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| Jensen Huang admits an affair | 09 nov. 2026 | 00:13:16 | |
Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits an affair as his board opens an investigation, plus a queue for AI brain fry, drugmakers doubting AI cures, the case for quadrillion-parameter models, and Android 16 on a keypad phone for the blind.
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| Goldman pulls Claude Code from traders | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:11:28 | |
Goldman Sachs takes Claude Code away from most of its traders and bankers weeks before helping take Anthropic public, and OpenAI's smaller funding round lands. Plus Outlook.com quietly bouncing mail without DMARC, writing as a way to think, and a UK push for abuse-image blocking on every phone.
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| Person of Interest's Machine, 15 years on | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:11:01 | |
A viewer finds a fifteen-year-old drama about an all-seeing AI suddenly close to reality, a Tesla critic blames a product drought on JB Straubel's exit, and a call for one agent memory format. Plus a 284-billion-parameter DeepSeek model on a 64 GB machine, and why managers stuck past their competence turn dangerous.
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| GitHub down, status page green | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:11:14 | |
GitHub's downloads time out for hours while its status page stays green, and a century of crash data puts the AI sell-off in context. Plus a lean Rust WhatsApp client, brain-wave headsets training AI on users' recordings, and Dirac's trick for making any number from four 2s.
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| Why one developer left Claude Code | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:11:32 | |
A developer trades Claude Code for the open-source Pi, GitHub previews a slimmer pull request page, and an emoji writer looks to ancient scribes. Plus an eight-dollar Linux board from 2022 and a tiny Terry Pratchett study.
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| Typos in a Booker-shortlisted novel | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:12:24 | |
A critic blames a careless Typo Generation for the errors in a Booker-shortlisted second edition, and a free tool puts every coding project in its own virtual machine. Plus a honeypot posing as a supermarket fridge controller, why Heisenberg's last reactor could never work, and notes from San Marino.
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| Discord's Rust app wins the race | 08 nov. 2026 | 00:13:39 | |
Discord's Rust app beats its Electron one from a cold start, Claude Code's saved approvals leak passwords to GitHub, a tweaked benchmark catches models coding to the test, a homelab on a ten-dollar stick, and how long microbes can wait.
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| Apple's hidden list of unswipeable phrases | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:12:04 | |
A researcher decodes the iPhone keyboard's hidden list of phrases it won't suggest, and a Microsoft AI research group ends. Plus Turbo Pascal 7, GitHub's new Git storage, and getting family onto XMPP or Matrix.
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| Need for Speed Underground 2, online | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:12:43 | |
Fans put a 2004 Need for Speed game online in the browser, and three researchers explain how volunteers built Linux and Wikipedia. Plus Google's gas-powered Wyoming data center, Anthropic's dreaming agents, and a law firm that runs on free software.
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| Upload your RAM to Sam Altman | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:11:23 | |
A joke site offers to upload your spare RAM to Sam Altman, and researchers find every recent Mac quietly scores who in your life is family. Plus ancient DNA and the Goths, the RealPage rent settlements, and where Ozempic-style drugs are being tested next.
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| Asahi Linux moves to the GPL | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:11:38 | |
Asahi Linux moves its Mac port to the GPL after rivals copied its code, and libghostty reaches a stable 1.0. Plus a hand-built Chinese robot factory, a free open-data globe for the Mac, and fake restaurant ordering sites that skim cards.
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| The Cybertruck's sales gap | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:13:08 | |
Tesla winds down the Cybertruck after sales far below Musk's forecast, and sodium-ion cells near price parity with lithium iron phosphate. Plus an open-source feature flag server at eleven, Peter Norvig's classic reply to Chomsky, and AI bots swamping university libraries.
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| AI is doubling Anthropic's AI progress | 07 nov. 2026 | 00:12:46 | |
An outside report from inside Anthropic suggests AI has doubled the pace of its research. Plus a cheap model that knows when to ask Opus, Ubuntu's incompatible Rust sudo, a Rust UI framework run by agents, and a Firecracker escape.
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| Anthropic IPO buyers eye $1.1 trillion | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:12:46 | |
Buyers cut what they will pay for Anthropic's shares after a record tech selloff. Also: the FAA's floppy disks, Kalshi's court losses, 15,000 infected websites, and ants trapped in a Soviet-era bunker.
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| Musk winds down the Cybertruck | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:11:33 | |
Tesla is ending Cybertruck production in Texas to build robotaxis. Plus Google's longer, cheaper Gemini Omni video clips, a tank game that flattens real cities, Servo's September release, and Jimmy Maher on the Deus Ex prophecy myth.
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| A Dutch bank shuts out GrapheneOS | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:12:41 | |
A Dutch bank that calls itself idealist blocks Wero payments on phones Google has not certified, and Blender's interface becomes a standalone toolkit. Also: a researcher doubts AI research is ingenious, Pangram's new image detector, and a codec that brings stereo music to the N64.
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| Britain to require pay in every job ad | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:10:34 | |
Britain plans a law making employers publish salaries in job ads. Plus Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small, closed models taking the best-value spots, Zig's new parentheses rule, and a game maker's memory of learning to make games as a kid.
