top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

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

9 hours ago

451 upvotes – 315 comments

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

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

3 hours ago

338 upvotes – 250 comments

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

5 hours ago

218 upvotes – 67 comments

New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours

8 hours ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch

https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/issues/7374

2 hours ago

103 upvotes – 43 comments

Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-releases-2026-american-innovation-one-dollar-coin-program-designs

3 hours ago

101 upvotes – 75 comments

New coding models and integrations

https://ollama.com/blog/coding-models

4 hours ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/15/g-s1-93449/antibiotic-resistance-bacteria

8 hours ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development

https://lwn.net/Articles/1039073/

4 hours ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

The Pentagon Press Corps Is Gone

https://www.cjr.org/news/the-pentagon-press-corps-is-gone.php

9 hours ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems

https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/free-applicatives-the-handle-pattern-and-remote-systems.html

7 hours ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-does-george-orwells-1984-mean-in-2024-180984468/

5 hours ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Who's Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitting-ai-tainted-filings-in-court/

9 hours ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments
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