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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Mr TIFF (01:31) - This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (02:38) - Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access (03:53) - I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (05:03) - Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not (06:12) - Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It (07:20) - Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (08:36) - Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states (09:43) - Whole Earth Index (10:52) - By the Power of Grayscale (12:01) - Outro Mr TIFFhttps://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816853This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous wormhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-slithered-out-and-sparked-a-new-era-in-cybersecurity-10-percent-of-the-internet-was-infected-within-24-hourshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812024Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake accesshttps://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812606I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollarshttps://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816041Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or nothttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817167Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe Ithttps://cognition.ai/blog/codemapshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813767Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Resultshttps://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells stateshttps://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319Whole Earth Indexhttps://wholeearth.info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734259By the Power of Grayscalehttps://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771151 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.