top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-17

Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

9 months ago

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/

9 months ago

Google is killing the open web, part 2

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web-2/

9 months ago

Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy

https://www.sammobile.com/news/israeli-app-app-cloud-samsung-phones-controversy/

9 months ago

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

https://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDU

9 months ago

Project Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/

9 months ago

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/

9 months ago

Android/Linux Dual Boot

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Dual_Booting/WiP

9 months ago

Replicate is joining Cloudflare

https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare

9 months ago

Compiling Ruby to machine language

https://patshaughnessy.net/2025/11/17/compiling-ruby-to-machine-language

9 months ago

Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

https://karboosx.net/post/4eZxhBon/building-a-simple-search-engine-that-actually-works

9 months ago

Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)

https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/giving-c-a-superpower-custom-header-file-safe_ch/

9 months ago

Are you stuck in movie logic?

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-stuck-in-movie-logic

9 months ago

Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft

https://astral-os.org/posts/2025/10/31/astral-minecraft.html

9 months ago

An official atlas of North Korea

https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea

9 months ago

Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis

https://github.com/francescopace/espectre

9 months ago

Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings

https://neuburger.substack.com/p/cities-panic-over-having-to-release

9 months ago

Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958004

9 months ago

How when AWS was down, we were not

https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-we-prevent-aws-downtime-impacts

9 months ago

Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXzUGYIL9M#t=15m19s

9 months ago