Hacker News on Friday, 14 November 2025

AI World Clocks(clocks.brianmoore.com)

1283 points by waxpancake 11 months ago | 361 comments

A web page showing analog clocks rendered every minute by nine different AI models, displaying their often distorted attempts side by side.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla(manualdousuario.net)

1093 points by rpgbr 11 months ago | 662 comments

An opinion piece from Manual do Usuário arguing that Firefox users do not want Mozilla adding AI features like an AI window to the browser.

The disguised return of EU Chat Control(reclaimthenet.org)

745 points by egorfine 11 months ago | 276 comments

Reclaim The Net article arguing the EU's Chat Control private message scanning proposal is returning in disguised form via a revised compromise.

AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering(tomwphillips.co.uk)

564 points by tomwphillips 11 months ago | 556 comments

Blog post by Tom Phillips arguing that belief in AGI, as described in Karen Hao's Empire of AI about OpenAI, distracts from practical AI engineering.

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.

Being poor vs. being broke(blog.ctms.me)

468 points by speckx 11 months ago | 546 comments

A personal blog essay by Dom Corriveau explaining the difference between being poor and being broke, and why advice from non-poor people often doesn't help.

Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet(updates.techforpalestine.org)

418 points by ciconia 11 months ago | 221 comments

A Tech for Palestine blog post about using Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app, to communicate in Gaza without internet access.

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately(techdirt.com)

348 points by speckx 11 months ago | 177 comments

Techdirt article on the 25th anniversary of the game 'No One Lives Forever', which remains legally unavailable for purchase due to murky rights ownership.

Go's Sweet 16(go.dev)

286 points by 0xedb 11 months ago | 215 comments

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most(nautil.us)

270 points by dnetesn 11 months ago | 98 comments

All praise to the lunch ladies(bittersoutherner.com)

246 points by gmays 11 months ago | 151 comments

Winamp clone in Swift for macOS(github.com)

245 points by hyperbole 11 months ago | 148 comments

SSL Configuration Generator(ssl-config.mozilla.org)

241 points by smartmic 11 months ago | 81 comments

A race condition in Aurora RDS(hightouch.com)

234 points by theanomaly 11 months ago | 72 comments

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

223 points by dataminer 11 months ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable(searchepsteinfiles.com)

211 points by searchepstein 11 months ago | 24 comments

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication(scientificamerican.com)

191 points by pavel_lishin 11 months ago | 150 comments

Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network(bloomberg.com)

185 points by teleforce 11 months ago | 130 comments

How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS(blog.lyc8503.net)

176 points by uneven9434 11 months ago | 65 comments

Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet(ft.com)

172 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 months ago | 140 comments

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform(claude.com)

159 points by adocomplete 11 months ago | 69 comments

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

152 points by benbreen 11 months ago | 80 comments

Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword(news.northwestern.edu)

142 points by gmays 11 months ago | 79 comments

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025(backblaze.com)

138 points by woliveirajr 11 months ago | 20 comments

Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable(aethermug.com)

133 points by mrcgnc 11 months ago | 104 comments

RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries(boringsql.com)

130 points by radimm 11 months ago | 31 comments

Magit manuals are available online again(github.com)

117 points by vetronauta 11 months ago | 46 comments

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun Are Both Betting on "World Models"(entropytown.com)

105 points by signa11 11 months ago | 52 comments

US Tech Market Treemap(caplocus.com)

105 points by gwintrob 11 months ago | 44 comments

No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE(modzero.com)

100 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 8 comments

Apple Mini Apps Partner Program(developer.apple.com)

99 points by soheilpro 11 months ago | 58 comments

Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits(codeberg.org)

92 points by speckx 11 months ago | 35 comments

Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1(jeffgeerling.com)

90 points by kencausey 11 months ago | 41 comments

EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)(edeproject.org)

87 points by bradley_taunt 11 months ago | 31 comments

V8 Garbage Collector(wingolog.org)

82 points by swah 11 months ago | 21 comments

Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf](nber.org)

72 points by jnord 11 months ago | 25 comments

Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)(authorsalliance.substack.com)

71 points by the-mitr 11 months ago | 63 comments

Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad(wssite.vercel.app)

68 points by weirdsmiley 11 months ago | 64 comments

Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf](cdn.openai.com)

68 points by 0x79de 11 months ago | 29 comments

What I learned about creativity from a man painting on a treadmill (2024)(quinnmaclay.com)

64 points by 8organicbits 11 months ago | 18 comments

Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system(satcom.digital)

64 points by maremmano 11 months ago | 52 comments

Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries(sciencealert.com)

63 points by rguiscard 11 months ago | 18 comments

Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data(apnews.com)

57 points by consumer451 11 months ago | 20 comments

Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering(momentsingraphics.de)

55 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 16 comments

Fastmcpp (Fastmcp for C++)(github.com)

52 points by 0xeb 11 months ago | 3 comments

CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects(github.com)

48 points by chrisdugne 11 months ago | 28 comments

Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave(berryvilleiml.com)

44 points by cratermoon 11 months ago | 21 comments

Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age(bbc.com)

44 points by 1659447091 11 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code(github.com)

43 points by andout_ 11 months ago | 33 comments

I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'(remindmagazine.com)

36 points by speckx 11 months ago | 18 comments

Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust(prek.j178.dev)

35 points by nikolay 11 months ago | 9 comments

Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?(lucidvoice.app)

34 points by metalogical 11 months ago | 37 comments

Gnome 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades(linuxiac.com)

33 points by upofadown 11 months ago | 31 comments

30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?(kyla.substack.com)

33 points by rcardo11 11 months ago | 39 comments

Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes(jgarby.uk)

32 points by j4cobgarby 11 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas(dumbassideas.com)

30 points by elysionmind 11 months ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Pegma, the free and open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire(pegma.vercel.app)

29 points by GlebShalimov 11 months ago | 38 comments

Holes (1970) [pdf](rintintin.colorado.edu)

29 points by miobrien 11 months ago | 7 comments

Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science(publicdomainreview.org)

26 points by Hooke 11 months ago | 0 comments

Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers(techcrunch.com)

24 points by sudonanohome 11 months ago | 4 comments