10.28.25 | YouTuber Sued For Lock Shimming, PSF Withdraws $1.5M Grant Proposal, Claude For Excel Hacker News Highlights podcast

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025.

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(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(01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program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 idea
https://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=45720376

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904

Claude for Excel
https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
https://jetkvm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723159

Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721801

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701901

Easy RISC-V
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726192

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727060

Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723359

Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725009

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