Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-28
- 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com - 380 comments 1039 points
- It’s insulting to read AI-generated blog posts blog.pabloecortez.com - 419 comments 857 points
- PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program pyfound.blogspot.com - 533 comments 570 points
- Claude for Excel www.claude.com - 363 comments 525 points
- Recall for Linux github.com - 198 comments 521 points
- Rust cross-platform GPUI components github.com - 202 comments 475 points
- Tags to make HTML work like you expect blog.jim-nielsen.com - 221 comments 410 points
- What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? hackaday.com - 252 comments 376 points
- JetKVM – Control any computer remotely jetkvm.com - 154 comments 315 points
- You are how you act boz.com - 179 comments 306 points
- Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware - pdf exhibitdb.cmog.org - 67 comments 305 points
- Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs - 2013 www.endpointdev.com - 296 comments 283 points
- Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions www.accc.gov.au - 112 comments 258 points
- Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings www.wsj.com - 172 comments 255 points
- Easy RISC-V dramforever.github.io - 40 comments 243 points
- The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program simonwillison.net - 7 comments 236 points
- This World of Ours - 2014 - pdf www.usenix.org - 185 comments 234 points
- Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret www.source-material.org - 228 comments 229 points
- AI can code, but it can’t build software bytesauna.com - 112 comments 196 points
- Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra benbrubaker.com - 44 comments 185 points
- The last European train that travels by sea www.bbc.com - 144 comments 167 points
- OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly techcrunch.com - 163 comments 165 points
- Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say www.reuters.com - 85 comments 150 points
- Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files www.npmjs.com - 41 comments 147 points
- Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise github.com - 23 comments 138 points
- Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization phys.org - 133 comments 134 points
- MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities github.com - 36 comments 130 points
- Show HN: JSON Query jsonquerylang.org - 57 comments 112 points
- The new calculus of AI-based coding blog.joemag.dev - 95 comments 100 points
- Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius - and why AVIF can’t pull it off www.fractionalxperience.com - 61 comments 99 points
October 28, 2025 ∙