11.8.25 | YouTube removes Windows 11 bypass tutorials, VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf wins European SFS Award 2025, Zig's appeal discussed
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
(01:34) - VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
(02:48) - Why is Zig so cool?
(04:01) - Why I love OCaml (2023)
(05:12) - James Watson has died
(06:08) - Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
(07:06) - Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
(08:15) - Becoming a Compiler Engineer
(09:25) - Ruby Solved My Problem
(10:25) - How did I get here?
(11:24) - Outro
YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850963VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850751Why is Zig so cool?https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852328Why I love OCaml (2023)https://mccd.space/posts/ocaml-the-worlds-best/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846517James Watson has diedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/science/james-watson-dead.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850069Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languageshttps://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Mynahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849342Valdi – A cross-platform UI frameworkhttps://github.com/Snapchat/Valdihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852854Becoming a Compiler Engineerhttps://rona.substack.com/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851495Ruby Solved My Problemhttps://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/ruby-already-solved-my-problemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849528How did I get here?https://how-did-i-get-here.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850382
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11.7.25 | FBI investigates archive.is owner, Kimi K2 Thinking is a trillion-parameter model, write an agent
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
(01:34) - Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
(02:37) - You should write an agent
(03:45) - Two billion email addresses were exposed
(04:49) - Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
(05:50) - Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
(06:55) - Game design is simple
(07:53) - Leaving Meta and PyTorch
(08:59) - A Fond Farewell
(09:57) - Eating stinging nettles
(10:58) - Outro
FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.ishttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-FBI-Demands-Data-from-Provider-Tucows-11066346.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836826Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning modelhttps://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836070You should write an agenthttps://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088Two billion email addresses were exposedhttps://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839901Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation modelhttps://book.svhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825733Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloudhttps://github.com/openpcc/openpcchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824243Game design is simplehttps://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841262Leaving Meta and PyTorchhttps://soumith.ch/blog/2025-11-06-leaving-meta-and-pytorch.md.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843948A Fond Farewellhttps://www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanachttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843146Eating stinging nettleshttps://rachel.blog/2018/04/29/eating-stinging-nettles/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834254
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11.6.25 | Solarpunk in Africa, Japanese community ends, new gel restores dental enamel
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:14) - Solarpunk is happening in Africa
(01:23) - End of Japanese community
(02:31) - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
(03:35) - I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
(04:41) - Ratatui – App Showcase
(05:50) - Why aren't smart people happier?
(07:06) - Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser
(08:02) - NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again
(09:05) - ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
(10:10) - Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
(11:13) - Outro
Solarpunk is happening in Africahttps://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happeninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827190End of Japanese communityhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repairhttps://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-gel-restores-dental-enamel-and-could-revolutionise-tooth-repairhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815419Ratatui – App Showcasehttps://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830829Why aren't smart people happier?https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/why-arent-smart-people-happierhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824864Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browserhttps://github.com/dillo-browser/dillohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266NY school phone ban has made lunch loud againhttps://gothamist.com/news/ny-smartphone-ban-has-made-lunch-loud-againhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to othershttps://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/openai-updates-policies-so-chatgpt-wont-provide-medical-or-legal-advice/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825965Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anywayhttps://www.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-offlinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783467
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11.5.25 | Mr TIFF, Robert Morris's 1988 worm, Pg_lake integrates Postgres with Iceberg
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Mr TIFF
(01:31) - This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm
(02:38) - Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
(03:53) - I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
(05:03) - Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
(06:12) - Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
(07:20) - Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
(08:36) - Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
(09:43) - Whole Earth Index
(10:52) - By the Power of Grayscale
(12:01) - Outro
Mr TIFFhttps://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816853This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous wormhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hourshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812024Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake accesshttps://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812606I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollarshttps://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816041Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or nothttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817167Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe Ithttps://cognition.ai/blog/codemapshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813767Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Resultshttps://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells stateshttps://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319Whole Earth Indexhttps://wholeearth.info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734259By the Power of Grayscalehttps://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151
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11.4.25 | Critique of PGVector, AI's early development phase, mastering Arthur Whitney's C for intelligence
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - The Case Against PGVector
(01:33) - AI's Dial-Up Era
(02:37) - Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
(03:47) - A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors
(04:45) - WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel
(05:52) - Things you can do with diodes
(06:43) - First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
(07:53) - State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
(09:09) - You can't cURL a Border
(10:16) - When stick figures fought
(11:12) - Outro
The Case Against PGVectorhttps://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479AI's Dial-Up Erahttps://www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up-erahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)https://needleful.net/blog/2024/01/arthur_whitney.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colorshttps://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748816WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernelhttps://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074Things you can do with diodeshttps://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/things-you-can-do-with-diodeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805900First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbackshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796421State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Championshttps://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799478You can't cURL a Borderhttps://drobinin.com/posts/you-cant-curl-a-border/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806263When stick figures foughthttps://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-foughthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806348
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