This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 17, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226

Claude Skills
https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607117

Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
https://ricklamers.io/posts/gemini-3-spotted-in-the-wild/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607758

Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
https://hyperflask.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604673

Elixir 1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602428

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563576

Your data model is your destiny
https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583786

Meow.camera
https://meow.camera/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047

DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45605501

Codex Is Live in Zed
https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606698