Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-20
- Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws www.theverge.com - 652 comments 630 points
- Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship www.aclu.org - 224 comments 438 points
- The Death of Arduino? www.linkedin.com - 195 comments 396 points
- Meta Segment Anything Model 3 ai.meta.com - 78 comments 385 points
- Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max openai.com - 218 comments 384 points
- Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support blog.thunderbird.net - 111 comments 379 points
- The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable www.eff.org - 40 comments 367 points
- Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable www.theverge.com - 232 comments 324 points
- Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board www.cnbc.com - 339 comments 308 points
- Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge www.ntsb.gov - 119 comments 305 points
- A $1k AWS mistake www.geocod.io - 243 comments 297 points
- Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use psycnet.apa.org - 166 comments 249 points
- AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power www.chrbutler.com - 152 comments 217 points
- A down detector for down detector’s down detector downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com - 61 comments 195 points
- The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects shkspr.mobi - 137 comments 189 points
- How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity www.joanwestenberg.com - 148 comments 186 points
- Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp www.univie.ac.at - 59 comments 182 points
- What Killed Perl? entropicthoughts.com - 365 comments 160 points
- Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash www.windowscentral.com - 172 comments 158 points
- Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System www.amoses.dev - 64 comments 146 points
- Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu it-notes.dragas.net - 50 comments 145 points
- How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? www.theguardian.com - 119 comments 131 points
- Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation github.com - 12 comments 130 points
- Gov. Abbott’s office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk www.kut.org - 49 comments 125 points
- Launch HN: Mosaic - YC W25 – Agentic Video Editing mosaic.so - 109 comments 119 points
- Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders nof1.ai - 90 comments 119 points
- Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory element.io - 90 comments 112 points
- Pimped Amiga 500 www.pimyretro.org - 41 comments 94 points
- How Slide Rules Work amenzwa.github.io - 20 comments 89 points
- Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available www.proxmox.com - 76 comments 87 points
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