top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-30

Affinity Studio now free

https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

9 months ago

Free software scares normal people

https://danieldelaney.net/normal/

9 months ago

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

https://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposal

9 months ago

How the cochlea computes (2024)

https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transform

9 months ago

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/

9 months ago

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty

https://therecord.media/us-declines-signing-cybercrime-treaty?

9 months ago

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/npm-flooded-with-malicious-packages-downloaded-more-than-86000-times/

9 months ago

A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

https://shaun.nz/why-were-never-using-wise-again-a-cautionary-tale-from-a-business-burned/

9 months ago

Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

9 months ago

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works

9 months ago

SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/

9 months ago

RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter/

9 months ago

Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews

https://0github.com

9 months ago

The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook

9 months ago

Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/theres-a-global-boom-in-solar-except-in-the-united-states/

9 months ago

Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

https://roberdam.com/en/dinversiones.html

9 months ago

Introducing architecture variants

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312

9 months ago

PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

https://planetscale.com/blog/5-dollar-planetscale

9 months ago

Language models are injective and hence invertible

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

9 months ago

Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone

https://github.com/itsfrank/MinecraftHDL

9 months ago

Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-talks-to-me-about-vision-pro-personas-where-is-our-virtual-presence-headed/

9 months ago

How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around

https://render.com/blog/how-we-found-7-tib-of-memory-just-sitting-around

9 months ago

Hello-World iOS App in Assembly

https://gist.github.com/nicolas17/966a03ce49f949dd17b0123415ef2e31

9 months ago

I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86

https://twitter.com/XenoPanther/status/1983477707968291075

9 months ago

Signs of introspection in large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection

9 months ago

Some people can't see mental images

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/some-people-cant-see-mental-images-the-consequences-are-profound

9 months ago

Apple reports fourth quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

9 months ago

Jujutsu at Google [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Ob5yPpC0A

9 months ago

Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts

https://dynomight.net/dating/

9 months ago

Qt Creator 18 Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-released

9 months ago

The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology

https://www.heise.de/en/news/International-Criminal-Court-Kicks-Out-Microsoft-10964189.html

9 months ago

Taking money off the table

https://zachholman.com/posts/money-off-the-table

9 months ago

Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html

9 months ago

You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1

9 months ago

Learning from failure to tackle hard problems

https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/10/27/learning-from-failure-to-tackle-extremely-hard-problems/

9 months ago

Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality

https://www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovellis-radical-perspective-on-reality-20251029/

9 months ago

One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on

https://paperclover.net/blog/webdev/one-year-next-app-router

9 months ago

IRCd service (2024)

https://example.fi/blog/ircd.html

9 months ago

Launch HN: Propolis (YC X25) – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously

https://app.propolis.tech/#/launch

9 months ago

Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_openai_loss/

9 months ago

Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzq2p0yk4o

9 months ago

Affinity by Canva

https://www.affinity.studio/

9 months ago

TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers

https://www.truthwave.com

9 months ago

If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do? (2018)

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/52862/if-a-pilot-ejects-what-is-the-autopilot-programmed-to-do

9 months ago

Moderna has unraveled

https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/moderna-rise-fall-biotech-analysis-from-pandemic-rise-to-mrna-crash/

9 months ago

ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations

https://github.com/st-tech/ppf-contact-solver

9 months ago

NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony/blob/master/doc/njvl-spec.md

9 months ago

Estimating the perceived 'claustrophobia' of New York City's streets (2024)

http://mfranchi.net/posts/claustrophobic-streets/

9 months ago

YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/youtube-announces-voluntary-exit-program-for-us-staff/

9 months ago

3D solar tower increases capacity factor 50%, triples solar surface area

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/3d-solar-tower-increases-capacity-factor-50-triples-solar-surface-area/

9 months ago