top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-28

What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

9 months ago

Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

https://www.threads.com/@nthmonkey/post/DQVdAD1gHhw

9 months ago

EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

https://eurollm.io/

9 months ago

China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-forest-report

9 months ago

Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/samsung-makes-ads-on-3499-smart-fridges-official-with-upcoming-software-update/

9 months ago

Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5587932/washington-post-editorials-omit-a-key-disclosure-bezos-financial-ties

9 months ago

The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-airpods-pro-3-flight-problem

9 months ago

Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

9 months ago

Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud

https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-ministry-kicks-out-microsoft/

9 months ago

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

https://seated.ro/blog/tinkering-a-lost-art

9 months ago

Boring is what we wanted

https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/

9 months ago

Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m3zm9jnl1o

9 months ago

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

https://openai.com/index/next-chapter-of-microsoft-openai-partnership/

9 months ago

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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

9 months ago

Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels

https://ijmpr.in/article/the-role-of-vitamin-d-supplementation-in-the-prevention-of-acute-respiratory-infections-a-double-blind-randomized-controlled-trial-1327/

9 months ago

The decline of deviance

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance

9 months ago

Poker Tournament for LLMs

https://pokerbattle.ai/event

9 months ago

Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidia-nokia-ai.html

9 months ago

HTTPS by default

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/10/https-by-default.html

9 months ago

We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source

https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome

9 months ago