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11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure, AirPods liberated from Apple, TCP as internet workhorse

11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure, AirPods liberated from Apple, TCP as internet workhorse

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.

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  • (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.today
https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936460

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941596

TCP, the workhorse of the internet
https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935503

Things that aren't doing the thing
https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939431

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/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=45939798

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941563

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832051

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941835

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937989

When 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

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11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure, AirPods liberated from Apple, TCP as internet workhorse

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