top 50% 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

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

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

9 months ago

Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud

https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc

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

Radiant Computer

https://radiant.computer

9 months ago

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

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

9 months ago

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2025/11/ruby-and-its-neighbors-smalltalk/

9 months ago

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

9 months ago

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]

https://gandalf.fee.urv.cat/professors/AntonioQuesada/Curs1920/Cipolla_laws.pdf

9 months ago

Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/

9 months ago

Removing XSLT for a more secure browser

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt

9 months ago

Fourier Transforms

https://www.continuummechanics.org/fourierxforms.html

9 months ago

The kind of company I want to be a part of

https://www.dvsj.in/my-company

9 months ago

Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/04/munichs-surfers-left-stunned-after-famed-river-wave-vanishes

9 months ago

Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood

https://codegood.co/writing/why-your-best-engineers-are-interviewing-elsewhere

9 months ago

GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-gps-kill-switch-allows-msp-cruisers-go-dark-disable-tracking/5OKMJEUJDNAVXPLN4WKFADNPLM/

9 months ago

The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)

https://phrack.org/issues/7/3

9 months ago

Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore

https://rawl.rocks/

9 months ago

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251104-00/?p=111758

9 months ago

Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900712116

9 months ago

Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1985920786545123613

9 months ago

A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios

https://int10h.org/blog/2025/11/lost-ibm-at-model-bios-analysis/

9 months ago

Continuous Autoregressive Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27688

9 months ago

What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise

https://www.leefang.com/p/what-happened-to-piracy-copyright

9 months ago

The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200902-the-grim-truth-behind-the-pied-piper

9 months ago

A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)

https://seemann.io/posts/2024-10-26---p2p-quic/

9 months ago

Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet

https://kyle.cascade.family/posts/preventing-kubernetes-from-pulling-the-pause-image-from-the-internet/

9 months ago

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

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

9 months ago

The physics of news, rumors, and opinions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053

9 months ago

Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/

9 months ago

Automating our home video imports

https://pierce.dev/notes/automating-our-home-video-imports

9 months ago

Switching from GPG to Age

https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/gpg-to-age/

9 months ago

Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols

https://blog.helix.ml/p/technical-deep-dive-on-streaming

9 months ago

A Common Semiconductor Just Became a Superconductor

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251030075105.htm

9 months ago

I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist

https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/why-i-stopped-being-a-climate-catastrophist

9 months ago

Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23%

https://www.empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-cause-morality/

9 months ago

Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-german-car-sales-more-than-halved-october-2025-11-05/

9 months ago

Staying opinionated as you grow

https://hugo.writizzy.com/being-opinionated/57a0fa35-1afc-4824-8d42-3bce26e94ade

9 months ago

C++ implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols

https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate

9 months ago

Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/05/google-gemini-1-billion-deal-apple-siri/

9 months ago

GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/11/these-gm-vehicles-can-no-longer-download-apps-through-their-infotainment-system/

9 months ago