1587
632
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/
4 months ago
1300
540
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
https://blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insulting-to-read-your-ai-generated-blog-post/
735
770
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
684
459
Claude for Excel
https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel
547
216
Recall for Linux
https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux
515
218
Rust cross-platform GPUI components
https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component
441
238
Tags to make HTML work like you expect
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/
433
296
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/
401
80
Easy RISC-V
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
389
548
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/
386
207
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
https://jetkvm.com/
363
74
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf
341
369
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/04/avoid-200-and-300-am-cron-jobs/
332
185
You are how you act
https://boz.com/articles/you-are-how-you-act
327
414
ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-media
302
129
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
269
188
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
262
177
AI can code, but it can't build software
https://bytesauna.com/post/coding-vs-software-engineering
246
191
This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
240
233
Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/
239
9
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/
78
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
231
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
210
151
Grokipedia by xAI
https://grokipedia.com
205
212
The new calculus of AI-based coding
https://blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html
197
79
Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication
https://togetherlondon.com/insights/active-listening-swiss-army-knife
43
Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise
https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6779
180
122
Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
176
60
More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage
https://thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-east-1-outage-oct20
175
164
The last European train that travels by sea
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251024-the-last-european-train-that-travels-by-sea
168
50
MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities
https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner
165
24
Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station
https://issinrealtime.org
160
59
Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder
https://tenacityaudio.org
158
25
Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux
https://popovicu.com/posts/linux-vm-without-vm-software-user-mode/
47
Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-use-golang
155
21
I built my own CityMapper
https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/5
154
70
Show HN: JSON Query
https://jsonquerylang.org/
153
67
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)
https://tgvaughan.github.io/sicm/toc.html
149
63
Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IUIyyqw0M
142
Iroh-blobs
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-blobs-0-95-new-features
134
How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mayans-accurately-solar-eclipses-centuries.html
125
106
Creating an all-weather driver
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver
123
40
3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]
https://retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/3M_Diskette_Reference_Manual_May83.pdf
28
Welcome to hell; please drive carefully
https://2earth.github.io/website/20251026.html
102
FlightAware Map Design (2024)
https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2024/flightaware-maps/
65
Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)
https://www.fractionalxperience.com/ux-ui-graphic-design-blog/why-jpeg-xl-ignoring-bit-depth-is-genius
90
84
We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB
https://sealos.io/blog/reduce-container-image-size-case-study
87
WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World
https://github.com/world-grow/WorldGrow
86
33
Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE
https://www.lotas.ai/erdos
85
37
Ask HN: Is AWS down again?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722733
13
Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web
https://arjun.md/little-guys
73
More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring
https://www.wsj.com/business/companies-hiring-jobs-ai-9ef675b6
141
Why Nigeria accepted GMOs
https://www.asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops
68
32
How blocks are chained in a blockchain
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/27/blockchain/
What if hard work felt easier?
https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/what-if-hard-work-felt-easier
64
Life next to 199 data centres
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo
66
22
Quarter of American employees haven't taken a vacation day in the past year
https://sherwood.news/personal-finance/almost-a-quarter-of-american-employees-havent-taken-a-single-vacation-day-in/
27
Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/articles/the-florian-schneider-collection-rare-instruments-and-iconic-equipment-from-kraftwerk
Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say