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Hacker News – 18 Nov 2025


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  • Tech Innovations and Updates
    • How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
    • Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
    • Compiling Ruby to machine language
    • Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
    • Gaming Stories That Pull at the Heartstrings
      • How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
      • Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
      • Rebecca Heineman has died
      • Development Insights and Challenges
        • Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better
        • When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale
        • Langfuse (YC W23) Hiring OSS Support Engineers in Berlin and SF
        • Security and Privacy Concerns
          • Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
          • FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
          • Project Gemini
          • Thought-Provoking Reads
            • My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
            • The surprising benefits of giving up
            • LeJEPA
            • ...more
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