Top Hacker News Stories – November 2, 2025 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include a discussion on party planning tips, which garnered 963 points and 412 comments, highlighting community insights. Linux gamers on Steam have surpassed a 3% market share, attracting 832 points and 536 comments, indicating growing interest in gaming on open-source platforms. Additionally, the open-source Tongyi DeepResearch 30B MoE model has been compared favorably to OpenAI's offerings, receiving 365 points and 153 comments, reflecting advancements in AI research.

#10

Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism

327 pts, 98 comments

327 points · 98 comments · Add your take →

#11

Why don't you use dependent types?

269 pts, 116 comments

269 points · 116 comments · Add your take →

#12

At the end you use `git bisect`

232 pts, 171 comments

232 points · 171 comments · Add your take →

#13

X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland

207 pts, 225 comments

207 points · 225 comments · Add your take →

#14

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms

201 pts, 171 comments

201 points · 171 comments · Add your take →

#15

Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980)

193 pts, 105 comments

193 points · 105 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – November 2, 2025 (Summarized)

Facts about throwing good parties

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

How I use every Claude Code feature

URLs are state containers

Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

Notes by djb on using Fil-C

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)

Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism

Why don't you use dependent types?

At the end you use `git bisect`

X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms

Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980)

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody

Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals?

HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike

Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker

Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples

Writing FreeDOS Programs in C

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off

New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second

Anonymous credentials: rate-limit bots and agents without compromising privacy

Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust

Context engineering

Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy

A Few Words About Async

Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances

React-Native-Godot

Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs

Writing an Asciidoc Parser in Rust: Asciidocr

Intervaltree with Rust Back End

Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited

Build System Tradeoffs

CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations

Matched Clean Power Index

Linux and Windows: A tale of Kerberos, SSSD, DFS, and black magic (2018)

Numb at Burning Man

I built a smart blocker after destroying my dopamine baseline

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

Apache Iggy is a high-performance, persistent message streaming platform

Give your coding agents the ability to message each other

Giving AI to your favorite whiteboard, Excalidraw

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