Hacker News on Saturday, 22 November 2025

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay(forty.news)

396 points by foxbarrington 11 months ago | 153 comments

Forty.News is a site that republishes daily news stories from exactly 40 years ago, generated from newspaper scans via an LLM pipeline.

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code(github.com)

388 points by hexagonal-sun 11 months ago | 125 comments

GitHub repository for Moss, an MIT-licensed Linux-compatible operating system kernel written in Rust.

Agent design is still hard(lucumr.pocoo.org)

383 points by the_mitsuhiko 11 months ago | 219 comments

Armin Ronacher's blog post on lessons learned building AI agents, covering SDK choice, caching, reinforcement, failure isolation, shared state, and model choice.

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server(far.computer)

326 points by louismerlin 11 months ago | 110 comments

A tutorial on turning an old Android phone into a small home web server by installing postmarketOS, written on a page hosted on a 2015 Fairphone 2.

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium(scmp.com)

310 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 259 comments

Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold(bbc.com)

307 points by 1659447091 11 months ago | 199 comments

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All(wsj.com)

267 points by nairteashop 11 months ago | 301 comments

The realities of being a pop star(itscharlibb.substack.com)

260 points by lovestory 11 months ago | 175 comments

Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine(mathstodon.xyz)

260 points by dwohnitmok 11 months ago | 56 comments

WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds(meta.com)

238 points by smusamashah 11 months ago | 82 comments

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN(phys.org)

202 points by naves 11 months ago | 77 comments

The history of Indian science fiction(altermag.com)

190 points by adityaathalye 11 months ago | 35 comments

Markdown is holding you back(newsletter.bphogan.com)

174 points by zdw 11 months ago | 129 comments

Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study(abcnews.go.com)

165 points by donsupreme 11 months ago | 49 comments

The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy(taggart-tech.com)

158 points by holysoles 11 months ago | 120 comments

Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum(scienceclock.com)

153 points by ashishgupta2209 11 months ago | 64 comments

A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird(audubon.org)

148 points by zeech 11 months ago | 30 comments

Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1(simpleguide.net)

142 points by doener 11 months ago | 44 comments

'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex(theguardian.com)

140 points by n1b0m 11 months ago | 99 comments

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model(news.rice.edu)

140 points by hhs 11 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon(radi8.dev)

123 points by radeeyate 11 months ago | 11 comments

A million ways to die from a data race in Go(gaultier.github.io)

121 points by ingve 11 months ago | 105 comments

Java Decompiler(java-decompiler.github.io)

109 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 46 comments

Set theory with types(lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

105 points by baruchel 11 months ago | 17 comments

A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain and Security Architecture(stack.int.mov)

104 points by 19h 11 months ago | 34 comments

ADHD and monotropism (2023)(monotropism.org)

84 points by wonger_ 11 months ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages(github.com)

83 points by Aplikethewatch 11 months ago | 109 comments

After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline(iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.com)

71 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 51 comments

I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video](youtube.com)

69 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 17 comments

Windows ARM64 Internals: Deconstructing Pointer Authentication(preludesecurity.com)

65 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California(lithub.com)

64 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 16 comments

How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery(spectrum.ieee.org)

64 points by jnord 11 months ago | 26 comments

The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice(nature.com)

61 points by asplake 11 months ago | 27 comments

New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data(9to5mac.com)

59 points by andrewrn 11 months ago | 25 comments

My private information is worth $30(blog.melashri.net)

56 points by elashri 11 months ago | 50 comments

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office(ianvisits.co.uk)

49 points by thinkingemote 11 months ago | 16 comments

Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview(kotaku.com)

45 points by tobr 11 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs(vibescaffold.dev)

44 points by straydusk 11 months ago | 27 comments

Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory(gwern.net)

43 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 7 comments

A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies(livescience.com)

34 points by Brajeshwar 11 months ago | 36 comments

Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance(blogs.windows.com)

30 points by ksec 11 months ago | 13 comments

Can you take an ox to Oxford?(alexwlchan.net)

27 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 49 comments

Jack Ma's family shifted wealth to UK after years-long 'disappearance'(source-material.org)

27 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 12 comments

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by binning 11 months ago | 20 comments

Libpng 1.6.51: Four buffer overflow vulnerabilities fixed(openwall.com)

23 points by ledoge 11 months ago | 5 comments

Advice for crime analyst to break into data science(andrewpwheeler.com)

20 points by speckx 11 months ago | 0 comments

ZZ9000 multifunction card for Zorro Amigas(amiga-shop.net)

20 points by doener 11 months ago | 3 comments

Migrating to Bazel symbolic macros(tweag.io)

19 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 7 comments

Infinibay LXD Container(github.com)

19 points by angaroshi 11 months ago | 2 comments

Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam

18 points by frankhsu 11 months ago | 3 comments

Why DETRs are replacing YOLOs for real-time object detection(blog.datameister.ai)

17 points by axelvlaminck 11 months ago | 1 comments

The Censorship Network: Regulation and Repression in Germany Today(liber-net.org)

16 points by sva_ 11 months ago | 3 comments

The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin(press.asimov.com)

16 points by maxall4 11 months ago | 4 comments

The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore(wsj.com)

15 points by jonbaer 11 months ago | 25 comments

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens(iranintl.com)

13 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 4 comments

Data General History by Foster(teamfoster.com)

13 points by markus_zhang 11 months ago | 0 comments

Pitch Multiplication (2017)(klangnewmusic.weebly.com)

12 points by ofalkaed 11 months ago | 0 comments

Cardiac implantable electronic devices' longevity: A novel modelling tool(journals.plos.org)

12 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 3 comments

The Go-Between(theamericanscholar.org)

8 points by gmays 11 months ago | 4 comments