Top Hacker News Stories – October 29, 2025 (Summarized)

Recent Hacker News discussions highlight significant developments in the tech industry. Notably, the "Keep Android Open" movement garnered 2,691 points and 889 comments, reflecting ongoing debates about open-source initiatives. Additionally, Mojang announced plans to remove obfuscation in Minecraft Java Edition, attracting over 1,000 points and 464 comments. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions surfaced as Israel reportedly demanded Google and Amazon to use a secret 'wink' protocol to bypass legal orders, drawing 963 points and 437 comments.

#10

uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

443 pts, 238 comments

443 points · 238 comments · Add your take →

#11

Tailscale Peer Relays

364 pts, 114 comments

364 points · 114 comments · Add your take →

#12

Zig's New Async I/O

329 pts, 172 comments

329 points · 172 comments · Add your take →

#13

A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

298 pts, 95 comments

298 points · 95 comments · Add your take →

#14

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

287 pts, 272 comments

287 points · 272 comments · Add your take →

#15

Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

278 pts, 149 comments

278 points · 149 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – October 29, 2025 (Summarized)

Keep Android Open

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

Tell HN: Azure outage

AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

Dithering – Part 1

uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

Tailscale Peer Relays

Zig's New Async I/O

A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS

Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

I made a 10¢ MCU Talk

Developers are choosing older AI models

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

The Green Tea Garbage Collector

Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware

Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant

Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds

Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)

Llamafile Returns

Learn German with Games

How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking

How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

Encoding x86 Instructions

When models manipulate manifolds: The geometry of a counting task

The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots

US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML

Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road

Measuring characteristics of TCP connections at Internet scale

Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software

Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On

Collatz-Weyl Generators: Pseudorandom Number Generators (2023)

Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies

Front End Fuzzy and Substring and Prefix Search

HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS

Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK

Vectorizing for Fun and Performance

Open-sourced game logic, art and Spine animations – SuperWEIRD Game Kit

Making MLS More Decentralized

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