top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-10-01

Jane Goodall has died

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead

2 weeks ago

1302 upvotes – 185 comments

Show HN: Autism Simulator

https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/

2 weeks ago

779 upvotes – 857 comments

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

2 weeks ago

658 upvotes – 369 comments

Don't avoid workplace politics

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/

2 weeks ago

594 upvotes – 307 comments

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code

2 weeks ago

414 upvotes – 216 comments

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/

2 weeks ago

412 upvotes – 274 comments

CDC File Transfer

https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

2 weeks ago

389 upvotes – 102 comments

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf

2 weeks ago

386 upvotes – 125 comments

I only use Google Sheets

https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/why-i-only-use-google-sheets/

2 weeks ago

370 upvotes – 353 comments

The Beer Can (2023)

https://brr.fyi/posts/beer-can

2 weeks ago

312 upvotes – 55 comments
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