Top Hacker News Stories – November 4, 2025 (Summarized)

On Hacker News, the top story is "Mr TIFF" with 1,052 points and 150 comments, followed by a discussion on "Tell HN" about links opening in webviews with 614 points and 517 comments. Other notable posts include a user sharing how they saved thousands by removing projects from the cloud (520 points, 395 comments) and a humorous take on cURL limitations with "You can't cURL a Border" (471 points, 278 comments). Additionally, a nostalgic post revisits the 1988 Robert Morris worm, and recent news reports a UPS plane crash near Louisville with 421 points and 438 comments.

#10

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

385 pts, 141 comments

385 points · 141 comments · Add your take →

#11

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

377 pts, 260 comments

377 points · 260 comments · Add your take →

#12

When stick figures fought

372 pts, 143 comments

372 points · 143 comments · Add your take →

#13

A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

371 pts, 82 comments

371 points · 82 comments · Add your take →

#14

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

371 pts, 118 comments

371 points · 118 comments · Add your take →

#15

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

315 pts, 119 comments

315 points · 119 comments · Add your take →

#16

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Top Hacker News Stories – November 4, 2025 (Summarized)

Mr TIFF

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

You can't cURL a Border

My Truck Desk

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

What is a manifold?

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

When stick figures fought

A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

FDA described as a "clown show" amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out

The 512KB Club

Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account

Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production

How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText

Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons

An individual can change an organization

Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent

Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts

I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

CPUs and GPUs to Become More Expensive After TSMC Price Hike in 2026

Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes

I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [video]

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload

Some software bloat is OK

Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5M

Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic

The Art of Atari (2016)

MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies

An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic

Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym

SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable

Michael Burry bets against Nvidia and Palantir [video]

The New Google Search Ad Layout Is Causing Accidental Clicks

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