top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-04

Mr TIFF

https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/

2 weeks ago

1052 upvotes – 150 comments

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807775

2 weeks ago

647 upvotes – 519 comments

I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8

2 weeks ago

567 upvotes – 490 comments

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/

2 weeks ago

520 upvotes – 395 comments

You can't cURL a Border

https://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/

2 weeks ago

471 upvotes – 278 comments

My Truck Desk

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/

2 weeks ago

471 upvotes – 113 comments

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hours

2 weeks ago

437 upvotes – 183 comments

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

https://avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0

2 weeks ago

421 upvotes – 438 comments

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/

2 weeks ago

397 upvotes – 158 comments

What is a manifold?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-manifold-20251103/

2 weeks ago

393 upvotes – 133 comments

When stick figures fought

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought

2 weeks ago

389 upvotes – 143 comments

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat

2 weeks ago

385 upvotes – 141 comments

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/

2 weeks ago

377 upvotes – 260 comments

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake

2 weeks ago

371 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

https://terra.layoutit.com

2 weeks ago

371 upvotes – 82 comments

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps

2 weeks ago

315 upvotes – 119 comments

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

2 weeks ago

284 upvotes – 252 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui

2 weeks ago

278 upvotes – 102 comments

An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic

https://loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for-egress-traffic

2 weeks ago

243 upvotes – 77 comments

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

https://notpeerreviewed.com/blog/bloom-filters/

2 weeks ago

208 upvotes – 41 comments
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