This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset (01:38) - Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network (02:44) - Molly: An Improved Signal App (03:47) - How good engineers write bad code at big companies (05:01) - Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight (06:10) - So you wanna build a local RAG? (07:24) - Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship (08:30) - Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker (09:23) - System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 (10:29) - WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS (11:38) - Outro 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search datasethttps://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-datasethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081053Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my networkhttps://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081188Molly: An Improved Signal Apphttps://molly.im/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080916How good engineers write bad code at big companieshttps://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082223Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flighthttps://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-actionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083004So you wanna build a local RAG?https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-raghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080364Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorshiphttps://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083303Airloom – 3D Flight Trackerhttps://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080289System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084956WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OShttps://github.com/winapps-org/winappshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045207
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving (01:10) - Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (02:09) - TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term (03:28) - Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file (04:26) - 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland (05:33) - Quake Engine Indicators (06:34) - Mixpanel Security Breach (07:30) - GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack (08:44) - Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras (09:50) - Outro Tell HN: Happy Thanksgivinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065955Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-supporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070668TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long termhttps://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-inferencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069048Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 filehttps://pocketbase.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075320250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finlandhttps://www.energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-heating-and-ancillary-services/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073855Quake Engine Indicatorshttps://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031552Mixpanel Security Breachhttps://mixpanel.com/blog/sms-security-incident/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066522GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attackhttps://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070203Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have camerashttps://github.com/NullPxl/banrayshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075882
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth (01:24) - Bring bathroom doors back to hotels (02:24) - Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg (03:42) - The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop (04:50) - Penpot: The Open-Source Figma (05:57) - A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards) (07:12) - S&box is now an open source game engine (08:21) - Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding (09:39) - A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life (10:50) - DIY NAS: 2026 Edition (12:04) - Outro Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earthhttps://scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is-about-to-reach-one-light-day-from-earth/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057488Bring bathroom doors back to hotelshttps://bringbackdoors.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063072Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberghttps://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrophttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062504Penpot: The Open-Source Figmahttps://github.com/penpot/penpothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064757A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020193S&box is now an open source game enginehttps://sbox.game/news/update-25-11-26https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061682Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Codinghttps://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tipshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060508A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of lifehttps://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055935DIY NAS: 2026 Editionhttps://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065034
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack (01:37) - Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled (02:44) - Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing (04:09) - Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world (05:18) - Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research (06:36) - Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor (07:42) - FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence (08:53) - Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces (09:46) - How to repurpose your old phone into a web server (10:44) - Python is not a great language for data science (11:56) - Outro Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attackhttps://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilledhttps://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340Trillions spent and big software projects are still failinghttps://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failureshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085Jakarta is now the biggest city in the worldhttps://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-populationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042810Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchhttps://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processorhttps://github.com/flowglad/flowgladhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligencehttps://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traceshttps://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoomhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449How to repurpose your old phone into a web serverhttps://far.computer/how-to/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902Python is not a great language for data sciencehttps://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-forhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Pebble Watch software is now open source (01:28) - Claude Opus 4.5 (02:41) - Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected (03:52) - Claude Advanced Tool Use (05:04) - Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data (06:16) - PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage (07:36) - Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator (08:26) - Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 (09:34) - We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs (10:52) - Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened (12:00) - Outro Pebble Watch software is now open sourcehttps://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037626Claude Opus 4.5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037637Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infectedhttps://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539Claude Advanced Tool Usehttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-usehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038047Unpowered SSDs slowly lose datahttps://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038099PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortagehttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038143Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulatorhttps://news.ysimulator.run/newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-geminihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019898We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugshttps://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024541Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopenedhttps://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays (01:19) - A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2 (02:17) - Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS (03:27) - µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D (04:36) - RuBee (05:49) - Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? (06:53) - Disney Lost Roger Rabbit (08:01) - The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing (09:09) - New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries (10:17) - Outro Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displayshttps://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025942A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009962Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOShttps://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025721Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024773µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3Dhttps://microcad.xyz/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027216RuBeehttps://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029932Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029699Disney Lost Roger Rabbithttps://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968827The Cloudflare outage might be a good thinghttps://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029908New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centurieshttps://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985008
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting (01:27) - We Induced Smells With Ultrasound (02:31) - Agent design is still hard (03:46) - Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege (05:03) - China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium (06:21) - Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay (07:17) - A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure (08:16) - $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux (09:26) - The realities of being a pop star (10:31) - Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades (11:39) - Outro The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprintinghttps://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249We Induced Smells With Ultrasoundhttps://writetobrain.com/olfactoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008332Agent design is still hardhttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013935Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allegehttps://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019817China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thoriumhttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thoriumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016639Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delayhttps://forty.newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructurehttps://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019685$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linuxhttps://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-sagahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940980The realities of being a pop starhttps://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-starhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016613Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decadeshttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938005
