Hacker News on Friday, 28 November 2025

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file(pocketbase.io)

588 points by modinfo 11 months ago | 172 comments

Homepage of PocketBase, an open-source single-file backend offering a realtime database, authentication, file storage, and an admin dashboard.

EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance(reclaimthenet.org)

517 points by fragebogen 11 months ago | 337 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that the EU Council approved a new "Chat Control" negotiating mandate criticized as enabling mass surveillance of private messages.

Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany(openpetition.de)

474 points by PhilippGille 11 months ago | 113 comments

An openPetition page petitioning Germany to formally recognize open source contributions as Ehrenamt (civic volunteer service).

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network(blog.tymscar.com)

471 points by tymscar 11 months ago | 161 comments

A blog post describing how the author set up a network-wide VPN proxy on NixOS and Docker to bypass Imgur's geo-block for UK users across their homelab.

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight(airbus.com)

470 points by pyrophoenix 11 months ago | 157 comments

Airbus press release announcing precautionary fleet action after finding intense solar radiation may corrupt flight-control data on in-service A320 Family aircraft.

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras(github.com)

459 points by nullpxl 11 months ago | 168 comments

GitHub repository for banrays, a DIY glasses project that detects camera-equipped smart glasses like Meta Ray-Bans using IR reflections and BLE scanning.

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset(clickhouse.com)

421 points by walterbell 11 months ago | 157 comments

ClickHouse documentation page describing a dataset of 28.74 million Hacker News postings with 384-dimension SentenceTransformers embeddings for vector search.

Molly: An Improved Signal App(molly.im)

398 points by dtj1123 11 months ago | 236 comments

Homepage for Molly, an independent fork of the Signal messaging app for Android with additional features.

So you wanna build a local RAG?(blog.yakkomajuri.com)

367 points by pedriquepacheco 11 months ago | 97 comments

Blog post describing how the Skald team built a fully local, self-hosted RAG stack using open-source components, with benchmarks versus proprietary APIs.

Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry(stohl.substack.com)

363 points by FreeQueso 11 months ago | 187 comments

A satirical Substack post framed as a credit rating report on how Meta keeps $27 billion in data center debt off its balance sheet.

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism(lux-magazine.com)

351 points by eustoria 11 months ago | 242 comments

Lux Magazine essay by Kate Wagner arguing internet surveillance has killed eroticism and that privacy is needed to reclaim it.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies(seangoedecke.com)

348 points by gfysfm 11 months ago | 236 comments

Sean Goedecke blog post explaining why competent engineers at big tech companies produce sloppy code, citing short tenures and engineers working outside their expertise.

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship(kerrick.blog)

335 points by Kerrick 11 months ago | 299 comments

A personal blog post by Kerrick in which a software developer shares professional confessions and vows to stop self-censoring.

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?(dub.uu.nl)

281 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 283 comments

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike(instantdb.com)

274 points by stopachka 11 months ago | 114 comments

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z(nealstephenson.substack.com)

261 points by boplicity 11 months ago | 103 comments

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker(objectiveunclear.com)

247 points by azinman2 11 months ago | 86 comments

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude(blog.chrislewis.au)

221 points by knackers 11 months ago | 121 comments

The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation(bbc.com)

219 points by bookmtn 11 months ago | 88 comments

Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes(bbc.com)

213 points by nrhrjrjrjtntbt 11 months ago | 98 comments

Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest

191 points by alecco 11 months ago | 59 comments

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation(wsj.com)

188 points by thm 11 months ago | 190 comments

How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)(bbc.com)

163 points by 1659447091 11 months ago | 80 comments

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network(github.com)

159 points by basemi 11 months ago | 27 comments

AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out(apolloacademy.com)

147 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 98 comments

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)(blog.plover.com)

129 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 62 comments

A first look at Django's new background tasks(roam.be)

125 points by roam 11 months ago | 33 comments

Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts(thedrive.com)

124 points by cf100clunk 11 months ago | 86 comments

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)(github.com)

119 points by tony 11 months ago | 43 comments

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf](gwern.net)

111 points by netfortius 11 months ago | 49 comments

China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance(cleantechnica.com)

104 points by xbmcuser 11 months ago | 81 comments

Effective harnesses for long-running agents(anthropic.com)

104 points by diwank 11 months ago | 34 comments

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips(macrumors.com)

103 points by bigyabai 11 months ago | 59 comments

Electron vs. Tauri(dolthub.com)

102 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 54 comments

Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)(tigerstyle.dev)

96 points by nateb2022 11 months ago | 107 comments

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS(oshub.org)

93 points by joexbayer 11 months ago | 11 comments

An update on the Farphone's battery(far.computer)

88 points by louismerlin 11 months ago | 56 comments

Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent(github.com)

86 points by latchkey 11 months ago | 44 comments

SQLite as an Application File Format(sqlite.org)

86 points by gjvc 11 months ago | 53 comments

Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud(sverigesradio.se)

82 points by Frieren 11 months ago | 26 comments

A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

81 points by flail 11 months ago | 65 comments

A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution(spinellis.gr)

74 points by lioeters 11 months ago | 19 comments

Lobsters Interview(susam.net)

73 points by blenderob 11 months ago | 50 comments

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas(iankduncan.com)

73 points by navigate8310 11 months ago | 25 comments

Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities(heise.de)

72 points by TechTechTech 11 months ago | 38 comments

How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication(popovicu.com)

71 points by mfrw 11 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ(473999.net)

66 points by 473999 11 months ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?

65 points by GaryBluto 11 months ago | 37 comments

Cross-Compiling Common Lisp to WASM(turtleware.eu)

65 points by jackdaniel 11 months ago | 2 comments

My car charger can boil water really fast [video](youtube.com)

62 points by zdw 11 months ago | 39 comments

Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby(codeberg.org)

62 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 29 comments

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work(justoffbyone.com)

57 points by 0x79de 11 months ago | 18 comments

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs(instavm.io)

53 points by mkagenius 11 months ago | 18 comments

Fabric Project(github.com)

53 points by brcmthrowaway 11 months ago | 18 comments

The VPN panic is only getting started(theverge.com)

52 points by cebert 11 months ago | 36 comments

A Tale of Four Fuzzers(tigerbeetle.com)

51 points by jorangreef 11 months ago | 14 comments

Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)(arraying.de)

51 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 4 comments

How wealth dies(surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)

49 points by martinlaz 11 months ago | 43 comments

GrapheneOS Moving Out of France(xcancel.com)

48 points by LaSombra 11 months ago | 37 comments

Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI(theverge.com)

47 points by causenad 11 months ago | 35 comments