top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-11-19

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

9 months ago

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/sam3/

9 months ago

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

9 months ago

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

9 months ago

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for

9 months ago

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/

9 months ago

Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly

9 months ago

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/

9 months ago

The Death of Arduino?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H

9 months ago

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx

9 months ago

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity

9 months ago

A $1k AWS mistake

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-11-18-the-1000-aws-mistake/

9 months ago

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry-summers-epstein-openai.html

9 months ago

Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-89350-001.html

9 months ago

I just want working RCS messaging

https://wt.gd/i-just-want-my-rcs-messaging-to-work

9 months ago

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp

9 months ago

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board

https://github.com/PegorK/f32

9 months ago

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards

https://mobomaps.com

9 months ago

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System

https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/

9 months ago

Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

9 months ago