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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 33m

Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)
https://judojj.com
[comments] [115 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 1h

Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)
https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/bare-metal-the-emacs-essay/
[comments] [26 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 2h

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
[comments] [1896 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 3h

When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compiler-optimizations-hurt
[comments] [25 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 4h

Claude Code on the web
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web
[comments] [429 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 5h

Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsGHr7dXLuI
[comments] [121 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 6h

Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets
https://alexsci.com/blog/uuids-and-idor/
[comments] [60 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 7h

DeepSeek OCR
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
[comments] [879 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 8h

Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum
https://0x00.cl/blog/2025/occ-2025/
[comments] [9 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 9h

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6do
[comments] [190 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 10h

Atomic-Scale Protein Filters
https://press.asimov.com/articles/filters
[comments] [5 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 11h

Intel and AMD standardise ChkTag to bring Memory Safety to x86
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490
[comments] [73 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 12h

Peanut allergies have plummeted in children
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/well/peanut-allergy-drop.html
[comments] [75 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 13h

Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures
https://github.com/felipap/sicp-code
[comments] [34 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 14h

Fractal Imaginary Cubes
https://www.i.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/users/tsuiki/icube/fractal/index-e.html
[comments] [49 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 15h

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent
[comments] [210 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 16h

Modeling Others' Minds as Code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01272
[comments] [42 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 17h

How to Enter a City Like a King
https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-to-enter-a-city-like-a-king
[comments] [53 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 18h

Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP
https://github.com/lackeyjb/playwright-skill
[comments] [60 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 19h

Servo v0.0.1 Released
https://github.com/servo/servo
[comments] [171 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 20h

Optimizing writes to OLAP using buffers (ClickHouse, Redpanda, MooseStack)
https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/optimizing-writes-to-olap-using-buffers
[comments] [11 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 22h

The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop
https://kotaku.com/apple-is-going-nuts-the-macbook-air-2025-is-now-cheaper-than-a-random-mid-range-windows-laptop-2000634464
[comments] [10 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 23h

From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o
[comments] [53 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 1d

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
[comments] [538 points]

Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 1d

Major AWS Outage Happening
om/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1obd3lx/dynamodb_down_useast1/
[comments] [442 points]

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