Hacker News on Sunday, 12 October 2025

Wireguard FPGA(github.com)

596 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 152 comments

GitHub repository for an open-source, wire-speed hardware implementation of the WireGuard VPN on a low-cost Artix7 FPGA using an open-source toolchain.

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices(community.kde.org)

452 points by snthd 1 year ago | 181 comments

KDE community wiki page for KDE Connect, a project letting phones and desktops share notifications, files, media control and remote input.

No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive(idiallo.com)

445 points by firefoxd 1 year ago | 338 comments

A short blog post by Ibrahim Diallo complaining that a Windows OneDrive backup prompt offers only reminder intervals rather than a way to decline.

Macro Splats 2025(danybittel.ch)

388 points by danybittel 1 year ago | 61 comments

Dany Bittel's showcase page of interactive Gaussian splat 3D captures of macro subjects from 2025, shown in a web viewer.

Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email(news.itsfoss.com)

327 points by sebastian_z 1 year ago | 104 comments

It's FOSS News article reporting that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has completed migrating its email systems from Microsoft to open source solutions.

Free software hasn't won(dorotac.eu)

312 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 351 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

311 points by david927 1 year ago | 867 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)(buttondown.com)

306 points by swyx 1 year ago | 136 comments

Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions(ambisounds.app)

236 points by alpaca121 1 year ago | 87 comments

Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)(xenodium.com)

214 points by Karrot_Kream 1 year ago | 31 comments

AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference(together.ai)

192 points by alecco 1 year ago | 43 comments

How I'm using Helix editor(rushter.com)

187 points by f311a 1 year ago | 71 comments

Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models(twitter.com)

179 points by PKop 1 year ago | 185 comments

China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains(csis.org)

160 points by stopbulying 1 year ago | 145 comments

JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs(pinaraf.info)

160 points by pinaraf 1 year ago | 44 comments

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice(buttondown.com)

158 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 99 comments

Edge AI for Beginners(github.com)

155 points by bakigul 1 year ago | 54 comments

Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys(nature.com)

151 points by wallflower 1 year ago | 110 comments

The reason GCC is not a library (2000)(gcc.gnu.org)

151 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 89 comments

Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)(postgresql.verite.pro)

150 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 34 comments

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish(southernwoodenboatsailing.com)

140 points by zynovex 1 year ago | 16 comments

A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler(sam-cooper.medium.com)

135 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 145 comments

A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI(the-ventureweaver.itch.io)

130 points by ATiredGoat 1 year ago | 94 comments

Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients(researchsquare.com)

124 points by thenerdhead 1 year ago | 113 comments

Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores(walmart.com)

120 points by Sean-Der 1 year ago | 113 comments

Nostr and ATProto (2024)(shreyanjain.net)

119 points by sph 1 year ago | 66 comments

Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook(github.com)

117 points by sirbread 1 year ago | 39 comments

John Searle has died(nytimes.com)

114 points by sgustard 1 year ago | 102 comments

After the AI boom: what might we be left with?(blog.robbowley.net)

109 points by imasl42 1 year ago | 278 comments

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors(techcrunch.com)

108 points by corvad 1 year ago | 74 comments

The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies(theguardian.com)

106 points by hansmayer 1 year ago | 55 comments

The App Store was always authoritarian(infrequently.org)

104 points by bertman 1 year ago | 67 comments

GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)(embracethered.com)

103 points by kerng 1 year ago | 15 comments

Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification(snarky.ca)

102 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 64 comments

MAML – A new configuration language(maml.dev)

98 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 143 comments

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat(en.wikipedia.org)

93 points by duncanjbrown 1 year ago | 51 comments

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical(theconversation.com)

93 points by rntn 1 year ago | 44 comments

A liver transplant from start to finish(press.asimov.com)

91 points by mailyk 1 year ago | 24 comments

Silver Snoopy Award(nasa.gov)

89 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 19 comments

The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video](youtube.com)

89 points by daemonologist 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)(wired.com)

87 points by Cieplak 1 year ago | 76 comments

Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025(nanochess.org)

87 points by nanochess 1 year ago | 13 comments

Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June(livescience.com)

77 points by geox 1 year ago | 49 comments

Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst(thetimes.com)

77 points by zerosizedweasle 1 year ago | 42 comments

'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app(theguardian.com)

73 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 57 comments

An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS(reactos.org)

70 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 7 comments

How to Enter a City Like a King(worldhistory.substack.com)

69 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 63 comments

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?(news.artnet.com)

68 points by derbOac 1 year ago | 28 comments

Tahoe's Elephant(eclecticlight.co)

68 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 38 comments

We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB(kuzudb.com)

59 points by nrjames 1 year ago | 39 comments

Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program(wellobserve.com)

59 points by ksymph 1 year ago | 7 comments

Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer(buffalo.edu)

53 points by ceolin 1 year ago | 16 comments

Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)(ejumpcut.org)

50 points by measurablefunc 1 year ago | 37 comments

Novelty Automation(novelty-automation.com)

50 points by gregsadetsky 1 year ago | 10 comments

Moonlander.BAS(basic-code.bearblog.dev)

49 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 11 comments

Fractal Imaginary Cubes(i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

49 points by strstr 1 year ago | 7 comments

Updating Desktop Rust(tritium.legal)

49 points by piker 1 year ago | 32 comments

Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"(praxispuzzles.com)

48 points by xyzzy_plugh 1 year ago | 17 comments

Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability(anderegg.ca)

46 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits(sobernotsorry.app)

45 points by molozhenko 1 year ago | 37 comments