1758
512
How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
2 months ago
913
470
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
816
427
Claude Skills
https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
550
491
Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-windows-move-towards-surveillance/
473
485
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12
420
268
Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
https://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/
409
72
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
385
145
Elixir 1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/
364
154
Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
https://hyperflask.dev/
347
219
Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-150a4/
343
322
Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch
https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/issues/7374
342
233
Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
https://lwn.net/Articles/1039073/
321
312
Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA
https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-union-workers-rally-against-55bn-saudi-backed-private-acquisition-with-formal-petition-to-regulators
307
682
DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
284
80
K8s with 1M nodes
https://bchess.github.io/k8s-1m/
272
260
Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
https://akarshc.com/post/phoenix-for-my-project.html
70
Codex Is Live in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
262
205
Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
https://www.edn.com/poe-basics-and-beyond-what-every-engineer-should-know/
256
90
Cloudflare Sandbox SDK
https://sandbox.cloudflare.com/
244
278
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
242
101
Talent
https://www.felixstocker.com/blog/talent
222
143
Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)
https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/mc2-how-electricity-can-heal-wounds-three-times-as-fast/
221
New coding models and integrations
https://ollama.com/blog/coding-models
212
141
A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
209
77
Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/say-hello-to-a-new-level-of-interactivity-in-gemini-cli/
191
136
America’s semiconductor boom [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-jt3qBzJ4A
186
116
Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2499647-mathematicians-have-found-a-hidden-reset-button-for-undoing-rotation/
41
Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/the-collection-blog/secret-diplomatic-message-deciphered-after-350-years/
180
85
Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots
https://abstractboardgames.com/
174
96
Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Opcodes-Not-AMD-Or-Intel
171
224
Hacker News – The Good Parts
https://smartmic.bearblog.dev/why-hacker-news/
158
133
Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
157
37
test-ipv6.com will stay online
https://status.test-ipv6.com
146
112
Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games
https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympic-games
26
Coral NPU: A full-stack platform for Edge AI
https://research.google/blog/coral-npu-a-full-stack-platform-for-edge-ai/
Derek Sivers's database and web apps
https://github.com/sivers/sivers
115
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
62
Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments
https://www.aiengineering.report/p/claude-code-vs-codex-sentiment-analysis-reddit
137
63
Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter
https://www.novaspivack.com/science/introducing-lace-a-new-kind-of-cellular-automata
130
64
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
129
378
How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/16/well/eat/ultraprocessed-food-junk-history.html
128
32
Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html
120
58
A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps
https://100x.bot/a/a-stateful-browser-agent-using-self-healing-dom-maps
109
30
Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python
https://github.com/joouha/modshim
107
151
Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3108
105
76
European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers
https://european.cloud/
103
83
Where's the AI design Renaissance?
https://www.learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html
André Gorz predicted the revolt against meaningless work (2023)
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/andre-gorz-was-the-theorist-who-predicted-the-revolt-against-meaningless-work/
102
23
When you get to be smart writing a macro
https://tonsky.me/blog/hashp/
99
68
Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/did-lead-limit-brain-and-language-development-in-neanderthals-and-other-extinct-hominids
98
44
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/silicon-valleys-capture-of-our-political
97
31
SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval
https://cognition.ai/blog/swe-grep
94
43
Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems
https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/free-applicatives-the-handle-pattern-and-remote-systems.html
93
CRDTs: Convergence without coordination
https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/crdt
88
3
Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
18
4000 gone: Inside NASA's brain drain
https://www.planetary.org/articles/4000-gone-inside-nasas-brain-drain
60
Who's Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitting-ai-tainted-filings-in-court/
79
49
Show HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Agent Builder to create agents in code or visually
https://github.com/inkeep/agents