top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-08

I Want You to Understand Chicago

https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

9 months ago

Ticker: Don't die of heart disease

https://myticker.com/

9 months ago

Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance

https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi

9 months ago

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/study-identifies-weaknesses-in-how-ai-systems-are-evaluated/

9 months ago

Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing/

9 months ago

Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel

https://ironclad-os.org/

9 months ago

Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language

https://markojs.com/

9 months ago

The history of Casio watches

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1970s/

9 months ago

IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act

https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/06/the-ofcom-files-part-2-ip-blocking-the-uk-is-not-enough-to-comply-with-the-online-safety-act/

9 months ago

Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html

9 months ago

My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1orc6jl/my_friends_and_i_accidentally_faked_the_ryzen_7/

9 months ago

Avería: The Average Font (2011)

http://iotic.com/averia/

9 months ago

Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/opencloud

9 months ago

Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-leta

9 months ago

Sam Altman's pants are on fire

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-pants-are-totally-on

9 months ago

WriterdeckOS

https://writerdeckos.com

9 months ago

52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

9 months ago

Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec

https://www.cerebras.ai/code

9 months ago

Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD

https://conradresearch.com/articles/immutable-software-deploy-zfs-jails

9 months ago

Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

9 months ago

Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02743

9 months ago

US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

https://www.thedailybeast.com/air-traffic-controllers-start-resigning-as-shutdown-bites/

9 months ago

Building a high-performance ticketing system with TigerBeetle

https://renerocks.ai/blog/2025-11-02--tigerfans/

9 months ago

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/

9 months ago

$1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI

https://gizmodo.com/1-trillion-in-tech-stocks-sold-off-as-market-grows-skeptical-of-ai-2000683226

9 months ago

I want you to understand Chicago

https://aphyr.com/posts

9 months ago

Firefox Forcing LLM Features

https://equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features/

9 months ago

Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)

https://andreacanton.dev/posts/2025-11-08-always-ready-to-leave/

9 months ago

Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j76cp7bETw

9 months ago

Local First Htmx

https://elijahm.com/posts/local_first_htmx/

9 months ago

An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/MIT/AIM-001.pdf

9 months ago

Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show

https://tickerfeed.net/articles/sam-altman-reeks-of-desperation

9 months ago

Shader Glass

https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass

9 months ago

IndieChina Film Festival shut down after harassment from Chinese authorities

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/07/china-authorities-shut-down-film-festival-in-new-york

9 months ago

Zig is so cool, C is cooler

https://github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-is-cool-c-is-cooler.md

9 months ago

What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)

https://nautil.us/what-hallucinogens-will-make-you-see-308247/

9 months ago

Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/tech/facebook-gender-discrimination-europe-ruling-asequals-intl

9 months ago

Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/11/debugging-beagleboard-usb-boot-with-a-sniffer-fixing-omap_loader-on-modern-pcs/

9 months ago

Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/11/07/why-sam-altman-wont-be-on-the-hook-for-openais-massive-spending-spree/

9 months ago

Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650

https://github.com/ZigZagJoe/Macintosh-Q650-68060

9 months ago

Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/oddest-chatgpt-leaks-yet-cringey-chat-logs-found-in-google-analytics-tool/

9 months ago

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/

9 months ago

Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/older-adults-outnumber-children.html

9 months ago

Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/tiktok-live-stream-fatal-crash-chicago

9 months ago

COBOL to Kotlin via Formal Models (IR and Alloy and Golden Master)

https://marcoeg.medium.com/from-cobol-to-kotlin-795920b1f371

9 months ago

French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/11/08/french-lawmakers-vote-to-tax-american-retirees-who-freely-benefit-from-social-security_6747260_5.html

9 months ago

GPT-5-Codex-Mini – A more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.56.0

9 months ago