Monthly Highlights
661.
Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
662.
52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history (theregister.com)
663.
How Slide Rules Work (amenzwa.github.io)
664.
Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells (medicine.washu.edu)
665.
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC (tuxedocomputers.com)
666.
The cryptography behind electronic passports (blog.trailofbits.com)
667.
Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 (ruby-lang.org)
668.
Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich) (kys.llc)
669.
Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong (help.kagi.com)
670.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
671.
What Killed Perl? (entropicthoughts.com)
672.
The realities of being a pop star (itscharlibb.substack.com)
673.
Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript (owl.is)
674.
Rock Tumbler Instructions (rocktumbler.com)
675.
Monotype font licencing shake-down (insanityworks.org)
676.
Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage? (volts.wtf)
677.
A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification (enaix.github.io)
678.
The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects (shkspr.mobi)
679.
Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication (togetherlondon.com)
680.
I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today (bloomberry.com)
681.
Making a micro Linux distro (2023) (popovicu.com)
682.
Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec (cerebras.ai)
683.
The R47: A new physical RPN calculator (swissmicros.com)
684.
Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability (andrewlock.net)
685.
Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines (susam.net)
686.
Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck (github.com)
687.
Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window (docs.x.ai)
688.
France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS? (grapheneos.social)
689.
OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion (investinglive.com)
690.
Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD (conradresearch.com)