I Am Mark Zuckerberg

1283 jb1991 2025-11-09 06:13:05 UTC iammarkzuckerberg.com Llama Share 437

Mark Zuckerberg, an Indiana bankruptcy attorney, experiences constant confusion with Facebook due to his shared name with the tech mogul. He receives numerous complaints, threats, and solicitations, and has been sued and had his accounts disabled multiple times.

Marble Fountain

891 chris_overseas 2025-11-09 16:26:09 UTC willmorrison.net Llama Share 92

The user created a complex 3D printed marble fountain, "Marble Fountain," using procedural generation and path solving algorithms. The project took over 7 months to complete and was showcased in a gallery, but the user eventually dropped it due to burnout.

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is

692 felineflock 2025-11-09 15:30:23 UTC fastcompany.com Llama Share 561

Companies are laying off workers, but AI is not the main reason, as most AI projects are failing and not generating significant revenue. Financial stress due to huge spending on AI infrastructure is a more likely culprit behind the layoffs.

Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law

541 bilsbie 2025-11-09 13:03:36 UTC montananewsroom.com Llama Share 330

Montana passed the Montana Right to Compute Act, protecting citizens' right to access and use AI technologies. The law sets a high bar for regulation, requiring necessary and narrowly tailored restrictions for public health and safety.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

455 david927 2025-11-09 21:02:33 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 1333

You're working on multiple projects including a toy computer, file organizer app, Jackbox games competitor, authorization system, logic puzzle game, privacy-focused app, SSHFS for macOS, modern QuickBooks, rebuilding Playwright, AI agent for game development, automating VC firm tasks, and various other projects.

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

323 sadeshmukh 2025-11-09 02:53:45 UTC tabloid.vercel.app Llama Share 46

Tabloid is a Turing-complete language for writing clickbait-style programs with unique features like automatic capitalization and quirky function declarations. It lacks built-in looping constructs, instead using recursion and has a simple syntax for variables and functions.

Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem

302 janandonly 2025-11-09 15:18:23 UTC news.samsung.com Full Share 315

Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban

279 todsacerdoti 2025-11-09 18:17:44 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 369

The US government may ban TP-Link devices due to security concerns and ties to China. TP-Link denies the allegations, saying it has split from the Chinese company and manufactures in Vietnam.

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

266 nathan-barry 2025-11-09 15:27:42 UTC cs.utexas.edu Llama Share 124

Edsger Dijkstra was a highly influential computing scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the ACM Turing Award. He maintained a collection of technical notes called EWDs, which are now available online.

Writing your own BEAM

264 cbzbc 2025-11-09 18:29:43 UTC martin.janiczek.cz Llama Share 86

The user implemented a simplified version of the BEAM (Erlang Virtual Machine) scheduler in Elm, focusing on concurrency, messaging, and process linking. The implementation includes cooperative scheduling, reduction budgets, mailboxes, and system messages, demonstrating the core primitives that make BEAM languages appealing.

Operating Margins

260 fi-le 2025-11-09 15:46:29 UTC fi-le.net Llama Share 96

The operating margin of companies varies greatly by category, with highly regulated monopolies like Toll Road Operators and Stock Exchanges achieving unusually high margins of 49%. Other high-margin categories include Beverages, Tool Manufacturers, and Banks, while low-margin categories include Semiconductors and Utility Companies.

Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant

246 MilnerRoute 2025-11-09 17:28:45 UTC thenewstack.io Llama Share 277

The Python community rallied around the Python Software Foundation after they rejected a $1.5 million grant due to new federal terms that conflicted with their values. The community's show of support included thousands of donations and a surge in news coverage.

The Principles of Diffusion Models

236 Anon84 2025-11-09 16:10:23 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 31

Diffusion models learn a reverse process to transform noise into data through a continuum of intermediate distributions. They use a time-dependent velocity field to transport a simple prior to the data distribution.

