top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-11-28

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file

https://pocketbase.io/

8 months ago

EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-council-approves-new-chat-control-mandate-pushing-mass-surveillance

8 months ago

Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

8 months ago

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action

8 months ago

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays

8 months ago

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/

8 months ago

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset

https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset

8 months ago

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

https://lux-magazine.com/article/privacy-eroticism/

8 months ago

Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry

https://stohl.substack.com/p/exclusive-credit-report-shows-meta

8 months ago

Molly: An Improved Signal App

https://molly.im/

8 months ago

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/

8 months ago

So you wanna build a local RAG?

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag

8 months ago

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/

8 months ago

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

8 months ago

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft

8 months ago

Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079745

8 months ago

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents_building_counterstrike

8 months ago

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html

8 months ago

The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251125-the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-appears-to-eat-radiation

8 months ago

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/

8 months ago

Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg4y6g74ert

8 months ago

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-titans-amass-multimillion-dollar-war-chests-to-fight-ai-regulation-88c600e1

8 months ago

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

https://justoffbyone.com/posts/math-of-why-you-cant-focus-at-work/

8 months ago

AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out

https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rates-starting-to-flatten-out/

8 months ago

Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts

https://www.thedrive.com/news/stellantis-is-spamming-owners-screens-with-pop-up-ads-for-new-car-discounts

8 months ago

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

https://github.com/JB-SelfCompany/Tyr

8 months ago

SQLite as an Application File Format

https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

8 months ago

How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241205-how-charles-m-schulz-created-charlie-brown-and-snoopy

8 months ago

A first look at Django's new background tasks

https://roam.be/notes/2025/a-first-look-at-djangos-new-background-tasks/

8 months ago

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)

https://blog.plover.com/2016/07/01/#tmpdir

8 months ago

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf

8 months ago

Electron vs. Tauri

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-11-13-electron-vs-tauri/

8 months ago

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

https://github.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix

8 months ago

China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/chinas-bev-trucks-and-the-end-of-diesels-dominance/

8 months ago

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/intel-rumored-to-supply-new-mac-chip/

8 months ago

Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)

https://tigerstyle.dev/

8 months ago

Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedish-publishers-file-police-report-against-metas-zuckerberg-for-fraud

8 months ago

A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion-dollars-is-a-terrible

8 months ago

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-for-long-running-agents

8 months ago

Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight

https://viewfromthewing.com/airbus-a320s-could-be-temporarily-grounded-worldwide-for-software-update-after-faulty-jetblue-computer-triggered-sudden-uncommanded-descent/

8 months ago

Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

8 months ago

An update on the Farphone's battery

https://far.computer/battery-update/

8 months ago

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/getting-a-webserver-running

8 months ago

Lobsters Interview

https://susam.net/my-lobsters-interview.html

8 months ago

A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution

https://www.spinellis.gr/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html

8 months ago

Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Switzerland-Data-Protection-Officers-Impose-Broad-Cloud-Ban-for-Authorities-11093477.html

8 months ago

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-24-json-schema-demystified/

8 months ago

How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication

https://popovicu.com/posts/how-to-use-linux-vsock-for-fast-vm-communication/

8 months ago

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ

https://473999.net/pulse

8 months ago

The VPN panic is only getting started

https://www.theverge.com/tech/827435/uk-vpn-restrictions-ban-online-safety-act

8 months ago

Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082711

8 months ago

How wealth dies

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/314-how-wealth-dies/

8 months ago

A Tale of Four Fuzzers

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-11-28-tale-of-four-fuzzers/

8 months ago

Cross-Compiling Common Lisp to WASM

https://turtleware.eu/posts/Common-Lisp-and-WebAssembly.html

8 months ago

My car charger can boil water really fast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZybkX8tLI

8 months ago

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs

https://instavm.io/blog/llm-anti-patterns

8 months ago

Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)

https://arraying.de/posts/markword/

8 months ago

Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby

https://codeberg.org/Iow/type

8 months ago

Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow

https://blog.ellipticc.com/posts/what-is-shors-algorithm-and-why-its-the-single-biggest-threat-to-classical-cryptography/

8 months ago

GrapheneOS Moving Out of France

https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1993035936800584103

8 months ago

Fabric Project

https://github.com/Fabric-Project/Fabric

8 months ago

Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out

8 months ago

Cats became our companions way later than you think

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o

8 months ago

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-africa-forests-absorbing-emitting-carbon.html

8 months ago

Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes

https://netlist.io/

8 months ago