top 50% 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

Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1042938/658ade3768dd4758/

9 months ago

Springs and bounces in native CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/linear-timing-function/

9 months ago

Whole Earth Index

https://wholeearth.info/

9 months ago

Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

https://blog.ui.com/article/welcome-to-sfp-liberation-day

9 months ago

GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders

https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/9/11/bvaf141/8277723?login=false

10 months ago

Show HN: Bash Screensavers

https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers

9 months ago

I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards/

9 months ago

Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter

https://andonlabs.com/evals/butter-bench

9 months ago

Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bootstrap-mtc/

9 months ago

A brief history of random numbers (2018)

https://crates.io/crates/oorandom#a-brief-history-of-random-numbers

9 months ago

Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

9 months ago

Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability

https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-worst-dotnet-vulnerability-request-smuggling-and-cve-2025-55315/

9 months ago

Why do some radio towers blink?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/why-do-some-radio-towers-blink

9 months ago

Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-10-00110-EN.html

9 months ago

1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

https://www.1x.tech/order

9 months ago

Tailscale Services

https://tailscale.com/blog/services-beta

9 months ago

Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI

https://noyb.eu/en/criminal-complaint-against-facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai

9 months ago

Mapping the off-target effects of every FDA-approved drug in existence

https://www.owlposting.com/p/mapping-the-off-target-effects-of

9 months ago

I've been loving Claude Code on the web

https://ben.page/claude-code-web

9 months ago

Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX

https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-proart-display-8k-pa32kcx-availability/

9 months ago

Rats filmed snatching bats from air

https://www.science.org/content/article/rats-filmed-snatching-bats-air-first-time

9 months ago

The human only public license

https://vanderessen.com/posts/hopl/

9 months ago

Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus

https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/digitization-of-leonardo-da-vincis-codex-atlanticus.html

10 months ago

Grokipedia and the coup against reality

https://www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-and-the-coup-against-reality-itself/

9 months ago

Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/austrian-power-giants-power-line-animals

9 months ago

Sick: Indexed deduplicated binary storage for JSON-like data structures

https://github.com/7mind/sick

9 months ago

Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers

https://github.com/vivier/phomemo-tools

9 months ago

Tor Browser 15.0

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-150/

9 months ago

Show HN: Pipelex – Declarative language for repeatable AI workflows

https://github.com/Pipelex/pipelex

9 months ago

Quantifying pass-by-value overhead

https://owen.cafe/posts/struct-sizes/

10 months ago

How to build a 747 – A WorldFlight Story

https://www.x-plane.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-747-a-worldflight-story/

9 months ago

Tough truths about climate

https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate

10 months ago

Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence

https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/

9 months ago

Cancer survival rates are misleading

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/10/27/cancer-survival-rates-are-misleading/

9 months ago

Why does Swiss cheese have holes?

https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/why-does-swiss-cheese-have-holes

9 months ago

When O3 is 2x slower than O2

https://cat-solstice.github.io/test-pqueue/

9 months ago

Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games

https://spillhistorie.no/2025/10/24/frank-gasking-on-preserving-lost-games/

9 months ago

Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d3n1r08do

9 months ago

Show HN: Research Hacker News, ArXiv & Google with Hierarchical Bayesian Models

https://sturdystatistics.com/deepdive-search

9 months ago

Detour: Dynamic linking on Linux without Libc

https://github.com/graphitemaster/detour

9 months ago

Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/10/28/string-literals.html

9 months ago

SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database

https://docs.swirldb.org/

9 months ago

The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It

https://verdagon.dev/blog/impossible-optimization

9 months ago

Show HN: Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs

https://github.com/agg23/fpga-tamagotchi

9 months ago