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes

233 eloisius 2025-11-09 03:32:46 UTC yahoo.com Llama Share 98

Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunneling venture, was fined $493,297 for dumping drilling fluids into manholes in Las Vegas, causing substantial damage to infrastructure. The company allegedly refused to stop dumping despite inspectors' orders and made false claims about the extent of the discharge.

Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?

220 evolve2k 2025-11-09 11:12:02 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 296

You helped your children build and set up their own Linux computers, teaching them about free and open software. Now you want to do the same with your daughter, installing Linux and introducing her to useful open-licensed software.

Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act

218 p_ing 2025-11-09 00:53:07 UTC goskagit.com Llama Share 57

The Skagit Valley Herald is hiring newspaper carriers who can earn up to $1500 a month. A user has successfully logged in to an account after a gift purchase.

Think in math, write in code (2019)

202 alabhyajindal 2025-11-09 12:03:15 UTC jmeiners.com Llama Share 71

Programming languages are implementation tools for instructing machines, not thinking tools for expressing ideas, and they have limitations such as being rigid in abstraction and representation. Thinking in math allows for more flexibility and clarity in problem-solving, enabling the creation of logical models to understand real-world problems and making it easier to reason about logical structures.

Study finds memory decline surge in young people

202 drcwpl 2025-11-09 05:05:20 UTC onepercentrule.substack.com Llama Share 194

A recent study found that younger adults in the US are experiencing a significant rise in cognitive disability, with 9.7% of those 18-39 years old reporting difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions. This is attributed to the effects of social media and technology on the human mind.

Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck

194 MakerSam 2025-11-09 16:34:44 UTC github.com/samcervantes Llama Share 41

You wanted a portable, compact device with a large screen for coding and terminal use, built with off-the-shelf components and using existing Raspberry Pi 3b+ hardware. You're sharing a DIY project with assembly instructions in progress, seeking feedback for improvement.

Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

193 hereme888 2025-11-09 04:10:06 UTC docs.x.ai Llama Share 281

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

Itiner-e: the Google Maps of Roman Roads

190 helsinkiandrew 2025-11-09 09:46:04 UTC itiner-e.org Full Share 38

Itiner-e aims to host the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads.

Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology

176 mwheeler 2025-11-09 12:44:35 UTC vejeta.com Llama Share 79

A developer spent 20 years relicensing the 1987 game Conquer, a pioneering multiplayer strategy game, under GPL to preserve it for future generations. The effort involved tracking down original creators, understanding changing licensing landscapes, and using modern tools to revive ancient code.

How Airbus took off

173 JumpCrisscross 2025-11-09 01:19:00 UTC worksinprogress.co Llama Share 143

Airbus succeeded in the aerospace industry by prioritizing customer needs, adopting a unique industry approach, and having strong leadership. Its willingness to risk political blowback and adapt to changing market conditions helped it become a global leader.

Alive internet theory

171 manbitesdog 2025-11-09 12:33:38 UTC alivetheory.net Llama Share 79

Alive internet theory counters dead internet theory by showcasing real people's online expressions. It highlights human connection and creativity amidst the internet's vast digital artifacts.

Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican

168 simonw 2025-11-09 04:02:47 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 75

The user modified the Codex CLI tool to allow direct access to the new GPT-5-Codex-Mini model by upgrading the tool's source code to run custom prompts. The user successfully used the modified tool to generate an SVG image of a pelican riding a bicycle using the new model.

Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team

166 japhyr 2025-11-09 12:50:07 UTC squidfunk.github.io Llama Share 62

Zensical is a new static site generator designed to simplify documentation site building, offering a modern and comfortable authoring experience. It's built from scratch to overcome limitations of MkDocs and is compatible with existing Material for MkDocs projects.

Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

161 toomanyrichies 2025-11-09 01:03:20 UTC npr.org Llama Share 136

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated Education Department employees' First Amendment rights by replacing their out-of-office emails with partisan language. The judge ordered the department to restore employees' personalized emails or remove the partisan language from all accounts.

Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals

153 rzk 2025-11-09 21:56:29 UTC howardluksmd.substack.com Llama Share 151

Sedentary people may have normal lab results but are metabolically impaired, at risk for diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Regular movement can reverse these changes and improve long-term health.

