top 20 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

2 months ago

1212 upvotes – 1115 comments

Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

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

2 months ago

1140 upvotes – 627 comments

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation

https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/

2 months ago

816 upvotes – 196 comments

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

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

2 months ago

738 upvotes – 370 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/

2 months ago

667 upvotes – 240 comments

Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler

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

2 months ago

667 upvotes – 377 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/

2 months ago

581 upvotes – 502 comments

Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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

2 months ago

569 upvotes – 109 comments

New Work by Gary Larson

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

2 months ago

538 upvotes – 147 comments

The pivot

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

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 253 comments

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence

https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792

2 months ago

467 upvotes – 775 comments

EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars

https://restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse/

2 months ago

431 upvotes – 962 comments

Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/tragic-oceangate-titan-submersibles-usd62-sandisk-memory-card-found-undamaged-at-wreckage-site-12-stills-and-nine-videos-have-been-recovered-but-none-from-the-fateful-implosion

2 months ago

428 upvotes – 213 comments

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/

2 months ago

324 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

https://detective.wiki/

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 43 comments

Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7403

2 months ago

301 upvotes – 246 comments

Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/betty-white-world-war-ii

2 months ago

289 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613567

2 months ago

288 upvotes – 182 comments

OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 245 comments

GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

https://www.thegamer.com/gog-private-investigators-off-the-grid-ip-rights-holders/

2 months ago

259 upvotes – 140 comments
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