top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-29

Keep Android Open

http://keepandroidopen.org/

4 months ago

2693 upvotes – 889 comments

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

https://emily.space/posts/251023-uv

3 months ago

2214 upvotes – 1324 comments

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

3 months ago

1027 upvotes – 464 comments

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

3 months ago

963 upvotes – 437 comments

Tell HN: Azure outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

3 months ago

885 upvotes – 806 comments

AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-10-29-aws-to-bare-metal-two-years-later/view

3 months ago

727 upvotes – 491 comments

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks

3 months ago

561 upvotes – 401 comments

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing/

3 months ago

541 upvotes – 490 comments

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10/28/iongraph-web.html

3 months ago

524 upvotes – 108 comments

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

https://blog.j11y.io/2025-10-29_stroke_tips_for_engineers/

4 months ago

505 upvotes – 189 comments

Dithering – Part 1

https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/

3 months ago

461 upvotes – 96 comments

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles

https://daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-destroying-its-subtitles-for-no-good-reason/

3 months ago

461 upvotes – 163 comments

uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

4 months ago

443 upvotes – 238 comments

Tell HN: Azure Outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748799

3 months ago

438 upvotes – 2 comments

ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

3 months ago

389 upvotes – 343 comments

Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/

3 months ago

372 upvotes – 206 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta

3 months ago

364 upvotes – 114 comments

Zig's New Async I/O

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.html

3 months ago

329 upvotes – 172 comments

A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/

3 months ago

298 upvotes – 95 comments

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal

3 months ago

287 upvotes – 272 comments
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