top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-04

Mr TIFF

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

9 months ago

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

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

9 months ago

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

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

9 months ago

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/

9 months ago

My Truck Desk

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

9 months ago

You can't cURL a Border

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

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

9 months ago

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/

9 months ago

What is a manifold?

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

9 months ago

When stick figures fought

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

9 months ago

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

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

9 months ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript

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/

9 months ago

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

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

9 months ago

★ 1.5k C Apache-2.0

Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

https://terra.layoutit.com

9 months ago

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps

9 months ago

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

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

9 months ago

★ 4.6k JavaScript GPL-3.0

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui

9 months ago

★ 2.7k Rust GPL-3.0

An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic

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

9 months ago

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

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

9 months ago

Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir

https://sherwood.news/markets/michael-burry-big-short-discloses-1-1-billion-options-bet-against-nvidia-palantir-puts/

9 months ago

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

https://github.com/zserge/grayskull

9 months ago

★ 687 C MIT

Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source

https://deepnote.com/blog/were-open-sourcing-the-successor-of-jupyter-notebook

9 months ago

From web developer to database developer in 10 years

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-02-15-from-web-developer-to-database-developer-in-10-years.html

9 months ago

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-10-31/

9 months ago

Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

9 months ago

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective/

9 months ago

FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/fda-described-as-a-clown-show-amid-latest-scandal-top-drug-regulator-is-out/

9 months ago

Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/05/pose-animator-open-source-tool-to-bring-svg-characters-to-life.html

9 months ago

The 512KB Club

https://512kb.club/

9 months ago

Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters

https://binaryigor.com/modular-monolith-and-microservices-modularity-is-what-truly-matters.html

9 months ago

Why do we need dithering?

https://typefully.com/DanHollick/why-do-we-need-dithering-Ut7oD4k

9 months ago

Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/server-dram-prices-surge-50-percent

9 months ago

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury

https://a16z.substack.com/p/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is

9 months ago

When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug

https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/ruby-ffi-gc-bug-hash-becomes-string/

9 months ago

Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight

https://greatscottgadgets.com/2025/10-31-receiving-wwvb-with-hackrf-pro/

9 months ago

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/optimizing-datalog-for-the-gpu

9 months ago

When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads

https://remembersingapore.org/2025/10/30/soviet-made-cars-singapore-70s-to-90s/

9 months ago

YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account

https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/04/youtube-ai-error-terminates-enderman-channel/

9 months ago

I want a good parallel language [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-eViUyPwso

9 months ago

Israels top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail

https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-scandal-prisoners-abuse-7becb2de4079b76b656910cc3c640d0d

9 months ago

Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent

https://100x.bot/a/chaining-ffmpeg-with-browser-agent

9 months ago

How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-internals

9 months ago

Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)

https://funktionale-programmierung.de/en/2018/03/22/transducer.html

9 months ago

Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production

https://mmc.vc/research/state-of-agentic-ai-founders-edition/

9 months ago

Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons

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

9 months ago

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/

9 months ago

Defeating KASLR by doing nothing at all

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/11/defeating-kaslr-by-doing-nothing-at-all.html

9 months ago

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP

https://www.theverge.com/news/812545/coda-studio-ghibli-sora-2-copyright-infringement

9 months ago

My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig

https://blog.karanjanthe.me/posts/zig-beat/

9 months ago

An individual can change an organization

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-11-03-an-individual-can-change-an-organization.html

9 months ago

Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/amazon-demands-perplexity-stop-ai-agent-from-making-purchases

9 months ago

Understanding Financial Functions in Excel

https://ciju.in/writings/understanding-financial-functions-excel-sheets

9 months ago

NetHack4 Philosophy

http://nethack4.org/philosophy.html

9 months ago

BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit

https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/tokenization-blackrocks-larry-fink

9 months ago

Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/nov/03/more-than-70tn-of-inherited-wealth-over-next-decade-will-widen-inequality-economists-warn

9 months ago

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence/

9 months ago

Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/to-do-list-planner-zesfy/id6479947874

9 months ago

Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (2023)

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/

9 months ago

Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts

https://www.plexe.ai/

9 months ago

Tesla's ‘Robotaxis' Keep Crashing—Even With Human ‘Safety Monitors' Onboard

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article312728957.html

9 months ago

Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-vp-dick-cheney-dead-84-punchbowl-news-says-2025-11-04/

9 months ago

US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-gives-local-police-a-face-scanning-app-similar-to-one-used-by-ice-agents/

9 months ago

CPUs and GPUs to Become More Expensive After TSMC Price Hike in 2026

https://www.guru3d.com/story/cpus-and-gpus-to-become-more-expensive-after-tsmc-price-hike-in-2026/

9 months ago

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf]

http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf

9 months ago

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME

https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html

9 months ago

Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2025/11/04/singapore-to-cane-scammers-as-billions-lost-in-financial-crimes

9 months ago

Étude in C minor (2020)

https://zserge.com/posts/etude-in-c/

9 months ago

Show HN: PingStalker – A macOS tool for network engineers

https://www.pingstalker.com/?hn

9 months ago

Using street lamps as EV chargers

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/54104-using-street-lamps-as-ev-chargers

9 months ago

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1901.09056

9 months ago

OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-11-03-opentelemetry-escape-from-observability-cartel/view

9 months ago

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)

https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

9 months ago

Async Mutexes

https://matklad.github.io/2025/11/04/on-async-mutexes.html

9 months ago

USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps

https://newrepublic.com/post/202604/usda-threatens-grocery-stores-discounts-people-food-stamps

9 months ago

History and use of the Estes AstroCam 110

https://www.dembrudders.com/history-and-use-of-the-estes-astrocam-110.html

9 months ago

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-rust-foundation-maintainers-fund/

9 months ago

Lee Felsenstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein

9 months ago

Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload

https://blog.wilsonl.in/blobd/

9 months ago

UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones

https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/unitedhealth-pays-its-optum-physicians-17-percent-more/

9 months ago

A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-olympics

9 months ago