The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2025

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Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org · LorenDB · 29 Oct 2025

2.7k pts 889 comments

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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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Space Elevator neal.fun · kaonwarb · 20 Oct 2025

1.8k pts 403 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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FSF announces Librephone project fsf.org · g-b-r · 14 Oct 2025

1.6k pts 631 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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Jane Goodall has died latimes.com · jaredwiener · 1 Oct 2025

1.3k pts 185 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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Apple M5 chip apple.com · mihau · 15 Oct 2025

1.3k pts 1.4k 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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DeepSeek OCR github.com · pierre · 20 Oct 2025

1k pts 244 comments

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Replacement.ai replacement.ai · wh313 · 19 Oct 2025

1k pts 684 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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Tell HN: Azure outage tartieret · 29 Oct 2025

885 pts 806 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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The <output> Tag denodell.com · todsacerdoti · 11 Oct 2025

840 pts 185 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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Claude Skills anthropic.com · meetpateltech · 16 Oct 2025

816 pts 427 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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ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com · easton · 21 Oct 2025

771 pts 732 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