Hacker News Highlights | 10.5.25 | ProofOfThought uses Z3 for LLM reasoning, Paged Out Issue #7 released, comparison of Ada and Rust in Advent of Code

10.5.25 | ProofOfThought uses Z3 for LLM reasoning, Paged Out Issue #7 released, comparison of Ada and Rust in Advent of Code

October 5, 2025 / 10:58/E254

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 5, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
(01:29) - Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
(02:29) - A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
(03:34) - Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
(04:58) - Social Cooling (2017)
(06:07) - Blog Feeds
(07:02) - NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
(08:29) - What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
(09:41) - Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
(10:48) - Outro

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
https://github.com/DebarghaG/proofofthought
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475529

Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_007.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472319

A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473861

Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427972

Social Cooling (2017)
https://www.socialcooling.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479165

Blog Feeds
https://blogfeeds.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475808

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477206

What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435606

Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
https://github.com/newton-physics/newton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440071

10.5.25 | ProofOfThought uses Z3 for LLM reasoning, Paged Out Issue #7 released, comparison of Ada and Rust in Advent of Code