Hacker News on Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Qualcomm to acquire Arduino(qualcomm.com)

1279 points by janjongboom 1 year ago | 519 comments

Qualcomm press release announcing its acquisition of Arduino and the new Arduino UNO Q board and App Lab powered by Qualcomm Dragonwing processors.

German government comes out against Chat Control(xcancel.com)

1052 points by SolonIslandus 1 year ago | 464 comments

A tweet (via xcancel) by Patrick Hansen saying Germany's CDU/CSU has declared there will be no EU chat control under the current German government, quoting a video clip.

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model(blog.google)

604 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 309 comments

Google blog post announcing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, a preview API model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro for agents that interact with user interfaces.

Vibe engineering(simonwillison.net)

576 points by janpio 1 year ago | 612 comments

Simon Willison blog post proposing the term "vibe engineering" for experienced engineers using LLMs and coding agents while staying accountable for their code.

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally(timelinize.com)

541 points by mholt 1 year ago | 137 comments

Landing page for Timelinize, an open source personal archival suite that organizes your data from many sources into a local, private timeline.

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant(nationalpost.com)

540 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 309 comments

National Post opinion piece on a Canadian bill allowing internet access to be cut off for 'specified persons' without a warrant; page loaded as a 403 CSRF error.

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021(ikeamuseum.com)

477 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 128 comments

IKEA Museum page offering an archive of IKEA catalogues from 1951 to 2021, browsable by decade.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025(nobelprize.org)

448 points by luisb 1 year ago | 91 comments

Nobel Prize popular science explainer for the 2025 Physics prize, titled "Quantum properties on a human scale," from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe(trthaber.com)

394 points by fatihpense 1 year ago | 165 comments

TRT Haber Turkish-language photo gallery reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old standing stone with a human face at Karahan Tepe.

Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report(theguardian.com)

367 points by fforflo 1 year ago | 190 comments

Guardian article reporting Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after AI-generated errors were found in a $440,000 report on a department's compliance framework.

Seeing like a software company(seangoedecke.com)

327 points by praptak 1 year ago | 96 comments

Sean Goedecke essay applying James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State to software companies, contrasting legible tracked work with illegible essential work.

Doing Rails Wrong(bananacurvingmachine.com)

324 points by treesenthusiast 1 year ago | 206 comments

A blog post written as a satirical dialogue about overcomplicating Rails 8 apps with Vite, Node, and npm instead of Rails' built-in tooling.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut(theregister.com)

306 points by Bender 1 year ago | 297 comments

Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks(alexiajm.github.io)

271 points by guybedo 1 year ago | 54 comments

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.'(404media.co)

241 points by locopati 1 year ago | 100 comments

California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes(politico.com)

237 points by c420 1 year ago | 93 comments

Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify(github.com)

224 points by el_hacker 1 year ago | 83 comments

Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study(surrey.ac.uk)

221 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 206 comments

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf](lua.org)

214 points by welovebunnies 1 year ago | 162 comments

Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad(bbc.co.uk)

206 points by dijksterhuis 1 year ago | 145 comments

User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality(plus.flux.community)

204 points by gregsadetsky 1 year ago | 251 comments

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones(techcrunch.com)

199 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 124 comments

The day my smart vacuum turned against me(codetiger.github.io)

198 points by codetiger 1 year ago | 88 comments

Become unbannable from your email(karboosx.net)

187 points by bfoks 1 year ago | 141 comments

Google's Requirement for Developers to Be Verified Threatens App Store F-Droid(techdirt.com)

164 points by beardyw 1 year ago | 102 comments

Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler(scheme.fail)

163 points by dTal 1 year ago | 15 comments

A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry(motor1.com)

147 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 192 comments

Erlang ARM32 JIT is born(grisp.org)

145 points by plainOldText 1 year ago | 17 comments

How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)(jherrm.github.io)

145 points by gregsadetsky 1 year ago | 93 comments

Putting a dumb weather station on the internet(colincogle.name)

138 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 36 comments

Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap(sustainabilitybynumbers.com)

137 points by K2L8M11N2 1 year ago | 172 comments

The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom(economist.com)

133 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 year ago | 85 comments

3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy(bloomberg.com)

126 points by speckx 1 year ago | 76 comments

The World's 2.75B Buildings(tech.marksblogg.com)

117 points by marklit 1 year ago | 55 comments

The Flummoxagon(n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com)

116 points by robinhouston 1 year ago | 25 comments

Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans(theguardian.com)

113 points by rjknight 1 year ago | 142 comments

Tcl-Lang Showcase(wiki.tcl-lang.org)

107 points by luismedel 1 year ago | 29 comments

America is now one big bet on AI(ft.com)

103 points by saubeidl 1 year ago | 84 comments

Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)

100 points by apeytavin 1 year ago | 56 comments

Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI(github.com)

99 points by mhamann 1 year ago | 51 comments

Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects(pdoc.dev)

99 points by joshdavham 1 year ago | 17 comments

Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says(france24.com)

86 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 60 comments

Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time(wsj.com)

82 points by thm 1 year ago | 63 comments

Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout(jacobsherin.com)

80 points by jasim 1 year ago | 14 comments

Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf](iaarc.org)

78 points by xg15 1 year ago | 5 comments

Control your Canon Camera wirelessly(github.com)

73 points by nklswbr 1 year ago | 16 comments

Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers(nullpt.rs)

70 points by hazebooth 1 year ago | 6 comments

California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services(gov.ca.gov)

69 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 48 comments

The Mondrian introduction to functional optics(marcosh.github.io)

69 points by marcosh 1 year ago | 20 comments

Building a JavaScript Runtime using C(devlogs.xyz)

68 points by redbell 1 year ago | 24 comments

Ancient Patagonian hunter-gatherers took care of their injured and disabled(phys.org)

68 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 68 comments

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle(quantamagazine.org)

67 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 5 comments

Learning a foreign language–before you're born(nouvelles.umontreal.ca)

67 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 26 comments

MacBook Lid Angle Sensor(github.com)

66 points by redbell 1 year ago | 24 comments

Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm(github.com)

65 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 54 comments

A tiny recursive reasoning model achieves 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2(alexiajm.github.io)

65 points by stared 1 year ago | 1 comments

Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes(turso.tech)

65 points by syrusakbary 1 year ago | 55 comments

Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco(theahura.substack.com)

62 points by theahura 1 year ago | 39 comments

Bringing NumPy's type-completeness score to nearly 90%(pyrefly.org)

59 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 25 comments

The publishing industry has a gambling problem(thewalrus.ca)

58 points by Caiero 1 year ago | 39 comments