top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-12

Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

9 months ago

Steam Frame

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

9 months ago

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/

9 months ago

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012

9 months ago

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metas-chief-ai-scientist-yann-lecun-depart-and-launch-ai-start-focused-world-models

9 months ago

The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted

9 months ago

Valve is about to win the console generation

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/

9 months ago

Project Euler

https://projecteuler.net

9 months ago

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/

9 months ago

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/1988518627859951986

9 months ago

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

9 months ago

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion

9 months ago

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755

9 months ago

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/waymo-robotaxis-are-now-giving-rides-on-freeways-in-these-3-cities/

9 months ago

Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

https://perkeep.org/

9 months ago

Learn Prolog Now (2006)

https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=top

9 months ago

Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

https://www.ntp.org/

9 months ago

FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices

https://fex-emu.com/

9 months ago

Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432

9 months ago

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model

9 months ago

Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ai-triggers-hard-drive-shortage-amidst-dram-squeeze-enterprise-hard-drives-on-backorder-by-2-years-as-hyperscalers-switch-to-qlc-ssds

9 months ago

You will own nothing and be (un)happy

https://racc.blog/you-will-own-nothing-and-be-unhappy/

9 months ago

GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/glp-1-drugs-linked-to-dramatically-lower-death-rates-in-colon-cancer-patients

9 months ago

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-transmeta-the-last-big-dotcom-ipo/

9 months ago

Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths

https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans

9 months ago

“One Student One Chip” Course Homepage

https://ysyx.oscc.cc/docs/en/

9 months ago

Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

https://kozubik.com/items/MaestroTechnology/

9 months ago

Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-introduces-digital-id-a-new-way-to-create-and-present-an-id-in-apple-wallet/

9 months ago

I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/

9 months ago

Helm 4.0

https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v4.0.0

9 months ago

A brief look at FreeBSD

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-brief-look-at-freebsd/

9 months ago

How Tube Amplifiers Work

https://robrobinette.com/How_Amps_Work.htm

9 months ago

Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting

https://heydingus.net/blog/2025/11/micro-blog-offers-an-indie-alternative-to-youtube-with-its-studio-video-hosting-plan

9 months ago

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

https://www.patrickcelentano.com/blog/planet-sim-part-1

9 months ago

Blame as a Service

https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/blame

9 months ago

UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/11/uk-suspends-intelligence-sharing-with-us-amid-airstikes-in-the-caribbean

9 months ago

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/geometry-behind-normal-maps/

9 months ago

The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/the_uselessness_of_fast/

9 months ago

Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-in-american-ai-infrastructure

9 months ago

Chat Control 2.0 through the back door

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-through-the-back-door-breyer-warns-the-eu-is-playing-us-for-fools-now-theyre-scanning-our-texts-and-banning-teens/

9 months ago

Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903161

9 months ago

Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898856

9 months ago

The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-a-prime-number-without-a-computer/

9 months ago

Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD

https://eliovp.com/why-cuda-translation-wont-unlock-amds-real-potential/

9 months ago

Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation (2024)

https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/fungus-chernobyl-mutated-feed-radiation-164735-20241217

9 months ago