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For 200 Years We Were Wrong About Why Water Ice Is Slippery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHc3xDNfGw
3•stared•8m ago•1 comments

Some Thoughts on War and Peace

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-thoughts-on-war-and-peace
1•simplegeek•10m ago•0 comments

Forge Cross-Platform Framework

https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge
3•ofrzeta•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MonsterWriter now supports collaborative LaTeX workspaces [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feWZByHoViw
1•WolfOliver•14m ago•0 comments

Criticizing Immigration Laws Is Not Racist

https://www.maximepeabody.com/blog/immigration-in-canada
4•Steven420•15m ago•3 comments

How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories?

https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updated
1•015UUZn8aEvW•18m ago•0 comments

Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World

https://booksbypeople.org/
1•ChrisArchitect•18m ago•1 comments

ML Workload Runs 30x Faster w AVX-512

https://parallelprogrammer.substack.com/p/quantizing-to-nf4-with-avx-512
1•ryandotsmith•23m ago•0 comments

TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war

https://www.theverge.com/tech/802254/tivo-time-warp-patent-courtoom-battles-lost-tv-war
2•jhatax•26m ago•1 comments

Upgrades from Debian 12 [to 13]

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html
1•basemi•28m ago•1 comments

Is Sam Altman a Psycho CEO?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/10/sam-altman-copyright-ai-sora-2-video-generator
4•cratermoon•29m ago•0 comments

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/
5•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Resolving an Amalgam of Issues During the Elite Specialization Beta

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/resolving-issues-during-the-elite-specialization-beta/
1•AndreasTheDead•32m ago•0 comments

Stellenium is building first AI data center in West Africa

https://techafricanews.com/2025/10/14/inp-hb-and-stellenium-corporation-sign-partnership-for-tech...
1•possiblyburrito•34m ago•0 comments

A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-10-19-privacy-theater-pii-phone-numbers/
3•m-hodges•35m ago•2 comments

Soil bacteria and minerals can form a 'battery' that breaks down antibiotics

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-soil-bacteria-minerals-natural-battery.html
2•PaulHoule•36m ago•0 comments

Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues May Have 'Walked' into Place

https://www.sciencealert.com/rapa-nuis-famous-moai-statues-really-may-have-walked-into-place
3•jhncls•38m ago•0 comments

Airliner hit by possible space debris

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/
2•d_silin•39m ago•1 comments

How swear words differ around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/19/italian-blasphemy-and-german-ingenuity-how-swear-...
1•mykowebhn•39m ago•0 comments

Advent of Code

https://adventofcode.com/about
1•andsoitis•39m ago•0 comments

Hydrogel-based expanding pill for weight loss shows promising results in trial

https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/press-releases/weight-loss-pill-aims-to-bridge-gap-in-obesity-tr...
1•giuliomagnifico•41m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone pivoted from SWE/mgmt to a different career in your 30/40s+?

3•mactavish88•41m ago•2 comments

Where AI meets real outcomes

https://dimaggi.com
1•tenywan•48m ago•1 comments

Do You Know What I Know? Steven Pinker Book Review

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/do-you-know-what-i-know
3•pseudolus•48m ago•1 comments

Flutter – The great thread merge [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miW7vCmQwnw
1•wiradikusuma•49m ago•0 comments

The state of the AI bubble [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6bJEFC97c
1•EPendragon•49m ago•0 comments

A video that reduces anxiety: choose one person follow them top-bottom 2x

https://twitter.com/Hastalikogrenn/status/1906700318986956929
1•marshfram•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We're tracking AI bot visits daily across our network

2•legitcoders•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MarkdownConverters – Convert any file format to clean Markdown

https://markdownconverters.com
3•Dkaur•54m ago•0 comments

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
1•ottoke•55m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable

https://www.techpowerup.com/342032/windows-11-25h2-october-update-bug-renders-recovery-environment-unusable
48•MaximilianEmel•2h ago

Comments

lioeters•1h ago
> this update disrupts mouse and keyboard functionality within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making them unresponsive

> Early last week, Microsoft accidentally broke the Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT) just a day ahead of Windows 10's end-of-life. Additionally, the company began requiring Online Accounts for Windows 11 installations, making them increasingly difficult to bypass.

> Every previously reported issue has been addressed or resolved, except for the broken localhost functionality and now this WinRE problem.

izacus•1h ago
Wonder if they used Copilot for coding those features and then AI to review them. I bet the productivity of the engineers was off the charts for that one.
Velocifyer•1h ago
At this point Arch Linux is more stable than Losedows 11.
edoceo•1h ago
Windoesnt
varispeed•1h ago
Has Microsoft switched to vibe coding? Seems like the last series of blunders coincide with Coidiot rollout.
EarthIsHome•1h ago
eating their own dogfood
franczesko•1h ago
Switched? The Windows Insider has 3 different tiers for testers: Dev, Beta and Release preview and still update rollouts are an example of how not to do it
pjmlp•57m ago
They got rid of most QA people, and nowadays apparently devs do QA as well, except that apparently not much of it, like in large majority of companies, where testing and docs come last.

Then there is the whole AI KPIs that most companies are pushing on their employees, and given CoPilot, they surely must be pushing a lot.

PunchyHamster•55m ago
Closed tickets look better on KPI than re-opened ones
dev1ycan•47m ago
Microsoft is just completely pathetic, it's become completely opposite of what companies want and it wouldn't surprise me if it becomes politics soon to switch to Linux on office spaces.
kachapopopow•31m ago
office 365 is the only thing stopping people from switching to linux as the only current alternative is ironically chromeos (android office) and macos (fully supported by microsoft)
echohack5•18m ago
Office because lawyers send docs in .docx format like it was written in the blood of the Benjamin Franklin

DirectX because steam defacto runs on Windows only for the vast majority of games, and not everyone wants a steam deck form

I can't think of any other S tier use cases tbh

prmoustache•11m ago
Most tasks are done OK with the web version of office365 tools and I know a few companies who do not bother to pay the licence to install the full suite to all their workers so that should make them easy to switch.

I think there is more to it: IT desktop admins mostly trained on the microsoft ecosystem, GPOs, etc.

thewebguyd•14m ago
I see macOS growing in share for corporate laptops/desktops first, but it would be nice to see widespread Linux.

But for now, with big enterprise office requirement, macOS is the next best refuge for most companies.

BoppreH•43m ago
Between these issues, the end of support for Windows 10, and the total lack of respect for customers ("yes/maybe later" is unacceptable), I'm happy for my recent switch to Linux.

Fedora Kinoite (atomic + KDE) has been a breath of fresh air. The Dolphin file manager alone was worth the switch, and connecting my phone via KDE Connect is the most excited I've been about software in a while. The atomic part has been surprisingly painless.

It hasn't been free from small bugs (what software is, nowadays?), but at least I know they're not there because of greed, so it pushes me towards contributing instead of hating the developers.

Refreeze5224•9m ago
KDE Connect is a wonderful piece of software, and works on more than just KDE! Most distros are supported, I believe.
bkraz•26m ago
In Win11 as admin, take ownership of the following files, and remove all permissions for the system user. This prevents any updates and can be easily undone at any time. I turned off updates, and life is much better. I no longer feel guilty about having my system "at risk". It's no longer worth the pain of updates.

C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicSvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\usosvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng.dll

prmoustache•14m ago
I'd rather use a non broken operating system than disable updates.