10.2.25 | Jane Goodall has died, Autism Simulator showcased, workplace politics addressed

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 2, 2025 · 10m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 2, 2025.

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(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) -…