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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:22) - Apple M5 chip
  • (01:32) - Claude Haiku 4.5
  • (02:37) - Zed is now available on Windows
  • (03:45) - Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
  • (04:47) - Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
  • (06:08) - Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
  • (07:10) - TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
  • (08:27) - Are hard drives getting better?
  • (09:29) - Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
  • (10:34) - F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
  • (11:50) - Outro

Apple M5 chip
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591799

Claude Haiku 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595403

Zed is now available on Windows
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594920

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590756

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602179

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
https://github.com/squidowl/halloy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590949

TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601750

Are hard drives getting better?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595724

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599727

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592271

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