Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Facts about throwing good parties
https://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794032

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782136

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 1, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: Strange Attractors
https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777810

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 31, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Affinity Studio now free
https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761445

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
https://emily.space/posts/251023-uv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751400

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 29, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736479

Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
https://www.threads.com/@nthmonkey/post/DQVdAD1gHhw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582

Keep Android Open
http://keepandroidopen.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742488

EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
https://eurollm.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733707

The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/the-airpods-pro-3-flight-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733329

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702397

Boring is what we wanted
https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738247

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
https://seated.ro/blog/tinkering-a-lost-art
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739499

We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731321

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown
https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739080

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 28, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720376

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904

Claude for Excel
https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
https://jetkvm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723159

Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
https://exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacimages/Images/Pyrex/Rakow_1000132877.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721801

Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-functional-core.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701901

Easy RISC-V
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726192

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-says-over-a-million-people-talk-to-chatgpt-about-suicide-weekly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727060

Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723359

Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-friends-division-social-circles-fuel.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45725009

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

You already have a Git server
https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710721

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684253

Asbestosis
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710065

A definition of AGI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713959

How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716109

Poison, Poison Everywhere
https://loeber.substack.com/p/29-poison-poison-everywhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715726

Feed the bots
https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711094

We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3"
https://engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-by-rolling-our-own-s3-6caec1ee1143
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715204

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45650167

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)
https://github.com/dvir-biton/MyraOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715055

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZL1FfGE7TYHVw#en57996:~:text=TRANSPORT%20OF%20CONTAMINATED%20PERSON%20OFFSITE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708292

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-without-a-flex-alert
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706527

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707658

Pico-Banana-400k
https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708524

The Journey Before main()
https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706380

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706792

Rock Tumbler Instructions
https://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45705125

Why I code as a CTO
https://www.assembled.com/blog/why-i-code-as-a-cto
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695979

D2: Diagram Scripting Language
https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707539

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The Swift SDK for Android
https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698570

First shape found that can't pass through itself
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694856

Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
https://github.com/linagora/twake-drive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45692984

Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways
https://www.saxrag.com/tech/reversing/2025/06/01/BAWiFi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695134

Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-national-montessori-early-outcomes-sharply.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674002

Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
https://valetudo.cloud/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642571

I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-invited-strangers-to-message-me-through-a-receipt-printer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633877

Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models
https://mesh2motion.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693325

Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors
https://rkirov.github.io/posts/why_lean/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632894

Code Like a Surgeon
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695621