top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-31

Show HN: Strange Attractors

https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors

9 months ago

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

https://news.mit.edu/2025/your-brain-without-sleep-1029

9 months ago

John Carmack on mutable variables

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1983593511703474196

9 months ago

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609

9 months ago

Addiction Markets

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/addiction-markets-abolish-corporate

9 months ago

How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/technology/openai-fundraising-deals.html

9 months ago

Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771870

9 months ago

Just use a button

https://gomakethings.com/just-use-a-button/

9 months ago

AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process

https://www.guru3d.com/story/amd-enters-arm-market-with-sound-wave-apu-built-on-tsmc-3nm-process/

9 months ago

S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine

https://github.com/vindar/SARCASM

9 months ago

By the Power of Grayscale

https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/

9 months ago

AI scrapers request commented scripts

https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/

9 months ago

My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-10-31-macbook-pro-m4-impressions/

9 months ago

Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam

https://www.zdnet.com/article/another-european-agency-ditches-big-tech-as-digital-sovereignty-movement-gains-steam/

9 months ago

Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10/24/rethinking-data-discovery-for-libraries-and-digital-humanities/

9 months ago

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ice-and-the-smartphone-panopticon

9 months ago

Reasoning models reason well, until they don't

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22371

9 months ago

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Linear

9 months ago

Ground stop at JFK due to staffing

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?advn=13&adv_date=10312025&facId=JFK&title=ATCSCC%20ADVZY%20013%20JFK/ZNY%2010/31/2025%20CDM%20GROUND%20STOP&titleDate=10/31/2025

9 months ago

The cryptography behind electronic passports

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10/31/the-cryptography-behind-electronic-passports/

9 months ago