Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-31
- Affinity Studio now free www.affinity.studio - 618 comments 925 points
- Free software scares normal people danieldelaney.net - 364 comments 586 points
- How the cochlea computes - 2024 www.dissonances.blog - 130 comments 403 points
- US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty therecord.media - 208 comments 336 points
- Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy therecord.media - 82 comments 273 points
- Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD- x/EFI Files github.com - 113 comments 261 points
- A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz - 174 comments 258 points
- Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US arstechnica.com - 237 comments 234 points
- Language models are injective and hence invertible arxiv.org - 143 comments 213 points
- Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest roberdam.com - 367 comments 202 points
- Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews 0github.com - 56 comments 198 points
- PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases planetscale.com - 104 comments 190 points
- Ground stop at JFK due to staffing www.fly.faa.gov - 193 comments 162 points
- I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86 twitter.com - 80 comments 162 points
- Some people can’t see mental images www.newyorker.com - 310 comments 147 points
- Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works www.acma.gov.au - 61 comments 143 points
- ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon www.newyorker.com - 62 comments 138 points
- Jujutsu at Google - video www.youtube.com - 141 comments 137 points
- The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology www.heise.de - 120 comments 135 points
- Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone github.com - 17 comments 135 points
- Qt Creator 18 Released www.qt.io - 20 comments 134 points
- Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% www.cnbc.com - 170 comments 129 points
- You can’t turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint support.microsoft.com - 34 comments 113 points
- Taking money off the table zachholman.com - 103 comments 107 points
- Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture github.com - 3 comments 106 points
- Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years www.bbc.com - 124 comments 99 points
- Affinity by Canva www.affinity.studio - 5 comments 99 points
- Launch HN: Propolis - YC X25 – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously app.propolis.tech - 27 comments 93 points
- TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers www.truthwave.com - 40 comments 88 points
- Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter www.theregister.com - 28 comments 88 points
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