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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (02:50) - Claude for Excel (04:02) - JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (05:07) - Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (06:19) - Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell (07:32) - Easy RISC-V (08:40) - OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly (09:54) - Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra (11:09) - Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization (12:26) - Outro 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad ideahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720376PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant programhttps://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904Claude for Excelhttps://www.claude.com/claude-for-excelhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639JetKVM – Control any computer remotelyhttps://jetkvm.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723159Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721801Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shellhttps://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701901Easy RISC-Vhttps://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726192OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weeklyhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727060Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydrahttps://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723359Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarizationhttps://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725009 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.