top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-10-30

Affinity Studio now free

https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

9 months ago

Free software scares normal people

https://danieldelaney.net/normal/

9 months ago

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

https://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposal

9 months ago

How the cochlea computes (2024)

https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transform

9 months ago

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/

9 months ago

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty

https://therecord.media/us-declines-signing-cybercrime-treaty?

9 months ago

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/npm-flooded-with-malicious-packages-downloaded-more-than-86000-times/

9 months ago

A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

https://shaun.nz/why-were-never-using-wise-again-a-cautionary-tale-from-a-business-burned/

9 months ago

Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

9 months ago

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works

9 months ago