top 50% 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

People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones

https://idevicecentral.com/ios-customization/how-to-enable-ipad-features-like-multitasking-stage-manager-on-iphone-via-mobilegestalt/

9 months ago

Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html

9 months ago

Self-hosting a NAT Gateway

https://www.awsistoohard.com/blog/self-hosting-nat-gateway

9 months ago

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye

9 months ago

The time has finally come for geothermal energy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/why-the-time-has-finally-come-for-geothermal-energy

9 months ago

Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)

https://princejs.vercel.app

9 months ago

How to escape the Linux networking stack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-how-to-escape-the-linux-networking-stack/

9 months ago

Why don't people return their shopping carts?

https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/

9 months ago

Grok 4.1

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-1

9 months ago

A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser

https://minivac.greg.technology/

9 months ago

Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

https://angadh.com/inkhaven-7

9 months ago

A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism

https://newrepublic.com/article/202433/happened-effective-altruism

9 months ago

Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows

https://vintagetek.org/tektronix-in-movies-shows/

9 months ago

Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware

https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix

9 months ago

GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/[email protected]/

9 months ago

Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/towards-interplanetary-quic-traffic/

9 months ago

Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders

https://github.com/nealmick/ned

9 months ago

Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/

9 months ago

How to see the dead

https://www.asimov.press/p/see-the-dead

9 months ago

Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values

https://mathvideos.org/2023/terence-tao-almost-all-collatz-orbits-attain-almost-bounded-values/

9 months ago

Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvkGBWXb2oQ#t=22

9 months ago

Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians

https://www.science.org/content/article/republican-push-make-u-s-census-surveys-voluntary-alarms-statisticians

9 months ago

App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

https://www.404media.co/this-app-lets-ice-track-vehicles-and-owners-across-the-country/

9 months ago

WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock

9 months ago

Building a high performance home

https://dan.bulwinkle.net/blog/building-a-high-performance-home/

9 months ago

Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100

https://littlemountainman.github.io/2025/11/17/tens/

9 months ago

Concrete Shipbuilding – Argentina

https://thecretefleet.com/blog/f/concrete-shipbuilding-–-argentina

9 months ago

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-the-heartbeat-of-deep-lakes-at-crater-lake-its-slowing-down-20251114/

9 months ago

FCC Chairman backs demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers 'immediately'

https://ew.com/donald-trump-calls-for-nbc-to-immediately-fire-seth-meyers-11850483

9 months ago

Digital echoes: open bus behavior on the compact Macintosh

https://thomasw.dev/post/compact-mac-openbus/

9 months ago

Things I don't like in configuration languages

https://medv.io/blog/things-i-dont-like-in-configuration-languages

9 months ago

More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ say they're buying guns out of fear

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/15/nx-s1-5607064/guns-liberals-trump-administration-people-of-color-lgbtq-fear

9 months ago

My Favorite Math Problem

https://bytesauna.com/post/my-favorite-math-problem

9 months ago

Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust

https://github.com/redox-os/ion

9 months ago

'Unremovable Israeli spyware' on your Samsung phone?

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-appcloud-spyware-controversy-3616325/

9 months ago

Sit – Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems

https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit

9 months ago

Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore

https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1oyjduk/why_movies_just_dont_feel_real_anymore/

9 months ago

Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkl3d6pegpo

9 months ago

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks, driving out residents

https://theconversation.com/private-equity-firms-are-snapping-up-mobile-home-parks-and-driving-out-the-residents-who-can-least-afford-to-lose-them-264456

9 months ago