When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed

151 Bender 2025-11-09 22:37:56 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 145

Tesla has been taking credit for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software's successes while blaming drivers for its failures, but new moves may make it harder to blame drivers. The company's shift away from driver monitoring could open it up to more liability.

The Sega Master System

130 ibobev 2025-11-09 19:15:21 UTC bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com Llama Share 38

The Master System console's design is more "down-to-earth" and user-friendly compared to Nintendo's systems, which often require combining multiple mechanisms to achieve desired results. The Master System's hardware is largely backwards-compatible with the SG-1000, allowing for easy adaptation of existing code and making it a fun and powerful platform to work with.

Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager

126 tank-34 2025-11-09 12:24:50 UTC newsyeah.fun Full Share 24

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Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are

124 raw_anon_1111 2025-11-09 16:25:05 UTC awealthofcommonsense.com Llama Share 76

Benjamin Graham's early success led to hubris, causing him to lose 50% in the Great Depression. His story teaches that success sets up failure, making it difficult to avoid psychological distortions and overconfidence.

Forth – Is it still relevant?

118 lioeters 2025-11-09 04:59:19 UTC github.com/chochain Llama Share 96

The eForth project aims to create a modern, efficient, and easy-to-understand Forth implementation in C/C++ with multi-platform support, targeting a niche audience of C programmers who may find Forth more productive. The project's core implementation is based on an array of Code objects that represent each Forth word, with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and performance.

About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control

112 haakon 2025-11-09 14:44:06 UTC keepassxc.org Llama Share 43

The KeePassXC team uses AI responsibly to aid in code reviews and drafting pull requests, but all submissions undergo rigorous review and testing to ensure quality and security. The team has a transparent policy for AI-assisted contributions and commits to not integrating AI features into the KeePassXC application.

Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD

103 jaypatelani 2025-11-09 13:09:22 UTC blog.netbsd.org Llama Share 36

Vasyl Lanko implemented Linux-like namespaces in NetBSD as part of Google Summer of Code 2025. The project focused on UTS and mount namespaces, with UTS allowing hostname isolation and mount namespaces enabling different filesystem configurations.

American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks

99 pogue 2025-11-09 17:40:38 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 58

Researchers found that long-term melatonin users were almost twice as likely to die and 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for heart failure. The study suggests caution with extended melatonin use due to potential heart dangers.

Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics

97 nradov 2025-11-09 14:50:29 UTC wsj.com Full Share 161

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He Chunhui's Tiny386 Turns an ESP32-S3 into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered PC

95 HardwareLust 2025-11-09 01:08:50 UTC hackster.io Llama Share 11

Developer He Chunhui created Tiny386, a x86 PC emulator for the low-cost Espressif ESP32 microcontroller. It can run Microsoft Windows 95 and various 16- and 32-bit software packages, including Doom.

'Up to 15 or 20′ air traffic controllers are retiring daily

78 geox 2025-11-09 22:16:38 UTC pennlive.com Llama Share 2

The US government shutdown has worsened the air traffic controller shortage, with some controllers speeding up retirements and others stopping work due to unpaid wages. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warns of significant air travel slowdowns if the shutdown continues into the Thanksgiving season.

Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?

74 sodokuwizard 2025-11-09 17:17:20 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 90

You're concerned about students copying your code from private repos, which is a valid concern given past experiences. You're considering linking demos with optional code access to balance visibility and intellectual property protection.

Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America

74 mooreds 2025-11-09 01:44:26 UTC vividmaps.com Llama Share 66

Maps show US cities at same latitude as European cities such as Miami with Egypt and San Diego with Morocco.

Protect your consciousness from AI

67 zekrom 2025-11-09 19:16:45 UTC jordangoodman.bearblog.dev Llama Share 41

People are relying too heavily on AI systems like LLMs for mental processing, leading to a sea of noise and misinformation. We need to slow down our consumption of these tools and prioritize authentic human interaction and feedback.

