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Hacker News Highlights

11.23.25 | Browser fingerprinting privacy issues, Inducing smells with ultrasound, Challenges in agent design

12 min23 november 2025
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 23, 2025.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:19) - The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
  • (01:27) - We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
  • (02:31) - Agent design is still hard
  • (03:46) - Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
  • (05:03) - China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
  • (06:21) - Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
  • (07:17) - A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
  • (08:16) - $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
  • (09:26) - The realities of being a pop star
  • (10:31) - Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
  • (11:39) - Outro

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008332

Agent design is still hard
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/21/agents-are-hard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013935

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019817

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016639

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
https://forty.news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019685

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940980

The realities of being a pop star
https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016613

Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a69147321/kodak-film-nuclear-reactor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938005

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