1559
624
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/
3 days ago
1178
515
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
https://blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insulting-to-read-your-ai-generated-blog-post/
724
737
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
672
454
Claude for Excel
https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel
2 days ago
544
212
Recall for Linux
https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux
506
214
Rust cross-platform GPUI components
https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component
437
235
Tags to make HTML work like you expect
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/
414
288
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/
392
78
Easy RISC-V
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
381
540
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/
380
203
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
https://jetkvm.com/
359
73
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf
337
367
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/04/avoid-200-and-300-am-cron-jobs/
326
184
You are how you act
https://boz.com/articles/you-are-how-you-act
324
141
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html
320
412
ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-media
296
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
268
178
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
258
172
AI can code, but it can't build software
https://bytesauna.com/post/coding-vs-software-engineering
243
189
This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
238
232
Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/
9
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/
237
77
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
228
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
198
146
Grokipedia by xAI
https://grokipedia.com
194
210
The new calculus of AI-based coding
https://blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html
183
41
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/
174
162
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
156
47
Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-use-golang
153
24
Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station
https://issinrealtime.org
152
65
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)
https://tgvaughan.github.io/sicm/toc.html
147
69
Show HN: JSON Query
https://jsonquerylang.org/
25
Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux
https://popovicu.com/posts/linux-vm-without-vm-software-user-mode/
26
Iroh-blobs
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-blobs-0-95-new-features
125
104
Creating an all-weather driver
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver
102
64
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