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

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 5, 2025 · 10m

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…