Hacker News Daily Top 10 @2025-11-29

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1. Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
   601 points by modinfo 21 hours ago | 175 comments

2. EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
   578 points by fragebogen 14 hours ago | 383 comments

3. Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
   494 points by PhilippGille 10 hours ago | 116 comments

4. Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
   468 points by nullpxl 19 hours ago | 172 comments

5. Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
   346 points by FreeQueso 8 hours ago | 178 comments

6. A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
   309 points by boplicity 12 hours ago | 122 comments

7. 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
   304 points by walterbell 6 hours ago | 126 comments

8. Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
   292 points by eustoria 7 hours ago | 194 comments

9. Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
   254 points by tymscar 6 hours ago | 91 comments

10. Tell HN: Want a better HN? Visit /newest
    254 points by alecco 8 hours ago | 82 comments

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