top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-05

Solarpunk is happening in Africa

https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

9 months ago

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/new-york-city-mayor-election-winner-2025-race-rcna238909

9 months ago

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair

9 months ago

Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model

https://book.sv

9 months ago

Why aren't smart people happier?

https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier

9 months ago

I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/5/brenda/

9 months ago

YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

9 months ago

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo

9 months ago

Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud

https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc

9 months ago

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again

9 months ago

Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses

https://scandasia.com/norway-reviews-cybersecurity-after-hidden-remote-access-feature-found-in-chinese-buses/

9 months ago

ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/

9 months ago

Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/

9 months ago

iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/05/ios-26-2-third-party-app-stores-japan/

9 months ago

Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823234

9 months ago

The shadows lurking in the equations

https://gods.art/articles/equation_shadows.html

9 months ago

Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

9 months ago

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car

https://www.caricecars.com/

9 months ago

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025

https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d

9 months ago

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

9 months ago