top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-10-16

How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

10 months ago

TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

10 months ago

Claude Skills

https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills

10 months ago

Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-windows-move-towards-surveillance/

10 months ago

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12

10 months ago

Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing

https://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/

10 months ago

When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251014-00/?p=111681

10 months ago

Elixir 1.19

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/

10 months ago

Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework

https://hyperflask.dev/

10 months ago

Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features

https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-150a4/

10 months ago