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| A remote code flaw in MS Paint | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:11:21 | |
Microsoft rates a bug in Paint as remote code execution with no click needed, and nobody can say what network service Paint runs. Plus where today's stock slide really hit, Mark Cuban on deepfake scam ads, a cochlear implant user testing her own hearing, and Hungary opening its informant files.
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| Kagi opens search to everyone | 06 nov. 2026 | 00:11:46 | |
Kagi lets anyone search without an account and takes aim at Google's school plan, Salon shuts down after 31 years, and Claude Code is caught leaking users' email addresses to websites. Plus an MCP walkthrough and the AI-powered return of the Hackintosh.
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| Motorola builds a phone for GrapheneOS | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:13:47 | |
Motorola launches a flagship made to run GrapheneOS, a blogger asks the companies tracking him to use what they know, and the Nasdaq slides on bets that the midterms will slow AI data centers. Plus the Lisp curse coming for open source, and why to download your favourite YouTube videos.
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| Discord rewrites its app in Rust | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:12:19 | |
Discord drops Electron for an all-Rust app, awesome lists drown in AI pull requests, Baidu's ERNIE base model shuts out the EU, OpenAI's Astra quietly slacks on safety research, and one photo holds 1,400 satellites.
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| Garry Tan's $200K token habit | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:11:22 | |
Y Combinator's Garry Tan says he spends up to $200,000 a year on AI tokens, RTX 5090 street prices pass $9,000, an ISP caught forging DNS answers, the lost malloc of 1973 Unix, and an OpenSSH hole on musl Linux that a long password opens.
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| How HN readers run their AI agents | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:12:23 | |
Hacker News readers share their AI coding setups, from five-dollar budgets to a twenty-machine fleet. Plus Conductor joining Meta, OpenAI's Images 2.6, plastic-free coffee machines, and Wyoming's misplaced guard-dog rescues.
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| AI agents barely order DoorDash | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:12:13 | |
DoorDash says outside AI agents have placed only a few hundred orders, OpenAI's unreleased model finds 948 Linux root bugs in one run, Go's JSON v2 goes stable, SpaceX opens Starfall for microgravity research, and Ricursive releases Ripple-65B.
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| Proxy traffic exits the White House | 05 nov. 2026 | 00:11:24 | |
A proxy-detection firm finds rented proxy traffic leaving the White House network, and Rotherham's high street loses its shoppers to a retail park. Plus Kimi K3.1 Pro's open weights, Anthropic's provable inference, and why insects skip LED lights.
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| San Francisco adopts a guerrilla bike lane | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:12:33 | |
A 2016 story about activists' illegal bike lane posts that San Francisco made official, plus an essay on why verified AI answers are not knowledge, AMD's forecast to outsell Intel, GitHub's latest outage and a DisplayLink driver pulled under patent threats.
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| Voters reject data centers | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:14:56 | |
Data-center bans win at the ballot box in more than 30 US localities, IEEE Spectrum says AI is calling in 40 years of technical debt, Geoffrey Hinton warns of an AI disaster as soon as this year, Binance traces its heist to a fake job interview, and paid Gemini chats still train Google's models.
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| Nvidia's map for honest data agents | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:11:53 | |
Nvidia open-sources a tool that maps company databases so AI agents give fewer wrong answers, and its RTX Spark laptops crawl on Linux. Plus kitty 0.50, Bear at ten, and pictures burned onto the data side of discs.
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| Windows 11 fixes its right-click menu | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:13:20 | |
Microsoft lets Windows 11 users customize the right-click menu as its Windows revenue from new PCs drops, and the C++26 draft fails its ISO vote over contracts. Plus Flipper One pre-orders, Apple's hidden keyboard word flags, and a laptop model reading network weights.
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| Ubuntu's Linux bug fix is still waiting | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:11:54 | |
Ubuntu adds a stopgap but still ships no fix in regular updates for a critical Linux bug, Nikkei tallies $3.2 trillion in off-book AI commitments at big tech, and an engineer says AI has solved writing code. Plus Charles Tandy's Radio Shack and macOS 27 locking out CoreStorage disks.
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| Astra's Qwen fix came from Python | 04 nov. 2026 | 00:14:05 | |
A critic says the AI that seemed to fix a model's math by reading its weights was writing Python, plus Safari's automatic dark mode, a ceiling-hung home robot, Codex training settings that switch back on, and why Art Nouveau faded.
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| Utah charges Kalshi's founders | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:12:44 | |
Utah brings felony charges against Kalshi and its founders while federal regulators sue the state, Postman quietly wires itself into coding agents, and a new estimate finds CTE in most NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023. Plus a Renault clock that took a root exploit to fix, and a datacenter full of MacBook Pros.
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| A 1996 Pentium versus Kasparov | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:11:14 | |
A modern chess engine ported to a 1996 Pentium Pro would likely have beaten Kasparov without Deep Blue. Also: an AI customer-service reply, Google tying school search to its AI, a profile of a man with Down syndrome, and Fujifilm's fivefold tape expansion.
