Top Hacker News Stories – November 3, 2025 (Summarized)

Recent top stories on Hacker News include a breakthrough in electric motor technology, where researchers developed a tiny motor capable of producing over 1,000 horsepower, garnering 606 points and 598 comments. Discussions also highlight the ongoing challenges with AI, described as entering a "Dial-Up Era" with 469 points, and user experiences with Nextcloud, which many find sluggish. Additionally, a controversial tactic involving misinformation about signal strength to improve coverage has sparked debate, alongside reports of Google suspending a company's Google Cloud account for the third time.

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361 pts, 153 comments

361 points · 153 comments · Add your take →

#11

Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse

320 pts, 179 comments

320 points · 179 comments · Add your take →

#12

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

290 pts, 284 comments

290 points · 284 comments · Add your take →

#13

App Store web has exposed all its source code

284 pts, 138 comments

284 points · 138 comments · Add your take →

#14

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

278 pts, 1011 comments

278 points · 1011 comments · Add your take →

#15

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

267 pts, 273 comments

267 points · 273 comments · Add your take →

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Top Hacker News Stories – November 3, 2025 (Summarized)

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

AI's Dial-Up Era

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength

Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Things you can do with diodes

The Case Against PGVector

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)

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Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)

App Store web has exposed all its source code

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)

The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres

Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages

VimGraph

The problem with farmed seafood

Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery

No Socials November

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto

ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product

OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI

a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser

Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz

Syllabi – Open-source agentic AI with tools, RAG, and multi-channel deploy

Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation

Linkers (2007)

Agent-o-rama: build, trace, evaluate, and monitor LLM agents in Java or Clojure

Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience

FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)

A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003

Factory Farming Is a Blight

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US

Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax

An AI to match your voice to songs and artists you should sing

Bye, Google Search

FinBodhi – Local-first, double-entry app/PWA for your financial journey

Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk

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