Hacker News on Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Mr TIFF(inventingthefuture.ghost.io)

962 points by speckx 11 months ago | 129 comments

A blog post on Inventing The Future about the history of the TIFF image file format and the person behind its creation.

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

571 points by stillatit 11 months ago | 478 comments

Tell HN post explaining that X's app now preloads linked pages in a background webview when a tweet is opened, inflating referral traffic numbers for sites.

I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video](youtube.com)

480 points by hnaccount_rng 11 months ago | 346 comments

A Technology Connections YouTube video arguing with evidence that dishwasher pods underperform compared to loose detergent use.

You can't cURL a Border(drobinin.com)

436 points by valzevul 11 months ago | 237 comments

Blog post by Vadim Drobinin about modeling travel visa and border-stay rules as state machines while building an iOS travel app.

My Truck Desk(theparisreview.org)

416 points by zdw 11 months ago | 103 comments

A first-person essay by Bud Smith on The Paris Review blog about writing at a makeshift desk in his truck.

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm(tomshardware.com)

410 points by canucker2016 11 months ago | 180 comments

Tom's Hardware article recounting the 1988 Morris worm, which infected about 10 percent of the internet within 24 hours and sparked modern cybersecurity.

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars(rameerez.com)

404 points by sebnun 11 months ago | 343 comments

Blog post by indie maker rameerez arguing against cloud hosting and describing moving his projects off the cloud to save thousands of dollars.

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport(avherald.com)

385 points by jnsaff2 11 months ago | 397 comments

Aviation Herald report on a UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville airport; the captured screenshot instead shows a CBS News election results page.

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware(github.com)

357 points by mukti 11 months ago | 127 comments

GitHub repository for NoLongerEvil, custom firmware to revive bricked Google Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats after official support ended.

When stick figures fought(animationobsessive.substack.com)

354 points by ani_obsessive 11 months ago | 133 comments

Animation Obsessive newsletter post telling the story of stick-figure fight animations made in Flash, plus animation news.

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access(github.com)

354 points by plaur782 11 months ago | 107 comments

GitHub repository for pg_lake, a Snowflake Labs Postgres extension adding Apache Iceberg tables and data lake file access, using DuckDB.

What is a manifold?(quantamagazine.org)

335 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 117 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on manifolds, the mathematical spaces conceived by Bernhard Riemann that underpin modern geometry and physics.

Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator(terra.layoutit.com)

328 points by rofko 11 months ago | 80 comments

Layoutit Terra, an interactive generator that renders randomized isometric 3D terrain using only CSS, with a regenerate button.

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not(theregister.com)

319 points by SanjayMehta 11 months ago | 203 comments

The Register article on a proposed DHS/USCIS rule expanding biometric collection, including iris scans and DNA, to immigrants and some linked US citizens.

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results(torrentfreak.com)

295 points by gslin 11 months ago | 131 comments

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It(cognition.ai)

293 points by janpio 11 months ago | 108 comments

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux(github.com)

267 points by basemi 11 months ago | 227 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux(github.com)

245 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 92 comments

An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic(loopholelabs.io)

225 points by loopholelabs 11 months ago | 70 comments

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale(notpeerreviewed.com)

181 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 35 comments

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.(github.com)

176 points by gurjeet 11 months ago | 15 comments

From web developer to database developer in 10 years(notes.eatonphil.com)

150 points by pmbanugo 11 months ago | 58 comments

We're open-sourcing the successor of Jupyter notebook(deepnote.com)

149 points by zX41ZdbW 11 months ago | 129 comments

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective(purplesyringa.moe)

149 points by vrnvu 11 months ago | 47 comments

Venn Diagram for 7 Sets(moebio.com)

149 points by bramadityaw 11 months ago | 40 comments

Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)(blog.tensorflow.org)

149 points by jerlendds 11 months ago | 16 comments

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025(ladybird.org)

135 points by exploraz 11 months ago | 24 comments

Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters(binaryigor.com)

131 points by BinaryIgor 11 months ago | 132 comments

The 512KB Club(512kb.club)

124 points by lr0 11 months ago | 67 comments

When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug(mensfeld.pl)

119 points by phmx 11 months ago | 59 comments

Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight(greatscottgadgets.com)

118 points by Jyaif 11 months ago | 2 comments

Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir(sherwood.news)

117 points by selim17 11 months ago | 98 comments

Why do we need dithering?(typefully.com)

112 points by ibobev 11 months ago | 100 comments

When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads(remembersingapore.org)

109 points by sohkamyung 11 months ago | 69 comments

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury(a16z.substack.com)

107 points by walterbell 11 months ago | 124 comments

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU(danglingpointers.substack.com)

107 points by blakepelton 11 months ago | 20 comments

Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers(tomshardware.com)

106 points by walterbell 11 months ago | 94 comments

FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out(arstechnica.com)

100 points by duxup 11 months ago | 20 comments

I want a good parallel language [video](youtube.com)

98 points by raphlinus 11 months ago | 46 comments

Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)(funktionale-programmierung.de)

97 points by defmarco 11 months ago | 6 comments

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText(tinkerdifferent.com)

94 points by mmoogle 11 months ago | 14 comments

Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent(100x.bot)

92 points by shardullavekar 11 months ago | 52 comments

Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production(mmc.vc)

90 points by advikipedia 11 months ago | 84 comments

Defeating KASLR by doing nothing at all(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

88 points by aa_is_op 11 months ago | 8 comments

YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account(piunikaweb.com)

84 points by rabinovich 11 months ago | 57 comments

My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig(blog.karanjanthe.me)

84 points by KMJ-007 11 months ago | 12 comments

Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons(theregister.com)

82 points by bishopsmother 11 months ago | 20 comments

Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts(plexe.ai)

79 points by vaibhavdubey97 11 months ago | 28 comments

An individual can change an organization(notes.eatonphil.com)

78 points by zdw 11 months ago | 31 comments

How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code(polarsignals.com)

77 points by manojvivek 11 months ago | 13 comments

Understanding Financial Functions in Excel(ciju.in)

75 points by ciju 11 months ago | 9 comments

NetHack4 Philosophy(nethack4.org)

71 points by suioir 11 months ago | 31 comments

Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (2023)(cprimozic.net)

69 points by Ameo 11 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS(apps.apple.com)

69 points by zesfy 11 months ago | 51 comments

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf](ai.mit.edu)

66 points by arnon 11 months ago | 7 comments

Étude in C minor (2020)(zserge.com)

64 points by etrvic 11 months ago | 13 comments

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time(technologyreview.com)

62 points by samuel2 11 months ago | 44 comments

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME(zork.net)

62 points by gurjeet 11 months ago | 26 comments

OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel(oneuptime.com)

61 points by ndhandala 11 months ago | 49 comments

Show HN: PingStalker – A macOS tool for network engineers(pingstalker.com)

59 points by n1sni 11 months ago | 8 comments