Hacker News on Saturday, 25 October 2025

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web(anildash.com)

741 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 301 comments

Anil Dash blog post arguing that OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser undermines the open web, calling it an anti-web browser.

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel(0xkato.xyz)

428 points by 0xkato 1 year ago | 84 comments

A blog post explaining the Linux boot process step by step, from pressing the power button through firmware and bootloader to the first C code in the kernel.

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell(testing.googleblog.com)

389 points by reqo 1 year ago | 172 comments

Google Testing Blog Tech on the Toilet post explaining the functional core, imperative shell pattern for separating business logic from side effects.

Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation(synadia.com)

378 points by derekcollison 1 year ago | 109 comments

Synadia blog post announcing that Synadia and TigerBeetle are pledging $512K to the Zig Software Foundation to support systems programming.

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind(latimes.com)

317 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 278 comments

The Journey Before main()(amit.prasad.me)

297 points by amitprasad 1 year ago | 117 comments

Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly(economist.com)

276 points by johntfella 1 year ago | 298 comments

React vs. Backbone in 2025(backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com)

260 points by mjsu 1 year ago | 193 comments

D2: Diagram Scripting Language(d2lang.com)

259 points by benzguo 1 year ago | 63 comments

We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable(libera.chat)

243 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 76 comments

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it(makeuseof.com)

239 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 132 comments

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations(github.com)

230 points by RohanAdwankar 1 year ago | 44 comments

Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update(iverify.io)

196 points by transpute 1 year ago | 130 comments

Rock Tumbler Instructions(rocktumbler.com)

180 points by debo_ 1 year ago | 84 comments

Making a micro Linux distro (2023)(popovicu.com)

171 points by turrini 1 year ago | 28 comments

What is intelligence? (2024)(whatisintelligence.antikythera.org)

160 points by sva_ 1 year ago | 100 comments

Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)(shafi.ddns.net)

147 points by shafiemoji 1 year ago | 50 comments

How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep(massgeneralbrigham.org)

146 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 81 comments

An Update on TinyKVM(fwsgonzo.medium.com)

131 points by ingve 1 year ago | 28 comments

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)(lwn.net)

125 points by st_goliath 1 year ago | 7 comments

Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts(itnews.com.au)

121 points by ubutler 1 year ago | 64 comments

Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)(eugeneyan.com)

118 points by 7d7n 1 year ago | 95 comments

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking(about.nike.com)

115 points by justinmayer 1 year ago | 105 comments

Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes(shadcnthemer.com)

111 points by miketromba 1 year ago | 34 comments

Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales(macrumors.com)

107 points by akyuu 1 year ago | 111 comments

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages(technologyreview.com)

102 points by kawera 1 year ago | 54 comments

Result is all I need(rockyj-blogs.web.app)

99 points by rockyj 1 year ago | 71 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits

93 points by retube 1 year ago | 41 comments

Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)(github.com)

90 points by bakigul 1 year ago | 13 comments

Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires(chibiakumas.com)

79 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 7 comments

Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues(en.andros.dev)

79 points by andros 1 year ago | 8 comments

The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018)(cs.cmu.edu)

77 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 21 comments

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew(news.mongabay.com)

68 points by hexhowells 1 year ago | 21 comments

UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)(blog.metaobject.com)

67 points by PKop 1 year ago | 32 comments

Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box(donraab.medium.com)

64 points by ingve 1 year ago | 32 comments

How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

64 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 31 comments

ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf](llvm.org)

63 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 32 comments

Against SQL (2021)(scattered-thoughts.net)

62 points by charles_irl 1 year ago | 46 comments

It's the “hardware”, stupid(haebom.dev)

61 points by haebom 1 year ago | 108 comments

DNA reveals the real killers that brought down Napoleon's army(gavi.org)

60 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 55 comments

Wheels for free-threaded Python now available for psutil(gmpy.dev)

59 points by grodola 1 year ago | 5 comments

The Continual Learning Problem(jessylin.com)

59 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 6 comments

Modifying a radiation meter for (radioactive) rock collecting(maurycyz.com)

58 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Great SaaS Gaslight(unworkableideas.com)

57 points by unworkableideas 1 year ago | 80 comments

Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

53 points by zdw 1 year ago | 13 comments

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews(seangoedecke.com)

52 points by zdw 1 year ago | 45 comments

Iommi – your first pick for a Django power chord(iommi.rocks)

51 points by boxed 1 year ago | 45 comments

Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor(tidbits.com)

50 points by zdw 1 year ago | 22 comments

Fast TypeScript (Code Complexity) Analyzer(ftaproject.dev)

50 points by hannofcart 1 year ago | 23 comments

The mad king's digital killswitch(pluralistic.net)

50 points by Qem 1 year ago | 13 comments

TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation(tigerbeetle.com)

49 points by jorangreef 1 year ago | 145 comments

Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy(newcriterion.com)

49 points by smushy 1 year ago | 106 comments

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)(missing.csail.mit.edu)

48 points by vismit2000 1 year ago | 20 comments

An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf](courses.cs.washington.edu)

46 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 22 comments

Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair(thebaffler.com)

44 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 33 comments

Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr(gitworkshop.dev)

44 points by sebastix 1 year ago | 0 comments

Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access(ducklake.select)

42 points by g0xA52A2A 1 year ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?

42 points by golly_ned 1 year ago | 51 comments

How AI gave me my voice back – an artist's review of Suno Studio(blog.andyshand.com)

41 points by 80hd 1 year ago | 48 comments

Underdetermined Weaving with Machines (2021) [video](youtube.com)

40 points by akkartik 1 year ago | 9 comments