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 22, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Helping Valve to power up Steam devices (01:32) - Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker (02:40) - We should all be using dependency cooldowns (03:54) - Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? (05:02) - Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening (06:14) - You can make PS2 games in JavaScript (07:09) - Homeschooling hits record numbers (08:22) - Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12M (09:29) - Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most (10:42) - Making a Small RPG (11:31) - Outro Helping Valve to power up Steam deviceshttps://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006616Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Dockerhttps://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006016We should all be using dependency cooldownshttps://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldownshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005111Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009894Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tighteninghttps://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-memory-price-surge-sends-shockwaves-through-the-global-dram-market/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934619You can make PS2 games in JavaScripthttps://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascripthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006082Homeschooling hits record numbershttps://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999842Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12Mhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e9rp0knj6ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012328Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Mosthttps://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927520Making a Small RPGhttps://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004293
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 21, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Nano Banana Pro (01:28) - CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns (02:36) - Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 (03:46) - Microsoft makes Zork open-source (05:05) - Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC (06:08) - Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs (07:25) - Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles (08:43) - Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board (09:50) - New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS (11:03) - Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards (11:58) - Outro Nano Banana Prohttps://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993296CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patternshttps://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996860Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854Microsoft makes Zork open-sourcehttps://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995740Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BChttp://geacron.com/home-en/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990934Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991738Okta's NextJS-0auth troubleshttps://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963350Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Boardhttps://github.com/PegorK/f32https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984461New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOShttps://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997212Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboardshttps://mobomaps.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976693
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 20, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws (01:29) - Meta Segment Anything Model 3 (02:42) - The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable (04:02) - Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable (05:06) - Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (06:08) - AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power (07:16) - Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge (08:22) - Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp (09:33) - How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity (10:42) - Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System (11:42) - Outro Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI lawshttps://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117Meta Segment Anything Model 3https://ai.meta.com/sam3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchablehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890Gaming on Linux has never been more approachablehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985506Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Maxhttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649AI is a front for consolidation of resources and powerhttps://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-forhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983700Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridgehttps://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984659Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApphttps://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985036How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanityhttps://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980106Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning Systemhttps://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985867
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 19, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues (01:25) - Gemini 3 (02:28) - Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem (03:44) - Google Antigravity (04:55) - Blender 5.0 (05:48) - I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon (06:51) - Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward (08:02) - GitHub: Git operation failures (08:56) - Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' (10:15) - Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf] (11:26) - Outro Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issueshttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780Gemini 3https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortemhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973709Google Antigravityhttps://antigravity.google/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967814Blender 5.0https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodonhttps://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969909Pebble, Rebble, and a path forwardhttps://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969250GitHub: Git operation failureshttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30skhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971726Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961886Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963670
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter (01:24) - Rebecca Heineman has died (02:31) - Core Devices keeps stealing our work (03:38) - My stages of learning to be a socially normal person (04:33) - Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders (05:51) - Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun (06:59) - Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses (08:13) - FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools (09:15) - Project Gemini (10:19) - WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model (11:29) - Outro Show HN: I built a synth for my daughterhttps://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900425Rebecca Heineman has diedhttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champion-and-lgbtq-trailblazer-rebecca-heineman-has-died/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960368Core Devices keeps stealing our workhttps://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960893My stages of learning to be a socially normal personhttps://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937302Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal foldershttps://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959795Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sunhttps://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944158Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresseshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955900FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic toolshttps://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDUhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953452Project Geminihttps://geminiprotocol.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954640WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting modelhttps://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954210
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit (01:31) - Open-source Zig book (02:35) - Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models (03:49) - I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure (04:53) - Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) (05:57) - Dark Pattern Games (07:01) - Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (07:53) - The fate of "small" open source (09:10) - I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels (10:13) - A file format uncracked for 20 years (11:23) - Outro Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshithttps://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944296Open-source Zig bookhttps://www.zigbook.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947810Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language modelshttps://github.com/p-e-w/heretichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945587I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosurehttps://jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45948058Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookiehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947770Dark Pattern Gameshttps://www.darkpattern.gameshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947761Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949326The fate of "small" open sourcehttps://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947639I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnelshttps://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946865A file format uncracked for 20 yearshttps://landaire.net/a-file-format-uncracked-for-20-years/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837259
