top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-15

Apple M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/

2 months ago

1263 upvotes – 1395 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview

2 months ago

897 upvotes – 515 comments

Claude Haiku 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

2 months ago

730 upvotes – 287 comments

Zed is now available on Windows

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here

2 months ago

548 upvotes – 365 comments

Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/

2 months ago

491 upvotes – 495 comments

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit

2 months ago

480 upvotes – 260 comments

Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

https://joindatacops.com/resources/how-73-of-your-e-commerce-visitors-could-be-fake

2 months ago

415 upvotes – 304 comments

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy

2 months ago

381 upvotes – 101 comments

M5 MacBook Pro

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

2 months ago

370 upvotes – 564 comments

IRS open sources its fact graph

https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph

2 months ago

341 upvotes – 79 comments

Pixnapping Attack

https://www.pixnapping.com/

2 months ago

311 upvotes – 72 comments

Pwning the Nix ecosystem

https://ptrpa.ws/nixpkgs-actions-abuse

2 months ago

292 upvotes – 68 comments

The scariest "user support" email I've received

https://www.devas.life/the-scariest-user-support-email-ive-ever-received/

2 months ago

288 upvotes – 252 comments

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support

2 months ago

282 upvotes – 226 comments

The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain

https://wastedwind.energy/

2 months ago

282 upvotes – 324 comments

Are hard drives getting better?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 177 comments

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-vision-pro-upgraded-with-the-m5-chip-and-dual-knit-band/

2 months ago

263 upvotes – 346 comments

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 10 comments

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html

2 months ago

245 upvotes – 85 comments

I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code

https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2025/10/i-am-a-programmer.html

2 months ago

239 upvotes – 280 comments
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