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November 16, 2025Hacker News – 16 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Apple Ecosystem Hacks
AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

Tech Innovations and DIY Solutions
IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C

Programming Insights
When did people favor composition over inheritance?

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

Modern Challenges and Reflections
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
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3min
November 15, 2025Hacker News – 15 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Innovations and AI Projects
AI World Clocks

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform

Programming Languages and Development Tools
So, you want to design your own language? (2017)

Ohm Editor

Löb and Möb: Loops in Haskell

Networking and Security
The Internet Is Cool. Thank You, TCP

No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE

SSL Configuration Generator

AMD's GPU Developments
AMD GPUs Go Brrr

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels

Cultural and Creative Highlights
Messing with Scraper Bots

All praise to the lunch ladies

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
...more
5min
November 14, 2025Hacker News – 14 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Testing and Optimization Tools
RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries

Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark

Creative Innovations
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

Blender Lab

Historical Insights and Cultural Reflections
What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

Sarah Mason, inventor of the continuity script

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS

A Dive into Technical Concepts
A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

Why do we need dithering?
...more
4min
November 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Android Developments
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification

Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project

Gaming Innovations
Steam Machine

Steam Frame

Security and Tech Insights
Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that uses 1 GB RAM when idle

AI and Language Models
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

Continuous Autoregressive Language Models

Miscellaneous
The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

Human Fovea Detector
...more
3min
November 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
AI Innovations
Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

Development Upgrades
.NET 10

Heroku Support for .NET 10

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

Tech Culture & Community
Laptops with Stickers

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

Science & Technology
X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

Stochastic computing

Gadgets & Innovations
A modern 35mm film scanner for home

The history of Casio watches
...more
4min
November 11, 2025Hacker News – 11 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Film & Nostalgia
The 'Toy Story' You Remember

When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads

Tech Innovations
SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB

AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo

Creative Processes & Design
Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work

Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming

Historical Discoveries
Unix v4 Tape Found

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME
...more
4min
November 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Tech Tributes and Innovations
XSLT RIP

Realtime BART Arrival Display

Beets: The music geek's media organizer

Retro Computing Adventures
Installing and using HP-UX 9

DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020)

How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry

Legislation and Digital Rights
Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law

Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban

Environmental Concerns and Innovations
EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup

Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]

Computing Insights and Reflections
JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

The Linux Kernel Looks to "Bite the Bullet" in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
...more
5min
November 09, 2025Hacker News – 09 Nov 2025
Table of Contents
Operating Systems and Security
Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel

Defeating Kaslr by Doing Nothing at All

Runc breaks pods when CPU requests aren't multiples of 10

Programming Languages and Tools
Marko – A declarative, HTML-based language

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects

Unique Innovations and Studies
Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

Study finds memory decline surge in young people

Community Projects and Insights
Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon

Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework
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5min
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
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4min

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