813
556
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/
4 months ago
771
732
ChatGPT Atlas
https://chatgpt.com/atlas
547
93
Build your own database
https://www.nan.fyi/database
473
293
LLMs can get "brain rot"
https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
445
447
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
441
379
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html
428
119
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
410
173
Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1980397031542989305
404
1178
NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-landing-contract-sean-duffy
395
95
Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657345
355
348
60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peanut-allergies-60000-kids-avoided-2015-advice/
321
109
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tiny-eye-implant-special-glasses-legally-blind-patients-can-read-rcna238488
290
144
Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-with-government-spyware/
276
307
The Programmer Identity Crisis
https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
259
267
Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
https://quasa.io/media/the-strangest-fallout-from-the-aws-outage-smart-mattresses-go-rogue-and-ruin-sleep-worldwide
249
rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC
https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/external/rlsw.h
242
341
Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
https://electrek.co/2025/10/20/tesla-heading-into-multi-billion-dollar-iceberg-of-own-making/
236
159
Doomsday scoreboard
https://doomsday.march1studios.com/
235
278
Public trust demands open-source voting systems
https://www.voting.works/news/public-trust-demands-open-source-voting-systems
228
256
AI is making us work more
https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-work-more
224
112
UA 1093
https://windbornesystems.com/blog/ua-1093
215
55
Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives
https://www.erowid.org
205
58
StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-10-21-stargrid-has-arrived,-a-brand-new-palm-os-strategy-game-in-2025.html
204
66
Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling
https://spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity
194
23
The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/10/21/the-hidden-engineering-of-niagara-falls
190
88
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
189
104
Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/climate/iceland-mosquito-discovery
182
199
Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
https://calnewport.com/is-sora-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-openai/
178
27
Language Support for Marginalia Search
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_126_multilingual/
177
44
Designing software for things that rot
https://drobinin.com/posts/designing-software-for-things-that-rot/
174
Just Use Curl
https://justuse.org/curl/
Magit Is Amazing
https://heiwiper.com/posts/magit-is-awesome/
167
99
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-tokens-as-image-tokens/
161
107
Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00184
156
56
Practical Scheme
https://practical-scheme.net/index.html#docs
155
31
Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/butt-breathing-might-soon-be-a-real-medical-treatment/
29
Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust
https://github.com/bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree
142
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NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966
https://flashbak.com/norad-cheyenne-mountain-combat-center-478804/
141
2
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/spacex_is_behind_schedule_so/
130
25
Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser
https://geoutil.com
18
20,858 Public Domain Audio Books
https://librivox.org/search
126
US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15pz8vpjp9o
124
54
Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI
https://asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E
53
Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec
https://github.com/Katakate/k7
121
24
Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor
https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80
Passwords and Power Drills
https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-systems/raw/ch01.html#on_passwords_and_power_drills
117
84
The Greatness of Text Adventures
https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures
108
Linux disk I/O diagram (2024)
https://zenodo.org/records/15234151
85
Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation
https://newatlas.com/disease/butt-breathing-ignobel-prize/
98
59
The Lottery-fication of Everything
https://www.dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-lottery-fication-of-everything
145
Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs
74
13
SierraDB: A distributed event store built in Rust
https://tqwewe.com/blog/building-sierradb/
73
10
OpenBSD 7.8
https://www.openbsd.org/78.html
69
Normalize.css
https://csstools.github.io/normalize.css/
Kvcached: Virtualized, elastic KV cache for LLM serving on shared GPUs
https://www.notion.so/yifanqiao/Solve-the-GPU-Cost-Crisis-with-kvcached-289da9d1f4d68034b17bf2774201b141
68
47
Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/
92
Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use
https://ferron.sh/
67
6
Finding my rhythm again
https://jeremydaly.com/finding-my-rhythm-again/
Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions
https://www.ft.com/content/815ef487-0d0e-430c-b140-9bc39dbd1a53
65
41
Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams
https://github.com/hauxir/macos-live-screensaver
0
Solving regex crosswords with Z3
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/regex-crosswords-z3/
64
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Most expensive laptops
https://comparelaptopprices.com/lists/most-expensive-laptops/
61
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Don't use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog
60
34
RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction
The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
https://hudsonreview.com/2025/10/the-gypsy-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson/
80
AI Weiwei: What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
https://hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier/
57
The Rubygems.org takeover
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1040778/77d921001b26d061/