Hacker News on Sunday, 16 November 2025

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem(github.com)

1320 points by moonleay 11 months ago | 407 comments

GitHub repository for LibrePods, an AGPL-licensed project that brings Apple-exclusive AirPods features like battery status and hearing aid mode to Android and Linux.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models(github.com)

705 points by melded 11 months ago | 339 comments

GitHub repository for Heretic, an AGPL-licensed tool for fully automatic censorship removal (abliteration) in transformer language models.

Open-source Zig book(zigbook.net)

672 points by rudedogg 11 months ago | 332 comments

Zigbook is a free, open-source, project-based book teaching the Zig programming language across 61 chapters, advertised as written without AI.

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure(jonathanclark.com)

600 points by jclarkcom 11 months ago | 179 comments

A personal blog post arguing, with recordings and emails, that phishing attacks tied to the Coinbase data breach began in January 2025, months before Coinbase's disclosure.

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun(iflscience.com)

443 points by doener 11 months ago | 86 comments

IFLScience article about an astrophotographer's image capturing a skydiver silhouetted against the sun, titled 'The Fall of Icarus'.

Where do the children play?(unpublishablepapers.substack.com)

363 points by casca 11 months ago | 242 comments

A Substack essay by Eli Stark-Elster on Unpublishable Papers arguing children need spaces and a world free of adult supervision to play.

Maybe you’re not trying(usefulfictions.substack.com)

338 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 145 comments

Cate Hall's Useful Fictions essay "Maybe you're not Actually Trying," on selective agency in capable people.

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)(github.com)

332 points by vxvrs 11 months ago | 93 comments

GitHub repository for Supercookie, a proof-of-concept that uses favicon caching to fingerprint and track browsers across sessions.

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs(codeberg.org)

286 points by nogajun 11 months ago | 120 comments

I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels(david.coffee)

285 points by eustoria 11 months ago | 89 comments

Dark Pattern Games(darkpattern.games)

281 points by robotnikman 11 months ago | 113 comments

The fate of "small" open source(nolanlawson.com)

276 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 208 comments

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)(britneyspears.ac)

245 points by lachlan_gray 11 months ago | 76 comments

CUDA Ontology(jamesakl.com)

236 points by gugagore 11 months ago | 38 comments

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust(github.com)

223 points by ivankra 11 months ago | 105 comments

FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT(bit-hack.net)

220 points by andsoitis 11 months ago | 45 comments

The Internet Is No Longer a Safe Haven(brainbaking.com)

208 points by akyuu 11 months ago | 153 comments

The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)(ahalbert.com)

191 points by ahalbert2 11 months ago | 60 comments

What if you don't need MCP at all?(mariozechner.at)

183 points by jdkee 11 months ago | 113 comments

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)(cnbc.com)

183 points by randycupertino 11 months ago | 120 comments

PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator(picoide.com)

171 points by st_goliath 11 months ago | 41 comments

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents(shoosmiths.com)

170 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 153 comments

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N(thedrive.com)

165 points by zdw 11 months ago | 121 comments

Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems(seri.tools)

159 points by shepmaster 11 months ago | 31 comments

Garbage collection is useful(dubroy.com)

155 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 54 comments

Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”(quantamagazine.org)

147 points by wjb3 11 months ago | 42 comments

Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)(ericpony.github.io)

144 points by amit-bansil 11 months ago | 13 comments

UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales(bbc.com)

142 points by ksec 11 months ago | 178 comments

Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears(thestreet.com)

141 points by hypeatei 11 months ago | 107 comments

A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain(bbc.co.uk)

132 points by binning 11 months ago | 121 comments

Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video](youtube.com)

131 points by emsign 11 months ago | 49 comments

Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites(arabnews.com)

120 points by mhb 11 months ago | 132 comments

Why use OpenBSD?(tumfatig.net)

111 points by akagusu 11 months ago | 75 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023)(research.swtch.com)

108 points by naves 11 months ago | 5 comments

I don’t need a Steam Machine(brainbaking.com)

106 points by ingve 11 months ago | 174 comments

Three kinds of AI products work(seangoedecke.com)

99 points by emschwartz 11 months ago | 96 comments

Garibaldi, history's sexiest revolutionary?(historyextra.com)

86 points by thomassmith65 11 months ago | 67 comments

PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance(github.com)

82 points by yakshaving_jgt 11 months ago | 11 comments

Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml(roscidus.com)

75 points by ibobev 11 months ago | 15 comments

Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure(semicomplete.com)

72 points by viraptor 11 months ago | 43 comments

AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen(fastcompany.com)

69 points by johnshades 11 months ago | 48 comments

De Bruijn Numerals(text.marvinborner.de)

65 points by marvinborner 11 months ago | 7 comments

What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)(hasbrouck.org)

61 points by rzk 11 months ago | 14 comments

Vintage Large Language Models(owainevans.github.io)

58 points by pr337h4m 11 months ago | 19 comments

Facebook Text Log Between Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom(Instagram Cofounder)(dropbox.com)

54 points by Fiveplus 11 months ago | 4 comments

An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign

53 points by spirovskib 11 months ago | 14 comments

The Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web's Death(tedium.co)

50 points by thm 11 months ago | 38 comments

An overly aggressive mock can work fine, but break much later(nedbatchelder.com)

50 points by ingve 11 months ago | 51 comments

Bypassing the Branch Predictor(nicula.xyz)

49 points by signa11 11 months ago | 24 comments

Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog(blog.hofstede.it)

40 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 17 comments

Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024)(spakhm.com)

37 points by coffeemug 11 months ago | 7 comments

Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch(servethehome.com)

36 points by ksec 11 months ago | 11 comments

Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective(micahblachman.beehiiv.com)

34 points by subdomain 11 months ago | 91 comments

The politics of purely client-side apps(pfrazee.leaflet.pub)

26 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 6 comments

Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)(psu.edu)

26 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 7 comments

Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020)(montsecure.com)

26 points by vxvrs 11 months ago | 4 comments

Pennies Are Trash Now(theatlantic.com)

25 points by JumpCrisscross 11 months ago | 32 comments

$5 PlanetScale is live(planetscale.com)

19 points by e2e4 11 months ago | 6 comments

Don't Post Passive-Aggressive Webpages(dontpostpassiveaggressivewebpages.com)

18 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 13 comments