Hacker News on Monday, 10 November 2025

Unexpected things that are people(bengoldhaber.substack.com)

619 points by lindowe 11 months ago | 274 comments

A Substack essay by Ben Goldhaber surveying non-human entities, beyond corporations, that have been granted legal personhood, such as ships.

XSLT RIP(xslt.rip)

615 points by edent 11 months ago | 397 comments

Retro-styled protest site about Google's October 2025 intent to deprecate and remove XSLT from Chrome by 2027, listing it among things killed by Google.

Time to start de-Appling(heatherburns.tech)

556 points by msangi 11 months ago | 377 comments

Blog post by Heather Burns arguing UK users should start moving away from Apple amid UK government pressure on encryption and privacy.

The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need(bwplotka.dev)

398 points by linhns 11 months ago | 177 comments

A blog post by Bartek Płotka introducing lazygit, a terminal UI for Git, and explaining how he uses it in his workflow.

Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break(urlahmed.com)

373 points by linkregister 11 months ago | 303 comments

Personal blog post by an unemployed computer science new grad reflecting on a broken entry-level job market, the white collar recession, and automation.

Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy(github.com)

325 points by jackdoe 11 months ago | 240 comments

GitHub repository pico2-swd-riscv, a library for debugging the RISC-V cores of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 over SWD, shared as a vibe-coding case study.

LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger(bytesauna.com)

314 points by gridentio 11 months ago | 249 comments

Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned(levs.fyi)

299 points by Ostatnigrosh 11 months ago | 104 comments

Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests(seattletimes.com)

298 points by dredmorbius 11 months ago | 317 comments

High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips [pdf](github.com)

269 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 34 comments

How cops can get your private online data(eff.org)

246 points by jamesgill 11 months ago | 55 comments

Beets: The music geek’s media organizer(beets.io)

232 points by hyperific 11 months ago | 95 comments

DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"(torrentfreak.com)

220 points by gslin 11 months ago | 96 comments

Realtime BART Arrival Display(filbot.com)

215 points by Jadrago 11 months ago | 45 comments

Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier(drfeifei.substack.com)

212 points by mkirchner 11 months ago | 106 comments

Sued by Nintendo(suedbynintendo.com)

211 points by notepad0x90 11 months ago | 55 comments

How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry(construction-physics.com)

199 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 429 comments

Asus Ascent GX10(asus.com)

187 points by jimexp69 11 months ago | 170 comments

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control(theregister.com)

177 points by pjmlp 11 months ago | 131 comments

Using Generative AI in Content Production(partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com)

170 points by CaRDiaK 11 months ago | 117 comments

LLM policy?(github.com)

151 points by dropbox_miner 11 months ago | 95 comments

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks(theregister.com)

149 points by FridayoLeary 11 months ago | 191 comments

Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages(ai.meta.com)

145 points by jean- 11 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch(github.com)

137 points by nathan-barry 11 months ago | 17 comments

Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes(corporate.ryanair.com)

129 points by teekert 11 months ago | 264 comments

Installing and using HP-UX 9(thejpster.org.uk)

113 points by TMWNN 11 months ago | 50 comments

The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions(phoronix.com)

108 points by keyle 11 months ago | 79 comments

Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2(research.roundtable.ai)

102 points by mdahardy 11 months ago | 78 comments

Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes(flox.dev)

100 points by kelseyhightower 11 months ago | 34 comments

EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup(yahoo.com)

94 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 54 comments

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs(danielmangum.com)

93 points by hasheddan 11 months ago | 7 comments

Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k(ottawacitizen.com)

92 points by Teever 11 months ago | 258 comments

Head in the Zed Cloud(maxdeviant.com)

92 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 24 comments

Zig and the design choices within(blueberrywren.dev)

87 points by lerno 11 months ago | 59 comments

Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes

86 points by sai18 11 months ago | 56 comments

Error ABI(matklad.github.io)

82 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 30 comments

Games Preservation Is Hard and Sometimes Involves Private Detectives(kotaku.com)

81 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 25 comments

ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform(clickhouse.com)

77 points by samaysharma 11 months ago | 28 comments

European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws(politico.eu)

71 points by purpleKiwi 11 months ago | 65 comments

Memory Safety for Skeptics(queue.acm.org)

71 points by steveklabnik 11 months ago | 97 comments

Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat(blog.pimaker.at)

68 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | 15 comments

Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage(today.ucsd.edu)

67 points by gmays 11 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB(rajivm1991.github.io)

64 points by rajivm1991 11 months ago | 33 comments

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix(ilovetypography.com)

51 points by baruchel 11 months ago | 4 comments

No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds(newatlas.com)

47 points by atombender 11 months ago | 9 comments

My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up(github.com)

46 points by fka 11 months ago | 69 comments

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)(publicdomainreview.org)

45 points by Petiver 11 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js)(github.com)

43 points by bntr 11 months ago | 4 comments

Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran(bbc.com)

43 points by FridayoLeary 11 months ago | 38 comments

How to maintain good vision amidst the myopia epidemic(ssathe.substack.com)

42 points by plun9 11 months ago | 36 comments

Zeroing in on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal(physics.aps.org)

41 points by lc0_stein 11 months ago | 7 comments

Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030(techemails.com)

39 points by badcryptobitch 11 months ago | 50 comments

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat(politico.com)

36 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 5 comments

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design(arxiv.org)

30 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 6 comments

TTS still sucks(duarteocarmo.com)

29 points by speckx 11 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Davia – Open source visual, editable wiki from your codebase(github.com)

29 points by ruben-davia 11 months ago | 2 comments

BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy(bbc.co.uk)

24 points by mellosouls 11 months ago | 22 comments

The 4.5T dollar elephant in the room(stevenadler.substack.com)

24 points by DustinEchoes 11 months ago | 7 comments

Raycore: GPU accelerated and modular ray intersections(makie.org)

20 points by simondanisch 11 months ago | 3 comments

Hacker News Headlines (game)(projects.peercy.net)

20 points by greenwallnorway 11 months ago | 12 comments