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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Facts about throwing good parties (01:26) - URLs are state containers (02:29) - Notes by djb on using Fil-C (03:38) - Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) (04:47) - Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (05:59) - Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch (07:06) - Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) (08:10) - Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength (09:24) - Why don't you use dependent types? (10:37) - X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland (11:44) - Outro Facts about throwing good partieshttps://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794032URLs are state containershttps://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789474Notes by djb on using Fil-Chttps://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788040Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787993Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun againhttps://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789424Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearchhttps://tongyi-agent.github.io/blog/introducing-tongyi-deep-research/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789602Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/paris-had-a-moving-sidewalk-in-1900.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strengthhttps://nickvsnetworking.com/simple-trick-to-increase-coverage-lying-to-users-about-signal-strength/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795036Why don't you use dependent types?https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790827X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwaylandhttps://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790015 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.