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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Hey buddy,

Man, what a Thursday on Hacker News! I just scrolled through the main stuff, and there were some pretty wild things. Lemme hit you with the highlights real quick while I'm walking the dog.

Mozilla's Japanese Community Shutting Down

First up, big bummer: Mozilla's Japanese community is basically calling it quits. Sounds like they're fed up with how Mozilla's been handling things, like, corporate-speak and not really listening. One guy in the comments said it's a pattern he's seen over and over with Mozilla, where things just fade out quietly. Another comment was pretty sharp, pointing out how the corporate apology sounded like "sorry for how you feel" instead of actually admitting they messed up. Someone even floated the idea that Google actually *wants* Mozilla to be just good enough to avoid antitrust stuff, which is a wild thought.

FBI Chasing Archive.is Owner

Then there's this spicy one: the FBI is trying to unmask the owner of archive.is. They're demanding data from Tucows, the domain provider. Apparently, archive.is has been used for some seriously shady stuff, like a "drugs-and-arms bazaar" – yikes! But on the flip side, a lot of people use it to get around paywalls or just save articles from crappy news sites. So it's a bit of a mixed bag, and the comments were all over the place on whether it's good or bad.

New Trillion-Parameter AI Model: Kimi K2

In AI news, there's a new "state-of-the-art" open-source model called Kimi K2 Thinking from Moonshot AI, boasting a trillion parameters. Sounds huge, right? But the comments were pretty skeptical. People were saying it's unlikely these big labs actually train models from scratch and that the reported training costs (like 5.5 million) are probably way understated, more like hundreds of millions after all the failed attempts. So, maybe not as "open" or cheap as it sounds.

Fly.io Says "Write an Agent!"

Fly.io put out a blog post basically saying everyone should write an AI agent. They mean simple stuff, like an LLM that can call a tool or two. The comments were interesting, with some folks saying generic AI tools are kinda useless and they'd prefer framework-specific ones. And get this: some people are already experimenting with agents that can generate their own source code! That's pretty wild, generating thousands of lines of code from a spec.

ICC Ditching Microsoft 365 for Open Source

Big news for open source: the International Criminal Court (ICC) is dropping Microsoft 365 for something called openDesk. Good on them, right? Especially with all the privacy concerns. The comments were mostly supportive, with some folks debating the merits of LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, and Collabora as alternatives to Microsoft's suite.

Two Billion Email Addresses Exposed

Troy Hunt from Have I Been Pwned had a huge update: he's indexed two billion email addresses from "stealer logs". That's a massive dump! The tricky part, as people in the comments pointed out, is that HIBP doesn't always tell you *which* service was breached, so it's hard to know which password to change. One cool tip mentioned was using `+extension` in your email addresses (like `[email protected]`) so you can track where a leak came from if it ever gets exposed.

Australia's Free Solar Electricity

And for something a bit more positive: Australia has so much solar power right now that they're actually offering everyone free electricity for about three hours a day! How cool is that? The catch, of course, is that it's usually during the day when people are at work or school, so it's tough for renters or folks without batteries to take full advantage. But still, pretty amazing to hear about a country with *too much* clean energy.

Alright, gotta go, dog's pulling! Talk later!

All Stories from Today

End of Japanese community (support.mozilla.org)

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (www.heise.de)

Ratatui – App Showcase (ratatui.rs)

Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model (moonshotai.github.io)

You should write an agent (fly.io)

ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk (www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl)

Two billion email addresses were exposed (www.troyhunt.com)

I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced (old.reddit.com)

What the hell have you built (wthhyb.sacha.house)

IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products (www.ikea.com)

Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers (torrentfreak.com)

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (electrek.co)

Game design is simple (www.raphkoster.com)

Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale (terrytao.wordpress.com)

The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful (arnon.dk)

How I am deeply integrating Emacs (joshblais.com)

Eating stinging nettles (rachel.blog)

Swift on FreeBSD Preview (forums.swift.org)

OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion (investinglive.com)

AI Slop vs. OSS Security (devansh.bearblog.dev)

Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating (ras.ac.uk)

I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs (dev.karltryggvason.com)

OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in (garymarcus.substack.com)

FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown (www.cnbc.com)

Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell (github.com)

Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault (www.bbc.com)

Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) (h4x0r.org)

LLMs encode how difficult problems are (arxiv.org)

Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona (bigislandnow.com)

Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted (www.wired.com)