HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] 88 195 31d +58m gandalf.fee.urv.cat/professors/AntonioQuesada/Curs1920/Cipolla_laws.pdf 1Unicode Footguns in Python 15 43 44d +12d pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-15-the-invisible-ink 2Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers 35 83 31d +1h restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile 3Timing Wheels 3 50 35d +4d pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/timing-wheels.html 4Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres 34 163 33d +2d lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/3/absurd-workflows 5Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse 201 367 39d +7d blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management 6Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway 159 360 35d +4d tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline 7App Store web has exposed all its source code 136 277 33d +2d reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1onnzlj/app_store_web_has_exposed_all_its_source_code 8I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] 461 551 32d +1d youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8 9A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios 22 112 31d +51m int10h.org/blog/2025/11/lost-ibm-at-model-bios-analysis 103D Geological Models in Minecraft 4 31 31d +1h bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/maps-and-resources/maps/minecraft-3d-geological-models 11I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist 106 78 31d +27m breakthroughjournal.org/p/why-i-stopped-being-a-climate-catastrophist 12Wafer-Scale AI Compute: A System Software Perspective 1 19 43d +11d sigops.org/2025/wafer-scale-ai-compute-a-system-software-perspective 13Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump 133 72 31d +10m reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-german-car-sales-more-than-halved-october-2025-11-05 14Solarpunk is happening in Africa 568 1167 31d +15m climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening 15Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23% 82 72 31d +18m empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-cause-morality 16Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood 53 131 31d +6h codegood.co/writing/why-your-best-engineers-are-interviewing-elsewhere 17New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair 250 656 31d +4m nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repair 18Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 133 219 31d +45m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next 19Making MLS More Decentralized 11 30 38d +7d blog.phnx.im/making-mls-more-decentralized 20I want a good parallel language [video] 62 111 33d +1d youtube.com/watch?v=0-eViUyPwso 21The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 154 233 31d +18m shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d 22Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser 169 440 31d +19m github.com/dillo-browser/dillo 23Why aren't smart people happier? 607 510 31d +2h theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier 24[dead] ? 32 31d +8m patrickstoica.substack.com 25ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others 424 374 31d +25m ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice 26DynGen – Run dynamic scripts on a SuperCollider server 0 19 36d +5d scsynth.org/t/dyngen-dynamic-ugen/12518 27Ex-FTC chair Lina Khan joins Mamdani's transition team 23 22 31d +8m businessinsider.com/lina-khan-joins-zohran-mamdanis-transition-team-2025-11 28The Heart of the Matter 1 11 34d +2d rodgercuddington.substack.com/p/the-heart-of-the-matter 29Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses 224 393 31d +52m scandasia.com/norway-reviews-cybersecurity-after-hidden-remote-access-feature-found-in-chinese-buses 30Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk 139 225 31d +1h noelrappin.com/blog/2025/11/ruby-and-its-neighbors-smalltalk 31[dead] ? 21 31d +15m europeantimes.org 32Faustino Oro (12 years-old) takes Vidit Gujrathi (#27) to the tiebreaks in chess 1 13 31d +1h twitter.com/FIDE_chess/status/1986051222512554279 33Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities 124 292 31d +2h forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities 34'A mass casualty event that could exceed Hiroshima': Yale researcher on Sudan 45 50 31d +32m cnn.com/2025/11/03/tv/video/amanpour-sudan-nathaniel-raymond-hamid-khalafallah 35Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears 10 22 31d +1h theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/05/global-stock-markets-fall-sharply-over-ai-bubble-fears 36Learning from failure to tackle hard problems 26 124 37d +5d blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/10/27/learning-from-failure-to-tackle-extremely-hard-problems 37Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? 305 304 31d +57m 38Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" 71 38 31d +58m phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Drops-X11 39Michael Burry is back with two bets against Nvidia and Palantir 7 62 31d +21m cnn.com/2025/11/05/business/nvidia-palantir-michael-burry-stock 40Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery 16 55 31d +16m arxiv.org/abs/2511.02824 41A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024) 48 98 31d +48m seemann.io/posts/2024-10-26---p2p-quic 42Radiant Computer 161 224 31d +1h radiant.computer 43Removing XSLT for a more secure browser 325 182 31d +36m developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt 44[dead] ? 