Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 15, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - AI World Clocks
• (01:14) - The disguised return of EU Chat Control
• (02:12) - A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
• (03:15) - 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
• (04:23) - Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
• (05:29) - Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
• (06:42) - A race condition in Aurora RDS
• (07:45) - All praise to the lunch ladies
• (08:55) - HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
• (10:03) - SSL Configuration Generator
• (11:08) - Outro

AI World Clocks
https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930151

The disguised return of EU Chat Control
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-disguised-return-of-the-eus-private-message-scanning-plot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929511

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262

'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928492

Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924483

A race condition in Aurora RDS
https://hightouch.com/blog/uncovering-a-race-condition-in-aurora-rds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929921

All praise to the lunch ladies
https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931403

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-11-09-hk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923188

SSL Configuration Generator
https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932798