10.28.25 | YouTuber sued for lock shimming, PSF withdraws $1.5M grant proposal, Claude for Excel

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 28, 2025 · 12m

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(01:40) - PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program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…