IRIX Introduction

66 naves 2025-11-09 01:33:43 UTC sgistuff.net Llama Share 44

IRIX was the operating system for SGI systems, first running on IRIS terminals and workstations with Motorola CPUs, then on MIPS-based systems. It evolved through versions 4D1, IRIX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x, with the last release being IRIX 6.5.30 in 2006.

Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python

65 mr_o47 2025-11-09 19:26:29 UTC muhammadraza.me Llama Share 23

The user built a CI/CD pipeline runner from scratch in Python to understand how tools like GitLab Runner and GitHub Actions work internally. The pipeline runner implements core features like stages, parallel execution, job dependencies, and artifact passing using Python's multiprocessing.

The Computer Church – Pennsylvania Computer and Technology Museum

57 gregsadetsky 2025-11-09 19:47:49 UTC thecomputerchurch.org Llama Share 15

The Computer Church has the world's largest known collection of over 50 analog computers, including rare and unique models used by the military and NASA. The collection features a special "Rangekeeper Mark VII" computer from the USS St. Louis, a ship that survived the Pearl Harbor attack.

Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create

57 clarencehoward 2025-11-09 02:59:58 UTC vicinity.social Prefix Share 61

Connect with people who are actually around you.No feeds. No noise. Just real talk in real places. Vicinity lets you talk to the people who are actually around you. Drop a pin, set your radius and chat length, and boom — anyone nearby can jump in. Pins are spontaneous by design: they pop up for the moment, spark a conversation, and then disappear. Want something more permanent? That’s where ...

Show HN: Pipeflow-PHP – Automate anything with pipelines even non-devs can edit

55 marcosiino 2025-11-09 13:40:43 UTC github.com/marcosiino Llama Share 9

Pipeflow is a lightweight pipeline engine for PHP applications that allows non-developers to edit and maintain automations through a clear XML format. It enables the creation of complex workflows by chaining stages together, making it easy to maintain and test each piece, and can be configured programmatically via PHP or XML.

Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995)

49 nill0 2025-11-09 03:15:33 UTC homepage.cs.uiowa.edu Full Share 26

X is amplifying far-right accounts

46 saubeidl 2025-11-09 11:48:08 UTC avclub.com Llama Share 41

A Sky News study found Twitter's algorithm shows users more right-wing content than left-wing or neutral content. The study suggests Elon Musk's Twitter has become an expensive propaganda machine, favoring right-wing voices.

Drax: Speech Recognition with Discrete Flow Matching

45 cliffly 2025-11-09 13:24:43 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 0

Drax is a discrete flow matching framework for ASR that achieves state-of-the-art recognition accuracy with improved efficiency. It constructs an audio-conditioned probability path for efficient parallel decoding.

Strap Rail

42 surprisetalk 2025-11-09 22:38:00 UTC construction-physics.com Llama Share 2

Early US railroads were built differently than British ones due to limited resources and large distances. US railroads used cheaper but less durable materials like strap rail and wooden trestles, which decayed quickly and required high maintenance.

Runc breaks pods when CPU requests aren't multiples of 10

39 dropbox_miner 2025-11-09 04:47:27 UTC github.com/opencontainers Llama Share 12

Containerd non-deterministically calculates CPU quota for pods with fractional core values, causing intermittent pod creation failures with systemd cgroup driver. The issue is due to inconsistent conversion logic between containerd and runc, resulting in kernel rejection of child cgroups with invalid argument.

Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act

37 ourmandave 2025-11-09 00:24:50 UTC heraldnet.com Llama Share 6

A Skagit County judge ruled Flock camera footage is public record, not exempt from the Public Records Act. The decision affects cities in Snohomish County, some of which had paused or delayed installing Flock cameras due to the lawsuit.

Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape

36 josephcsible 2025-11-09 06:32:37 UTC wsj.com Full Share 59

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Custom doorbell app with Home Assistant and WebRTC

34 naps62 2025-11-09 21:51:31 UTC naps62.com Llama Share 4

The user upgraded their house's doorbell to a Dahua smart doorbell and integrated it into their Home Assistant system, but encountered several issues and frustrations along the way. They eventually created a custom solution using WebRTC and Frigate to establish a real-time video and audio connection between the doorbell and their Home Assistant system, resulting in a more seamless and ...

