Hacker News on Monday, 3 November 2025

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower(supercarblondie.com)

547 points by chris_overseas 11 months ago | 518 comments

Supercar Blondie article on UK-based YASA's tiny axial-flux electric motor, claimed to beat the previous power-density record by 40% and rival four Tesla motors.

AI's Dial-Up Era(wreflection.com)

441 points by nowflux 11 months ago | 395 comments

A Wreflection newsletter essay comparing the current state of AI to the dial-up era of the internet in 1995.

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use(ounapuu.ee)

407 points by rpgbr 11 months ago | 310 comments

Blog post examining why Nextcloud's web interface feels slow, pointing to large JavaScript payloads and long load times shown in browser devtools.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

371 points by whoishiring 11 months ago | 432 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for November 2025, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.

Things you can do with diodes(lcamtuf.substack.com)

367 points by zdw 11 months ago | 106 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack explaining the diode and the practical circuit applications of this often-overlooked electronic component.

Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength(nickvsnetworking.com)

365 points by tsujamin 11 months ago | 142 comments

A blog post on Nick vs Networking about an Android carrier config option (KEY_INFLATE_SIGNAL_STRENGTH_BOOL) that lets carriers inflate displayed signal bars.

The Case Against PGVector(alex-jacobs.com)

353 points by tacoooooooo 11 months ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Alex Jacobs arguing about the operational problems of running pgvector for vector search in production that typical posts omit.

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)(needleful.net)

331 points by gudzpoz 11 months ago | 149 comments

A blog post in which the author attempts to read and understand Arthur Whitney's terse C code, such as his small K interpreter.

Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time(agwa.name)

301 points by agwa 11 months ago | 140 comments

</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening(htmx.org)

269 points by leephillips 11 months ago | 98 comments

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)(louisville.edu)

261 points by thunderbong 11 months ago | 252 comments

App Store web has exposed all its source code(reddit.com)

257 points by redbell 11 months ago | 115 comments

Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video](youtube.com)

253 points by rsanek 11 months ago | 141 comments

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions(jeffquast.com)

247 points by SG- 11 months ago | 238 comments

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking(newyorker.com)

230 points by ascertain 11 months ago | 789 comments

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux(0xkato.xyz)

228 points by 0xkato 11 months ago | 25 comments

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js(blog.yakkomajuri.com)

188 points by yakkomajuri 11 months ago | 204 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

188 points by whoishiring 11 months ago | 339 comments

Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects(xavierleroy.org)

173 points by SchwKatze 11 months ago | 29 comments

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)(blog.cloudflare.com)

171 points by Garbage 11 months ago | 70 comments

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show(bbc.com)

166 points by giuliomagnifico 11 months ago | 78 comments

The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)(bangshift.com)

163 points by mstngl 11 months ago | 112 comments

VimGraph(resources.wolframcloud.com)

147 points by gdelfino01 11 months ago | 27 comments

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon(nytimes.com)

145 points by donohoe 11 months ago | 155 comments

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today(bloomberry.com)

145 points by AznHisoka 11 months ago | 92 comments

The problem with farmed seafood(nautil.us)

136 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 96 comments

Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES(hanafuda.report)

133 points by brandrick 11 months ago | 24 comments

Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git(lwn.net)

131 points by Velocifyer 11 months ago | 35 comments

Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery(skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev)

129 points by ChrisArchitect 11 months ago | 33 comments

Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"(discuss.python.org)

126 points by Redoubts 11 months ago | 40 comments

Awk Technical Notes (2023)(maximullaris.com)

125 points by signa11 11 months ago | 42 comments

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres(lucumr.pocoo.org)

124 points by ingve 11 months ago | 28 comments

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto(help.guideline.com)

117 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 95 comments

Dependent types and how to get rid of them(chadnauseam.com)

113 points by pie_flavor 11 months ago | 60 comments

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received(guestbook.goodenough.us)

112 points by busymom0 11 months ago | 28 comments

ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser(mailman3.common-lisp.net)

107 points by seansh 11 months ago | 11 comments

FSF40 Hackathon(fsf.org)

102 points by salutis 11 months ago | 3 comments

Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages(spf13.com)

99 points by spf13 11 months ago | 114 comments

Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug(windowslatest.com)

95 points by taubek 11 months ago | 57 comments

No Socials November(bjhess.com)

94 points by speckx 11 months ago | 140 comments

Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc(dfir.ch)

91 points by malmoeb 11 months ago | 24 comments

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product(ducktyped.org)

91 points by egonschiele 11 months ago | 47 comments

Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes(cryptography101.ca)

89 points by nmadden 11 months ago | 13 comments

Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz(mynamelowercase.com)

81 points by Gormisdomai 11 months ago | 26 comments

Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser(github.com)

79 points by tchauffi 11 months ago | 22 comments

The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem (2022)(maxnagy.com)

78 points by cyb0rg0 11 months ago | 58 comments

The Initial Ideal Customer Profile Worksheet(reifyworks.com)

78 points by mrbbk 11 months ago | 10 comments

The great decoupling of labor and capital(mbi-deepdives.com)

77 points by walterbell 11 months ago | 36 comments

OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI(github.com)

76 points by mythz 11 months ago | 23 comments

Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse(theguardian.com)

76 points by NomDePlum 11 months ago | 1 comments

We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds(modal.com)

74 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 31 comments

C++ move semantics from scratch (2022)(cbarrete.com)

73 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 55 comments

Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python(2earth.github.io)

72 points by HansardExpert 11 months ago | 16 comments

How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP(blog.cloudflare.com)

69 points by yla92 11 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework(github.com)

67 points by idolevi 11 months ago | 9 comments

Linkers (2007)(airs.com)

67 points by mattrighetti 11 months ago | 3 comments

CHIP8 – emulator, assembler, game, vhdl hardware implementations(blog.dominikrudnik.pl)

67 points by qikcik 11 months ago | 5 comments

Syllabi – Open-source agentic AI with tools, RAG, and multi-channel deploy(syllabi-ai.com)

65 points by achushankar 11 months ago | 12 comments

Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app

63 points by glamp 11 months ago | 35 comments

'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon(bbc.com)

61 points by jmsflknr 11 months ago | 32 comments