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Rebecca Heineman has died
https://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=45960368
Core Devices keeps stealing our work
https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960893
My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937302
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
https://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=45959795
Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944158
Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955900
FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
https://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953452
Project Gemini
https://geminiprotocol.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954640
WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954210
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Open-source Zig book
https://www.zigbook.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947810
Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945587
I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
https://jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45948058
Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947770
Dark Pattern Games
https://www.darkpattern.games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947761
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949326
The fate of "small" open source
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947639
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
https://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946865
A file format uncracked for 20 years
https://landaire.net/a-file-format-uncracked-for-20-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837259
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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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The disguised return of EU Chat Control
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511
A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262
'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928492
Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224
Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924483
A race condition in Aurora RDS
https://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929921
All praise to the lunch ladies
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931403
HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-09-hk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923188
SSL Configuration Generator
https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932798
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Zed is our office
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196
SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067
Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/blue-origin-lands-new-glenn-rocket-booster-on-second-try/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920748
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638
Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525
Blender Lab
https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-blender-lab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914761
SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916037
650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920881
Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921431
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Steam Frame
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325
Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908938
The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901904
Project Euler
https://projecteuler.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902898
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551
Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370
Valve is about to win the console generation
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908464
Learn Prolog Now
https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=top
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900978
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Laptops with Stickers
https://stickertop.art/main/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789674
X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/593/20251111-x5-1-solar-flare-g4-geomagnetic-storm-watch.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893004
Yann 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-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271
The history of Casio watches
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860552
I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
https://james.belchamber.com/articles/blood-pressure-monitor-reverse-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893095
Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
https://pikaday.dbushell.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887957
The terminal of the future
https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892191
.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
https://avaloniaui.net/blog/net-maui-is-coming-to-linux-and-the-browser-powered-by-avalonia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893986
A modern 35mm film scanner for home
https://www.soke.engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891907
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The 'Toy Story' You Remember
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883788
Time to start de-Appling
https://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/time-to-start-de-appling/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876598
Unix v4 Tape Found
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878578
Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837
Writing your own BEAM
https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/09/writing-your-own-beam.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867828
Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880939
Using Generative AI in Content Production
https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/43393929218323-Using-Generative-AI-in-Content-Production
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879793
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Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
https://montananewsroom.com/montana-becomes-first-state-to-enshrine-right-to-compute-into-law/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865289
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146
XSLT RIP
https://xslt.rip/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434
The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866224
Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803601
Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/drilling-down-on-uncle-sams-proposed-tp-link-ban/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867717
Sued by Nintendo
https://www.suedbynintendo.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870675
The Principles of Diffusion Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866572
Email verification protocol
https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782192
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I Am Mark Zuckerberg
https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863360
Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
https://markojs.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858905
Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
https://ironclad-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860843
Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859471
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
https://tabloid.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862470
Avería: The Average Font (2011)
http://iotic.com/averia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859243
Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon
https://open.space/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790672
Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects
http://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798068
Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857836
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VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850751
Why is Zig so cool?
https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852328
Why I love OCaml (2023)
https://mccd.space/posts/ocaml-the-worlds-best/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846517
James Watson has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/science/james-watson-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850069
Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849342
Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852854
Becoming a Compiler Engineer
https://rona.substack.com/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851495
Ruby Solved My Problem
https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/ruby-already-solved-my-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849528
How did I get here?
https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850382
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Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836070
You should write an agent
https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088
Two billion email addresses were exposed
https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839901
Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
https://book.sv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825733
Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824243
Game design is simple
https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841262
Leaving Meta and PyTorch
https://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948
A Fond Farewell
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843146
Eating stinging nettles
https://rachel.blog/2018/04/29/eating-stinging-nettles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834254
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End of Japanese community
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770
New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995
I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815419
Ratatui – App Showcase
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829
Why aren't smart people happier?
https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824864
Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266
NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539
ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825965
Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783467
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This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hours
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812024
Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812606
I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816041
Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817167
Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813767
Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968
Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319
Whole Earth Index
https://wholeearth.info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734259
By the Power of Grayscale
https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151
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AI's Dial-Up Era
https://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-era
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377
Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777
A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816
WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel
https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074
Things you can do with diodes
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805900
First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbacks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799478
You can't cURL a Border
https://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806263
When stick figures fought
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806348
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URLs are state containers
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789474
Notes by djb on using Fil-C
https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788040
Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787993
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789424
Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
https://tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789602
Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/paris-had-a-moving-sidewalk-in-1900.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466
Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
https://nickvsnetworking.com/simple-trick-to-increase-coverage-lying-to-users-about-signal-strength/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795036
Why don't you use dependent types?
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790827
X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790015
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Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
https://visopsys.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785858
Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
https://github.com/samrolken/nokode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783640
Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
https://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784179
GHC now runs in the browser
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782981
SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
https://jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781298
SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
https://sailfishos.org/info/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785840
How I use every Claude Code feature
https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786738
The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762160
Pomelli
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786324
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774086
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766501
Addiction Markets
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/addiction-markets-abolish-corporate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774640
AI scrapers request commented scripts
https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773347
Introducing architecture variants
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758392
Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-hack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741569
Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10/24/rethinking-data-discovery-for-libraries-and-digital-humanities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774571
My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-10-31-macbook-pro-m4-impressions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770304
Nix Derivation Madness
https://fzakaria.com/2025/10/29/nix-derivation-madness
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772347
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Free software scares normal people
https://danieldelaney.net/normal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760878
987654321 / 123456789
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/26/987654321/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712620
How the cochlea computes (2024)
https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762259
Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
https://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765664
NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/npm-flooded-with-malicious-packages-downloaded-more-than-86000-times/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755027
Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
https://0github.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760321
Springs and bounces in native CSS
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/linear-timing-function/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736461
Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
https://github.com/itsfrank/MinecraftHDL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763877
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Tell HN: Azure outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661
Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748879
China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-forest-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732800
Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747018
Dithering – Part 1
https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750954
Tailscale Peer Relays
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749017
AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749161
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671677
GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/9/11/bvaf141/8277723?login=false
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45728525