top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-01

You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to-be-scanned-by-ices-facial-recognition-app-dhs-document-says/

9 months ago

601 upvotes – 509 comments

Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition

https://andreafortuna.org/2025/11/01/chat-control-proposal-fails-again-after-massive-public-opposition/

9 months ago

595 upvotes – 157 comments

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/

9 months ago

498 upvotes – 236 comments

Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997

https://visopsys.org/

9 months ago

494 upvotes – 145 comments

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography

https://words.filippo.io/claude-debugging/

9 months ago

473 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

https://github.com/samrolken/nokode

9 months ago

436 upvotes – 324 comments

Hard Rust requirements from May onward

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html

9 months ago

400 upvotes – 755 comments

How I fell in love with Erlang

https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang

9 months ago

394 upvotes – 249 comments

SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it

https://jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking/

9 months ago

382 upvotes – 176 comments

Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/28/sudan-bloodied-sands-massacre-thousands/

9 months ago

377 upvotes – 175 comments

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

9 months ago

371 upvotes – 167 comments

GHC now runs in the browser

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169

9 months ago

358 upvotes – 126 comments

SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes

https://sailfishos.org/info/

9 months ago

355 upvotes – 169 comments

WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel

https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm

9 months ago

299 upvotes – 65 comments

Pomelli

https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/pomelli/

9 months ago

291 upvotes – 170 comments

Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?

https://christianheilmann.com/2025/10/08/abandonware-of-the-web-do-you-know-that-there-is-an-html-tables-api/

9 months ago

253 upvotes – 202 comments

OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-moves-to-complete-potentially

9 months ago

249 upvotes – 97 comments

The profitable startup

https://linear.app/now/the-profitable-startup

9 months ago

248 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783376

9 months ago

228 upvotes – 121 comments

Email verification protocol

https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol

9 months ago

214 upvotes – 146 comments

Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/alzheimers-dementia-air-pollution.html

9 months ago

205 upvotes – 125 comments

Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor

https://helix-editor.vercel.app/start-here/basics/

9 months ago

205 upvotes – 68 comments

Ioannis Yannas, who invented artificial skin for treatment of burns, has died

https://news.mit.edu/2025/professor-ioannis-yannas-dies-1027

9 months ago

182 upvotes – 23 comments

Text case changes the size of QR codes

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/31/smaller-qr-codes/

9 months ago

178 upvotes – 52 comments

From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/wifi7speedhunt/

9 months ago

173 upvotes – 136 comments

CharlotteOS – An Experimental Modern Operating System

https://github.com/charlotte-os/Catten

9 months ago

172 upvotes – 98 comments

Czech police forced to turn off facial recognition cameras at the Prague airport

https://edri.org/our-work/czech-police-forced-to-turn-off-facial-recognition-cameras-at-the-prague-airport-thanks-to-the-ai-act/

9 months ago

160 upvotes – 53 comments

Think Weirder: The Year's Best SciFi Ideas

https://thinkweirder.com

9 months ago

133 upvotes – 78 comments

Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other

https://old.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1oj52xx/tech_companies_are_firing_everyone_to_fund_ai_but/

9 months ago

129 upvotes – 101 comments

How often does Python allocate?

https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/how-often-does-python-allocate/

9 months ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher

https://twitter.com/ffmpeg/status/1984207514389586050

9 months ago

107 upvotes – 165 comments

How to create accessible PDFs from the start

https://typst.app/blog/2025/accessible-pdf/

9 months ago

106 upvotes – 21 comments

1973 implementation of Wordle was published by DEC (2022)

https://troypress.com/1973-implementation-of-wordle-was-published-by-dec/

9 months ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics

https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/surging-power-costs-are-putting-the-squeeze-on-customers-f8b2c04b

9 months ago

105 upvotes – 67 comments

Self-help gets philosophical

https://www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-shitty-life/

9 months ago

98 upvotes – 108 comments

I think Substrate is a $1B Fraud

https://substack.com/home/post/p-177604037

9 months ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

AI Broke Interviews

https://yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-interviews/

9 months ago

88 upvotes – 126 comments

Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4gYZeSJA/m/yNs4EsD5AQAJ

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 149 comments

Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gilded-rage-talking-with-jacob-silverman

9 months ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-silent-scientist-when-software-research-fails-to-reach-its-audience/

9 months ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings

https://technicalwriting.dev/embeddings/arithmetic/index.html

9 months ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/china-solves-century-old-problem-with-new-analog-chip-that-is-1-000-times-faster-than-high-end-nvidia-gpus

9 months ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020)

https://www.crockford.com/dec64.html

9 months ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

US will not send officials to COP30 climate talks

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/us-will-not-send-officials-cop30-climate-talks-white-house-says-2025-10-31/

9 months ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty

https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product

9 months ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments
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