Daily Hacker News 27-10-2025

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Daily Hacker News

1. How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in lalinsky.com comments
2. Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project) github.com comments
3. Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling www.smithsonianmag.com comments
4. An overengineered solution to sort | uniq -c with 25x throughput (hist) github.com comments
5. You already have a Git server maurycyz.com comments
6. Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon github.com comments
7. Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins thenewstack.io comments
8. We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3" engineering.nanit.com comments
9. A definition of AGI arxiv.org comments
10. Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot sphere.computer comments
11. A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it elanapearl.github.io comments
12. NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 flashbak.com comments
13. Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent www.nytimes.com comments
14. Tamper-Sensing Meshes Using Low-Cost, Embedded Time-Domain Reflectometry jaseg.de comments
15. Searching for Charles Fourier in the ruins of a socialist utopia outside LA kubicki.org comments
16. Asbestosis diamondgeezer.blogspot.com comments
17. Poison, Poison Everywhere loeber.substack.com comments
18. Feed the bots maurycyz.com comments
19. A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 2: A Series of Unfortunate Events www.filfre.net comments
20. Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches www.otago.ac.nz comments
21. Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu comments
22. Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium github.com comments
23. Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control arstechnica.com comments
24. Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams www.adamlogue.com comments
25. Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World booksbypeople.org comments