top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-16

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

3 months ago

1424 upvotes – 462 comments

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/

3 months ago

1160 upvotes – 322 comments

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic

3 months ago

745 upvotes – 380 comments

Open-source Zig book

https://www.zigbook.net

3 months ago

692 upvotes – 390 comments

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure

https://jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.html

3 months ago

685 upvotes – 223 comments

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-like-this-81570

3 months ago

471 upvotes – 95 comments

Maybe you’re not trying

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/maybe-youre-not-actually-trying

3 months ago

448 upvotes – 188 comments

Where do the children play?

https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play

3 months ago

409 upvotes – 256 comments

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)

https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie

3 months ago

357 upvotes – 100 comments

Dark Pattern Games

https://www.darkpattern.games

3 months ago

350 upvotes – 138 comments

I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

https://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels

3 months ago

311 upvotes – 107 comments

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs

3 months ago

301 upvotes – 181 comments

The fate of "small" open source

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/

3 months ago

295 upvotes – 227 comments

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

3 months ago

286 upvotes – 87 comments

CUDA Ontology

https://jamesakl.com/posts/cuda-ontology/

3 months ago

271 upvotes – 40 comments

The internet is no longer a safe haven

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/the-internet-is-no-longer-a-safe-haven/

3 months ago

253 upvotes – 199 comments

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

3 months ago

249 upvotes – 173 comments

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone

3 months ago

239 upvotes – 118 comments

What if you don't need MCP at all?

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-02-what-if-you-dont-need-mcp/

3 months ago

237 upvotes – 183 comments

FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT

https://bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt/

3 months ago

235 upvotes – 49 comments
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