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today (01:34) - AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem (02:42) - TCP, the workhorse of the internet (03:47) - Things that aren't doing the thing (04:48) - Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations (06:03) - When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts (07:14) - Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust (08:19) - IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs (09:31) - Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729 (10:35) - When did people favor composition over inheritance? (11:42) - Outro Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.todayhttps://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936460AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystemhttps://github.com/kavishdevar/librepodshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941596TCP, the workhorse of the internethttps://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935503Things that aren't doing the thinghttps://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939431Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violationshttps://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939798When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer partshttp://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941563Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rusthttps://github.com/boa-dev/boahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832051IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacshttps://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941835Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937989When did people favor composition over inheritance?https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841095
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - AI World Clocks (01:14) - The disguised return of EU Chat Control (02:12) - A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition (03:15) - 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (04:23) - Winamp clone in Swift for macOS (05:29) - Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing (06:42) - A race condition in Aurora RDS (07:45) - All praise to the lunch ladies (08:55) - HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels (10:03) - SSL Configuration Generator (11:08) - Outro AI World Clockshttps://clocks.brianmoore.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930151The disguised return of EU Chat Controlhttps://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognitionhttps://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-ofhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimatelyhttps://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928492Winamp clone in Swift for macOShttps://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doinghttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924483A race condition in Aurora RDShttps://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rdshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929921All praise to the lunch ladieshttps://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931403HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernelshttps://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-09-hkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923188SSL Configuration Generatorhttps://ssl-config.mozilla.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932798
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation (01:32) - Zed is our office (02:39) - SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search (03:48) - Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try (04:58) - Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign (06:24) - Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web (07:24) - Blender Lab (08:27) - SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds (09:40) - 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark (10:56) - Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring (11:58) - Outro Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generationhttps://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875Zed is our officehttps://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-officehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Searchhttps://blog.kagi.com/slopstophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second tryhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920748Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaignhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the webhttps://www.tweeks.io/onboardinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525Blender Labhttps://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914761SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worldshttps://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916037650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Sparkhttps://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polarshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920881Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiringhttps://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921431
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Steam Machine (01:25) - Steam Frame (02:31) - Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support (03:48) - Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification (04:57) - The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia (06:00) - Project Euler (07:01) - GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT (08:10) - Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy (09:15) - Valve is about to win the console generation (10:30) - Learn Prolog Now (11:40) - Outro Steam Machinehttps://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404Steam Framehttps://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube supporthttps://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verificationhttps://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908938The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphiahttps://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-mintedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901904Project Eulerhttps://projecteuler.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902898GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPThttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacyhttps://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370Valve is about to win the console generationhttps://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908464Learn Prolog Nowhttps://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=tophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900978
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs (01:40) - Laptops with Stickers (02:32) - X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch (03:39) - Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models' (04:48) - The history of Casio watches (05:55) - I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours (07:02) - Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers (08:11) - The terminal of the future (09:17) - .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser (10:25) - A modern 35mm film scanner for home (11:38) - Outro FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugshttps://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891016Laptops with Stickershttps://stickertop.art/main/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789674X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watchhttps://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/593/20251111-x5-1-solar-flare-g4-geomagnetic-storm-watch.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893004Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-focused-world-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271The history of Casio watcheshttps://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860552I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hourshttps://james.belchamber.com/articles/blood-pressure-monitor-reverse-engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893095Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickershttps://pikaday.dbushell.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887957The terminal of the futurehttps://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-futurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892191.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browserhttps://avaloniaui.net/blog/net-maui-is-coming-to-linux-and-the-browser-powered-by-avaloniahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893986A modern 35mm film scanner for homehttps://www.soke.engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891907
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Unexpected things that are people (01:24) - The 'Toy Story' You Remember (02:21) - Time to start de-Appling (03:29) - Unix v4 Tape Found (04:34) - The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need (05:41) - Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] (06:40) - Writing your own BEAM (07:46) - Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier (08:53) - Using Generative AI in Content Production (10:02) - Outro Unexpected things that are peoplehttps://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected-things-that-are-peoplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877257The 'Toy Story' You Rememberhttps://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-rememberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883788Time to start de-Applinghttps://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/time-to-start-de-appling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876598Unix v4 Tape Foundhttps://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321The lazy Git UI you didn't know you needhttps://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878578Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837Writing your own BEAMhttps://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/09/writing-your-own-beam.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867828Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontierhttps://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880939Using Generative AI in Content Productionhttps://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/43393929218323-Using-Generative-AI-in-Content-Productionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879793
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Marble Fountain (01:23) - Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law (02:30) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) (03:25) - XSLT RIP (04:23) - The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra (05:25) - Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] (06:22) - Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban (07:37) - Sued by Nintendo (08:47) - The Principles of Diffusion Models (09:47) - Email verification protocol (10:45) - Outro Marble Fountainhttps://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866697Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into lawhttps://montananewsroom.com/montana-becomes-first-state-to-enshrine-right-to-compute-into-law/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865289Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146XSLT RIPhttps://xslt.rip/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstrahttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866224Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVUhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803601Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link banhttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/drilling-down-on-uncle-sams-proposed-tp-link-ban/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867717Sued by Nintendohttps://www.suedbynintendo.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870675The Principles of Diffusion Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866572Email verification protocolhttps://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782192