11.16.25 | Investigation into Archive.today pressure, AirPods liberated from Apple, TCP as internet workhorse

Hacker News Highlights · Nov 16, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 16, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

(01:34) - AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

(02:42) - TCP, the workhorse of the internet

(03:47) - Things that aren't doing the thing

(04:48) - Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations

(06:03) - When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

(07:14) - Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript…