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'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 367 by mooreds | 143 comments on Hacker News.

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge 426 by DamnInteresting | 213 comments on Hacker News.

The Death of Arduino? 443 by ChuckMcM | 233 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/wm4fAE5

Red Alert 2 in web browser 462 by nsoonhui | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max 461 by hansonw | 285 comments on Hacker News.

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power 466 by delaugust | 373 comments on Hacker News.

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable 511 by iamnothere | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Segment Anything Model 3 485 by lukeinator42 | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws 548 by ksec | 567 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector 527 by gusowen | 158 comments on Hacker News. After down detector went down with the rest of the internet during the Cloudflare outage today I decided to build a robust, independent tool which checks if down detector is down. Enjoy!!

How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack 424 by billiob | 101 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 3 Pro Preview Live in AI Studio 403 by preek | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright 388 by YeGoblynQueenne | 365 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card 373 by Topfi | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Where do the children play? 325 by casca | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Google is killing the open web, part 2 302 by akagusu | 249 comments on Hacker News.

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs 296 by nogajun | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Dark Pattern Games 311 by robotnikman | 123 comments on Hacker News.

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts 293 by goldenskye | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Go's Sweet 16 304 by 0xedb | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations 311 by Chinjut | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable 298 by searchepstein | 52 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally motivated. I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in research in the interim.

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately 337 by speckx | 173 comments on Hacker News.

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs 467 by gslin | 258 comments on Hacker News.

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 491 by immibis | 163 comments on Hacker News.

Human Fovea Detector 479 by AbuAssar | 94 comments on Hacker News.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla 708 by rpgbr | 426 comments on Hacker News.

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation 535 by minimaxir | 138 comments on Hacker News.

Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs 526 by StrangeSound | 233 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT 515 by tedsanders | 654 comments on Hacker News.

Valve is about to win the console generation 514 by moonleay | 402 comments on Hacker News.

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article 408 by wg0 | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests 368 by dredmorbius | 408 comments on Hacker News.

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch 371 by sva_ | 104 comments on Hacker News.

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs 422 by CrankyBear | 323 comments on Hacker News.

iPhone Pocket 389 by soheilpro | 1021 comments on Hacker News. See also iPod Socks - https://ift.tt/52lopUw

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf] 361 by philip1209 | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy 365 by jackdoe | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Unexpected things that are people 341 by lindowe | 178 comments on Hacker News.

IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act 306 by pinkahd | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) 351 by david927 | 1062 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing 363 by defrost | 242 comments on Hacker News.

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is 397 by felineflock | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated 392 by pseudolus | 184 comments on Hacker News. Paper: https://ift.tt/t6pXwnT Related: https://ift.tt/9vTdcas...

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 425 by kirschner | 95 comments on Hacker News.

Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time 464 by PhilKunz | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 497 by c420 | 374 comments on Hacker News.

Game design is simple 507 by vrnvu | 151 comments on Hacker News.

A Fond Farewell 542 by erhuve | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Leaving Meta and PyTorch 519 by saikatsg | 115 comments on Hacker News.

You should write an agent 449 by tabletcorry | 207 comments on Hacker News.

ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk 481 by vincvinc | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model 478 by nekofneko | 180 comments on Hacker News.

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is 524 by Projectiboga | 284 comments on Hacker News.

I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel 384 by isaacfrond | 290 comments on Hacker News.

Solarpunk is happening in Africa 371 by JoiDegn | 181 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 374 by rzk | 113 comments on Hacker News.

When stick figures fought 373 by ani_obsessive | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Things you can do with diodes 368 by zdw | 106 comments on Hacker News.

My Truck Desk 385 by zdw | 97 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not 405 by stillatit | 364 comments on Hacker News. Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link. I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation. Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or R...

You can't cURL a Border 359 by valzevul | 173 comments on Hacker News.

Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) 372 by rbanffy | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Facts about throwing good parties 361 by cjbarber | 127 comments on Hacker News.

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark 354 by haunter | 207 comments on Hacker News.

Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands 345 by wslh | 162 comments on Hacker News.

How I use every Claude Code feature 381 by sshh12 | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition 397 by speckx | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category 341 by dw64 | 148 comments on Hacker News.

You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say 336 by nh43215rgb | 227 comments on Hacker News.

Addiction Markets 342 by toomuchtodo | 376 comments on Hacker News.