top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-15

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html

9 months ago

My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a

9 months ago

Things that aren't doing the thing

https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing

9 months ago

Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-memory-price-surge-sends-shockwaves-through-the-global-dram-market/

9 months ago

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/

9 months ago

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/

9 months ago

A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/

9 months ago

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html

9 months ago

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga

9 months ago

AMD GPUs Go Brrr

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

9 months ago

WebAssembly from the Ground Up

https://wasmgroundup.com/

9 months ago

Messing with scraper bots

https://herman.bearblog.dev/messing-with-bots/

9 months ago

I can't recommend Grafana anymore

https://henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-11-grafana-mess/

9 months ago

Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/

9 months ago

Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back

https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html

9 months ago

Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/science/bees-visual-stimulus-study-scli-intl

9 months ago

One Handed Keyboard

https://github.com/htx-studio/One-Handed-Keyboard

9 months ago

Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/tim-cook-step-down-as-apple-ceo-as-soon-as-next-year-report/

9 months ago

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729

9 months ago

Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

https://windhawk.net/mods/classic-theme-enable

9 months ago

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-continues-to-chip-away-at-intels-x86-market-share-company-now-sells-over-25-percent-of-all-x86-chips-and-powers-33-percent-of-all-desktop-systems

9 months ago

Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/bloopers/

9 months ago

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

https://www.owl.is/blogg/blocking-crawlers-without-javascript/

9 months ago

FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff

https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino-waived-polygraph

9 months ago

Designing a Language (2017)

https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/languagedesignnotes/

9 months ago

Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude

9 months ago

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

https://elifesciences.org/articles/109427

9 months ago

Mag Wealth (2024)

https://saul.pw/mag/wealth/

9 months ago

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

https://libwifi.so/

9 months ago

AsciiMath

https://asciimath.org/

9 months ago

TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08923

9 months ago

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-safe.html

9 months ago

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html

9 months ago

AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/usd1-billion-ai-company-co-founder-admits-that-its-usd100-a-month-transcription-service-was-originally-two-guys-surviving-on-pizza-and-typing-out-notes-by-hand/

9 months ago

Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format

https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex

9 months ago

Weighting an average to minimize variance

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/12/minimum-variance/

9 months ago

I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector

https://akshatjoshi.com/i-wrote-a-pong-game-in-a-512-byte-boot-sector/

9 months ago

USA gives South Korea green light to build nuclear submarines

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/10/usa-gives-south-korea-green-light-to-build-nuclear-submarines/

9 months ago

NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions

https://themilitaryanalyst.com/2025/11/13/the-real-story-how-nato-ended-russias-estonian-air-incursions/

9 months ago

Caffeinated coffee consumption or abstinence to reduce atrial fibrillation

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2841253

9 months ago

AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of)

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-deprecates-two-dozen-services-most-of-which-youve-never-heard-of/

9 months ago

Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria

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

9 months ago

How to write generics in C

https://raphgl.github.io/blog/generics-in-c.html

9 months ago

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career (2017)

https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2017/06/28/the-computer-poetry-of-j-m-coetzees-early-programming-career/

9 months ago

The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/the-twin-probes-just-launched-toward-mars-have-an-easter-egg-on-board/

9 months ago

Show HN: A tool to safely migrate GitHub Actions workflows to Ubuntu-slim runner

https://github.com/fchimpan/gh-slimify

9 months ago

How two photographers transformed RAW photo support on Mac

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/14/how-two-photographers-transformed-raw-photo-support-on-mac/

9 months ago

At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA

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

9 months ago