Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
• (01:34) - VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
• (02:48) - Why is Zig so cool?
• (04:01) - Why I love OCaml (2023)
• (05:12) - James Watson has died
• (06:08) - Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
• (07:06) - Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
• (08:15) - Becoming a Compiler Engineer
• (09:25) - Ruby Solved My Problem
• (10:25) - How did I get here?
• (11:24) - Outro

YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850963

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850751

Why is Zig so cool?
https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852328

Why I love OCaml (2023)
https://mccd.space/posts/ocaml-the-worlds-best/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846517

James Watson has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/science/james-watson-dead.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850069

Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849342

Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework
https://github.com/Snapchat/Valdi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852854

Becoming a Compiler Engineer
https://rona.substack.com/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45851495

Ruby Solved My Problem
https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/ruby-already-solved-my-problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849528

How did I get here?
https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850382