top 50% 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

Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

9 months ago

The Rust Performance Book (2020)

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/

9 months ago

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html

9 months ago

A down detector for down detector's down detector

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/

9 months ago

How Slide Rules Work

https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/ComputingHistory/HowSlideRulesWork/

9 months ago

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove

9 months ago

What Killed Perl?

https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl

9 months ago

I built a faster Notion in Rust

https://imedadel.com/outcrop/

9 months ago

The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/

9 months ago

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

9 months ago

The Boring Part of Bell Labs

https://elizabethvannostrand.substack.com/p/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs

9 months ago

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-model-3/?_fb_noscript=1

9 months ago

The lost cause of the Lisp machines

https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/

9 months ago

Broccoli Man, Remastered

https://mbleigh.dev/posts/broccoli-man-remastered/

9 months ago

Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing

https://mosaic.so

9 months ago

How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/19/how-to-leave-a-cult-experts-intervention

9 months ago

Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders

https://nof1.ai/blog/TechPost1

9 months ago

Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

https://github.com/tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel

9 months ago

Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk

https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-11-19/texas-governor-abbott-elon-musk-emails-redacted

9 months ago

Measuring political bias in Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness

9 months ago

CornHub

https://cornhub.website/

9 months ago

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

https://github.com/Mic92/strace-macos

9 months ago

DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/trump-doe-gives-microsoft-partner-1b-loan-to-restart-three-mile-island-reactor/

9 months ago

Tailscale Down

https://status.tailscale.com/incidents/01KAF1H8V7EGFKVG5KGZBB2RJC

9 months ago

The only GM EV1 ever publicly sold

https://www.theautopian.com/how-the-only-gm-ev1-ever-sold-didnt-get-crushed-and-where-its-going-now/

9 months ago

Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08874

9 months ago

Pimped Amiga 500

https://www.pimyretro.org/pimped-amiga-500/

9 months ago

Learning to Boot from PXE

https://blog.imraniqbal.org/learning-to-boot-from-pxe/

9 months ago

Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard

https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/why-your-vision-of-ancient-rome-is-all-wrong-according-to-historian-mary-beard.html

9 months ago

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

https://blog.kagi.com/llms

9 months ago

Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-1

9 months ago

Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/dutch-hand-back-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia

9 months ago

I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

9 months ago

Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/racing-karts-on-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver.html

9 months ago

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/ultra-processed-food-linked-to-harm-in-every-major-human-organ-study-finds

9 months ago

Questions for Cloudflare

https://entropicthoughts.com/questions-for-cloudflare

9 months ago

Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/11/emoji-evidence-errors-dont-undo-a-murder-conviction-people-v-harmon.htm

9 months ago

What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/

9 months ago

I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already

https://verdikapuku.com/posts/i-am-just-so-sick-of-ai-prediction-content/

9 months ago

To launch something new, you need "social dandelions"

https://www.actiondigest.com/p/to-launch-something-new-you-need-social-dandelions

9 months ago

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/samsung_emergency_call_failure/

9 months ago

First kiss dates back 21M years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43gq61g2qo

9 months ago

YouTube Is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore

https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

9 months ago

Show HN: Marimo VS Code extension – Python notebooks built on LSP and uv

https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-lsp

9 months ago

Rethinking C++: Architecture, Concepts, and Responsibility

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rethinking-c-architecture-concepts-and-responsibility/

9 months ago

Neopets.com changed my life (2019)

https://annastreetman.com/2019/05/19/how-neopets-com-changed-my-life/

9 months ago