Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 13, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Steam Machine
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 12, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891016

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 11, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Unexpected things that are people
https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected-things-that-are-people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877257

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

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Marble Fountain
https://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866697

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 9, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/study-identifies-weaknesses-in-how-ai-systems-are-evaluated/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856804

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850963

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-FBI-Demands-Data-from-Provider-Tucows-11066346.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Solarpunk is happening in Africa
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Mr TIFF
https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816853

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The Case Against PGVector
https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479

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