top 50% 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

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/

10 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/

10 months ago

667 upvotes – 378 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

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence

https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792

10 months ago

467 upvotes – 775 comments

EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars

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

10 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

10 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/

10 months ago

324 upvotes – 194 comments

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

https://detective.wiki/

10 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

10 months ago

301 upvotes – 247 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

10 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

10 months ago

288 upvotes – 181 comments

OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

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

10 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/

10 months ago

259 upvotes – 140 comments

Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Birdman86

10 months ago

226 upvotes – 41 comments

Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that

https://vibe-coded.lol/

10 months ago

207 upvotes – 117 comments

Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/is-postgres-read-heavy-or-write-heavy-and-why-should-you-care

10 months ago

192 upvotes – 55 comments

AI has a cargo cult problem

https://www.ft.com/content/f2025ac7-a71f-464f-a3a6-1e39c98612c7

10 months ago

178 upvotes – 139 comments

US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/17/us-car-repossessions-economy

10 months ago

167 upvotes – 244 comments

Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures

https://github.com/felipap/sicp-code

10 months ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

10 months ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?

https://www.skyvern.com/blog/asking-ai-to-build-scrapers-should-be-easy-right/

10 months ago

150 upvotes – 82 comments

WebMCP

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/WebMCP

10 months ago

136 upvotes – 27 comments

Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/dead-or-alive-creator-tomonobu-itagaki-has-passed-away-at-58

10 months ago

124 upvotes – 20 comments

Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205g21n1zzo

10 months ago

123 upvotes – 75 comments

Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain

https://lwn.net/Articles/1039827/

10 months ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser

https://blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched/

10 months ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615193

10 months ago

109 upvotes – 186 comments

Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars

https://www.thedrive.com/news/jeep-wrangler-4xe-owners-still-waiting-for-answers-a-week-after-an-update-bricked-their-cars

10 months ago

108 upvotes – 83 comments

Forgejo v13.0 Is Available

https://forgejo.org/2025-10-release-v13-0/

10 months ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: ASCII Automata

https://hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata/

10 months ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (2024)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/metropolis-1998-lets-you-design-every-building-in-an-isometric-pixel-art-city/

10 months ago

102 upvotes – 42 comments

Do not accept terms and conditions

https://www.termsandconditions.game/

10 months ago

97 upvotes – 71 comments

Kagi Specials

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-specials

10 months ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/republican-ad-deepfake-video-chuck-schumer

10 months ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Zorin OS 18

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/10/14/zorin-os-18-has-arrived/

10 months ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is needed for SF

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/benioff-trump-national-guard-sf.html

10 months ago

81 upvotes – 90 comments

Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a NASA Office's Sudden Closure

https://www.planetary.org/articles/promoted-on-sunday-fired-on-monday-inside-a-nasa-offices-sudden-closure

10 months ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments
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