top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-10-17

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy

10 months ago

1212 upvotes – 1115 comments

Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

https://digitalsociety.coop/posts/migrating-to-hetzner-cloud/

10 months ago

1140 upvotes – 627 comments

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation

https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/

10 months ago

816 upvotes – 196 comments

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

10 months ago

738 upvotes – 370 comments

Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/

10 months ago

667 upvotes – 378 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/

10 months ago

667 upvotes – 240 comments

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

10 months ago

581 upvotes – 502 comments

Live Stream from the Namib Desert

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html

10 months ago

569 upvotes – 109 comments

New Work by Gary Larson

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

10 months ago

538 upvotes – 147 comments

The pivot

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html

10 months ago

492 upvotes – 253 comments
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