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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Jane Goodall has died (01:17) - Show HN: Autism Simulator (02:25) - Don't avoid workplace politics (03:41) - Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (04:49) - Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining (06:02) - Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing (07:14) - OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series (08:23) - Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations (09:40) - Cormac McCarthy's personal library (10:44) - Outro Jane Goodall has diedhttps://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441069Show HN: Autism Simulatorhttps://autism-simulator.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438346Don't avoid workplace politicshttps://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440571Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POPhttps://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=enhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraininghttps://si.inc/posts/the-heap/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438496Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazinghttps://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437893OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time serieshttps://www.opentslm.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440431Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformationshttps://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435422F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759Cormac McCarthy's personal libraryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444694 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.