top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-10

XSLT RIP

https://xslt.rip/

9 months ago

698 upvotes – 464 comments

Unexpected things that are people

https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected-things-that-are-people

9 months ago

658 upvotes – 300 comments

Time to start de-Appling

https://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/time-to-start-de-appling/

9 months ago

616 upvotes – 438 comments

Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break

https://urlahmed.com/2025/11/05/work-after-work-notes-from-an-unemployed-new-grad-watching-the-job-market-break/

9 months ago

540 upvotes – 471 comments

The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need

https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/

9 months ago

436 upvotes – 222 comments

Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy

https://github.com/jackdoe/pico2-swd-riscv

9 months ago

400 upvotes – 313 comments

LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger

https://bytesauna.com/post/dunning-kruger

9 months ago

392 upvotes – 298 comments

Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/redmond-turns-off-flock-safety-cameras-after-ice-arrests/

9 months ago

372 upvotes – 418 comments

Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned

https://www.levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-ml-vs-1-month-of-prompting/

9 months ago

320 upvotes – 108 comments

How cops can get your private online data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data

9 months ago

298 upvotes – 66 comments

High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf]

https://github.com/LaurenzV/master-thesis/blob/main/main.pdf

9 months ago

281 upvotes – 35 comments

Sued by Nintendo

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/

9 months ago

273 upvotes – 80 comments

DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"

https://torrentfreak.com/dns-provider-quad9-sees-piracy-blocking-orders-as-existential-threat/

9 months ago

268 upvotes – 116 comments

Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

https://beets.io/

9 months ago

267 upvotes – 121 comments

Realtime BART Arrival Display

https://filbot.com/real-time-bart-display/

9 months ago

244 upvotes – 52 comments

Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier

https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words-to-worlds-spatial-intelligence

9 months ago

243 upvotes – 127 comments

How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk-lost-its-shipbuilding

9 months ago

232 upvotes – 509 comments

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/microsoft_lacks_quality_control/

9 months ago

223 upvotes – 227 comments

Asus Ascent GX10

https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/desktop-ai-supercomputer/ultra-small-ai-supercomputers/asus-ascent-gx10/

9 months ago

213 upvotes – 197 comments

Using Generative AI in Content Production

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/43393929218323-Using-Generative-AI-in-Content-Production

9 months ago

190 upvotes – 150 comments

LLM policy?

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/4990

9 months ago

185 upvotes – 138 comments

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/09/europe_to_decide_if_6/

9 months ago

173 upvotes – 245 comments

Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch

https://github.com/nathan-barry/tiny-diffusion

9 months ago

172 upvotes – 20 comments

Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-issues-reminder-to-passengers-ahead-of-move-to-100-digital-boarding-passes-from-wednesday-12-nov/

9 months ago

163 upvotes – 332 comments

Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages

https://ai.meta.com/blog/omnilingual-asr-advancing-automatic-speech-recognition/?_fb_noscript=1

9 months ago

162 upvotes – 45 comments

The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext

9 months ago

136 upvotes – 97 comments

Zig and the design choices within

https://blueberrywren.dev/blog/on-zig/

9 months ago

129 upvotes – 180 comments

Installing and using HP-UX 9

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-11-08/

9 months ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k

https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/canadian-military-public-servants

9 months ago

126 upvotes – 353 comments

Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2

https://research.roundtable.ai/captcha-benchmarking/

9 months ago

124 upvotes – 97 comments

ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform

https://clickhouse.com/blog/librechat-open-source-agentic-data-stack

9 months ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

The Future of Fact-Checking Is Lies, I Guess

https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess

9 months ago

116 upvotes – 16 comments

Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes

https://flox.dev/kubernetes/

9 months ago

111 upvotes – 48 comments

EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eu-takes-aim-plastic-pellets-030314496.html

9 months ago

106 upvotes – 78 comments

Head in the Zed Cloud

https://maxdeviant.com/posts/2025/head-in-the-zed-cloud/

9 months ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs

https://danielmangum.com/posts/spi-routing-ice40-fpga/

9 months ago

99 upvotes – 10 comments

Games Preservation Is Hard and Sometimes Involves Private Detectives

https://kotaku.com/gog-preservation-program-private-detectives-drm-2000635611

9 months ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/

9 months ago

93 upvotes – 136 comments

Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877517

9 months ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

Memory Safety for Skeptics

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773095

9 months ago

89 upvotes – 198 comments

Error ABI

https://matklad.github.io/2025/11/09/error-ABI.html

9 months ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds

https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/low-concern-tylenol-adhd-or-autism/

9 months ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/

9 months ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/scientists-produce-powerhouse-pigment-behind-octopus-camouflage

9 months ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4p2yzmem0o

9 months ago

81 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB

https://rajivm1991.github.io/DroidDock/

9 months ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

How to maintain good vision amidst the myopia epidemic

https://ssathe.substack.com/p/vision-in-the-digital-age

9 months ago

73 upvotes – 79 comments

My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up

https://github.com/f/git-rewrite-commits

9 months ago

68 upvotes – 100 comments

FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/fbi-subpoena-tries-to-unmask-mysterious-founder-of-archive-today/

9 months ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

TTS still sucks

https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/tts-still-sucks

9 months ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel-millennials

9 months ago

60 upvotes – 149 comments

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix

https://ilovetypography.com/2025/11/07/steven-hellers-font-of-the-month-archive-matrix/

9 months ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments
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