top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-16

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

9 months ago

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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

9 months ago

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

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

9 months ago

Open-source Zig book

https://www.zigbook.net

9 months ago

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

Maybe you’re not trying

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

9 months ago

Where do the children play?

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

9 months ago

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)

https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie

9 months ago

Dark Pattern Games

https://www.darkpattern.games

9 months ago

I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

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

9 months ago

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs

9 months ago

The fate of "small" open source

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

9 months ago

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

9 months ago

CUDA Ontology

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

9 months ago

The internet is no longer a safe haven

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

9 months ago

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

9 months ago

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust

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

9 months ago

What if you don't need MCP at all?

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

9 months ago

FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT

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

9 months ago

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

https://www.thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional-mechanics-login

9 months ago

Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

9 months ago

The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)

https://www.ahalbert.com/technology/2023/12/19/the_pragmatic_programmer.html

9 months ago

Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/peter-thiel-dumps-top-ai-stock-stirring-bubble-fears

9 months ago

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents

https://www.shoosmiths.com/insights/articles/a-new-chapter-begins-for-ev-batteries-with-the-expiry-of-key-lfp-patents

9 months ago

PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

https://picoide.com/

9 months ago

Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems

https://seri.tools/blog/castrol-honda-superbike/

9 months ago

UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051y3d7myzo

9 months ago

Garbage collection is useful

https://dubroy.com/blog/garbage-collection-is-useful/

9 months ago

Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-brain-creates-aha-moments-and-why-they-stick-20251105/

9 months ago

A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo

9 months ago

Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)

https://ericpony.github.io/z3py-tutorial/guide-examples.htm

9 months ago

Why use OpenBSD?

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/why-are-you-still-using-openbsd/

9 months ago

I don’t need a Steam Machine

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/11/why-i-dont-need-a-steam-machine/

9 months ago

Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2622812/middle-east

9 months ago

Three kinds of AI products work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-products/

9 months ago

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023)

https://research.swtch.com/nih

9 months ago

PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance

https://github.com/randoneering/pgFirstAid

9 months ago

Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure

https://www.semicomplete.com/blog/xdotool-and-exploring-wayland-fragmentation/

9 months ago

AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen

https://www.fastcompany.com/91435189/ai-privacy-openai-tracking-apps

9 months ago

Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary?

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/historys-sexiest-revolutionary-meet-the-mesmerising-general-whose-charms-helped-win-a-war/

9 months ago

Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2025/11/16/libdrm-ocaml/

9 months ago

Vintage Large Language Models

https://owainevans.github.io/talk-transcript.html

9 months ago