Hacker News Highlights

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


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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 26, 2025.

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  • (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 attack
    https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996

    Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
    https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340

    Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
    https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085

    Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
    https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042810

    Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
    https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125

    Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
    https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252

    FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
    https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916

    Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
    https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449

    How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
    https://far.computer/how-to/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

    Python is not a great language for data science
    https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580

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