top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-22

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html

9 months ago

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

https://forty.news

9 months ago

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

https://github.com/hexagonal-sun/moss

9 months ago

Agent design is still hard

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/

9 months ago

The realities of being a pop star

https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star

9 months ago

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server

https://far.computer/how-to/

9 months ago

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium

9 months ago

Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e9rp0knj6o

9 months ago

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/in-a-u-s-first-new-mexico-opens-doors-to-free-child-care-for-all-2dfdea96

9 months ago

Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115591487350860999

9 months ago

Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/kids-smartphones-age-13-worse-mental-health-outcomes/story?id=123961082

9 months ago

WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/worldgen-3d-world-generation-reality-labs-generative-ai-research/

9 months ago

Markdown is holding you back

https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/

9 months ago

The history of Indian science fiction

https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction

9 months ago

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-physicists-antihydrogen-breakthrough-cern-technique.html

9 months ago

'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex

9 months ago

Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum

https://scienceclock.com/moss-survives-9-months-in-space-vacuum/

9 months ago

The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt3/

9 months ago

Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1

https://www.simpleguide.net/serflings.xhtml

9 months ago

A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-woman-mission-photograph-every-species-of-hummingbird-world

9 months ago

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model

https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/sharper-mri-scans-may-be-horizon-thanks-new-physics-based-model

9 months ago

A million ways to die from a data race in Go

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html

9 months ago

Show HN: I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon

https://radi8.dev/blog/stratospore/

9 months ago

Set theory with types

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/21/Typed_Set_Theory.html

9 months ago

Java Decompiler

http://java-decompiler.github.io

9 months ago

A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain and Security Architecture

https://stack.int.mov/a-reverse-engineers-anatomy-of-the-macos-boot-chain-security-architecture/

9 months ago

ADHD and monotropism (2023)

https://monotropism.org/adhd/

9 months ago

Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well

https://kotaku.com/roblox-new-york-times-interview-baszucki-2000646174

9 months ago

Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages

https://github.com/arpxspace/smartcommit

9 months ago

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o

9 months ago

After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline

https://iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.com/2025/11/after-15-years-i-have-finally-reached.html

9 months ago

The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California

https://lithub.com/on-the-death-of-tech-idealism-and-rise-of-the-homeless-in-northern-california/

9 months ago

New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/21/apple-research-llm-study-audio-motion-activity/

9 months ago

Windows ARM64 Internals: Deconstructing Pointer Authentication

https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/windows-arm64-internals-deconstructing-pointer-authentication

9 months ago

I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3RNB8eOSx0

9 months ago

My private information is worth $30

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/privacy-price/

9 months ago

Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs

https://vibescaffold.dev/

9 months ago

How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/counterfeit-lithium-ion-batteries

9 months ago

TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/11/21/tsa-security-fee-wrong-id/

9 months ago

The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-02079-y

9 months ago

Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory

https://gwern.net/doc/math/humor/index

9 months ago

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/you-can-see-a-working-quantum-computer-in-ibms-london-office-85464/

9 months ago

A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies

https://www.livescience.com/animals/insects/a-looming-insect-apocalypse-could-endanger-global-food-supplies-can-we-stop-it-before-its-too-late

9 months ago

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/google-tells-employees-it-must-double-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-ai-demand/

9 months ago

Jack Ma's family shifted wealth to UK after years-long 'disappearance'

https://www.source-material.org/jack-ma-bought-uk-home-after-years-long-disappearance/

9 months ago