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A DOOM vector engine for rendering in KiCad, and over an audio jack https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449)
A DOOM vector engine for rendering in KiCad, and over an audio jack
www.mikeayles.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project https://andrej.sh/blog/maintaining-open-source-project/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051393)
What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project
andrej.sh
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/reinventing-how-dotnet-builds-and-ships-again/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051691)
Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again) - .NET Blog
An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.
devblogs.microsoft.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/open-season/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051169)
Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
pluralistic.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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The Generative Burrito Test https://www.generativist.com/notes/2025/Nov/25/generative-burrito-test.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052102)
The Generative Burrito Test
A critical benchmark for image generation models: A partially eaten burrito with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, salsa, pinto beans, and chicken.
www.generativist.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125)
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
www.dwarkesh.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340)
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.
jayd.ml
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Unifying our mobile and desktop domains https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047958)
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
techblog.wikimedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking https://github.com/clark-prog/blackout-public (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050471)
GitHub - clark-prog/blackout-public: Blackout — The Official Blackout Public FAFO Repo.
Blackout — The Official Blackout Public FAFO Repo. - clark-prog/blackout-public
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049932)
A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science | Quanta Magazine
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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EU set to adopt ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115611006935923542 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047951)
Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social)
🇪🇺EU government ambassadors set to adopt #ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion, including "voluntary" mass scanning and anonymity-destroying age verification. https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/46204/imfname_11544887.pdf The protest continues next year! https://chatcontrol.eu 💪
digitalcourage.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms https://www.wired.com/story/ice-bounty-hunter-spy-program/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050029)
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Unison 1.0 Release https://www.unison-lang.org/unison-1-0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049722)
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825003853 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049624)
IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are significantly influenced by educational differences
Over the last century, several large studies have been published exploring IQ differences amongst monozygotic (MZ) twins reared apart (TRA). By and la…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Bad UX World Cup 2025 https://badux.lol/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049066)
Bad UX World Cup
Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.
badux.lol
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-financial-tech-firm/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047980)
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm | TechCrunch
U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.
techcrunch.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Python is not a great language for data science https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580)
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties" https://blog.kizu.dev/css-variables/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048229)
It is OK to Say “CSS Variables” Instead of (or Alongside) “Custom Properties”
TPAC 2025 just ended, and I am positively tired. Attending it remotely, my sleep schedule is chaotic right now. I have many ideas for CSS-related posts in my list of ideas for November, but almost all of them require at least some amount of research and crafting demos. Well! I found one note that I wanted to expand on, and which sounds tiny enough to be able to finish it in my altered state.
blog.kizu.dev
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world www.un.org/sustainabled... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4604...)
Press Release | Cities are home to 45 per cent of the global population, with megacities continuing to grow, UN report finds - United Nations Sustainable Development
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet
www.un.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2025/ozempic-does-not-slow-alzheimers-study-finds (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047513)
Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer’s, study finds
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell 6% on the news.
www.semafor.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996)
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data - SquareDocs
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.
www.promptarmor.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252)
GitHub - flowglad/flowglad: Open source payments + billing infrastructure
Open source payments + billing infrastructure. Contribute to flowglad/flowglad development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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PRC elites voice AI-skepticism https://jamestown.org/prc-elites-voice-ai-skepticism/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038417)
PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
jamestown.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045987
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085)
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM