top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-25

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

5 months ago

803 upvotes – 351 comments

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/

5 months ago

482 upvotes – 89 comments

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell

https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html

5 months ago

411 upvotes – 213 comments

Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation

https://www.synadia.com/blog/synadia-tigerbeetle-zig-foundation-pledge

5 months ago

405 upvotes – 8 comments

Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/23/meet-the-real-screen-addicts-the-elderly

5 months ago

351 upvotes – 398 comments

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-without-a-flex-alert

5 months ago

349 upvotes – 346 comments

The Journey Before main()

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main

5 months ago

316 upvotes – 143 comments

React vs. Backbone in 2025

https://backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com/

5 months ago

305 upvotes – 231 comments

We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable

https://libera.chat/news/advised

5 months ago

295 upvotes – 98 comments

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/

5 months ago

290 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw

5 months ago

266 upvotes – 60 comments

Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update

https://iverify.io/blog/key-iocs-for-pegasus-and-predator-spyware-cleaned-with-ios-26-update

5 months ago

245 upvotes – 186 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702363

5 months ago

207 upvotes – 124 comments

Rock Tumbler Instructions

https://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/

5 months ago

197 upvotes – 97 comments

Making a micro Linux distro (2023)

https://popovicu.com/posts/making-a-micro-linux-distro/

5 months ago

197 upvotes – 29 comments

What is intelligence? (2024)

https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/

5 months ago

181 upvotes – 119 comments

How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/research-shows-coordinated-shift-in-brain-activity-while-asleep

5 months ago

179 upvotes – 88 comments

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-code-reviews/

5 months ago

167 upvotes – 174 comments

Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)

https://shafi.ddns.net/blog/customize-nano-text-editor

5 months ago

164 upvotes – 64 comments

Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/euro-cops-take-down-cybercrime-network-with-49-million-fake-accounts-621174

5 months ago

155 upvotes – 92 comments
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