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Hacker News (Nov 2025)

  1. Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create

    52 points • comment • nov 09, 2025

  2. Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat

    52 points • comment • nov 10, 2025

  3. Inmates at a Mississippi jail were ordered to do the guards' bidding

    52 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

  4. A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years

    52 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  5. The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies

    52 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  6. Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

    52 points • comment • nov 10, 2025

  7. FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)

    52 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  8. IBM Delivers New Quantum Package

    52 points • comment • nov 13, 2025

  9. Show HN: Pipeflow-PHP – Automate anything with pipelines even non-devs can edit

    52 points • comment • nov 09, 2025

  10. The Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web's Death

    52 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  11. Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime? (2019)

    52 points • comment • nov 13, 2025

  12. WebTransport is almost here to allow UDP-like exchange in the browser

    52 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  13. Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age

    52 points • comment • nov 14, 2025

  14. Remind: A sophisticated calendar and alarm program

    52 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  15. Yann LeCun reportedly leaving Meta to launch new AI startup

    51 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  16. Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty

    51 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  17. Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery

    51 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  18. Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame

    51 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  19. 'Unremovable Israeli spyware' on your Samsung phone?

    51 points • comment • nov 17, 2025

  20. Bank of America Just Issued a Stark Warning: AI Boom Is Hitting a Cash Crunch

    51 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  21. I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'

    51 points • comment • nov 14, 2025

  22. More tales about outages and numeric limits

    51 points • comment • nov 21, 2025

  23. 9NEWS Questions Flock Safety CEO over Mass Surveillance and ICE Access

    51 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  24. Show HN: Marimo VS Code extension – Python notebooks built on LSP and uv

    51 points • comment • nov 19, 2025

  25. The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)

    51 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  26. Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective

    51 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  27. Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

    51 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

  28. Principles of Slack Maximalism

    51 points • comment • nov 28, 2025

  29. A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

    51 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  30. Wrapping my head around AI wrappers

    50 points • comment • nov 15, 2025

  31. Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup

    50 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  32. Strap Rail

    50 points • comment • nov 06, 2025

  33. US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say

    50 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  34. Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists

    50 points • comment • nov 04, 2025

  35. Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

    50 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  36. Jedi Blue

    50 points • comment • nov 28, 2025

  37. Timing Wheels

    50 points • comment • nov 01, 2025

  38. The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

    50 points • comment • nov 10, 2025

  39. Debunking the Myths of the HBO Chernobyl series (2023)

    50 points • comment • nov 20, 2025

  40. $96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch

    50 points • comment • nov 27, 2025

  41. Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)

    49 points • comment • nov 18, 2025

  42. GPT-5-Codex-Mini – A more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex

    49 points • comment • nov 08, 2025

  43. The Bughouse Effect

    49 points • comment • nov 25, 2025

  44. Aurora: The Linux-based ultimate workstation

    49 points • comment • nov 30, 2025

  45. ICE Arrests the Press

    49 points • comment • nov 26, 2025

  46. An update on the Farphone's battery

    49 points • comment • nov 29, 2025

  47. Y Combinator Startup brings brainrot to developers' IDEs

    49 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  48. Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government

    49 points • comment • nov 27, 2025

  49. Factory Farming Is a Blight

    49 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  50. Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing

    49 points • comment • nov 15, 2025

  51. Xqerl – Erlang XQuery 3.1 Processor

    49 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  52. Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch

    49 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  53. Only Criminals Don't Want to Be Gassed by the Government

    48 points • comment • nov 18, 2025

  54. The Art of Atari (2016)

    48 points • comment • nov 04, 2025

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

    48 points • comment • nov 28, 2025

  56. OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money

    48 points • comment • nov 26, 2025

  57. Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

    48 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  58. Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers

    48 points • comment • nov 24, 2025

  59. AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

    48 points • comment • nov 16, 2025

  60. Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995)

    48 points • comment • nov 09, 2025

  61. Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue

    48 points • comment • nov 13, 2025

  62. Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

    48 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

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

    48 points • comment • nov 25, 2025

  64. Having Fun with Complex Numbers

    48 points • comment • nov 18, 2025

  65. Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming

    48 points • comment • nov 06, 2025

  66. Show HN: DNS Benchmark Tool – Compare and monitor resolvers

    48 points • comment • nov 19, 2025

  67. EPA just approved new 'forever chemical' pesticides for use on food

    48 points • comment • nov 24, 2025

  68. Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon

    48 points • comment • nov 28, 2025

  69. EU Plans $371B Build-Out of High-Speed Rail Corridors

    47 points • comment • nov 09, 2025

  70. What's New in F# 10

    47 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  71. Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

    47 points • comment • nov 18, 2025

  72. Oracle's credit default swaps surge as Barclays downgrades its debt rating

    47 points • comment • nov 13, 2025

  73. Show HN: Reversing a Cinema Camera's Peripherals Port

    47 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

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

    47 points • comment • nov 23, 2025

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

    47 points • comment • nov 29, 2025

  76. Rewilding the Internet

    47 points • comment • nov 02, 2025

  77. Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?

    47 points • comment • nov 01, 2025

  78. New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men

    47 points • comment • nov 27, 2025

  79. Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash

    47 points • comment • nov 14, 2025

  80. Band of Holes

    46 points • comment • nov 19, 2025

  81. Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden "Language"

    46 points • comment • nov 15, 2025

  82. Victorian-style lines for the web: Elements of identical width

    46 points • comment • nov 24, 2025

  83. The 4.5T dollar elephant in the room

    46 points • comment • nov 10, 2025

  84. Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax

    46 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  85. I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search

    46 points • comment • nov 24, 2025

  86. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)

    46 points • comment • nov 30, 2025

  87. How fast can browsers process base64 data?

    46 points • comment • nov 29, 2025

  88. Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster

    46 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  89. USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps

    46 points • comment • nov 04, 2025

  90. Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras

    46 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  91. Show HN: Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js)

    46 points • comment • nov 10, 2025

  92. Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)

    46 points • comment • nov 02, 2025

  93. Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA

    46 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  94. Xortran - A PDP-11 Neural Network With Backpropagation in Fortran IV

    46 points • comment • nov 11, 2025

  95. CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

    45 points • comment • nov 12, 2025

  96. Pain Points of OCaml

    45 points • comment • nov 04, 2025

  97. I Use Typst Now

    45 points • comment • nov 07, 2025

  98. Shell Grotto, Margate

    45 points • comment • nov 05, 2025

  99. I Built a One File Edge Probe to Tell Me When Time Is Lying

    45 points • comment • nov 03, 2025

  100. Invisible details of interaction design (2023)

    45 points • comment • nov 26, 2025