HN Daily Digest episodes:

• November 19, 2025Hacker News – 19 Nov 2025

  Table of Contents

  Cloudflare Chronicles

  Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

  Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

  AI Innovations

  Gemini 3

  Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders

  Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

  Creative Coding

  I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector

  Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator

  Gadgets and Tools

  Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2

  Google Antigravity

  Open Source and Community

  Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward

  Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

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• November 18, 2025Hacker News – 18 Nov 2025

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  Tech Innovations and Updates

  How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

  Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

  Compiling Ruby to machine language

  Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

  Gaming Stories That Pull at the Heartstrings

  How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

  Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

  Rebecca Heineman has died

  Development Insights and Challenges

  Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better

  When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

  Langfuse (YC W23) Hiring OSS Support Engineers in Berlin and SF

  Security and Privacy Concerns

  Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

  FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

  Project Gemini

  Thought-Provoking Reads

  My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

  The surprising benefits of giving up

  LeJEPA

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• November 17, 2025Hacker News – 17 Nov 2025

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  Open Source Innovations

  Open-source Zig book

  Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

  Software Development Insights

  Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

  Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL

  Retro Tech and Nostalgia

  A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser

  FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT

  The Future of Programming and AI

  The fate of "small" open source

  Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines

  EV Technology and Neuroscience

  A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents

  Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”

  ...more

  

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• November 16, 2025Hacker News – 16 Nov 2025

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  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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• 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

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• November 14, 2025Hacker News – 14 Nov 2025

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  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?

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• November 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Nov 2025

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  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

  

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• November 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Nov 2025

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  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

  

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• November 11, 2025Hacker News – 11 Nov 2025

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  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

  

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• November 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Nov 2025

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  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

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