10.15.25 | FSF's Librephone project, Discrepancies in American death reporting, Misconceptions about AI vs. regular software

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 15, 2025 · 12m

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) -…