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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• So you wanna build a local RAG?
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• Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
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• Molly: An Improved Signal App
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• 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
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• Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
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• How good engineers write bad code at big companies
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• Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
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• Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
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• Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
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• Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
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• TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
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• GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
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• Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
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• 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
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• Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
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• Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
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• EU Council Approves New \"Chat Control\" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
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• Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
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• Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
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• Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding
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• S&box is now an open source game engine
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• The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
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• Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
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• Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
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• Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
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• DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
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• Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
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• Linux Kernel Explorer
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
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• Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
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• Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
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• FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
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• Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
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• Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
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• Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
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• I don't care how well your \"AI\" works
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• Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from earth
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• OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
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• NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
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• Implications of AI to schools
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• Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
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• Claude Advanced Tool Use
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• Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
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• PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
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• Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
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• Orion 1.0
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• Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
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• Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
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• Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
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• µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
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• Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
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• X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
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• Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
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• France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
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• Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source
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• Claude Opus 4.5
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
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• A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
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• China reaches energy milestone by \"breeding\" uranium from thorium
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• Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
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• A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
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• Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
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• After my dad died, we found the love letters
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• Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates
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• Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
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• Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
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• Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
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• We should all be using dependency cooldowns
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• Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
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• You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
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• Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
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• Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold
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• Agent design is still hard
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• In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
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• The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
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• Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
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• Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
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• Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
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• Microsoft makes Zork open-source
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• Over-regulation is doubling the cost
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• Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
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• How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
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• Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
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• Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
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• Meta Segment Anything Model 3
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• Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
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• AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
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• Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
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• Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
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• The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
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• Red Alert 2 in web browser
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• Nano Banana Pro
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• CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
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• Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
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• I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
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• GitHub: Git operation failures
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• Blender 5.0
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• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
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• Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
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• Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
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• Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
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• The Death of Arduino?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
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• Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
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• Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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• Rebecca Heineman has died
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• Core Devices keeps stealing our work
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• How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
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• Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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• Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
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• Gemini 3
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• Google Antigravity
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A file format uncracked for 20 years
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• Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
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• My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
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• Where do the children play?
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• I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
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• The fate of \"small\" open source
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• Dark Pattern Games
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• Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
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• Google is killing the open web, part 2
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• Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Things that aren't doing the thing
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• Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations
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• When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
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• AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
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• IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
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• Maybe you’re not trying
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• Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
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• Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
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• Open-source Zig book
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• I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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• Operating Margins
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• Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned
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• A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
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• Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
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• 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
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• All praise to the lunch ladies
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• Go's Sweet 16
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• TCP, the workhorse of the internet
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• Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
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• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
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• SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
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• Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
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• AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
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• I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
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• Being poor vs. being broke
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• Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
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• The disguised return of EU Chat Control
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• AI World Clocks
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Project Euler
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• Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame
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• GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
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• Valve is about to win the console generation
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• Android developer verification: Early access starts
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• Human Fovea Detector
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• Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
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• Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
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• Zed is our office
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• Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Laptops with Stickers
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• .NET 10
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• Collaboration sucks
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• X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
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• Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
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• Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
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• Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
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• The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
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• Steam Frame
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• Steam Machine
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How I fell in love with Erlang
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• Unix v4 Tape Found
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• Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
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• The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
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• Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
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• Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
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• The 'Toy Story' You Remember
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• SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia
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• iPhone Pocket
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• FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
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• The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
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• Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
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• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
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• Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
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• XSLT RIP
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• Time to start de-Appling
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• LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
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• How cops can get your private online data
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• Unexpected things that are people
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How did I get here?
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• Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
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• Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
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• Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
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• Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
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• I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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• Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
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• Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
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• AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
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• Marble Fountain
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why I love OCaml (2023)
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• Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
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• Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
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• Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
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• VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
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• YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
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• Why is Zig so cool?
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• Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
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• Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
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• I Want You to Understand Chicago
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
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• Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
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• Two billion email addresses were exposed
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• You should write an agent
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• Game design is simple
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• A Fond Farewell
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• Leaving Meta and PyTorch
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• Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
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• Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time
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• Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
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• NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
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• Why aren't smart people happier?
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• Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
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• New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
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• End of Japanese community
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• Ratatui – App Showcase
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• Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
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• FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
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• ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator
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• This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
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• Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
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• NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware
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• I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
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• Mr TIFF
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• UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
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• Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
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• I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
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• Solarpunk is happening in Africa
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Case Against PGVector
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
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• Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
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• AI's Dial-Up Era
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• Things you can do with diodes
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• You can't cURL a Border
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• When stick figures fought
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• My Truck Desk
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• Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
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• What is a manifold?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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• Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
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• Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch
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• Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism
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• Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
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• Facts about throwing good parties
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• Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
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• Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
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• Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
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• Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• GHC now runs in the browser
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• Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
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• Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands
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• Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography
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• SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes
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• Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997
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• How I use every Claude Code feature
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• Notes by djb on using Fil-C
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• URLs are state containers
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• Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
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• Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust
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• Addiction Markets
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• S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine
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• Show HN: Strange Attractors
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• Hard Rust requirements from May onward
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• You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
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• SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
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• Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
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• Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-10-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on October 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Zig's New Async I/O
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• NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
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• US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
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• How the cochlea computes (2024)
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• Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
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• Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
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• John Carmack on mutable variables
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• AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process
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• How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
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• Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
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