top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-20

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020

10 months ago

Space Elevator

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

10 months ago

Major AWS Outage Happening

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/

10 months ago

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

10 months ago

DeepSeek OCR

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR

10 months ago

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/14179366

10 months ago

Claude Code on the web

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web

10 months ago

Servo v0.0.1

https://github.com/servo/servo

10 months ago

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

https://blog.abdellatif.io/production-rag-processing-5m-documents

10 months ago

Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

https://status.postman.com

10 months ago

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent

10 months ago

BERT is just a single text diffusion step

https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/

10 months ago

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1obnbmu/grandmaster_daniel_naroditsky_has_passed_away/

10 months ago

Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

https://valetudo.cloud/

10 months ago

Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68f5e1c741c825463df7486c

10 months ago

Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640754

10 months ago

Forth: The programming language that writes itself

https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html

10 months ago

Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States

https://intelnews.org/2025/10/20/01-3416/

10 months ago

AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did

https://faun.dev/c/news/devopslinks/aws-outage-a-single-cloud-region-shouldnt-take-down-the-world-but-it-did/

10 months ago

J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange

https://marketunpack.com/j-p-morgans-openai-loan-is-strange/

10 months ago

AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-hits-dozens-websites-apps

10 months ago

Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)

https://www.xda-developers.com/absolutely-unhinged-gpu-box-art-from-the-early-2000s/

10 months ago

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

10 months ago

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

10 months ago

iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle/

10 months ago

Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code/

10 months ago

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html

10 months ago

Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

https://github.com/lackeyjb/playwright-skill

10 months ago

x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger

https://x64.halb.it/

10 months ago

Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.html

10 months ago

What do we do if SETI is successful?

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-do-we-do-if-seti-is-successful

10 months ago

AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/20/ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images-being-used-by-aid-agencies

10 months ago

When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/bmo-stadium-in-la-added-ai-to-everything-and-what-they-got-was-a-worse-experience-for-everyone/

10 months ago

How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services

https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

10 months ago

Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-produced-first-blackwell-wafer-us-soil/

10 months ago

The death of thread per core

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/the-death-of-thread-per-core/

10 months ago

Bat v0.26.0

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases/tag/v0.26.0

10 months ago

Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1

10 months ago

Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645120

10 months ago

TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/#posix-shaped

10 months ago

Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals

https://leandronsp.com/articles/you-dont-need-kafka-building-a-message-queue-with-only-two-unix-signals

10 months ago

Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights

https://element.io/blog/the-matrix-conference-a-seminal-moment-for-matrix/

10 months ago

Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

10 months ago

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan's Tenure

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-removes-blog-posts-about-ai-authored-by-by-lina-khan/

10 months ago

What I Self Host

https://fredrikmeyer.net/2025/10/18/what-i-self-host.html

10 months ago

Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/20/americans-cant-afford-cars-any-more-wall-street-worried/

10 months ago

Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One

https://karunpal.substack.com/p/why-a-boring-life-might-be-the-happiest

10 months ago

The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop

https://kotaku.com/apple-is-going-nuts-the-macbook-air-2025-is-now-cheaper-than-a-random-mid-range-windows-laptop-2000634464

10 months ago