Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-20

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