10.31.25 | Affinity Studio free, free software scares, 987654321 / 123456789

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 31, 2025 · 10m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025.

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(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…