top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-23

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63

10 months ago

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx30vnwd4do

10 months ago

What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?

https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html

10 months ago

Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/

10 months ago

VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-8-0-sdk-released/1011988

10 months ago

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database

https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

10 months ago

Claude Memory

https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory

10 months ago

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region

https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

10 months ago

Programming with Less Than Nothing

https://joshmoody.org/blog/programming-with-less-than-nothing/

10 months ago

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/

10 months ago

PyTorch Monarch

https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/

10 months ago

Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/

10 months ago

FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube

10 months ago

I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/

10 months ago

When is it better to think without words?

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-thought

10 months ago

Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/1043103/

10 months ago

Radios, how do they work? (2024)

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work

10 months ago

OpenAI acquires Sky.app

https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-software-applications-incorporated

10 months ago

SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/starlink-blocks-2500-dishes-allegedly-used-by-myanmars-notorious-scam-centers/

10 months ago

Corrosion

https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/

10 months ago

Rouille – Rust Programming, in French

https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille

10 months ago

US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic

https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-debt-ceiling-bessent-09575f13ca95c2f1beb38234b2cbe85b

10 months ago

Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy

https://flower.codes/2025/10/23/onion-mirror.html

10 months ago

The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/

10 months ago

How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-started-loving-the-assembly-4fd00e786c60

10 months ago

Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?

https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-second-life-ev-batteries-work

10 months ago

Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does

https://deadstack.net/recent

10 months ago

OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage

https://github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser

10 months ago

Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink

https://mbleigh.dev/posts/context-engineering-with-links/

10 months ago

MinIO declines to release Docker builds resolving CVE-2025-62506

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647

10 months ago

React Flow, open source libraries for node-based UIs with React or Svelte

https://github.com/xyflow/xyflow

10 months ago

Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/22/the-sodium-ion-battery-revolution-has-started/

10 months ago

New updates and more access to Google Earth AI

https://blog.google/technology/research/new-updates-and-more-access-to-google-earth-ai/

10 months ago

Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

https://github.com/deta/surf

10 months ago

How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go

https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/how-memory-maps-mmap-deliver-25x-faster-file-access-in-go

10 months ago

C64 Blood Money

https://lemmings.info/c64-blood-money/

10 months ago

US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-investigates-waymo-robotaxis-over-102015308.html

10 months ago

Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations

https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042

10 months ago

Be Careful with Obsidian

https://phong.bearblog.dev/be-careful-with-obsidian/

10 months ago

The Programming Languages Zoo

https://plzoo.andrej.com/

10 months ago

Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061

10 months ago

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust

https://grim7reaper.github.io/blog/2023/01/09/the-hydronium-project/

10 months ago

Clojure Zippers (2021)

https://grishaev.me/en/clojure-zippers/

10 months ago

Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors

https://www.tommysense.com

10 months ago

Show HN: Git for LLMs – A context management interface

https://twigg.ai

10 months ago

Make any TypeScript function durable

https://useworkflow.dev/

10 months ago

Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview

https://www.gethopp.app/blog/how-to-conduct-good-programming-interviews

10 months ago

Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr

https://nweb.shugur.com

10 months ago

Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot

https://sphere.computer/

10 months ago

Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-loops/

10 months ago

Zram Performance Analysis

https://notes.xeome.dev/notes/Zram

10 months ago

Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)

https://www.bikeshed.com/

10 months ago

NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN

https://piccalil.li/blog/nan-the-not-a-number-number-that-isnt-nan/

10 months ago

Luau's performance

https://luau.org/performance

10 months ago

A “knot dominated era” may have existed in the early universe: study

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-key-universe-1800s-idea-science.html

10 months ago

President Trump Pardons Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo

10 months ago

Cheese Crystals (2019)

https://snipettemag.com/cheese-crystals/

10 months ago

Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/recovering-videos-my-sony-camera-i-stupidly-deleted

10 months ago

VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA`

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/announcing-vectorware/

10 months ago

Unconventional Ways to Cast in TypeScript

https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2025-10-22-4-unconventional-ways-to-cast-in-typescript/

10 months ago

OpenBSD 7.8 Highlights

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-78/

10 months ago

Show HN: OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive

https://opensnowcat.io/

10 months ago

U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests

10 months ago

Why China is winning the trade war

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/23/why-china-is-winning-the-trade-war

10 months ago

We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments

https://anomify.ai/resources/articles/llm-bias

10 months ago

Introduction to the concept of likelihood and its applications (2018)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245917744314

10 months ago

The Continual Learning Problem

https://jessylin.com/2025/10/20/continual-learning/

10 months ago

Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/22/tesla-earnings-report-latest-drop-profits

10 months ago

Reasoning is not model improvement

https://manidoraisamy.com/reasoning-not-ai.html

10 months ago

Solving the NY Times "Pips" game with F#

https://github.com/brianberns/Pips

10 months ago