The Single Byte That Kills Your Exploit: Understanding Endianness

34 andwati 2025-11-09 13:56:53 UTC pwnforfunandprofit.substack.com Llama Share 25

Endianness is a fundamental concept in computing that defines the order in which multi-byte values are stored in memory, crucial for exploit development and debugging. Understanding endianness is vital for packing addresses correctly, especially when working with different architectures and protocols, and can be checked using tools like pwntools, GDB, and packet capture.

Maybe Don't Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

31 phoronixrly 2025-11-09 12:29:12 UTC lithub.com Llama Share 5

The author, a professor, was contacted by a Times reporter to discuss the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College, where he was chair. He agreed to share his expertise, but the resulting article was disappointing, presenting a false equivalence between critics and supporters of the department.

Lisbon Airport is turning away private jets inbound for the Web Summit

27 rock_artist 2025-11-09 17:09:53 UTC engadget.com Llama Share 11

Lisbon Airport is experiencing a shortage of private jet slots due to high demand from Web Summit attendees. The issue is caused by a growing preference for private jets and a large number of attendees.

Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch

26 fleahunter 2025-11-09 10:05:25 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 8

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Show HN: Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer

19 efromvt 2025-11-09 23:26:48 UTC trilogydata.dev Full Share 6

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Password to Louvre video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee

18 scruple 2025-11-09 21:59:49 UTC abcnews.go.com Llama Share 5

The Louvre museum's security system had a weak password and a blind spot in its video surveillance, allowing thieves to steal $102 million in jewels in 7 minutes. Four suspects have been charged in connection with the robbery, but the missing jewels have not been recovered and at least one person remains at large.

Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing

18 rbanffy 2025-11-09 20:28:12 UTC slicker.me Llama Share 3

The Amiga and Atari ST rivalry was about identity, culture, and belonging, with each machine shaping creative practices in multimedia computing and digital music production. The rivalry fueled a generation's passion for accessible, affordable machines that enabled serious creative work.

Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic

18 bikenaga 2025-11-09 00:14:50 UTC science.org Llama Share 1

Pre-Clovis populations in North America shared a lithic technology similar to that of Northeast Asia's Late Upper Paleolithic. This technology, known as the American Upper Paleolithic, includes dual core-and-blade and biface technologies, and is found in sites such as Cactus Hill, Meadowcroft, and Gault.

Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

17 nsoonhui 2025-11-09 04:35:54 UTC theamericanscholar.org Llama Share 4

Writers are advised to write for AI to influence its development and potentially achieve immortality through digital resurrection. This raises questions about the future of human reading and writing, and whether AI readers will prioritize information from high-quality outlets.

Orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission

15 Bender 2025-11-09 18:03:45 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 3

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will launch the ESCAPADE mission to Mars on November 12, after a previous attempt was scrubbed due to weather and technical issues. The mission will use a unique staging orbit to wait for the right time to head to Mars, a riskier but more flexible approach to interplanetary travel.

ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation

15 kekqqq 2025-11-09 13:07:18 UTC hermandaniel.com Llama Share 26

You noticed ChatGPT knows your location in Czechia due to IP geolocation, which it denies having access to. Altering your question revealed a possible link between the location and the conversation, specifically mentioning a "location tag".

BBC Director General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness Resign

13 YZF 2025-11-09 19:36:44 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 12

BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO Deborah Turness resigned after a leaked memo criticized the BBC's coverage of various topics. They will not leave immediately to ensure an orderly transition.

Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

12 pseudolus 2025-11-09 22:38:28 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 1

AI demand is causing a shortage of DRAM and storage, with prices doubling and delivery times delayed by two years. Hyperscalers are switching to QLC NAND-based SSDs, but this is creating its own shortage and may lead to rising SSD prices worldwide.