top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-06

You should write an agent

https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/

9 months ago

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-FBI-Demands-Data-from-Provider-Tucows-11066346.html

9 months ago

End of Japanese community

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

9 months ago

Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model

https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html

9 months ago

Ratatui – App Showcase

https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/

9 months ago

ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/digitaal/internationaal-strafhof-neemt-afscheid-van-microsoft-365

9 months ago

Two billion email addresses were exposed

https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/

9 months ago

Game design is simple

https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/

9 months ago

Unix v4 Tape Found

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983

9 months ago

I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced

https://old.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/1opjjyv/i_may_have_found_a_way_to_spot_us_atsea_strikes/

9 months ago

IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products

https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsroom/retail/the-new-smart-home-from-ikea-matter-compatible-251106/

9 months ago

Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-tells-u-s-govt-that-foreign-site-blocking-efforts-are-digital-trade-barriers/

9 months ago

What the hell have you built

https://wthhyb.sacha.house/

9 months ago

A file format uncracked for 20 years

https://landaire.net/a-file-format-uncracked-for-20-years/

9 months ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/

9 months ago

Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/mathematical-exploration-and-discovery-at-scale/

9 months ago

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/boa-dev/boa

9 months ago

Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding

9 months ago

Eating stinging nettles

https://rachel.blog/2018/04/29/eating-stinging-nettles/

9 months ago

The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful

https://arnon.dk/the-trust-collapse-infinite-ai-content-is-awful/

9 months ago

Swift on FreeBSD Preview

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-on-freebsd-preview/83064

9 months ago

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/

9 months ago

Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?

https://waywo.eamag.me/

9 months ago

How I am deeply integrating Emacs

https://joshblais.com/blog/how-i-am-deeply-integrating-emacs/

9 months ago

My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi

https://ellis.codes/blog/my-fan-worked-fine-so-i-gave-it-wi-fi/

9 months ago

OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion

https://investinglive.com/stock-market-update/icymi-openai-asks-us-for-loan-guarantees-to-fund-1-trillion-ai-expansion-20251105/

9 months ago

AI Slop vs. OSS Security

https://devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/

9 months ago

LLMs encode how difficult problems are

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18147

9 months ago

OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/if-you-thought-the-2008-bank-bailout

9 months ago

Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypvv8n1jvo

9 months ago

I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/how-i-analyzed-the-lineups-at-the-worlds-most-popular-nightclubs/

9 months ago

Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa

9 months ago

Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)

https://h4x0r.org/big-mac-ro-attack/

9 months ago

FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/faa-cuts-flight-capacity-shutdown.html

9 months ago

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/medical-properties-trust-mpt-steward-health-care-ed-aldag-secret-campaign-critics-surveillance-reit/

9 months ago

The Learning Loop and LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-learning-loop.html

9 months ago

Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona

https://bigislandnow.com/2025/10/19/80-year-old-grandmother-becomes-oldest-woman-to-finish-ironman-world-championship-in-kona/

9 months ago

Why I'm Learning Sumerian

https://mindthenerd.com/why-im-learning-sumerian-and-what-it-taught-me-about-hard-work-burnout-and-the-joy-of-doing-useless-things/

9 months ago

Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/transpiler/

9 months ago

The Parallel Search API

https://parallel.ai/blog/introducing-parallel-search

9 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/

9 months ago

OpenDesk – a flexible all-in-one office suite for the public sector

https://www.opendesk.eu/de

9 months ago

Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8036

9 months ago

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal

9 months ago

The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced

https://www.frenchclasses.com/tablettes-de-chocolat/the-english-language-doesnt-exist-its-just-french-thats-badly-pronounced/

9 months ago

Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/24/supply-chain-attacks-are-exploiting-our-assumptions/

9 months ago