top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-19

Replacement.ai

https://replacement.ai

10 months ago

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html

10 months ago

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do

10 months ago

OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

https://the-decoder.com/leading-openai-researcher-announced-a-gpt-5-math-breakthrough-that-never-happened/

10 months ago

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake

10 months ago

United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/

10 months ago

Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1oa4549/xubuntuorg_might_be_compromised/

10 months ago

I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-invited-strangers-to-message-me-through-a-receipt-printer/

10 months ago

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour

10 months ago

Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors

https://rkirov.github.io/posts/why_lean/

10 months ago

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/

10 months ago

US Government Uptime Monitor

https://usa-status.com/

10 months ago

Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB

https://demo.duckui.com

10 months ago

The future of Python web services looks GIL-free

https://blog.baro.dev/p/the-future-of-python-web-services-looks-gil-free

10 months ago

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

10 months ago

Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635940

10 months ago

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc

10 months ago

The case for the return of fine-tuning

https://welovesota.com/article/the-case-for-the-return-of-fine-tuning

10 months ago

Friendship Begins at Home

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/10/friendship-begins-at-home.html

10 months ago

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/

10 months ago

Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum

https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-museum-robbery-a3687f330a43e0aaff68c732c4b2585b

10 months ago

Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/10/07/abandoned-land-drives-dangerous-heat-in-houston-texas-am-study-finds/

10 months ago

Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom

https://aeon.co/essays/why-an-abundance-of-choice-is-not-the-same-as-freedom

10 months ago

Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable

https://www.techpowerup.com/342032/windows-11-25h2-october-update-bug-renders-recovery-environment-unusable

10 months ago

The Accountability Problem

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2025/the-accountability-problem

10 months ago

Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/nsfw-flag-incorrectly-added-to-bible-and-quran-apps/33401

10 months ago

Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-missing-episodes-update-teases-announcement-newsupdate/

10 months ago

The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years

https://www.wired.com/story/the-zipper-is-getting-its-first-major-upgrade-in-100-years/

10 months ago

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/

10 months ago

RFCs: Blueprints of the Internet

https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/

10 months ago

What Happened in 2007?

https://whathappenedin2007.com/

10 months ago

With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/with-deadline-looming-4-of-9-universities-reject-trumps-compact-to-remake-higher-ed/

10 months ago

Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-415

10 months ago

Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android

https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1979576965494710564

10 months ago

How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-an-electric-heating-element-from-scratch/

10 months ago

VisiCalc on the Apple II

https://stonetools.ghost.io/visicalc-apple2/

10 months ago

A Tower on Billionaires' Row Is Full of Cracks. Who's to Blame?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/432-park-avenue-condo-tower.html

10 months ago

Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/improving-pixelmelts-kindle-web-deobfuscator/

10 months ago

The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)

https://blog.zhimingwang.org/macos-lc_collate-hunt

10 months ago

GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundme-ceo-says-economy-bad-182843671.html

10 months ago

I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDWritePerfMetricsWish

10 months ago

Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG

https://github.com/Pringled/pyversity

10 months ago

Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker

https://github.com/hako/bbcli

10 months ago

Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code

https://github.com/Piddewitt/Loderunner

10 months ago

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/the-white-house-is-already-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky/

10 months ago

Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/uber-will-offer-us-drivers-more-gig-work-including-ai-data-labeling.html

10 months ago

Scheme Reports at Fifty

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-10-18-scheme-reports-at-fifty.html

10 months ago

Using Emacs as a TUI

https://blog.natfu.be/emacs-in-terminal-ergonomics/

10 months ago

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

10 months ago

LoC is a dumb metric for functions

https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/loc-is-a-dumb-metric-for-functions/

10 months ago

Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction

https://daymare.net/blogs/everbody-so-creative/

10 months ago

Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/wa-space-debris-reentry-investigation/105909612

10 months ago

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/lego-theft-california-arrest.html

10 months ago

Judge says body cameras for Chicago officers "was not a suggestion"

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-homeland-security-federal-agents-chicago-body-cameras/

10 months ago

Using Pegs in Janet

https://articles.inqk.net/2020/09/19/how-to-use-pegs-in-janet.html

10 months ago