top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-23

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays

https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay

9 months ago

After my dad died, we found the love letters

https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/

9 months ago

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

9 months ago

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/

9 months ago

X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/xs-new-country-of-origin-feature-shakes-maga-and-democrat-circles-as-many-us-accounts-revealed-to-be-foreignrun-101763857104296.html

9 months ago

Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html

9 months ago

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS

https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf

9 months ago

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public

https://time.com/7336204/meta-lawsuit-files-child-safety/

9 months ago

Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders

9 months ago

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D

https://microcad.xyz/

9 months ago

A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)

https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64

9 months ago

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]

https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf

9 months ago

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini

9 months ago

Racket v9.0

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/racket-v9-0.html

9 months ago

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/

9 months ago

1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/

9 months ago

Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good

https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/202505291438/

9 months ago

Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?

https://birchtree.me/blog/are-consumers-just-tech-debt-to-microsoft/

9 months ago

73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering

https://pub.towardsai.net/i-reverse-engineered-200-ai-startups-73-are-lying-a8610acab0d3

9 months ago

GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2025-November/247020.html

9 months ago

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

https://www.righto.com/2025/11/unusual-386-standard-cell-circuits.html

9 months ago

"Good engineering management" is a fad

https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/

9 months ago

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

https://windowsreport.com/google-revisits-jpeg-xl-in-chromium-after-earlier-removal/

9 months ago

MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-21-mcp-apps/

9 months ago

NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024)

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Underwater%20Camera%20-%20Specialist%27s%20Factual%20Report-Rel.pdf

9 months ago

Editing Code in Emacs

https://redpenguin101.github.io/html/posts/2025_11_23_emacs_for_code_editing.html

9 months ago

Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/silicon-valley-startups-doing-evil-again-and-again

9 months ago

Several core problems with Rust

https://bykozy.me/blog/rust-is-a-disappointment/

9 months ago

Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773097

9 months ago

Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd

https://github.com/dadtronics/protondrive-linux

9 months ago

G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are

https://www.printables.com/model/1490911-g0-g3-corners-visualised-learn-what-apple-corners

9 months ago

An Economy of AI Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01063

9 months ago

Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024753

9 months ago

Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C

https://github.com/t9nzin/memory

9 months ago

Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/21/germany-to-classify-date-drugs-as-weapons-in-attempt-to-ensure-justice-for-survivors

9 months ago

Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/23/apple-focusing-on-software-quality-improvements-ios-27-next-year-report/

9 months ago

The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends

https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/the-fall-of-labubus-and-the-mush-of-modern-internet-trends/

9 months ago

Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)

https://sanesecurityguy.com/articles/signal-knows-who-youre-talking-to/

9 months ago

Dark Mode Sucks

https://www.tomechangosubanana.com/2025/dark-mode-sucks/

9 months ago

Indie, alone, and figuring it out

https://danijelavrzan.com/posts/2025/11/indie-dev/

9 months ago

A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development

https://github.com/coder/mux

9 months ago

How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9EN3kUlfg

9 months ago

SVG.js v3.2

https://svgjs.dev/docs/3.2/

9 months ago

Show HN: Safe-NPM – only install packages that are +90 days old

https://github.com/kevinslin/safe-npm

9 months ago

Particle Life

https://sandbox-science.com/particle-life

9 months ago

A cryptography research body held an election and they can't decrypt the results

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html

9 months ago

'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them

https://www.rawstory.com/doge-employees/

9 months ago

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through CG-NAT: Cloudflare

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/cloudflare_cgnat_bias_research/

9 months ago