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| A proof is worth as much if an AI finds it | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:11:29 | |
Three guest authors on Terence Tao's blog argue mathematicians should let go of credit in the AI era. Plus a programmer resisting cognitive surrender to coding agents, Revolut's switch to a self-hosted open model, a one-person European RISC-V initiative, and NIST's security guide for solo businesses.
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| Anthropic's growth may have stalled | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:11:59 | |
One writer's monthly math says Anthropic barely grew over the summer, and Apple posts a record quarter helped by tariff refunds. Also OpenAI's agent-built Git backend, Cloudflare's leaner DNS builds, and late rural mail ballots on election day.
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| A call to block Anthropic's IPO | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:12:55 | |
A policy researcher urges the SEC to block Anthropic's IPO, and Intel's slide deepens as the chip selloff spreads. Plus battery self-tests that make power grids dip every minute, Momentic's bug-hunting agents, and China's first draft export controls on frontier AI.
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| BYD's October beats a US quarter | 03 nov. 2026 | 00:12:37 | |
BYD sold more battery EVs in October than the whole US did in the third quarter. Also: jobless engineers in San Francisco's AI boom, Oracle's $20 billion raise, a beloved 2015 ThinkPad, and why you should back up the websites you love.
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| An AI edits another model's weights | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:13:28 | |
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra fixes a small Qwen model by editing its weights directly, and Anthropic's filing values its staff's Claude use above payroll. Plus glasses that read silently mouthed words, how baby names switch sexes, and why PostHog is leaving DuckDB.
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| A blogger pulls his Ubuntu servers | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:14:25 | |
A blogger takes his Ubuntu servers offline over a kernel fix Debian shipped weeks ago, and hacked supermarket freezers spread to seven European countries. Plus Anthropic's slowing third-quarter growth, why Soviet textbooks were so hard, and an AI agent that injected a therapy into a mouse's brain.
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| Twenty years building a C replacement | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:12:00 | |
One developer's twenty-year, minimalist replacement for C, a second wave of supermarket freezer attacks across Europe, exposed customer environment variables at Trigger.dev, a crowd-sourced world radiation map, and mice that lived longer when their bones were squeezed.
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| Fake AI fan wikis top Google | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:12:48 | |
Fake AI-built fan wikis are outranking real ones for indie games. Also: Yann LeCun's proof that text and image models converge, a Git diff tool built from 2,000 hand-solved diffs, a once-a-minute dip in power grids worldwide, and Vox on what Captain Picard taught about power.
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| AI-found bugs delay Postgres 19 | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:12:20 | |
A Postgres committer explains how a flood of AI-found bugs pushed back Postgres 19. Also: laid-off engineers cloning SaaS with AI, Zamzar at twenty, novellas typeset in groff, and a rare-earth-free white micro-LED.
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| Which TV won't spy on you? | 02 nov. 2026 | 00:11:10 | |
Hacker News readers trade tactics for buying a big TV that doesn't spy, from unplugging its Wi-Fi radio to buying commercial displays. Plus a Claude-built shelf of books HN keeps mentioning, a security researcher who refuses AI, labor's record-low share of US output, and scam emails quoting real Frontier Airlines bookings.
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| Police chief pulls the plug on Flock | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:13:49 | |
A Minnesota police chief unplugs Flock's cameras after the company ignores a cancellation, a mathematician tells colleagues to stop mourning AI proofs, and gig nursing apps lobby states. Plus why few electric cars can recharge from solar in a blackout, and Britain's copper landlines switching off.
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| Norway's designer roadside toilets | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:11:31 | |
Norway's tourism site shows off its architect-designed roadside toilets under a headline borrowed from Trump's slogan. Also: a no-AI livecode of Linux file tools, a Lenovo fingerprint stick with no encryption inside, the zinc failure behind Arecibo's collapse, and Dustin Hoffman on surviving The Graduate.
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| Codex will eat into your ChatGPT chat | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:11:12 | |
OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex usage limits, agents price out JavaScript frameworks, a Brazilian court fines lawyers for a hidden AI prompt, memory chips leak secrets by radio, and the case that electrification halves energy use.
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| Claude stops reverse-engineering games | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:11:38 | |
Claude now turns away game modding and decompiling, a fan ports NES Contra to C and the browser, electric cars sold to women, Lean's creator on AI and specifications, and a father's open-source story box.
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| Claude blocks training work, user says | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:11:27 | |
An AI researcher says Claude now blocks or downgrades him whenever his work touches model training. Plus a team of small Qwen models taking on Fable 5, an ancient wheat from an Italian attic, why knowing most anime words is not enough, and the cost of waiting on memory.
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| Karpathy's AI-built HackerTube | 01 nov. 2026 | 00:12:44 | |
Andrej Karpathy has an AI build a YouTube made of Hacker News picks, GPT-5.6 Sol beats Factorio by hand-carrying parts, and Claude writes an exploit for an unpatched Linux bug.
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| UK Greens drop nuclear opposition | 31 oct. 2026 | 00:13:02 | |
The Green party of England and Wales stops opposing nuclear power outright, malware asks an AI model to price its victims, and Jepsen tells ParticleDB users to stop deploying. Plus a former Meta researcher's Books3 testimony and Casio's watches of the 1980s.
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