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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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 chiphttps://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=45591799Claude Haiku 4.5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595403Zed is now available on Windowshttps://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-herehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594920Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecturehttps://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590756Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new ruleshttps://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602179Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC clienthttps://github.com/squidowl/halloyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590949TurboTax’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-freehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601750Are 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=45595724Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLMhttps://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599727F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source codehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-source-code/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592271 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.