top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-03

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

https://supercarblondie.com/electric-motor-yasa-more-powerful-tesla-mercedes/

3 months ago

622 upvotes – 598 comments

AI's Dial-Up Era

https://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-era

3 months ago

469 upvotes – 433 comments

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/11/03/nextcloud-slow/

3 months ago

457 upvotes – 350 comments

Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength

https://nickvsnetworking.com/simple-trick-to-increase-coverage-lying-to-users-about-signal-strength/

3 months ago

439 upvotes – 181 comments

Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/google_suspended_sslmates_cloud_account_again

3 months ago

416 upvotes – 192 comments

Things you can do with diodes

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodes

3 months ago

407 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800465

3 months ago

401 upvotes – 585 comments

The Case Against PGVector

https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/

3 months ago

381 upvotes – 137 comments

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)

https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.html

3 months ago

371 upvotes – 163 comments

</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening

https://htmx.org/essays/the-fetchening/

3 months ago

361 upvotes – 153 comments

Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/israels-top-military-lawyer-arrested-after-she-admitted-leaking-video-of-soldiers-abuse

3 months ago

332 upvotes – 179 comments

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbacks

3 months ago

290 upvotes – 284 comments

App Store web has exposed all its source code

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1onnzlj/app_store_web_has_exposed_all_its_source_code/

3 months ago

284 upvotes – 138 comments

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/the-case-that-ai-is-thinking

3 months ago

278 upvotes – 1011 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU

3 months ago

269 upvotes – 159 comments

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/

3 months ago

267 upvotes – 273 comments

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-process-memory/

3 months ago

246 upvotes – 33 comments

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/python-to-node

3 months ago

229 upvotes – 281 comments

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 230 comments

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o

3 months ago

221 upvotes – 102 comments

Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects

http://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/

3 months ago

203 upvotes – 32 comments

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/

3 months ago

200 upvotes – 149 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800464

3 months ago

198 upvotes – 453 comments

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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/

3 months ago

192 upvotes – 88 comments

The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

https://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/mack-super-pumper-system-locomotive-engine-powered-pumper-extinguish-hell-often/

3 months ago

179 upvotes – 123 comments

'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7ek63e5xyo

3 months ago

174 upvotes – 144 comments

Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131?page=23

3 months ago

170 upvotes – 61 comments

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/3/absurd-workflows/

3 months ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

VimGraph

https://resources.wolframcloud.com/FunctionRepository/resources/VimGraph/

3 months ago

166 upvotes – 30 comments

Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages

https://spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conversation/

3 months ago

164 upvotes – 200 comments

Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1042355/434ad706cc594276/

3 months ago

163 upvotes – 45 comments

Awk Technical Notes (2023)

https://maximullaris.com/awk_tech_notes.html

3 months ago

160 upvotes – 63 comments

Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES

https://hanafuda.report/articles/former-nintendo-employees-reveal-what-it-took-to-launch-the-nes-in-america/

3 months ago

157 upvotes – 32 comments

The problem with farmed seafood

https://nautil.us/the-problem-with-farmed-seafood-1243674/

3 months ago

155 upvotes – 138 comments

Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery

https://skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev/

3 months ago

147 upvotes – 36 comments

No Socials November

https://bjhess.com/posts/no-socials-november

3 months ago

133 upvotes – 170 comments

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

https://guestbook.goodenough.us

3 months ago

130 upvotes – 33 comments

Dependent types and how to get rid of them

https://chadnauseam.com/coding/pltd/are-dependent-types-actually-erased

3 months ago

123 upvotes – 81 comments

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/linear-algebra-chapter-2-the-dot

3 months ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto

https://help.guideline.com/en/articles/12694322-guideline-has-joined-gusto-faqs-about-our-recent-acquisition

3 months ago

121 upvotes – 115 comments

Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes

https://cryptography101.ca

3 months ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

FSF40 Hackathon

https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon

3 months ago

120 upvotes – 3 comments

ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

https://mailman3.common-lisp.net/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/T64S5EMVV6WHDPKWZ3AQHEPO3EQE2K5M/

3 months ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/02/update-and-shut-down-no-longer-restarts-pc-as-windows-11-25h2-patch-addresses-a-decades-old-bug/

3 months ago

119 upvotes – 86 comments

Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc

https://dfir.ch/posts/today_i_learned_binfmt_misc/

3 months ago

107 upvotes – 31 comments

OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI

https://github.com/ServiceStack/llms

3 months ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022)

https://maxnagy.com/posts/pigeons/

3 months ago

99 upvotes – 69 comments

Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz

https://mynamelowercase.com/blog/robert-hookes-cyberpunk-letter-to-gottfried-leibniz/

3 months ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-build-your-own-vpn-or-the-history-of-warp/

3 months ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser

https://github.com/tchauffi/rust-rasterizer

3 months ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds

https://modal.com/blog/notebooks-internals

3 months ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

The Initial Ideal Customer Profile Worksheet

https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2023-01-30-iicp

3 months ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Syllabi – Open-source agentic AI with tools, RAG, and multi-channel deploy

https://www.syllabi-ai.com/

3 months ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all

https://thechiefleader.com/stories/tech-workers-fight-for-living-wages-and-a-32-hour-workweek-is-a-battle-for-workers-everywhere,55298

3 months ago

86 upvotes – 181 comments

The great decoupling of labor and capital

https://www.mbi-deepdives.com/the-great-decoupling-of-labor-and-capital/

3 months ago

85 upvotes – 64 comments

Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?

https://church.substack.com/p/is-health-insurance-even-worth-it

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 189 comments

Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation

https://www.theverge.com/news/812376/google-removes-gemma-senator-blackburn-hallucination

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 93 comments

Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805540

3 months ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python

https://2earth.github.io/website/20250202.html

3 months ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

https://github.com/Ido-Levi/Hephaestus

3 months ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Linkers (2007)

https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38

3 months ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Software development in the time of strange new angels

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time

3 months ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

C++ move semantics from scratch (2022)

https://cbarrete.com/move-from-scratch.html

3 months ago

80 upvotes – 87 comments

Agent-o-rama: build, trace, evaluate, and monitor LLM agents in Java or Clojure

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/11/03/introducing-agent-o-rama-build-trace-evaluate-and-monitor-stateful-llm-agents-in-java-or-clojure/

3 months ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

CHIP8 – emulator, assembler, game, vhdl hardware implementations

http://blog.dominikrudnik.pl/chip8-emulator-assembler-game-vhdl

3 months ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25591165.wikipedia-row-erupts-jimmy-wales-intervenes-gaza-genocide-page/

3 months ago

72 upvotes – 109 comments

Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

3 months ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

https://medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1

3 months ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Stochastic computing

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/stochastic-computing/

3 months ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

America is bracing for political violence – and significant portion think its OK

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/poll-americans-political-violence-00632864

3 months ago

64 upvotes – 89 comments

Understanding traffic

https://dr2chase.wordpress.com/

3 months ago

61 upvotes – 47 comments

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

3 months ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments
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