top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-10-27

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

10 months ago

It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts

https://blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insulting-to-read-your-ai-generated-blog-post/

10 months ago

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

10 months ago

Claude for Excel

https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel

10 months ago

Recall for Linux

https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux

10 months ago

Rust cross-platform GPUI components

https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component

10 months ago

Tags to make HTML work like you expect

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/

10 months ago

What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/

10 months ago

Easy RISC-V

https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/

10 months ago

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/

10 months ago

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely

https://jetkvm.com/

10 months ago

Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]

https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf

10 months ago

Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)

https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/04/avoid-200-and-300-am-cron-jobs/

10 months ago

You are how you act

https://boz.com/articles/you-are-how-you-act

10 months ago

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-media

10 months ago

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions

10 months ago

Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-needs-to-open-up-more-about-its-openai-dealings-59102de8

10 months ago

AI can code, but it can't build software

https://bytesauna.com/post/coding-vs-software-engineering

10 months ago

This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

10 months ago

Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret

https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/

10 months ago