Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after sales allegedly plummet
• The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
• SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
• Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript
• A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare
• Empathy for Dummies
• Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
• Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
• Vibe engineering
• The Weaponization of Travel Blacklists
• X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
• Seeing like a software company
• Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene
• Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos
• IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
• An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
• Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
• Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
• Packing the world for longest lines of sight
• Global Village Construction Set
• Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
• Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents
• Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
• German government comes out against Chat Control
• How does gradient descent work?
• The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]
• Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
• Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI