top 10 hacker news stories for today

Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

20 hours ago

508 upvotes – 120 comments

New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6

19 hours ago

356 upvotes – 174 comments

Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?

https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-the-push-for-agentic-when-models-can-barely-follow-a-single-simple-instruction/137154

15 hours ago

281 upvotes – 316 comments

KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

12 hours ago

263 upvotes – 175 comments

ADS-B Exposed

https://adsb.exposed/

11 hours ago

257 upvotes – 64 comments

What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on

https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

3 hours ago

253 upvotes – 134 comments

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/

2 hours ago

220 upvotes – 261 comments

GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades

https://www.thalamusgme.com/blogs/cortex-core-clerkship-grades-and-transcript-normalization

7 hours ago

183 upvotes – 116 comments

Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust

https://pyrefly.org/?featured_on=talkpython

9 hours ago

175 upvotes – 121 comments

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe

https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x

7 hours ago

173 upvotes – 91 comments
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