FSF announces Librephone project(fsf.org)
1435 points by g-b-r | 583 comments
Free Software Foundation news announcement of Librephone, a project to develop fully free software for mobile phones.
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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on(ourworldindata.org)
596 points by alphabetatango | 375 comments
Our World in Data article comparing the leading causes of death in the US with how often the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News cover them.
![Screenshot of satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu: Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/14/078bbe80-919a-4e9f-9a24-ce03b26d329d.jpg)
Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf](satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu)
505 points by dweekly | 120 comments
Academic paper (ACM CCS 2025) scanning IP traffic on 39 GEO satellites, finding about half of links carry unencrypted sensitive commercial, military, and cellular traffic.
Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI(boydkane.com)
477 points by beyarkay | 358 comments
Blog essay explaining why common beliefs about fixing bugs in regular software don't apply to AI systems like ChatGPT, aimed at technical readers.
Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking(lighthousereports.com)
418 points by _tk_ | 102 comments
Lighthouse Reports investigation "Surveillance Secrets", co-published with outlets like Der Spiegel and Le Monde, on leaked surveillance data revealing global phone location tracking.
Your data model is your destiny(notes.mtb.xyz)
367 points by hunglee2 | 92 comments
Substack essay by Matt Brown arguing that a startup's core data model and abstractions determine whether new features compound into a competitive moat.
GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels(androidauthority.com)
325 points by MaximilianEmel | 174 comments
Android Authority article reporting that GrapheneOS has a major Android OEM partnership to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagship phones beyond Pixels.
DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia(cnbc.com)
322 points by pseudolus | 290 comments
DOJ press release announcing the indictment of Prince Group chairman Chen Zhi over Cambodian forced-labor scam compounds and the seizure of about $15B in bitcoin.
ADS-B Exposed(adsb.exposed)
314 points by keepamovin | 76 comments
Why Is SQLite Coded In C(sqlite.org)
273 points by plainOldText | 269 comments
Why the open social web matters now(werd.io)
196 points by benwerd | 117 comments
PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)(copetti.org)
178 points by adamwk | 53 comments
Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18(planetscale.com)
167 points by bddicken | 57 comments
Ruby Blocks(tech.stonecharioteer.com)
163 points by stonecharioteer | 99 comments
Zoo of array languages(ktye.github.io)
160 points by mpweiher | 46 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/20/2934e91b-52c3-4c4c-a568-3eaf0d331f7c.jpg)
AppLovin nonconsensual installs(benedelman.org)
144 points by jhap | 49 comments
Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0(mtlynch.io)
82 points by mtlynch | 16 comments
When if is just a function(ryelang.org)
81 points by soheilpro | 83 comments
Smithsonian Open Access(si.edu)
65 points by bookofjoe | 9 comments
The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo(os2museum.com)
63 points by kencausey | 8 comments
Let's Not Encrypt(michael.orlitzky.com)
61 points by todsacerdoti | 73 comments
