top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-25

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html

3 months ago

1001 upvotes – 692 comments

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data

3 months ago

768 upvotes – 215 comments

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures

3 months ago

630 upvotes – 603 comments

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population

3 months ago

482 upvotes – 378 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/

3 months ago

461 upvotes – 304 comments

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2

3 months ago

450 upvotes – 355 comments

Orion 1.0

https://blog.kagi.com/orion

3 months ago

440 upvotes – 275 comments

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad

3 months ago

405 upvotes – 223 comments

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2

3 months ago

372 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces

https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom

3 months ago

362 upvotes – 49 comments

Python is not a great language for data science

https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for

3 months ago

346 upvotes – 328 comments

WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

3 months ago

342 upvotes – 183 comments

Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/brain-human-cognitive-development-life-stages-cambridge-study

3 months ago

324 upvotes – 258 comments

New layouts with CSS Subgrid

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/

3 months ago

309 upvotes – 98 comments

Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management

https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/11/24/worlds-most-stable-raspberry-pi-81-better-ntp-with-thermal-management/

3 months ago

293 upvotes – 91 comments

Unison 1.0

https://www.unison-lang.org/unison-1-0/

3 months ago

289 upvotes – 95 comments

APT Rust requirement raises questions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046841/5bbf1fc049a18947/

3 months ago

266 upvotes – 486 comments

Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse

https://www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-interview-backlash-analysis/

3 months ago

257 upvotes – 375 comments

A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/

3 months ago

256 upvotes – 158 comments

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045987

3 months ago

254 upvotes – 160 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/

3 months ago

249 upvotes – 40 comments

Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/reinventing-how-dotnet-builds-and-ships-again/

3 months ago

212 upvotes – 139 comments

Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

https://cs193p.stanford.edu/

3 months ago

201 upvotes – 40 comments

Unifying our mobile and desktop domains

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/

3 months ago

191 upvotes – 55 comments

YesNotice

https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/yesnotice/

3 months ago

184 upvotes – 60 comments

What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project

https://andrej.sh/blog/maintaining-open-source-project/

3 months ago

183 upvotes – 163 comments

ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-bounty-hunter-spy-program/

3 months ago

157 upvotes – 81 comments

A Look at Rust from 2012

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-at-rust-from-2012/

3 months ago

153 upvotes – 90 comments

Bad UX World Cup 2025

https://badux.lol/

3 months ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2025/ozempic-does-not-slow-alzheimers-study-finds

3 months ago

147 upvotes – 87 comments

Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/open-season/

3 months ago

144 upvotes – 56 comments

What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription

https://nmil.dev/what-you-can-get-for-the-price-of-a-netflix-subscription

3 months ago

138 upvotes – 156 comments

Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/engineering-methods-from-the-past/

3 months ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking

https://github.com/clark-prog/blackout-public

3 months ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

The Generative Burrito Test

https://www.generativist.com/notes/2025/Nov/25/generative-burrito-test.html

3 months ago

119 upvotes – 53 comments

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853

3 months ago

114 upvotes – 118 comments

N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics

https://trisolarchaos.com/?pr=lagrange&n=3&s=5.0&so=0.01&im=verlet&dt=5.00e-4&rt=1.0e-6&at=1.0e-8&bs=0.50&sf=0&sv=0&cm=free&kt=1&st=1&ag=0&tl=1500&cp=0.0000,0.0000,10.0000&ct=0.0000,0.0000,0.0000

3 months ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-financial-tech-firm/

3 months ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-coming-to-llvm-protecting-cryptographic-code-at-the-compiler-level/

3 months ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/

3 months ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms

https://github.com/techomancer/nvme2k

3 months ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

EU set to adopt ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115611006935923542

3 months ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"

https://blog.kizu.dev/css-variables/

3 months ago

96 upvotes – 96 comments

Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)

https://creolened.com/windows-gui-good-bad-and-pretty-ugly-ranked/

3 months ago

94 upvotes – 197 comments

Ironwood, our latest TPU

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-google-tpu-things-to-know/

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2025-11-25-stackoverflow/

3 months ago

69 upvotes – 86 comments

This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (2021)

https://blog.nns.ee/2021/04/01/modem-blog

3 months ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Build Your Own Router with URLPattern()

https://jschof.dev/posts/2025/11/build-your-own-router/

3 months ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

Matrix Core Programming on AMD CDNA Architecture

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/software-tools-optimization/matrix-cores-cdna/README.html

3 months ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-doesnt-understand-dislike-windows-new-direction/

3 months ago

58 upvotes – 53 comments
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