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Stories from October 27, 2025 (UTC)
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1.
Claude for Excel (claude.com)
624 points by meetpateltech 22 hours ago | 423 comments
2.
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (cmog.org)
346 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 71 comments
3.
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)
354 points by elashri 21 hours ago | 189 comments
4.
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)
665 points by lumpa 23 hours ago | 639 comments
5.
Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra (benbrubaker.com)
222 points by Bogdanp 21 hours ago | 55 comments
6.
Easy RISC-V (dramforever.github.io)
322 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 61 comments
7.
Rust cross-platform GPUI components (github.com/longbridge)
489 points by xvilka 1 day ago | 209 comments
8.
Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)
253 points by dxs 1 day ago | 65 comments
9.
Tags to make HTML work like you expect (jim-nielsen.com)
424 points by FromTheArchives 1 day ago | 227 comments
10.
MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities (github.com/cisco-ai-defense)
160 points by hsanthan 21 hours ago | 46 comments
11.
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in (lalinsky.com)
315 points by 0x1997 1 day ago | 133 comments
12.
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)
937 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 439 comments
13.
Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization (phys.org)
191 points by geox 19 hours ago | 193 comments
14.
Corrosion (fly.io)
213 points by cgb_ 5 days ago | 97 comments
15.
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? (seangoedecke.com)
165 points by ingve 7 days ago | 98 comments
16.
The last European train that travels by sea (bbc.com)
171 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 153 comments
17.
Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling (smithsonianmag.com)
154 points by NaOH 5 days ago | 43 comments
18.
We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" (nanit.com)
316 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 247 comments
19.
Recall for Linux (github.com/rolflobker)
529 points by anticensor 1 day ago | 209 comments
20.
TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation (github.com/johannschopplich)
150 points by royosherove 1 day ago | 53 comments
21.
Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012) (tannerhelland.com)
104 points by Bogdanp 3 days ago | 28 comments
22.
Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise (github.com/jdx)
170 points by bpierre 22 hours ago | 33 comments
23.
The new calculus of AI-based coding (joemag.dev)
165 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 179 comments
24.
Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers (hacktivate.app)
262 points by twostraws 6 days ago | 109 comments
25.
Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon (github.com/rochus-keller)
88 points by luismedel 1 day ago | 24 comments
26.
Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot (sphere.computer)
97 points by ChrisArchitect 4 days ago | 12 comments
27.
Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) (endpointdev.com)
312 points by pera 21 hours ago | 348 comments
28.
Show HN: JSON Query (jsonquerylang.org)
140 points by wofo 22 hours ago | 65 comments
29.
What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? (hackaday.com)
388 points by marbartolome 1 day ago | 266 comments
30.
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams (adamlogue.com)
214 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 47 comments

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