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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 20, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws (01:29) - Meta Segment Anything Model 3 (02:42) - The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable (04:02) - Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable (05:06) - Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (06:08) - AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power (07:16) - Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge (08:22) - Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp (09:33) - How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity (10:42) - Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System (11:42) - Outro Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI lawshttps://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117Meta Segment Anything Model 3https://ai.meta.com/sam3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchablehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890Gaming on Linux has never been more approachablehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985506Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Maxhttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649AI is a front for consolidation of resources and powerhttps://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-forhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983700Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridgehttps://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984659Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApphttps://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985036How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanityhttps://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980106Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning Systemhttps://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985867 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.