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October 2025 Archive
151.
How the cochlea computes (2024) (dissonances.blog)
482 points by izhak 2 weeks ago | 150 comments
152.
Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking (lighthousereports.com)
481 points by _tk_ 1 month ago | 160 comments
153.
The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel (0xkato.xyz)
481 points by 0xkato 3 weeks ago | 89 comments
154.
Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time (adventofcode.com)
480 points by vismit2000 2 weeks ago | 219 comments
155.
Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture (unkey.com)
479 points by vednig 1 month ago | 258 comments
156.
Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
479 points by atlintots 1 month ago | 229 comments
157.
Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware (blog.google)
478 points by AbhishekParmar 3 weeks ago | 255 comments
158.
Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (news.itsfoss.com)
478 points by buyucu 2 weeks ago | 109 comments
159.
Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s (hrc.contentdm.oclc.org)
478 points by bookofjoe 4 weeks ago | 89 comments
160.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (community.kde.org)
475 points by snthd 1 month ago | 196 comments
161.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)
475 points by luisb 1 month ago | 99 comments
162.
Ripgrep 15.0 (github.com)
473 points by robin_reala 4 weeks ago | 113 comments
163.
LLMs can get "brain rot" (llm-brain-rot.github.io)
471 points by tamnd 3 weeks ago | 291 comments
164.
GNU Health (gnuhealth.org)
470 points by smartmic 1 month ago | 133 comments
165.
Apps SDK (developers.openai.com)
468 points by alvis 1 month ago | 382 comments
166.
Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste (seated.ro)
468 points by jxmorris12 2 weeks ago | 381 comments
167.
Programming with Less Than Nothing (joshmoody.org)
468 points by signa11 3 weeks ago | 153 comments
168.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules (apnews.com)
466 points by pjmlp 4 weeks ago | 471 comments
169.
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend (arstechnica.com)
466 points by gloxkiqcza 1 month ago | 321 comments
170.
4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence (alecmuffett.com)
465 points by alecmuffett 4 weeks ago | 772 comments
171.
Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (theguardian.com)
464 points by fforflo 1 month ago | 230 comments
172.
Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users (sqliteonline.com)
464 points by sqliteonline 1 month ago | 142 comments
173.
A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it (elanapearl.github.io)
464 points by bblcla 3 weeks ago | 80 comments
174.
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (arstechnica.com)
463 points by akyuu 2 weeks ago | 354 comments
175.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles (daiz.moe)
460 points by Daiz 2 weeks ago | 163 comments
176.
Dithering – Part 1 (visualrambling.space)
458 points by Bogdanp 2 weeks ago | 95 comments
177.
BERT is just a single text diffusion step (nathan.rs)
454 points by nathan-barry 3 weeks ago | 110 comments
178.
Examples are the best documentation (rakhim.exotext.com)
453 points by Bogdanp 1 month ago | 173 comments
179.
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video (techcrunch.com)
444 points by gmays 3 weeks ago | 444 comments
180.
AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (bbc.co.uk)
444 points by sohkamyung 3 weeks ago | 291 comments