top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-24

Pebble Watch software is now open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source

6 days ago

1235 upvotes – 227 comments

Claude Opus 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

6 days ago

1110 upvotes – 501 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24

6 days ago

1036 upvotes – 772 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/

6 days ago

763 upvotes – 327 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use

6 days ago

670 upvotes – 266 comments

France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors

https://mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/115581775965025042

6 days ago

575 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

https://news.ysimulator.run/news

6 days ago

534 upvotes – 214 comments

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026

6 days ago

478 upvotes – 379 comments

AI has a deep understanding of how this code works

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

6 days ago

427 upvotes – 303 comments

Implications of AI to schools

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1993010584175141038

6 days ago

358 upvotes – 430 comments

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029699

a week ago

354 upvotes – 209 comments

Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains

6 days ago

350 upvotes – 23 comments

RuBee

https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html

a week ago

347 upvotes – 61 comments

Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8676qpxgnqo

a week ago

324 upvotes – 469 comments

X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-exposed-a-vast

6 days ago

321 upvotes – 206 comments

France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors

https://mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/115581775965025042

6 days ago

320 upvotes – 362 comments

NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251123-dodging.html

6 days ago

316 upvotes – 229 comments

GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-france-amid-police-intimidation-claims/

6 days ago

316 upvotes – 140 comments

Quake Engine Indicators

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.html

a week ago

297 upvotes – 59 comments

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

6 days ago

295 upvotes – 117 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998

6 days ago

290 upvotes – 134 comments

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html

a week ago

280 upvotes – 510 comments

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing

https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048

a week ago

276 upvotes – 202 comments

TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped

https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt

6 days ago

220 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

https://neberej.github.io/exposedbydefault/

6 days ago

219 upvotes – 81 comments

Fifteen Years

https://xkcd.com/3172/

6 days ago

208 upvotes – 28 comments

Build a Compiler in Five Projects

https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/11/23/build-a-language/

a week ago

204 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

https://gibberifier.com

a week ago

203 upvotes – 110 comments

PRC elites voice AI-skepticism

https://jamestown.org/prc-elites-voice-ai-skepticism/

6 days ago

192 upvotes – 117 comments

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/

6 days ago

192 upvotes – 305 comments

DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/doge-doesnt-exist-anymore-but-expert-says-its-still-not-dead/

6 days ago

191 upvotes – 76 comments

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0

6 days ago

179 upvotes – 141 comments

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

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

a week ago

173 upvotes – 4 comments

Ego, empathy, and humility at work

https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/

a week ago

173 upvotes – 59 comments

Willis Whitfield: Creator of clean room technology still in use today (2024)

https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2024/04/04/willis-whitfield-a-simple-man-with-a-simple-solution-that-changed-the-world/

6 days ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest

https://apnews.com/article/hungary-roman-sarcophagus-discovery-budapest-77a41fe190bbcc167b43d05141536f54

6 days ago

150 upvotes – 76 comments

Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams

https://cruzgodar.com/applets/lambda-calculus

a week ago

149 upvotes – 10 comments

Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/

a week ago

144 upvotes – 143 comments

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension

6 days ago

144 upvotes – 79 comments

Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/go-public-booking-com-hotel-rates-9.6985480

6 days ago

141 upvotes – 166 comments

Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/11/24/implementing-bluetooth-le-audio-and-auracast-on-linux-systems/

6 days ago

141 upvotes – 13 comments

Fifty Shades of OOP

https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/

a week ago

140 upvotes – 112 comments

Interactive λ-Reduction

https://deltanets.org/

6 days ago

133 upvotes – 24 comments

Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine

https://blog.atuin.sh/introducing-the-new-runbook-execution-engine/

6 days ago

131 upvotes – 28 comments

Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/bureau-of-meteorology-new-website-cost-blowout-to-96-million/106042202

6 days ago

124 upvotes – 83 comments

A fast EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD boost

https://github.com/DotFox/edn.c

a week ago

109 upvotes – 37 comments

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780K Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/in-the-wake-of-windows-10-eol-over-780-000-windows-users-skip-11-for-linux-says-zorin-os-developers-distro-hits-unprecedented-1-million-downloads-in-five-weeks

6 days ago

105 upvotes – 29 comments

General principles for the use of AI at CERN

https://home.web.cern.ch/news/official-news/knowledge-sharing/general-principles-use-ai-cern

6 days ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

How stealth addresses work in Monero

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/24/monero-stealth-addresses/

6 days ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

WebR – R in the Browser

https://webr.sh/

6 days ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032074

a week ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments
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