top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-26

A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZL1FfGE7TYHVw#en57996:~:text=TRANSPORT%20OF%20CONTAMINATED%20PERSON%20OFFSITE

10 months ago

You already have a Git server

https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/

10 months ago

987654321 / 123456789

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/26/987654321/

10 months ago

Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time

https://adventofcode.com/2025/about#faq_num_days

10 months ago

Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/10/26/msg033327.html

10 months ago

Pico-Banana-400k

https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k

10 months ago

★ 1.8k Python

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-features-being-rammed-down-our-throats/

10 months ago

We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"

https://engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-by-rolling-our-own-s3-6caec1ee1143

10 months ago

Poison, Poison Everywhere

https://loeber.substack.com/p/29-poison-poison-everywhere

10 months ago

A definition of AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212

10 months ago

Feed the bots

https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/

10 months ago

Asbestosis

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html

10 months ago

Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good

10 months ago

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

10 months ago

How ancient people saw themselves

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-ancient-people-saw-themselves

10 months ago

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)

https://github.com/dvir-biton/MyraOS

10 months ago

★ 273 C

What if tariffs?

https://www.swatch.com/en-en/what-if-tariffs-so34z106/SO34Z106.html

10 months ago

Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams

https://www.adamlogue.com/microsoft-365-copilot-arbitrary-data-exfiltration-via-mermaid-diagrams-fixed/

10 months ago

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/alzheimers-disrupts-circadian-rhythms-of-plaque-clearing-brain-cells/

10 months ago

GenAI Image Editing Showdown

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/

10 months ago

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes

https://theconversation.com/smartphones-manipulate-our-emotions-and-trigger-our-reflexes-no-wonder-were-addicted-265014

10 months ago

Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

https://apnews.com/article/scam-centers-cybercrime-myanmar-a2c9fda85187121e51bd0efdf29c81da

10 months ago

Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks

https://clojure.land/

10 months ago

TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation

https://github.com/johannschopplich/toon

10 months ago

PCB Edge USB C Connector Library

https://github.com/AnasMalas/pcb-edge-usb-c

10 months ago

Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality

https://publish.obsidian.md/aixplore/Practical+Applications/dgx-lab-benchmarks-vs-reality-day-4

10 months ago

Formal Reasoning [pdf]

https://cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/fr-2025/public/fr.pdf

10 months ago

My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before

https://shepherd.com/best-books/cult-sci-fi-and-fantasy-you-may-not-have-heard-of

10 months ago

Lenses in Julia

https://juliaobjects.github.io/Accessors.jl/stable/lenses/

10 months ago

The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge

https://blog.somnolescent.net/2025/09/mp3-com-rescue-barge-barge/

10 months ago

Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World

https://booksbypeople.org/

10 months ago

Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust

https://book.rvemu.app/

10 months ago

AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

https://dipakwani.com/ai-mafia/

10 months ago

The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html

10 months ago

Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/26/apple-moving-ahead-with-ads-in-maps/

10 months ago

Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires

https://www.chibiakumas.com/z80/

10 months ago

The FSF considers large language models

https://lwn.net/Articles/1040888/

10 months ago

Making the Electron Microscope

https://www.asimov.press/p/electron-microscope

10 months ago

YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-impact-tv-sports-late-night-comedy-shows-1236400353/

10 months ago

Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet

10 months ago

Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/feds-probe-tesla-about-its-mad-max-mode/

10 months ago

LaserTweezer – Optical Trap

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=578

10 months ago

Louis Rossman: Politician calls constituents criminals with no right to privacy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJh31Mk7XE4

10 months ago

Connect to a 1980s Atari BBS through the web

https://www.southernamis.com/ataribbsconnect

10 months ago

Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw

https://river.me/blog/puzzle-glue-9000/

10 months ago