top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-14

FSF announces Librephone project

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

10 months ago

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

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

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

https://boydkane.com/essays/boss

10 months ago

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/surveillance-secrets/

10 months ago

GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels

https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/

10 months ago

DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-butchering-scam.html

10 months ago

Your data model is your destiny

https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Why Is SQLite Coded In C

https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html

10 months ago

ADS-B Exposed

https://adsb.exposed/

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?

https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be

10 months ago

ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490

10 months ago

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

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

10 months ago

SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system

https://smolbsd.org

10 months ago

How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/

10 months ago

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

10 months ago