Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 15, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - FSF announces Librephone project
• (01:31) - What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
• (02:43) - Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
• (03:55) - A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
• (05:05) - Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
• (06:14) - How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
• (07:21) - Why Is SQLite Coded In C
• (08:30) - Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
• (09:44) - How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
• (10:59) - SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
• (12:00) - Outro

FSF announces Librephone project
https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339

What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583336

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
https://boydkane.com/essays/boss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583180

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498887

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584281

How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

Why Is SQLite Coded In C
https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584464

Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580699

How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581735

SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
https://smolbsd.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758