in-six-months-spreads-widen

10 months ago

AWS Service Availability Updates

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/aws-service-availability/

10 months ago

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)

https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/

10 months ago