15 31d +2m mg0x7be.github.io 45Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car 205 294 31d +23m caricecars.com 46The shadows lurking in the equations 86 306 31d +22m gods.art/articles/equation_shadows.html 47Blue Prince (1989) 29 48 40d +8d novalis.org/blog/2025-10-27-blue-prince-1989.html 48Poor leadership slows down game development 4 19 31d +17m gamedeveloper.com/production/how-poor-leadership-slows-down-game-development 49NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again 326 426 31d +47m gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-again 50Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks 29 54 31d +1m old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1oozpq5/the_us_army_is_advising_its_soldiers_in_germany 51An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic 77 241 32d +21h loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for-egress-traffic 52The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020) 98 107 31d +1h bbc.com/travel/article/20200902-the-grim-truth-behind-the-pied-piper 53Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) 84 117 31d +17m pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1900712116 54Parsing Chemistry 26 54 43d +11d re.factorcode.org/2025/10/parsing-chemistry.html 55iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline 223 345 31d +18m macrumors.com/2025/11/05/ios-26-2-third-party-app-stores-japan 56The Magic of Precision Engineering 0 6 42d +10d hightechinstitute.nl/the-magic-of-precision-engineering 5772% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study 82 46 31d +1h gamesindustry.biz/72-of-devs-believe-steam-has-a-monopoly-on-pc-games-according-to-study 58YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 125 445 31d +3m theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship 59Founder in Residence at Woz (San Francisco) 0 1 31d +23s 60Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances 5 85 35d +3d ananthakumaran.in/2025/11/02/moving-tables-across-postgres-instances.html 61I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel 332 483 32d +1h simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/5/brenda 62FDD – Diskettes 4 24 40d +8d retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/diskette.htm 63Intervaltree with Rust Back End 13 54 35d +3d github.com/Athe-kunal/intervaltree_rs 64The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) 71 140 32d +36m phrack.org/issues/7/3 65SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python 130 271 37d +5d antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals 66Developers are choosing older AI models 173 183 38d +6d augmentcode.com/blog/developers-are-choosing-older-ai-models-and-16b-tokens-of-data-explain-why 67The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory 59 118 32d +3h devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251104-00/?p=111758 68What does computer literacy mean for 2026? 2 11 40d +8d sjg.io/writing/the-2026-computer-literate-bar 69Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android 23 116 32d +45m twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1985920786545123613 70Vectorizing for Fun and Performance 4 48 38d +6d ibm.com/support/pages/vectorizing-fun-and-performance 71Client ID Metadata Documents 0 10 32d +2h client.dev 72Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python 158 227 32d +42m hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest 73Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet 49 95 32d +53m kyle.cascade.family/posts/preventing-kubernetes-from-pulling-the-pause-image-from-the-internet 74GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020 56 68 32d +1h gmauthority.com/blog/2025/11/these-gm-vehicles-can-no-longer-download-apps-through-their-infotainment-system 75[dead] ? 13 32d +14m nytimes.com 76What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise 57 111 32d +29m leefang.com/p/what-happened-to-piracy-copyright 77Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX 271 160 39d +7d press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-proart-display-8k-pa32kcx-availability 78UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport 432 416 32d +4h avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0 79Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states 260 358 32d +40m nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309 80Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race 1158 813 32d +4m nbcnews.com/politics/elections/new-york-city-mayor-election-winner-2025-race-rcna238909 81UPS MD-11 crashes departing Louisville 1 13 32d +47m flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/major-incident/ups-md-11-crashes-departing-louisville 82Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload 15 64 32d +15h blog.wilsonl.in/blobd 83At least 3 dead after UPS plane crashes at Louisville airport; fire spreading 2 8 32d +43m wlky.com/article/plane-crash-explosion-louisville-airport/69255042 84Cargo plane crashes at Kentucky airport 13 62 32d +30m bbc.com/news/live/c201kgq59qgt 85Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes 33 144 32d +4m theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/04/munichs-surfers-left-stunned-after-famed-river-wave-vanishes 86RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization 100 263 37d +5d riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter 87Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc. 18 189 32d +2h github.com/zserge/grayskull 88Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux 101 274 32d +1h github.com/pythops/bluetui 89Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans 103 218 37d +5d cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-talks-to-me-about-vision-pro-personas-where-is-our-virtual-presence-headed 90FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out 74 165 32d +12m arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/fda-described-as-a-clown-show-amid-latest-scandal-top-drug-regulator-is-out 91 More... 2025.11.04