Hacker News on Friday, 3 October 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of windscribe.com: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)(windscribe.com)

617 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 356 comments

Windscribe blog post mapping the corporate ownership and relationships among major VPN providers like ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark.

vpn expressvpn nordvpn surfshark

Screenshot of riksbank.se: Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 (riksbank.se)

474 points by sebiw 1 year ago | 537 comments

Riksbank press release announcing an agreement with payment market actors to enable offline card payments for essential goods in Sweden by 1 July 2026.

riksbank offline-payments card-payments sweden

Screenshot of signal.org: Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]

Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf](signal.org)

469 points by greyface- 1 year ago | 107 comments

Signal statement (PDF, Oct 2025) urging Germany to keep opposing the EU Chat Control proposal's client-side scanning of private messages.

chat-control signal client-side-scanning end-to-end-encryption

Screenshot of github.com: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

429 points by atlintots 1 year ago | 212 comments

GitHub repository for niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor written in Rust.

niri wayland tiling-window-manager rust

Screenshot of mitchellh.com: Zig builds are getting faster

Zig builds are getting faster (mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

zig compilers build-times ghostty

Screenshot of peps.python.org: PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports (peps.python.org)

387 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 227 comments

PEP 810, a draft Python Enhancement Proposal for explicit lazy imports syntax targeting Python 3.15.

python pep-810 lazy-imports cpython

Screenshot of animebythenumbers.substack.com: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)

387 points by zdw 1 year ago | 276 comments

Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.

crunchyroll anime subtitles streaming

Screenshot of forums.macrumors.com: I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone

I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone (forums.macrumors.com)

336 points by dabinat 1 year ago | 475 comments

A MacRumors forum thread where a user describes the difficulty of teaching seniors to set up and use iPhones and argues Apple should simplify it for the elderly.

iphone apple accessibility seniors

Screenshot of blog.burkert.me: In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information (blog.burkert.me)

328 points by curioussquirrel 1 year ago | 132 comments

A personal blog post by Tom Burkert praising RSS and the value of controlled, user-curated information feeds over algorithmic ones.

rss syndication feed-readers information-diet

Screenshot of github.com: Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it (github.com)

327 points by mmastrac 1 year ago | 143 comments

GitHub pull request in triton-lang/triton rewriting the Gluon attention tutorial kernel to be persistent, noting fp8 runs ~100 TFLOPS faster when the kernel name contains "cutlass".

triton gpu-kernels fp8 cutlass

Screenshot of centralflows.github.io: How does gradient descent work?