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

The 'Toy Story' You Remember

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember

9 months ago

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/

9 months ago

.NET 10

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-10/

9 months ago

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of

9 months ago

iPhone Pocket

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/

9 months ago

Collaboration sucks

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/collaboration-sucks

9 months ago

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/593/20251111-x5-1-solar-flare-g4-geomagnetic-storm-watch.html

9 months ago

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]

https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025.pdf

9 months ago

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5point83-billion.html

9 months ago

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

https://james.belchamber.com/articles/blood-pressure-monitor-reverse-engineering/

9 months ago

I hate screenshots of text

https://parkscomputing.com/page/i-hate-screenshots-of-text

9 months ago

Firefox expands fingerprint protections

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/fingerprinting-protections/

9 months ago

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

https://avaloniaui.net/blog/net-maui-is-coming-to-linux-and-the-browser-powered-by-avalonia

9 months ago

The terminal of the future

https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future

9 months ago

The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

https://steveblank.com/2025/11/11/the-department-of-war-just-shot-the-accountants-and-opted-for-speed/

9 months ago

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

https://pikaday.dbushell.com

9 months ago

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/11/odd-places-to-see-londons-roman-wall.html

9 months ago

A modern 35mm film scanner for home

https://www.soke.engineering/

9 months ago

iPod Socks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks

9 months ago

Ultima VII Revisited

https://github.com/ViridianGames/U7Revisited

9 months ago

Scaling HNSWs

https://antirez.com/news/156

9 months ago

OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules

https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-plaintiff-copyright-case-against-openai-2025-11-11/

9 months ago

Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7e2lv4r8xo

9 months ago

We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models

https://latenitesoft.com/blog/evaluating-frontier-ai-image-generation-models/

9 months ago

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

https://unflipgame.com/

9 months ago

Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL

https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal

9 months ago

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-nietzsche-matters-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

9 months ago

AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo

https://deepwiki.com/

9 months ago

I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it

https://gist.github.com/EchenD/8b211ebfa4941d2c5df7b526790b31aa

9 months ago

Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work

https://markusstrasser.org/creative-work-landscapes.html

9 months ago

Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust

https://lukefleed.xyz/posts/cache-friendly-low-memory-lanczos/

9 months ago

Ditch your mutex, you deserve better

https://chrispenner.ca/posts/mutexes

9 months ago

Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025

https://www.ballardgames.com/tales/hiring-dev-2025/

9 months ago

Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"

https://ibbi.io/mp

9 months ago

Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans

https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf121/8159680?login=false

9 months ago

A catalog of side effects

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiler-effects/

9 months ago

Agentic pelican on a bicycle

https://www.robert-glaser.de/agentic-pelican-on-a-bicycle/

9 months ago

Heroku Support for .NET 10

https://www.heroku.com/blog/support-for-dotnet-10-lts-what-developers-need-know/

9 months ago

Blender 5.1

https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.1/

9 months ago

Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)

https://chadaustin.me/2024/02/windows-terminal-latency/

9 months ago

Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform

https://gametje.com

9 months ago

Zig / C++ Interop

https://tuple.app/blog/zig-cpp-interop

9 months ago

Advent of Code on the Z-Machine

https://entropicthoughts.com/advent-of-code-on-z-machine

9 months ago

Welcome, the entire land – "Hello, world" in hieroglyphics (2009)

https://optional.is/required/2009/12/03/welcome-the-entire-land/

9 months ago

AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of COâ‚‚ annually, study finds

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-ai-tons-annually.html

9 months ago

The write last, read first rule

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-11-06-the-write-last-read-first-rule/

9 months ago

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/

9 months ago

Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-anxiety-disorders-essential-nutrient-brain.html

9 months ago

Ask HN: Senior people, how did your career evolve?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888409

9 months ago

Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen

https://www.euractiv.com/news/stop-overhyping-ai-scientists-tell-von-der-leyen/

9 months ago

My kind of REPL (2023)

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind-of-repl/

9 months ago

DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-heterogeneous-integration

9 months ago

Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents

https://github.com/google/adk-go

9 months ago

Wealthy foreigners paid for opportunity to kill civilians during Sarajevo siege

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/11/italy-investigation-siege-of-sarajevo-bosnian-war/

9 months ago

Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad

https://shop.beekeeb.com/products/toucan-wireless-piantor-wireless-split-keyboard-with-touchpad

9 months ago

Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision

https://codelucky.com/runit-linux-init-service-supervision/

9 months ago

The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/paradigm-shifted-the-perplexing-appeal-of-the-telepathy-tapes

9 months ago

Trying two dozen different psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/on-trying-two-dozen-different-psychedelics

9 months ago

Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gymkhanas-1978-subaru-brat-with-9500-rpm-redline-and-active-aero-is-one-super-ute

9 months ago

Show HN: Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform

https://cactoide.org/

9 months ago

Blending SQL and Python with Sqlorm

https://hyperflask.dev/blog/2025/11/11/blending-sql-and-python-with-sqlorm/

9 months ago