Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 26, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:21) - Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
• (01:37) - Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
• (02:44) - Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
• (04:09) - Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
• (05:18) - Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
• (06:36) - Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
• (07:42) - FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
• (08:53) - Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
• (09:46) - How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
• (10:44) - Python is not a great language for data science
• (11:56) - Outro

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042810

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
https://far.computer/how-to/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

Python is not a great language for data science
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580