10.25.26 | Local Wikipedia near you, Steal My Bitcoin, Be more ambitious with software

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
• (01:16) - Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
• (02:15) - We should be more ambitious with the software we build
• (03:32) - The Goose Programming Language
• (04:43) - America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
• (05:55) - Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
• (07:10) - I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
• (08:17) - Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
• (09:16) - FreeDNS
• (10:05) - Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
• (11:03) - Outro

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
https://stealmybitcoin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
https://danluu.com/ambitious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695

The Goose Programming Language
https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450

FreeDNS
https://freedns.afraid.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622