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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Hey buddy,

Man, Sunday on Hacker News was pretty wild. Lemme quickly tell you about a few things that caught my eye.

"I Am Mark Zuckerberg" Website Buzz

First up, there was this site called "I Am Mark Zuckerberg" that got a ton of attention. People were all over it, talking about identity and digital deception. The comments were a bit of a mixed bag, with some folks arguing about how easy it is to trick people online with documents, and someone even brought up the whole Katy Perry vs. Katie Perry trademark lawsuit as an example of identity confusion. Wild stuff.

AI Spending, Not AI Itself, Replacing Jobs

Then there was this article from Fast Company, "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is". Basically, it's not the AI doing the work, but companies spending big on AI tools and then cutting staff. The comments had people debating about new grad salaries being too high for companies to justify training, and how people don't stick around at companies as long anymore, which affects institutional knowledge.

Montana's "Right to Compute" Law

This was a cool one: Montana became the first state to pass a "right to compute" law! Sounds pretty progressive for tech. Folks in the comments were discussing what it actually means compared to rights in other countries, and if it'll really make Montana a tech hub.

Clickbait Headline Programming Language

For a laugh, someone made a programming language called "Tabloid", where the keywords are clickbait headlines. So you'd have things like "EXPERTS CLAIM SECRET_CODE TO BE 129" or "RUMOR HAS IT...". Someone in the comments suggested adding "BAN THIS SICK FILTH" as a way to throw an exception, which is hilarious.

Samsung's Smart Fridge Update (and Phone Adware?)

Samsung announced their 2025 Family Hub update for their smart fridges. But honestly, the comments were way more interesting because people started complaining that their Samsung *phones* have adware, even in the dialer app! Others disagreed, saying they'd never seen it, but it was a pretty surprising discussion to pop up under a fridge article.

Boring Company Fined for Dumping Fluids

Speaking of big companies, Elon's Boring Company got hit with a nearly $500,000 fine for dumping drilling fluids into manholes. Not exactly a great look for them. The comments were, as expected, a mix of people arguing about the company's ethics and the media's bias.

KeePassXC on AI and Code Quality

And finally, KeePassXC, that password manager everyone uses, put out a blog post about their code quality control, and it got a bit spicy because they mentioned using AI in their process. A lot of people in the comments were pretty vocal, saying they absolutely do not want AI touching security-critical code like a password manager, no matter how rigorous the review process is. Definitely a hot button issue for security folks.

Anyway, gotta run, talk soon!

All Stories from Today

I Am Mark Zuckerberg (iammarkzuckerberg.com)

Marble Fountain (willmorrison.net)

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is (www.fastcompany.com)

Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law (montananewsroom.com)

Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app)

Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem (news.samsung.com)

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes (www.yahoo.com)

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra (www.cs.utexas.edu)

Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant (thenewstack.io)

Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act (www.goskagit.com)

Study finds memory decline surge in young people (onepercentrule.substack.com)

Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? (news.ycombinator.com)

Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban (krebsonsecurity.com)

Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window (docs.x.ai)

The Principles of Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)

Alive internet theory (alivetheory.net)

Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment (www.npr.org)

Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican (simonwillison.net)

How Airbus took off (worksinprogress.co)

Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology (vejeta.com)

Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team (squidfunk.github.io)

When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed (electrek.co)

Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals (howardluksmd.substack.com)

Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck (github.com)

Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager (www.newsyeah.fun)

Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are (awealthofcommonsense.com)

Forth – Is it still relevant? (github.com)

About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control (keepassxc.org)

He Chunhui's Tiny386 Turns an ESP32-S3 into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered PC (www.hackster.io)