top 50% 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/

10 months ago

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

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

10 months ago

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell

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

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

The Journey Before main()

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

10 months ago

React vs. Backbone in 2025

https://backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com/

10 months ago

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

https://libera.chat/news/advised

10 months ago

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

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

10 months ago

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

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

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

10 months ago

Rock Tumbler Instructions

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

10 months ago

Making a micro Linux distro (2023)

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

10 months ago

What is intelligence? (2024)

https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

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

10 months ago

Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)

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

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

An Update on TinyKVM

https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/an-update-on-tinykvm-7a38518e57e9

10 months ago

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)

https://lwn.net/Articles/631631/

10 months ago

Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/25/windows-10-deadline-boosts-mac-sales/

10 months ago

Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/principal/

10 months ago

Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes

https://shadcnthemer.com

10 months ago

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/

10 months ago

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

https://about.nike.com/en/newsroom/releases/nike-project-amplify-official-images

10 months ago

Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700879

10 months ago

Result is all I need

https://rockyj-blogs.web.app/2025/10/25/result-monad.html

10 months ago

NewPipe Is Turning 10

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-turns-10/

10 months ago

TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbeetle-pledge-512k-to-the-zig-software-foundation/#blog-post

10 months ago

The Continual Learning Problem

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

10 months ago

Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)

https://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html

10 months ago

Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)

https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning

10 months ago

Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues

https://en.andros.dev/blog/4e12225f/why-your-socialorg-files-can-have-millions-of-lines-without-any-performance-issues/

10 months ago

How to build a solar powered electric oven

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-solar-powered-electric-oven/

10 months ago

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

10 months ago

ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions [FR]

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/quand-les-sanctions-internationales-emises-par-washington-imposent-une-vie-deconnectee-a-un-magistrat-francais_7545724.html

10 months ago

The Great SaaS Gaslight

https://unworkableideas.com/the-great-saas-lighting-how-it-users-got-gaslit/

10 months ago

The Goon Squad

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/

10 months ago

Against SQL (2021)

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/

10 months ago

Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700404

10 months ago

That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler

https://micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse/

10 months ago

Trader who made $190M shorting crash also apparently bet on CZ's pardon

https://cointelegraph.com/news/donald-trump-us-cz-binance-founder-pardon-crypto-trader-profit

10 months ago

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew/

10 months ago

The mad king's digital killswitch

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

10 months ago

UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)

https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functions-of-model.html

10 months ago

It's the “hardware”, stupid

https://haebom.dev/archive?post=4w67rj24q76nrm5yq8ep

10 months ago

Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access

https://ducklake.select/2025/10/24/frozen-ducklake/

10 months ago

ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf]

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Serebryany-Stepanov-Tsyrklevich-Memory-Tagging-Slides-LLVM-2018.pdf

10 months ago

Wheels for free-threaded Python now available for psutil

https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/wheels-for-free-threaded-python-now-available-in-psutil

10 months ago

Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box

https://donraab.medium.com/go-primitive-in-java-or-go-in-a-box-c26f5c6d7574

10 months ago

Switzerland is spending millions revamping its vast network of bunkers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/25/switzerland-nuclear-bunkers-overhaul/

10 months ago

Modifying a radiation meter for (radioactive) rock collecting

https://maurycyz.com/projects/ludlum3/

10 months ago

DNA reveals the real killers that brought down Napoleon's army

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/dna-reveals-real-killers-brought-down-napoleons-army

10 months ago

Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb/

10 months ago

Iommi – your first pick for a Django power chord

https://iommi.rocks/

10 months ago

Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr

https://gitworkshop.dev/

10 months ago

Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy

https://newcriterion.com/article/lording-it-over/

10 months ago

Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-writer-schrodingers-word-processor/

10 months ago

Fast TypeScript (Code Complexity) Analyzer

https://ftaproject.dev/

10 months ago