Free software scares normal people
941 pts, 623 comments
941 points · 623 comments · Add your take →
Top Hacker News Stories – October 30, 2025 (Summarized)
Recent discussions on Hacker News highlight significant developments in the tech landscape. A post titled "Free software scares normal people" garnered 941 points, reflecting ongoing debates about open-source transparency. Meanwhile, Denmark reportedly withdrew its controversial Chat Control proposal following public backlash, accumulating 575 points. Additionally, a leak revealed vulnerabilities in Google Pixel devices susceptible to Cellebrite phone hacking, drawing 464 points and over 350 comments.
Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
575 pts, 235 comments
575 points · 235 comments · Add your take →
How the cochlea computes (2024)
482 pts, 150 comments
482 points · 150 comments · Add your take →
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
464 pts, 355 comments
464 points · 355 comments · Add your take →
US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
372 pts, 243 comments
372 points · 243 comments · Add your take →
Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
287 pts, 139 comments
287 points · 139 comments · Add your take →
SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
276 pts, 131 comments
276 points · 131 comments · Add your take →
I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
265 pts, 68 comments
265 points · 68 comments · Add your take →
RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization
265 pts, 106 comments
265 points · 106 comments · Add your take →
The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
262 pts, 19 comments
262 points · 19 comments · Add your take →
In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
247 pts, 437 comments
247 points · 437 comments · Add your take →
Introducing architecture variants
242 pts, 145 comments
242 points · 145 comments · Add your take →
Language models are injective and hence invertible
229 pts, 147 comments
229 points · 147 comments · Add your take →
Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans
218 pts, 103 comments
218 points · 103 comments · Add your take →
How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around
207 pts, 74 comments
207 points · 74 comments · Add your take →
Hello-World iOS App in Assembly
206 points · 59 comments · Add your take →
Apple reports fourth quarter results
179 points · 309 comments · Add your take →
Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
152 points · 195 comments · Add your take →
Taking money off the table
136 points · 108 comments · Add your take →
Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality
122 points · 167 comments · Add your take →
IRCd service (2024)
118 points · 55 comments · Add your take →
Launch HN: Propolis (YC X25) – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously
115 points · 37 comments · Add your take →
If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do? (2018)
88 points · 71 comments · Add your take →
NJVL: Nim's New Intermediate Representation
78 points · 9 comments · Add your take →
ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts
52 points · 14 comments · Add your take →
Recantha's Tiny Toolkit
50 points · 7 comments · Add your take →
Ellipticc Drive – open-source cloud drive with E2E and PQ encryption
21 points · 16 comments · Add your take →
Why is Python's OrderedDict ordered?
13 points · 17 comments · Add your take →
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