Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2025-W45

In the latest week on Hacker News, Zohran Mamdani secured a notable victory in the New York mayoral race, garnering 707 points and over 1,100 comments. Discussions also centered around a new feature in X where clicking any tweet link opens in a webview, attracting 614 points. Additionally, a breakthrough electric motor was highlighted for its ability to produce over 1,000 horsepower, while a user shared how removing projects from the cloud saved thousands of dollars. Other trending topics included concerns about integrating Co-Pilot into Excel and the limitations of cURL with certain network configurations.

#10

YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

453 pts, 126 comments

453 points · 126 comments · Add your take →

#11

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

453 pts, 350 comments

453 points · 350 comments · Add your take →

#12

My Truck Desk

440 pts, 113 comments

440 points · 113 comments · Add your take →

#13

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

437 pts, 183 comments

437 points · 183 comments · Add your take →

#14

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

437 pts, 181 comments

437 points · 181 comments · Add your take →

#15

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

421 pts, 438 comments

421 points · 438 comments · Add your take →

#16

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

411 pts, 192 comments

411 points · 192 comments · Add your take →

#17

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

397 pts, 158 comments

397 points · 158 comments · Add your take →

#18

What is a manifold?

393 pts, 133 comments

393 points · 133 comments · Add your take →

#19

Who is hiring? (November 2025)

388 pts, 581 comments

388 points · 581 comments · Add your take →

#20

Things you can do with diodes

385 pts, 112 comments

385 points · 112 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2025-W45

Mr TIFF

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

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

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

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

I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel

You can't cURL a Border

AI's Dial-Up Era

YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

My Truck Desk

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

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

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

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

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

What is a manifold?

Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Things you can do with diodes

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

The Case Against PGVector

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

When stick figures fought

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

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

Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening

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

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car

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

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

A friendly tour of process memory on Linux

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale

Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

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

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

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

This Month in Ladybird – October 2025

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

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

Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages

The 512KB Club

VimGraph

The problem with farmed seafood

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

Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes

The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)

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

No Socials November

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto

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

ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser

Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019)

Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android

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

What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise

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

Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText

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

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

A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)

An individual can change an organization

Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent