Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 23, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008332

Agent design is still hard
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013935

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019817

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016639

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
https://forty.news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019685

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940980

The realities of being a pop star
https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016613

Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938005

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 22, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006616

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
https://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006016

We should all be using dependency cooldowns
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005111

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009894

Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-memory-price-surge-sends-shockwaves-through-the-global-dram-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934619

You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006082

Homeschooling hits record numbers
https://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999842

Superman copy found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12M
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e9rp0knj6o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012328

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927520

Making a Small RPG
https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004293

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 21, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Nano Banana Pro
https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993296

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996860

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995740

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
http://geacron.com/home-en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990934

Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991738

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963350

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
https://github.com/PegorK/f32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984461

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997212

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
https://mobomaps.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976693

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 20, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117

Meta Segment Anything Model 3
https://ai.meta.com/sam3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985506

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983700

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984659

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985036

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980106

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985867

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780

Gemini 3
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973709

Google Antigravity
https://antigravity.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967814

Blender 5.0
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972519

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969909

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969250

GitHub: Git operation failures
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30sk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971726

Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961886

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963670

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 18, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900425

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 17, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944296

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936460

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 15, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

AI World Clocks
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930151

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 14, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875

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