top 50% hacker news stories for today

Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

8 hours ago

299 upvotes – 74 comments

New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6

7 hours ago

206 upvotes – 68 comments

Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?

https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-the-push-for-agentic-when-models-can-barely-follow-a-single-simple-instruction/137154

3 hours ago

128 upvotes – 118 comments

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight

https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-11-launch-10-13-25

9 hours ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Study Programming Languages

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/why-study-programming-languages/

4 hours ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

SpaceX Starship flight 11 successful

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1977895039318864296

9 hours ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments

Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial

https://transactional.blog/copy-and-patch/tutorial

5 hours ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

13 hours ago

337 upvotes – 113 comments

Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them

https://allvpv.org/haotic-journey-through-envvars/

17 hours ago

220 upvotes – 163 comments

Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

https://www.makeuseof.com/androids-sideloading-limits-are-anti-consumer-move-yet/

19 hours ago

690 upvotes – 463 comments

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

19 hours ago

1170 upvotes – 224 comments

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/

19 hours ago

389 upvotes – 269 comments

Smartphones and being present

https://herman.bearblog.dev/being-present/

20 hours ago

269 upvotes – 171 comments

No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off

https://steveblank.com/2025/10/13/no-science-no-startups-the-unseen-engine-were-switching-off/

21 hours ago

485 upvotes – 337 comments

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

https://sqliteonline.com/

21 hours ago

388 upvotes – 125 comments

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html

a day ago

475 upvotes – 411 comments

Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/spotlight-on-pdfly.html

a day ago

319 upvotes – 94 comments
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