top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-31

Show HN: Strange Attractors

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

9 months ago

804 upvotes – 78 comments

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

619 upvotes – 291 comments

John Carmack on mutable variables

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

9 months ago

515 upvotes – 627 comments

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

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

9 months ago

449 upvotes – 245 comments

Addiction Markets

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

9 months ago

398 upvotes – 456 comments

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

390 upvotes – 407 comments

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

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

9 months ago

350 upvotes – 192 comments

Just use a button

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

9 months ago

294 upvotes – 193 comments

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

289 upvotes – 236 comments

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

https://github.com/vindar/SARCASM

9 months ago

278 upvotes – 57 comments

By the Power of Grayscale

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

9 months ago

274 upvotes – 54 comments

AI scrapers request commented scripts

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

9 months ago

266 upvotes – 221 comments

My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

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

9 months ago

252 upvotes – 397 comments

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

248 upvotes – 163 comments

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

237 upvotes – 62 comments

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon

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

9 months ago

218 upvotes – 148 comments

Reasoning models reason well, until they don't

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22371

9 months ago

218 upvotes – 217 comments

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

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

9 months ago

217 upvotes – 47 comments

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

203 upvotes – 281 comments

The cryptography behind electronic passports

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

9 months ago

200 upvotes – 122 comments

A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification

https://enaix.github.io/2025/10/30/developer-verification.html

9 months ago

196 upvotes – 178 comments

Nix Derivation Madness

https://fzakaria.com/2025/10/29/nix-derivation-madness

9 months ago

188 upvotes – 69 comments

Tim Bray on Grokipedia

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedia

9 months ago

177 upvotes – 215 comments

Nim 2.2.6

https://nim-lang.org//blog/2025/10/31/nim-226.html

9 months ago

164 upvotes – 88 comments

Perfetto: Swiss army knife for Linux client tracing

https://lalitm.com/perfetto-swiss-army-knife/

9 months ago

161 upvotes – 23 comments

Claude outage

https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g

9 months ago

159 upvotes – 186 comments

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)

https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/

9 months ago

156 upvotes – 26 comments

Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-immutable-releases-are-now-generally-available/

9 months ago

153 upvotes – 62 comments

Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328965

9 months ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose

https://www.rubick.com/how-to-build-silos-and-decrease-collaboration/

9 months ago

144 upvotes – 54 comments

Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants

https://lwn.net/Articles/1044383/

9 months ago

135 upvotes – 1 comments

The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/arduino-uno-q-weird-hybrid-sbc

9 months ago

116 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want

https://github.com/fulcrumresearch/quibbler

9 months ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users

https://tedium.co/2025/10/30/canva-affinity-free-loss-leader-strategy/

9 months ago

106 upvotes – 71 comments

Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes

https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/expand-and-contract-pattern

9 months ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Fire-TV-Amazon-to-block-piracy-apps-in-the-future-10964878.html

9 months ago

102 upvotes – 80 comments

A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson

https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/

9 months ago

92 upvotes – 7 comments

x86 architecture 1 byte opcodes

https://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_1.htm

9 months ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

Roadmap for improving the type checker

https://forums.swift.org/t/roadmap-for-improving-the-type-checker/82952

9 months ago

89 upvotes – 60 comments

Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/tech/amazon-layoffs-andy-jassy-ai-culture

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 122 comments

Pico-100BASE-TX: Bit-Banged 100 MBit/s Ethernet and UDP Framer for RP2040/RP2350

https://github.com/steve-m/Pico-100BASE-TX

9 months ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

An investigation into Substrate

https://substack.com/inbox/post/177604037

9 months ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails

https://telebugs.com

9 months ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

My first fifteen compilers (2019)

https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/07/09/my-first-fifteen-compilers/

9 months ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

The only people who feel good are making over $200k and have large portfolios

https://fortune.com/2025/10/24/why-is-economy-so-bad-recession-not-inflation-fed-rate-cuts-2025/

9 months ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

The Geometry of Schemes [pdf]

https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/eisenbudharris.pdf

9 months ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Photographing the rare brown hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251014-the-rare-hyena-stalking-a-diamond-mining-ghost-town

9 months ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

No Code

https://github.com/lemonyte/no-code

9 months ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Some rando turned me into a meme coin

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/that-time-some-rando-turned-me-into-a-meme-coin/

9 months ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-is-sinking-its-flagship-science-center-during-the-government-shutdown-and-may-be-breaking-the-law-in-the-process

9 months ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Claude.ai Is Down

https://claude.ai

9 months ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Rotating Workforce Scheduling in MiniZinc

https://zayenz.se/blog/post/rotating-workforce-scheduling/

9 months ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

ANTML: Anthropic’s Markup Language

https://karashiiro.leaflet.pub/3m4gf7geefs2l

9 months ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Terence Tao focused on fundraising after federal funding to UCLA was suspended

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/09/07/science-math-trump-federal-cuts-grants/

9 months ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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