Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-05

  1. The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users www.eff.org - 117 comments 315 points
  2. Flock’s gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices www.eff.org - 238 comments 303 points
  3. How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer www.seangoedecke.com - 165 comments 295 points
  4. Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ essenceia.github.io - 89 comments 246 points
  5. Paged Out Issue #7 - pdf pagedout.institute - 21 comments 245 points
  6. ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving github.com - 121 comments 239 points
  7. A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code github.com - 145 comments 223 points
  8. Self-hosting email like it’s 1984 maxadamski.com - 143 comments 219 points
  9. Circular Financing: Does Nvidia’s $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble? tomtunguz.com - 194 comments 215 points
  10. The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing www.buchstabenmuseum.de - 55 comments 166 points
  11. $912 energy independence without red tape sunboxlabs.com - 104 comments 158 points
  12. Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner - 2004 www.folklore.org - 30 comments 149 points
  13. Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer www.economist.com - 110 comments 145 points
  14. Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown www.theverge.com - 119 comments 140 points
  15. Blog Feeds blogfeeds.net - 50 comments 140 points
  16. Microsoft 365 Copilot’s commercial failure www.perspectives.plus - 85 comments 131 points
  17. How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development alfy.blog - 98 comments 124 points
  18. Privacy Harm Is Harm www.eff.org - 33 comments 106 points
  19. Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin www.cloudflare.com - 108 comments 92 points
  20. How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs arxiv.org - 27 comments 82 points
  21. Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust github.com - 28 comments 77 points
  22. NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography? blog.cr.yp.to - 30 comments 70 points
  23. OpenAI’s hunger for computing power www.wsj.com - 55 comments 67 points
  24. AI-powered open-source code laundering github.com - 51 comments 66 points
  25. Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans’ Data www.hsgac.senate.gov - 13 comments 60 points
  26. Matrix Core Programming on AMD GPUs salykova.github.io - 2 comments 58 points
  27. You can’t parse XML with regex. Let’s do it anyways sdomi.pl - 46 comments 55 points
  28. Amazon Is Digitally Erasing Guns from James Bond Posters kotaku.com - 19 comments 54 points
  29. Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society www.pewresearch.org - 34 comments 52 points
  30. It’s not a hack to satisfy known requirements charemza.name - 54 comments 51 points