top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-14

AI World Clocks

https://clocks.brianmoore.com/

9 months ago

1383 upvotes – 384 comments

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

https://manualdousuario.net/en/mozilla-firefox-window-ai/

9 months ago

1275 upvotes – 755 comments

The disguised return of EU Chat Control

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot

9 months ago

854 upvotes – 340 comments

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

9 months ago

689 upvotes – 396 comments

AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering

https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2025/11/agi-fantasy-is-a-blocker-to-actual-engineering/

9 months ago

632 upvotes – 647 comments

Being poor vs. being broke

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-11-14-being-poor-or-being-broke/

9 months ago

585 upvotes – 684 comments

Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/

9 months ago

517 upvotes – 292 comments

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/

9 months ago

372 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable

https://searchepsteinfiles.com/

9 months ago

329 upvotes – 56 comments

Go's Sweet 16

https://go.dev/blog/16years

9 months ago

317 upvotes – 268 comments

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most

https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/

9 months ago

287 upvotes – 104 comments

All praise to the lunch ladies

https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladies

9 months ago

276 upvotes – 197 comments

SSL Configuration Generator

https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/

9 months ago

269 upvotes – 80 comments

Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp

9 months ago

262 upvotes – 155 comments

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/

9 months ago

258 upvotes – 220 comments

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-09-hk

9 months ago

244 upvotes – 91 comments

A race condition in Aurora RDS

https://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rds

9 months ago

241 upvotes – 82 comments

Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/germany-to-ban-huawei-from-future-6g-network-in-sovereignty-push

9 months ago

233 upvotes – 170 comments

Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet

https://www.ft.com/content/583e9391-bdd0-433e-91e0-b1b93038d51e

9 months ago

226 upvotes – 191 comments

How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/

9 months ago

208 upvotes – 77 comments

What 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

190 upvotes – 116 comments

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform

https://www.claude.com/blog/structured-outputs-on-the-claude-developer-platform

9 months ago

184 upvotes – 77 comments

Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34459/w34459.pdf

9 months ago

179 upvotes – 159 comments

Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jp-morgan-says-nvidia-is-gearing-up-to-sell-entire-ai-servers-instead-of-just-ai-gpus-and-componentry-jensens-master-plan-of-vertical-integration-will-boost-profits-purportedly-starting-with-vera-rubin

9 months ago

178 upvotes – 77 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/

9 months ago

175 upvotes – 22 comments

Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable

https://aethermug.com/posts/linear-algebra-explains-why-some-words-are-effectively-untranslatable

9 months ago

171 upvotes – 124 comments

Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/11/manganese-is-lyme-diseases-double-edge-sword

9 months ago

155 upvotes – 93 comments

RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries

https://boringsql.com/posts/regresql-testing-queries/

9 months ago

151 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"

https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-11-13-world-model-lecun-feifei-li/

9 months ago

141 upvotes – 95 comments

Magit manuals are available online again

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/5472

9 months ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

V8 Garbage Collector

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/11/13/the-last-couple-years-in-v8s-garbage-collector

9 months ago

125 upvotes – 37 comments

US Tech Market Treemap

https://caplocus.com/

9 months ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

9 months ago

120 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple Mini Apps Partner Program

https://developer.apple.com/programs/mini-apps-partner/

9 months ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE

https://modzero.com/en/blog/no-leak-no-problem/

9 months ago

114 upvotes – 11 comments

GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code

https://linuxiac.com/gnome-50-ends-the-x11-era-after-decades/

9 months ago

107 upvotes – 185 comments

Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/sustainability/pulls/137/files

9 months ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-entire-arm-homelab-ms-r1

9 months ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Google Releases CodeWiki

https://codewiki.google/

9 months ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)

https://edeproject.org/

9 months ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data

https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746

9 months ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/wealthy-foreigners-paid-for-chance-to-shoot-civilians-in-sarajevo-zrljbb27z

9 months ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-how-the-maya-predicted-eclipses-for-centuries

9 months ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)

https://authorsalliance.substack.com/p/copyright-winter-is-coming-to-wikipedia

9 months ago

84 upvotes – 87 comments

Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system

https://www.satcom.digital/news/genergo-an-italian-company-builds-the-worlds-first-known-propellantless-space-propulsion-system-flight-tested-and-validated-on-orbit

9 months ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad

https://wssite.vercel.app/blog/moving-back-to-a-tiling-wm-xmonad

9 months ago

79 upvotes – 78 comments

Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/41df8f28-d4ef-43e9-aed2-823f9393e470/circuit-sparsity-paper.pdf

9 months ago

78 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code

https://github.com/encoredev/encore

9 months ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave

https://berryvilleiml.com/2025/11/14/houston-we-have-a-problem-anthropic-rides-an-artificial-wave/

9 months ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

What I learned about creativity from a man painting on a treadmill (2024)

https://quinnmaclay.com/texts/lets-paint

9 months ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5606715-agriculture-secretary-snap-reapply/

9 months ago

69 upvotes – 96 comments

CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects

https://github.com/uralys/check-projects

9 months ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/14/boat-strikes-immunity-legality-trump/

9 months ago

63 upvotes – 118 comments

Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/14/windows-11-agentic-os-ai-upgrade-faces-backlash-microsoft-responds-by-closing-replies/

9 months ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

Fastmcpp (Fastmcp for C++)

https://github.com/0xeb/fastmcpp

9 months ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering

https://momentsingraphics.de/SpectralRendering2Rendering.html

9 months ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?

https://kyla.substack.com/p/30-days-9-cities-1-question-where

9 months ago

58 upvotes – 101 comments
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