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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Affinity Studio now free (01:26) - Free software scares normal people (02:39) - 987654321 / 123456789 (04:09) - How the cochlea computes (2024) (05:24) - Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy (06:37) - NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times (07:50) - Springs and bounces in native CSS (08:55) - Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone (09:58) - Outro Affinity Studio now freehttps://www.affinity.studio/get-affinityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761445Free software scares normal peoplehttps://danieldelaney.net/normal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878987654321 / 123456789https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/26/987654321/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712620How the cochlea computes (2024)https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transformhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762259Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversyhttps://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765664NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k timeshttps://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/npm-flooded-with-malicious-packages-downloaded-more-than-86000-times/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755027Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviewshttps://0github.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760321Springs and bounces in native CSShttps://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/linear-timing-function/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736461Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstonehttps://github.com/itsfrank/MinecraftHDLhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763877 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.