This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on November 19, 2025.

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(00:30 ): Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(01:53 ): Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(03:17 ): Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979297&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(04:41 ): The Death of Arduino?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984143&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(06:04 ): Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(07:28 ): Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978423&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(08:52 ): Meta Segment Anything Model 3
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(10:15 ): The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(11:39 ): Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985506&utm_source=wondercraft_ai


(13:03 ): Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979190&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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