news, !paper 2025-11-17

1268 Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter / bitsnpieces.dev / 209

694 Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders / windowslatest.com / 629

480 Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses / bleepingcomputer.com / 297

410 Google is killing the open web, part 2 / wok.oblomov.eu / 355

407 Where do the children play? / unpublishablepapers.substack.com / 255

387 Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy / sammobile.com / 261

332 FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools / github.com/medusalix / 90

324 Project Gemini / geminiprotocol.net / 186

288 WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model / blog.google / 131

285 Replicate is joining Cloudflare / replicate.com / 68

284 Compiling Ruby to machine language / patshaughnessy.net / 52

274 Building a Simple Search Engine That Works / karboosx.net / 79

269 Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) / hwisnu.bearblog.dev / 259

234 Are you stuck in movie logic? / usefulfictions.substack.com / 185

227 An official atlas of North Korea / cartographerstale.com / 125

210 Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis / github.com/francescopace / 50

205 Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings / neuburger.substack.com / 79

200 How when AWS was down, we were not / authress.io / 74

185 Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor / linuxcontainers.org / 69

183 “One Student One Chip” Course Homepage / ysyx.oscc.cc / 50

177 People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones / idevicecentral.com / 171

167 Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive / nytimes.com / 146

163 Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop / github.com/AnandChowdhary / 60

157 The time has finally come for geothermal energy / newyorker.com / 271

150 Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo) / princejs.vercel.app / 71

147 How to escape the Linux networking stack / blog.cloudflare.com / 59

139 Grok 4.1 / x.ai / 128

127 Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies / angadh.com / 203

124 Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware / github.com/felipenlunkes / 37

123 A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism / newrepublic.com / 229

119 SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB / notebookcheck.net / 155

111 Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video] / youtube.com / 77

110 GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20 / inbox.sourceware.org / 114

100 Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic / ochagavia.nl / 23

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