Hacker News on Monday, 17 November 2025

Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders(windowslatest.com)

545 points by jinxmeta 11 months ago | 486 comments

Windows Latest article reporting that Windows 11 will add an experimental background AI agent with access to personal folders, which Microsoft warns poses security risks.

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses(bleepingcomputer.com)

464 points by speckx 11 months ago | 291 comments

News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.

Google is killing the open web, part 2(wok.oblomov.eu)

326 points by akagusu 11 months ago | 280 comments

Blog post criticizing Google's move to deprecate XSLT in browsers and its proposed JavaScript polyfill replacement, framed as harming the open web.

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools(github.com)

318 points by Medusalix 11 months ago | 84 comments

GitHub repository for FreeMDU, open hardware and software tools for communicating with Miele appliances via their optical diagnostic interface.

Project Gemini(geminiprotocol.net)

308 points by andsoitis 11 months ago | 173 comments

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model(blog.google)

273 points by meetpateltech 11 months ago | 123 comments

Compiling Ruby to machine language(patshaughnessy.net)

273 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 49 comments

Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy(sammobile.com)

269 points by croes 11 months ago | 200 comments

Android/Linux Dual Boot(wiki.postmarketos.org)

261 points by joooscha 11 months ago | 151 comments

Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)(hwisnu.bearblog.dev)

254 points by mithcs 11 months ago | 218 comments

Replicate is joining Cloudflare(replicate.com)

252 points by bfirsh 11 months ago | 60 comments

Building a Simple Search Engine That Works(karboosx.net)

240 points by freediver 11 months ago | 68 comments

Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft(astral-os.org)

211 points by avaliosdev 11 months ago | 26 comments

An official atlas of North Korea(cartographerstale.com)

202 points by speckx 11 months ago | 110 comments

Are you stuck in movie logic?(usefulfictions.substack.com)

189 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 152 comments

Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis(github.com)

179 points by francescopace 11 months ago | 45 comments

How when AWS was down, we were not(authress.io)

174 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 65 comments

Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

169 points by JPLeRouzic 11 months ago | 133 comments

Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video](youtube.com)

168 points by Archelaos 11 months ago | 112 comments

Self-hosting a NAT Gateway(awsistoohard.com)

153 points by veryrealsid 11 months ago | 108 comments

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files(github.com)

135 points by kaushiksrini 11 months ago | 32 comments

People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones(idevicecentral.com)

135 points by K0IN 11 months ago | 136 comments

Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive(nytimes.com)

134 points by dominikposmyk 11 months ago | 122 comments

How to escape the Linux networking stack(blog.cloudflare.com)

126 points by meysamazad 11 months ago | 39 comments

Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings(neuburger.substack.com)

125 points by pavel_lishin 11 months ago | 33 comments

A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser(minivac.greg.technology)

125 points by vaibhavsagar 11 months ago | 32 comments

The time has finally come for geothermal energy(newyorker.com)

125 points by riordan 11 months ago | 209 comments

Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)(princejs.vercel.app)

122 points by lilprince1218 11 months ago | 39 comments

Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows(vintagetek.org)

110 points by stmw 11 months ago | 28 comments

Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies(angadh.com)

107 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 126 comments

Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware(github.com)

106 points by doener 11 months ago | 26 comments

A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism(newrepublic.com)

100 points by Thevet 11 months ago | 135 comments

Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values(mathvideos.org)

92 points by measurablefunc 11 months ago | 32 comments

Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic(ochagavia.nl)

87 points by wofo 11 months ago | 19 comments

How to see the dead(asimov.press)

84 points by mailyk 11 months ago | 12 comments

GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20(inbox.sourceware.org)

80 points by pjmlp 11 months ago | 82 comments

Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video](youtube.com)

69 points by netten 11 months ago | 39 comments

Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders(github.com)

67 points by klaussilveira 11 months ago | 23 comments

Concrete Shipbuilding – Argentina(thecretefleet.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 16 comments

Grok 4.1(x.ai)

59 points by simianwords 11 months ago | 32 comments

Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100(littlemountainman.github.io)

58 points by autonomydriver 11 months ago | 15 comments

Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025(osnews.com)

58 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 23 comments

WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari(github.com)

57 points by InfiniteVortex 11 months ago | 39 comments

Digital echoes: open bus behavior on the compact Macintosh(thomasw.dev)

57 points by zdw 11 months ago | 1 comments

Sit – Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems(github.com)

56 points by classichasclass 11 months ago | 6 comments

Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians(science.org)

56 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 31 comments

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down(quantamagazine.org)

55 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 24 comments

My Favorite Math Problem(bytesauna.com)

52 points by mapehe 11 months ago | 39 comments

Things I don't like in configuration languages(medv.io)

43 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 39 comments

Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust(github.com)

41 points by nateb2022 11 months ago | 49 comments

Building a high performance home(dan.bulwinkle.net)

40 points by pilingual 11 months ago | 6 comments

Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe(bbc.co.uk)

40 points by fumblebee 11 months ago | 38 comments

Pyrotechnic Display Design Software(github.com)

33 points by Giuseppe_Coco 11 months ago | 10 comments

What influence has the BBC had on history?(historytoday.com)

31 points by pepys 11 months ago | 36 comments

EEG-based neurofeedback in athletes and non-athletes(mdpi.com)

31 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 8 comments

FCC Chairman backs demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers 'immediately'(ew.com)

28 points by geox 11 months ago | 5 comments

The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related(a16z.news)

26 points by cubefox 11 months ago | 31 comments

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star(newyorker.com)

26 points by FinnLobsien 11 months ago | 2 comments

DESI's Dizzying Results(universetoday.com)

22 points by belter 11 months ago | 5 comments

Apple's iPhone Overhaul Will Reduce Its Reliance on Annual Fall Spectacle(bloomberg.com)

20 points by doener 11 months ago | 39 comments