DiscoverHacker News Highlights11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs
11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs

11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 28, 2025.

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  • (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 Thanksgiving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065955

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070668

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-inference
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069048

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
https://pocketbase.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075320

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
https://www.energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-heating-and-ancillary-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073855

Quake Engine Indicators
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031552

Mixpanel Security Breach
https://mixpanel.com/blog/sms-security-incident/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066522

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070203

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075882

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11.26.25 | Google Antigravity data exfiltration, YouTube's prophecy fulfilled, big software projects failing despite trillions spent

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11.25.25 | Pebble Watch software open source, Claude Opus 4.5 released, over 300 infected NPM packages

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11.24.25 | Fran Sans font inspired by San Francisco, time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2, native Secure Enclave SSH keys on macOS

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11.23.25 | Browser fingerprinting privacy issues, Inducing smells with ultrasound, Challenges in agent design

11.23.25 | Browser fingerprinting privacy issues, Inducing smells with ultrasound, Challenges in agent design

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11.22.25 | Helping Valve enhance Steam devices, Wealthfolio 2.0 is an open-source investment tracker for mobile and Docker, advocating for dependency cooldowns

11.22.25 | Helping Valve enhance Steam devices, Wealthfolio 2.0 is an open-source investment tracker for mobile and Docker, advocating for dependency cooldowns

2025-11-2211:37

11.21.25 | Nano Banana Pro, CBP monitors US drivers for suspicious patterns, Android and iPhone users can share files with Pixel 10

11.21.25 | Nano Banana Pro, CBP monitors US drivers for suspicious patterns, Android and iPhone users can share files with Pixel 10

2025-11-2112:04

11.20.25 | Europe relaxes GDPR and AI laws, Meta Segment Anything Model 3, patent office to protect bad patents

11.20.25 | Europe relaxes GDPR and AI laws, Meta Segment Anything Model 3, patent office to protect bad patents

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11.19.25 | Cloudflare issues, Gemini 3, Cloudflare November 18, 2025 outage post mortem

11.19.25 | Cloudflare issues, Gemini 3, Cloudflare November 18, 2025 outage post mortem

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11.18.25 | Synth for daughter, Rebecca Heineman dies, Core Devices steals work

11.18.25 | Synth for daughter, Rebecca Heineman dies, Core Devices steals work

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11.17.25 | Anthropic's paper criticized, Open-source Zig book released, Heretic removes censorship for language models

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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

2025-11-1611:48

11.15.25 | AI World Clocks, EU Chat Control's disguised return, new Google model excels in handwriting recognition

11.15.25 | AI World Clocks, EU Chat Control's disguised return, new Google model excels in handwriting recognition

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11.14.25 | Nano Banana enables nuanced AI image prompts, Zed serves as our office, SlopStop detects AI slop in Kagi Search

11.14.25 | Nano Banana enables nuanced AI image prompts, Zed serves as our office, SlopStop detects AI slop in Kagi Search

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11.13.25 | Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Yt-dlp requires external JavaScript for YouTube support

11.13.25 | Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Yt-dlp requires external JavaScript for YouTube support

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11.12.25 | FFmpeg demands funding from Google, Laptops featuring stickers, X5.1 solar flare and G4 geomagnetic storm alert

11.12.25 | FFmpeg demands funding from Google, Laptops featuring stickers, X5.1 solar flare and G4 geomagnetic storm alert

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11.11.25 | Unexpected people, Nostalgic 'Toy Story', De-Appling begins

11.11.25 | Unexpected people, Nostalgic 'Toy Story', De-Appling begins

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11.10.25 | Marble Fountain, Montana enshrines 'right to compute', Ask HN: November 2025 projects

11.10.25 | Marble Fountain, Montana enshrines 'right to compute', Ask HN: November 2025 projects

2025-11-1010:55

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11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs

11.28.25 | Thanksgiving wishes, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Linux support, Google’s AI advantage with TPUs vs. GPUs

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