top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-02

Facts about throwing good parties

https://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/

9 months ago

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/

9 months ago

Laptops with Stickers

https://stickertop.art/main/

9 months ago

How I use every Claude Code feature

https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature

9 months ago

URLs are state containers

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again

https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/

9 months ago

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

https://tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research/

9 months ago

Notes by djb on using Fil-C

https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html

9 months ago

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496b

9 months ago

Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nigeria-pakistan-jordan-cybercrime-laws-journalism.php

9 months ago

Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon

https://open.space/

9 months ago

Why don't you use dependent types?

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html

9 months ago

At the end you use `git bisect`

https://kevin3010.github.io/git/2025/11/02/At-the-end-you-use-git-bisect.html

9 months ago

X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html

9 months ago

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms

https://electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms/

9 months ago

Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980)

https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th/lisp20th.html

9 months ago

You Don't Need Anubis

https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/

9 months ago

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/alleged-jabber-zeus-coder-mricq-in-u-s-custody/

9 months ago

Helion: A high-level DSL for performant and portable ML kernels

https://pytorch.org/blog/helion/

9 months ago

Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals?

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-Your-Bluetooth-Chip-Leaking-Secrets-via-RF-Ji-Dubrova/c1d3ceb47ea6f9cc4f29929e2f97d36862a260a2

9 months ago

Writing FreeDOS Programs in C

https://www.freedos.org/books/cprogramming/

9 months ago

HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike

https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

9 months ago

Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker

https://wyounas.github.io/aws/concurrency/2025/10/30/reproducing-the-aws-outage-race-condition-with-model-checker/

9 months ago

Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples

https://dhuan.github.io/mock/latest/examples.html

9 months ago

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

https://www.tycospages.com/other-themes/lm8560-the-eternal-chip-from-the-1980-years/

9 months ago

Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off

https://www.ft.com/content/120d2321-8382-4d74-ab48-f9ecb483c2a9

9 months ago

MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

9 months ago

The Useful Personal Computer

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer/

9 months ago

New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/new-prompt-injection-papers/

9 months ago

Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong

https://bengoertzel.substack.com/p/why-everyone-dies-gets-agi-all-wrong

9 months ago

Anonymous credentials: rate-limit bots and agents without compromising privacy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/private-rate-limiting/

9 months ago

Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust

https://github.com/frostyplanet/crossfire-rs

9 months ago

Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby

https://brunosutic.com/blog/ruby-friendly-attributes-pattern

9 months ago

Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader

https://minimal.bearblog.dev/why-i-love-my-boox-palma-e-reader/

9 months ago

Context engineering

https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/08/03/context-engineering

9 months ago

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/em-dashes/

9 months ago

Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/15422622/amazon-fire-tv-stick-dodgy-apps-block-piracy-streaming/

9 months ago

Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792951

9 months ago

How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BUILDUP/egpbbnzyrpq/

9 months ago

A Few Words About Async

https://yoric.github.io/post/quite-a-few-words-about-async/

9 months ago

Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances

https://ananthakumaran.in/2025/11/02/moving-tables-across-postgres-instances.html

9 months ago

These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/11/02/edmund-fitzgerald-wreck-diving/86752517007/

9 months ago

A prison of my own making

https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/a-prison-of-my-own-making/

9 months ago

Skeena Indigenous Typeface

https://microsoft.github.io/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/

9 months ago

React-Native-Godot

https://github.com/borndotcom/react-native-godot

9 months ago

Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023)

https://matthewjamestaylor.com/synesthesia-four-leaf-clovers

9 months ago