Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 25, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Pebble Watch software is now open source
• (01:28) - Claude Opus 4.5
• (02:41) - Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
• (03:52) - Claude Advanced Tool Use
• (05:04) - Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
• (06:16) - PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
• (07:36) - Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
• (08:26) - Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
• (09:34) - We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
• (10:52) - Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
• (12:00) - Outro

Pebble Watch software is now open source
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037626

Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037637

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539

Claude Advanced Tool Use
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038047

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038099

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038143

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
https://news.ysimulator.run/news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019898

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024541

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330