This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on October 04, 2025.

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(00:30): The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(01:52): Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473698&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(03:14): How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473852&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(04:37): Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471136&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(05:59): Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472319&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(07:21): ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475529&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(08:44): Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473033&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(10:06): A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473861&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(11:29): Self-hosting email like it's 1984
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473730&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(12:51): New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469579&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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October 4th, 2025 | The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users

Hacker News Recap