top 50% 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/

10 months ago

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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

10 months ago

Claude Haiku 4.5

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

10 months ago

Zed is now available on Windows

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

10 months ago

Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent

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

10 months ago

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

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

10 months ago

Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

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

10 months ago

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy

10 months ago

M5 MacBook Pro

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

10 months ago

IRS open sources its fact graph

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

10 months ago

Pixnapping Attack

https://www.pixnapping.com/

10 months ago

Pwning the Nix ecosystem

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

10 months ago

The scariest "user support" email I've received

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

10 months ago

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

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

10 months ago

The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain

https://wastedwind.energy/

10 months ago

Are hard drives getting better?

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

10 months ago

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/

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership

https://caddy.community/t/next-steps-for-the-caddy-project-maintainership/33076

10 months ago

A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

10 months ago

You are the scariest monster in the woods

https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods

10 months ago

iPad Pro with M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-powerful-new-ipad-pro-with-the-m5-chip/

10 months ago

Getting syntax highlighting wrong

https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

10 months ago

Cheap DIY solar fence design

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/cheap_DIY_solar_fence_design/

10 months ago

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/

10 months ago

Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

https://steipete.me/posts/just-talk-to-it

10 months ago

Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable

https://www.vincentuden.xyz/blog/pdf-reader

10 months ago

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/14/nvidia-dgx-spark/

10 months ago

Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost applications

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5585563/localhost-not-working-anymore-after-2025-10-cumula

10 months ago

Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs

https://www.macsourceports.com/

10 months ago

A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers

https://blog.quarkslab.com/./nvidia_gpu_kernel_vmalloc_exploit.html

10 months ago

Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system

https://github.com/42futures/firm

10 months ago

Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI

https://www.jampa.dev/p/llms-and-the-lessons-we-still-havent

10 months ago

Disk Prices

https://diskprices.com/?locale=us

10 months ago

Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier

https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes_tratt__garbage_collection_for_rust_the_finalizer_frontier/

10 months ago

YouTube seems to be down

https://www.youtube.com/

10 months ago

US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low

https://www.henleyglobal.com/newsroom/press-releases/henley-global-mobility-report-oct-2025

10 months ago

Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

https://scriberpro.cc/hn/

10 months ago

Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/

10 months ago

Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595807

10 months ago

Reverse engineering iWork

https://andrews.substack.com/p/reverse-engineering-iwork

10 months ago

Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update

https://www.process-one.net/blog/chat-control-update-oct-2025/

10 months ago

ImapGoose

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoose/

10 months ago

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface

https://lab.alexanderobenauer.com/updates/the-jasper-report

10 months ago

David Byrne Radio

https://www.davidbyrne.com/radio#filter=all&sortby=date:desc

10 months ago

Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lost-jack-kerouac-chapter-found-mafia-boss-estate-21098566.php

10 months ago

Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR

https://nitrojacob.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/reverse-engineering-a-27mhz-rc-toy-communication-using-rtl-sdr/

10 months ago

US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/department-interior-cancels-review-nevada-solar-project-trump/802704/

10 months ago

New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-10-06/new-englands-last-coal-plant-has-stopped-operating-according-to-its-owners

10 months ago

ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55315

10 months ago

How First Wap tracks phones around the world

https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/surveillance-secrets-explainer/

10 months ago

The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

https://www.mlb.com/news/the-longest-professional-baseball-game-ever-played

10 months ago

Clone-Wars: 100 open-source clones of popular sites

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

10 months ago

Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram

https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1977795050206576763

10 months ago

Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

https://adrianhoward.com/posts/give-your-metrics-an-expiry-date/

10 months ago

Can we know whether a profiler is accurate?

https://stefan-marr.de/2025/10/can-we-know-whether-a-profiler-is-accurate/

10 months ago