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November 08, 2025Hacker News – 08 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Programming Languages & Frameworks
Why is Zig so cool?

Snapchat open-sources Valdi a cross-platform UI framework

Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

Why I love OCaml (2023)

Friendly Attributes Pattern in Ruby

Software Development Practices
Becoming a Compiler Engineer

How to find your ideal customer, right away

Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD

Technology & Society
YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users

Innovative Concepts
Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos

Local First Htmx

Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650

Community & Events
FSF40 Hackathon

How a devboard works (and how to make your own)
...more
5min
November 07, 2025Hacker News – 07 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Impactful Departures and Innovations
Leaving Meta and PyTorch

A Fond Farewell

A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean

Adventures in Software and Security
Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site

You should write an agent

Two billion email addresses were exposed

Cutting-Edge Developments in AI and Design
Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model

Game design is simple

JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software

Exploring Science and Technology
Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating

Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes

From web developer to database developer in 10 years
...more
4min
November 06, 2025Hacker News – 06 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Programming Innovations
Erlang Meets Idris: Cure Programming Language

Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025

User Experience and Community Dynamics
What the hell have you built

End of Japanese community

Sustainability and Innovation
Solarpunk is happening in Africa

Scientists growing colour without chemicals

Tech and Society
ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

Cultural Reflections
NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
...more
4min
November 05, 2025Hacker News – 05 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
AI Trends and Innovations
Developers are choosing older AI models, and the data explains why

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

Tech History and Legacy
Mr TIFF

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

The Hackers Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker) (1986)

Cutting-Edge Technology
Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans

Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

Emerging Tools and Frameworks
Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

Intervaltree with Rust Back End

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

Current Events and Industry Updates
Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
...more
4min
November 04, 2025Hacker News – 04 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Global Navigation Challenges
You can't cURL a Border

AI's Dial-Up Era

Tech Deployment Insights
Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production

Pain Points of OCaml

Software and Hardware Innovations
Some software bloat is OK

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

Creative Projects and Nostalgia
Things you can do with diodes

When stick figures fought

Shoutouts and Humor
Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym
...more
4min
November 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Electric Innovations
Tiny electric motor outperforms record holder by 40%

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)

Historical Tech Marvels
Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)

Web and AI Advances
ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

Programming and Methodology Insights
Why don't you use dependent types?

URLs are state containers

Fun and Creativity
Facts about throwing good parties
...more
3min
November 02, 2025Hacker News – 02 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Deep Learning Insights
Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

How I use every Claude Code feature

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography

Operating Systems and Compiler Innovations
Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

Notes by djb on using Fil-C (2025)

Database Management Tools
CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations

AI and Content Creation
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

Pomelli

Miscellaneous Tech Wonders
Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor

FlightAware Map Design
...more
4min
November 01, 2025Hacker News – 01 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Math and Algorithms
Show HN: Strange Attractors

Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book

Retro and Programming Insights
How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches

Security and Privacy
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

New Technologies and Innovations
Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser

Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video]

Startup Culture and Communication
The profitable startup

Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication
...more
4min
October 31, 2025Hacker News – 31 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
AI and Reasoning Models
Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't

Result is all I need

Claude.ai Is Down

Hardware Innovations
AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

Software and Tools
Affinity Studio now free

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times

Creative Tech and Culture
Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

Programming Philosophy
John Carmack on mutable variables

Free software scares normal people
...more
4min
October 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Oct 2025
Table of Contents
Python and Development Tools
Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

Iommi – your first pick for a Django power chord

Cloud and Server Innovations
Tell HN: Azure outage

Tailscale Peer Relays

IRCd service (2024)

Gaming and Community
Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

Environmental Tech
China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990

Philosophy and Perception
Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality

How ancient people saw themselves
...more
4min

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