top 50% 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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program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

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/

10 months ago

Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra

https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/

10 months ago

Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html

10 months ago

Grokipedia by xAI

https://grokipedia.com

10 months ago

The new calculus of AI-based coding

https://blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html

10 months ago

Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication

https://togetherlondon.com/insights/active-listening-swiss-army-knife

10 months ago

Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise

https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6779

10 months ago

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/

10 months ago

More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage

https://thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-east-1-outage-oct20

10 months ago

The last European train that travels by sea

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251024-the-last-european-train-that-travels-by-sea

10 months ago

MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities

https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/mcp-scanner

10 months ago

Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station

https://issinrealtime.org

10 months ago

Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder

https://tenacityaudio.org

10 months ago

Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux

https://popovicu.com/posts/linux-vm-without-vm-software-user-mode/

10 months ago

Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files

https://www.npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-use-golang

10 months ago

I built my own CityMapper

https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/5

10 months ago

Show HN: JSON Query

https://jsonquerylang.org/

10 months ago

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)

https://tgvaughan.github.io/sicm/toc.html

10 months ago

Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IUIyyqw0M

10 months ago

Iroh-blobs

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-blobs-0-95-new-features

10 months ago

How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mayans-accurately-solar-eclipses-centuries.html

10 months ago

Creating an all-weather driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver

10 months ago

3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]

https://retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/3M_Diskette_Reference_Manual_May83.pdf

10 months ago

Welcome to hell; please drive carefully

https://2earth.github.io/website/20251026.html

10 months ago

FlightAware Map Design (2024)

https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2024/flightaware-maps/

10 months ago

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

10 months ago

We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB

https://sealos.io/blog/reduce-container-image-size-case-study

10 months ago

WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World

https://github.com/world-grow/WorldGrow

10 months ago

Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE

https://www.lotas.ai/erdos

10 months ago

Ask HN: Is AWS down again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722733

10 months ago

Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web

https://arjun.md/little-guys

10 months ago

More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring

https://www.wsj.com/business/companies-hiring-jobs-ai-9ef675b6

10 months ago

Why Nigeria accepted GMOs

https://www.asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops

10 months ago

How blocks are chained in a blockchain

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/27/blockchain/

10 months ago

What if hard work felt easier?

https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/what-if-hard-work-felt-easier

10 months ago

Life next to 199 data centres

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo

10 months ago

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/

10 months ago

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

10 months ago