Hacker News on Tuesday, 11 November 2025

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs(thenewstack.io)

1091 points by CrankyBear 11 months ago | 795 comments

The New Stack article on FFmpeg developers publicly urging Google to fund the project or stop sending AI-found bug reports, sparking a debate about open source sustainability.

The 'Toy Story' You Remember(animationobsessive.substack.com)

1075 points by ani_obsessive 11 months ago | 303 comments

An Animation Obsessive newsletter post about how the original Toy Story looked when it was printed to film versus later digital versions, plus animation news.

.NET 10(devblogs.microsoft.com)

545 points by runesoerensen 11 months ago | 473 comments

Microsoft .NET Blog post from the .NET Team announcing the release of .NET 10 on November 11, 2025.

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition(generativehistory.substack.com)

533 points by scrlk 11 months ago | 294 comments

Substack post by Mark Humphries on a mysterious Google model in AI Studio testing that nearly perfects handwriting recognition and shows signs of symbolic reasoning.

iPhone Pocket(apple.com)

487 points by soheilpro 11 months ago | 1189 comments

Apple Newsroom announcement of iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted wearable iPhone carrier made in collaboration with ISSEY MIYAKE.

Collaboration sucks(newsletter.posthog.com)

404 points by Kinrany 11 months ago | 220 comments

A PostHog "Product for Engineers" newsletter post by Charles Cook arguing that collaboration slows teams down and individuals should own and drive work.

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch(spaceweatherlive.com)

383 points by sva_ 11 months ago | 109 comments

SpaceWeatherLive news post from 11 November 2025 reporting an X5.1 solar flare and a G4 geomagnetic storm watch.

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours(james.belchamber.com)

323 points by jamesbelchamber 11 months ago | 124 comments

A personal blog post by James Belchamber about attempting to reverse-engineer the USB data protocol of his Microlife blood pressure monitor.

Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)

320 points by philip1209 11 months ago | 137 comments

Berkshire Hathaway news release announcing Warren Buffett's share donations to family foundations, followed by his letter to shareholders saying he is "going quiet."

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser(avaloniaui.net)

298 points by vyrotek 11 months ago | 244 comments

The terminal of the future(jyn.dev)

286 points by miguelraz 11 months ago | 149 comments

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers(pikaday.dbushell.com)

279 points by mnemonet 11 months ago | 127 comments

The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed(steveblank.com)

273 points by ridruejo 11 months ago | 450 comments

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia(cnbc.com)

272 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 167 comments

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

267 points by zeristor 11 months ago | 86 comments

I hate screenshots of text(parkscomputing.com)

253 points by paulmooreparks 11 months ago | 167 comments

Firefox expands fingerprint protections(blog.mozilla.org)

246 points by ptrhvns 11 months ago | 134 comments

A modern 35mm film scanner for home(soke.engineering)

242 points by QiuChuck 11 months ago | 179 comments

Ultima VII Revisited(github.com)

224 points by erickhill 11 months ago | 82 comments

Scaling HNSWs(antirez.com)

198 points by cyndunlop 11 months ago | 42 comments

iPod Socks(en.wikipedia.org)

194 points by riffic 11 months ago | 55 comments

We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models(latenitesoft.com)

183 points by kalleboo 11 months ago | 94 comments

OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules(reuters.com)

181 points by aiz0Houp 11 months ago | 183 comments

Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow(bbc.com)

167 points by bookofjoe 11 months ago | 190 comments

Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL(peterullrich.com)

166 points by pjullrich 11 months ago | 48 comments

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares(unflipgame.com)

148 points by bogdanoff_2 11 months ago | 34 comments

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence(cacm.acm.org)

146 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 94 comments

AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo(deepwiki.com)

141 points by jicea 11 months ago | 101 comments

I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it(gist.github.com)

131 points by echend 11 months ago | 109 comments

Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work(markusstrasser.org)

121 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 100 comments

Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better(chrispenner.ca)

115 points by commandersaki 11 months ago | 143 comments

Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust(lukefleed.xyz)

115 points by lukefleed 11 months ago | 18 comments

Heroku Support for .NET 10(heroku.com)

103 points by runesoerensen 11 months ago | 34 comments

Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025(ballardgames.com)

101 points by jordigh 11 months ago | 83 comments

A catalog of side effects(bernsteinbear.com)

101 points by speckx 11 months ago | 7 comments

Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans(academic.oup.com)

98 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 59 comments

Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)(chadaustin.me)

98 points by bariumbitmap 11 months ago | 77 comments

Zig / C++ Interop(tuple.app)

89 points by simonklee 11 months ago | 12 comments

Advent of Code on the Z-Machine(entropicthoughts.com)

88 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 18 comments

Agentic pelican on a bicycle(robert-glaser.de)

87 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 56 comments

The write last, read first rule(tigerbeetle.com)

86 points by vismit2000 11 months ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform(gametje.com)

83 points by jmpavlec 11 months ago | 31 comments

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?(theparisreview.org)

81 points by frenzcan 11 months ago | 11 comments

Welcome, the entire land - "Hello, world!" in hieroglyphics (2009)(optional.is)

80 points by andrelaszlo 11 months ago | 30 comments

Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents(github.com)

72 points by maxloh 11 months ago | 22 comments

AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds(techxplore.com)

71 points by geox 11 months ago | 57 comments

Blender 5.1(developer.blender.org)

70 points by andsoitis 11 months ago | 7 comments

Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision(codelucky.com)

67 points by smartmic 11 months ago | 38 comments

Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"(ibbi.io)

64 points by ibbih 11 months ago | 34 comments

DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration(spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 14 comments

Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain(medicalxpress.com)

61 points by clumsysmurf 11 months ago | 36 comments

Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen(euractiv.com)

60 points by saubeidl 11 months ago | 42 comments

The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes(asteriskmag.com)

56 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 64 comments

Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero(thedrive.com)

55 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform(cactoide.org)

55 points by orbanlevi 11 months ago | 22 comments

Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad(shop.beekeeb.com)

54 points by tortilla 11 months ago | 38 comments

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax(openculture.com)

48 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 27 comments

Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All(peter.eisentraut.org)

45 points by ingve 11 months ago | 22 comments

Blending SQL and Python with Sqlorm(hyperflask.dev)

44 points by emixam 11 months ago | 11 comments

Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering(cv.co.hu)

44 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 32 comments