11.3.25 | Throwing good parties, URLs as state containers, djb's notes on Fil-C

Hacker News Highlights · Nov 3, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2025.

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(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…