The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2025
We track 1,346 stories from October 2025, averaging 282 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 96 stories. Together they drew 228,756 comments, 170 per story on average.
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AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
health.aws.amazon.com · kondro · 20 Oct 2025
2.2k pts
2.1k comments
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Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
emily.space · todsacerdoti · 29 Oct 2025
2.2k pts
1.3k comments
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Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com · ksec · 5 Oct 2025
2.1k pts
933 comments
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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
blog.pixelmelt.dev · pixelmelt · 16 Oct 2025
1.8k pts
513 comments
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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
arstechnica.com · Brajeshwar · 27 Oct 2025
1.6k pts
632 comments
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NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
github.com · huseyinkeles · 13 Oct 2025
1.5k pts
308 comments
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What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
f-droid.org · rom1v · 28 Oct 2025
1.5k pts
629 comments
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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
immich.app · janpio · 22 Oct 2025
1.5k pts
688 comments
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
evanhahn.com · speckx · 22 Oct 2025
1.3k pts
389 comments
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Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
qualcomm.com · janjongboom · 7 Oct 2025
1.3k pts
535 comments
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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
larslofgren.com · SilverElfin · 8 Oct 2025
1.3k pts
931 comments
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It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
blog.pabloecortez.com · speckx · 27 Oct 2025
1.3k pts
540 comments
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Affinity Studio now free
affinity.studio · dagmx · 30 Oct 2025
1.2k pts
793 comments
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Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
dwarkesh.com · ctoth · 17 Oct 2025
1.2k pts
1.1k comments
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
cnn.com · nashashmi · 2 Oct 2025
1.2k pts
1.4k comments
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
anthropic.com · meetpateltech · 9 Oct 2025
1.2k pts
439 comments
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German government comes out against Chat Control
xcancel.com · SolonIslandus · 7 Oct 2025
1.1k pts
541 comments
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Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
digitalsociety.coop · pingoo101010 · 17 Oct 2025
1.1k pts
627 comments
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Major AWS Outage Happening
old.reddit.com · vvoyer · 20 Oct 2025
1.1k pts
12 comments
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
wsj.com · cowboyscott · 23 Oct 2025
1.1k pts
1.2k comments
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Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
guru3d.com · baobun · 8 Oct 2025
1k pts
667 comments
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Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
threads.com · stevenhubertron · 28 Oct 2025
1k pts
923 comments
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Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
minecraft.net · SteveHawk27 · 29 Oct 2025
1k pts
464 comments
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Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
theregister.com · raw_anon_1111 · 20 Oct 2025
1k pts
654 comments
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Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
theguardian.com · skilled · 29 Oct 2025
963 pts
437 comments
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Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
twitter.com · sergiotapia · 6 Oct 2025
950 pts
257 comments
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Free software scares normal people
danieldelaney.net · cryptophreak · 30 Oct 2025
944 pts
623 comments
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TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
propublica.org · lelandfe · 16 Oct 2025
913 pts
470 comments
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I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
blog.daviddodda.com · DavidDodda · 15 Oct 2025
897 pts
515 comments
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Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
hardware.slashdot.org · dmitrygr · 11 Oct 2025
844 pts
331 comments
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We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 8 Oct 2025
835 pts
140 comments
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The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
50centadjustedforinflation.com · gaws · 17 Oct 2025
816 pts
196 comments
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Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
disco.cloud · jryio · 21 Oct 2025
813 pts
556 comments
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Show HN: Strange Attractors
blog.shashanktomar.com · shashanktomar · 31 Oct 2025
804 pts
78 comments
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
anildash.com · AndrewDucker · 25 Oct 2025
803 pts
351 comments
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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
makeuseof.com · josephcsible · 13 Oct 2025
801 pts
547 comments
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Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
theverge.com · PaulKeeble · 8 Oct 2025
780 pts
429 comments
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Show HN: Autism Simulator
autism-simulator.vercel.app · joshcsimmons · 1 Oct 2025
779 pts
857 comments
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EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
eurollm.io · NotInOurNames · 28 Oct 2025
773 pts
606 comments
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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
bbc.com · tartoran · 23 Oct 2025
773 pts
411 comments
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What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
blog.johnozbay.com · Bogdanp · 23 Oct 2025
772 pts
575 comments
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One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
politico.eu · cuu508 · 8 Oct 2025
767 pts
258 comments
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The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
thecascade.dev · loughnane · 6 Oct 2025
766 pts
329 comments
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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
nngroup.com · uxjw · 10 Oct 2025
752 pts
526 comments
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Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
blog.miguelgrinberg.com · pjmlp · 9 Oct 2025
746 pts
557 comments
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net · weinzierl · 17 Oct 2025
738 pts
370 comments
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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
pyfound.blogspot.com · lumpa · 27 Oct 2025
735 pts
770 comments
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Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
theguardian.com · mazokum · 10 Oct 2025
734 pts
557 comments
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Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
vgel.me · nyxt · 6 Oct 2025
734 pts
416 comments
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