TILens Daily Edition 2026-11-02 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 199 articles, 8 sources Top topics: General, AI, Open Source ## News - "At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/at-home-in-space-opens-caps-air-and-space-museum-renovation/ - Apple says it’s ‘hard to predict’ when iPhone Duo constraints will improve Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/apple-says-its-hard-to-predict-when-iphone-duo-constraints-will-improve/ - Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/anthropics-compute-tab-could-top-1t-as-q3-revenue-nears-17b/5307089 - Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/trajectory-raises-45m-to-make-ai-model-training-accessible-to-nontechnical-experts/ - Apple’s inventory surges 154% as memory chip costs climb Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/apples-inventory-surges-154-as-memory-chip-costs-climb/ - Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/max-severity-bug-in-widely-used-ot-programming-tool-exploited-to-deliver-linux-malware/5307086 - Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/research-roundup-6-cool-science-stories-we-almost-missed-7/ - Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-warns-that-its-very-close-to-rsi-capability-aka-self-building-ai/ - These smart glasses promise to turn your silent mouth movements into text Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/02/these-smart-glasses-promise-to-turn-your-silent-mouth-movements-into-text/5307070 - Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/11/third-person-dies-of-bird-flu-since-virus-started-jumping-to-livestock/ - AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/ai-could-break-legal-systems-by-finding-previously-hidden-loopholes/5307066 - Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998 Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/11/googles-legend-of-zelda-easter-egg-transports-you-back-to-1998/ - Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/germany-says-lawmakers-iphones-may-have-been-hacked-with-spyware/ - Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/web-host-squarespace-lays-off-19-of-its-employees/ - New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/ - Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/most-of-our-measures-of-a-key-cognitive-process-dont-agree/ - Snap settles lawsuit accusing platform of fueling teen depression and eating disorders Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/snap-settles-lawsuit-accusing-platform-of-fueling-teen-depression-and-eating-disorders/ - Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/02/cops-bust-botnet-of-13m-infected-android-tv-boxes/5307045 - Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/11/apples-roaming-home-robot-may-do-facetime-switch-lights-on-and-yell-at-your-cat/ - Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claudes-new-rules-against-game-cloning-wont-stop-the-ai-copying-boom/ - Marvell wants to be a copper topper, bets $115B on photonics leader to push optical networking Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/02/marvell-wants-to-be-a-copper-topper-bets-115b-on-photonics-leader-to-push-optical-networking/5307028 - In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/in-one-of-the-largest-deals-in-tech-history-marvell-buys-lumentum-for-115b/ - Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/readwise-takes-on-amazons-kindle-and-goodreads-with-its-new-app-for-book-lovers/ - Oracle gobbles $20 billion borrowing limit a week after setting it Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/11/02/oracle-gobbles-20-billion-borrowing-limit-a-week-after-setting-it/5307014 - Ericsson says it can detect, track drones using only mobile networks Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/02/ericsson-says-it-can-detect-track-drones-using-only-mobile-networks/5306958 - China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/china-releases-timeline-for-lunar-landing-on-the-moon-targeting-before-2030/ - SpaceX reportedly wants to buy Boost Mobile to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/spacex-reportedly-wants-to-buy-boost-mobile-to-compete-with-att-t-mobile-and-verizon/ - Thieves pilfer environment variables from Trigger AI workflow tool Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/thieves-pilfer-environment-variables-from-trigger-ai-workflow-tool/5306998 - 42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/42ai-comes-out-of-stealth-with-62-5m-and-a-world-model-that-can-predict-human-behavior/ - Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/elon-musk-throttles-grok-bot-limits-due-to-unsustainably-high-costs/ - Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges/5306967 - F1 in Mexico City: Yet another Ferrari fiasco, but that’s not all Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/11/f1-in-mexico-city-we-have-a-new-world-champion/ - SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of... AI Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950 - Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/omen-ai-adds-liquid-know-how-in-16-million-aquatic-labs-acquisition/ - The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/the-world-has-a-new-plan-to-save-nature-but-it-still-needs-the-money/ - Nuclear threats and street brawls: Russia, Ukraine report attacks on their emergency alert apps Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/nuclear-threats-and-street-brawls-russia-ukraine-report-attacks-on-their-emergency-alert-apps/5306901 - Ninja’s first-ever microwave just replaced two of my kitchen appliances at once Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/ninjas-first-ever-microwave-just-replaced-two-of-my-kitchen-appliances-at-once/ - Northwood Space raises $375M Series C at a $2B valuation from a16z and DFJ Growth Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/northwood-space-raises-375m-series-c-at-a-2b-valuation-from-a16z-and-dfj-growth/ - A fresh wave of cyberattacks has hit Europe’s supermarket refrigerators, destroying food across countries Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/a-fresh-wave-of-cyberattacks-has-hit-europes-supermarket-refrigerators-destroying-food-across-countries/ - Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/microsofts-canada-timezone-troubles-leave-admins-fixing-calendars-pretending-theyre-in-bogota/5306934 - 2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/2-days-till-techcrunch-founder-summit-boston-founders-dont-need-a-silicon-valley-address-to-build-something-big/ - OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/openai-is-finally-merging-chatgpts-chat-and-work-tabs/ - Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/02/frozen-part-ii-hackers-remotely-defrost-produce-in-euro-supermarkets-again/5306924 - Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions Source: theregister Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-is-big-on-promises-short-on-answers-to-tough-questions/5306811 - FBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/fbi-pins-63b-binance-crypto-heist-on-north-korean-hackers/5306889 - Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/02/vintage-fun-prodding-ai-agents-using-retro-hardware-just-because-you-can/5306705 - Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/ford-launches-a-privacy-promise-and-explains-how-and-why-it-uses-a-customers-data/ - Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/11/02/microsofts-moolah-mountain-is-more-massive-than-ever-it-just-doesnt-want-the-people-who-built-it/5306576 - Britain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/britains-driverless-dream-hits-a-roundabout-of-awkward-questions/5306715 - From expertise to intelligence: NISCO deploys world's first swarm-intelligence steel model at scale Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/partner-content-from-expertise-to-intelligence-nisco-deploys-worlds-first-swarm-intelligence-steel-model-at-scale/5306614 - Manager threatened to fire a colleague, then gave them a critical task – which they flubbed Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/11/02/manager-threatened-to-fire-a-colleague-then-gave-them-a-critical-task-which-they-flubbed/5306555 - Chap who coded Google’s Pac-Man clone reveals how the game freaked out Firefox Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/11/02/chap-who-coded-googles-pac-man-clone-reveals-how-the-game-freaked-out-firefox/5306879 - India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’ Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/02/india-floats-ai-plan-under-which-the-model-travels-to-the-data-rather-than-the-data-travelling-to-the-model/5306872 - Borrowed reading: stories from our extended colleagues Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/01/borrowed-reading-stories-from-our-extended-colleagues/ - Google says Asian advertisers spending less due to Europe's customs changes Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/11/02/google-says-asian-advertisers-spending-less-due-to-europes-customs-changes/5306860 - OpenAI funding issues 💰, Cisco rewrites code 👨‍💻, hiring junior devs 💼 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-11-02 ## Community - Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose – and it's working Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-developer-refusals/ - One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxes into a botnet Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theverge.com/1024807/google-botnet-android-tv-shut-down - Scaling Git at OpenAI Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-git-at-openai/ - GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the built-in ROM Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/GUI64 - WorkOS reports security breach Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345712 - A Clock Made of Branches Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/11/01/a-clock-made-of-branches - Anthropic's growth just flattened Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.regenerator1.com/p/anthropics-growth-just-flattened - The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/ - V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/pigeon-labs-stack/v100-sxm2-reference - LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-are-not-superhuman-at-reading-and-writing-neural-network-weights/ - Apple reports fourth quarter results Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/ - Cyberattacks hit supermarket fridges and freezers in Europe Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/02/cyberattack-hits-belgian-supermarket-fridges-and-freezers - Why did you choose the nix you nix? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/7fcuxz/why_did_you_choose_nix_you_nix - Patrick Stewart's First TV Appearance Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUwYwJ2DT_I - SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-10-29-slac-researchers-find-proof-altermagnetism-new-magnetic-phase - Can’t fish Ethernet? Use “invisible” fiber instead Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://momandpop.network/2026/11/02/cant-fish-ethernet-use-invisible-fiber-instead/ - BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://electrek.co/2026/11/02/byd-sold-more-evs-last-month-than-the-us-did-all-quarter/ - The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/introducing-the-ford-privacy-promise - Japan launches mission to make first return trip to Mars Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/88638d03-1537-4f71-b099-3a951f1c4cb7 - Moment of Ruby: An Argument for Nothing Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/moment-of-ruby-an-argument-for-nothing - Kraft Mac & Cheese Now Comes in Cinnamon Roll Flavor Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://parade.com/food/kraft-mac-cheese-just-launched-2-unexpected-new-flavors-and-one-is-inspired-by-a-beloved-breakfast-treat - Union Types and Option Types (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tibleiz.net/blog/2025-03-16-union-types-and-option-types.html - Bitcoin Suisse CEO: Switzerland has lost interest in cryptocurrencies Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-economy/cryptocurrencies-switzerland-has-lost-interest-says-bitcoin-suisse-ceo/92314545 - Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-buildout.html - Ondrej Surý, who saved the internet: You have to want to do something for others Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-11-02/ondrej-sury-the-man-who-saved-the-internet-you-have-to-want-to-do-something-for-others.html - PageScribe: Handwriting and offline dictionary audio for KOReader Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aspireai.kiranadimatyam.com/builds/pagescribe/ - I Built a $5 Apple Vision Pro [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtNmiTohUcs - Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/writing-seen-in-pherc-306b-for-the - Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/10/15/frustrated-ranchers-want-people-to-quit-rescuing-their-working-guardian-dogs/ - Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/ - Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-ballot-delays-postal-service-midterms - South Korea targets ' highest performance' sovereign AI model Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/south-korea-ai-spending-budget.html - Spreading Liquid with Three.js Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-foundation/ - SOML – A Config Format for Humans Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/soml-lang/soml - Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432 - Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37741 - Researchers face record-low chances of getting a grant partly due to rise of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/11/02/researchers-face-record-low-chances-getting-grant-partly-due-rise-ai - Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/ - Anthropic's spending commitments surge to nearly $900B Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-spending-revenue-surge - Goldman Restricts Traders and Bankers from Using Some AI Tools Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-02/goldman-restricts-traders-and-bankers-from-using-some-ai-tools - Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/ - Skill to Create Product Videos Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/aaitor/skill-video-studio - Making Peace with the Projective Plane Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/ - Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you - A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://seldo.com/posts/a-proposal-how-to-hire-junior-engineers-in-the-age-of-ai/ - Let Me Ch... Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.alxgsv.com/let-me-check/ - Partial Operator Precedence Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-10-24 - Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://polyend.com/whats-up/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/ - Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088 - Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://momentic.ai/ - My Favourite Laptop Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop - Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11 - US boy names that became girl names and vice versa Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names - Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/ - Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://stephenjgallagher.substack.com/p/ai-can-draw-blueprints-now - Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/ - Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://squid-protocol.github.io/gitgalaxy/museum-of-code/doom-dna/ - Show HN: PyWolf3D, a wolfenstein3D clone written from scratch in Python Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/atifcodesalot/pyWolf3D - Show HN: VHS Camera – Run your camera or videos through a simulated VHS signal Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fotojockovic.com/vhs - Moving our warehouse off DuckDB Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb - Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338728 - Technofeudalism Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism - Anthropic's Amended S1 Filing Shows Slowing Q3 Growth Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026068676/anthropicpbc-sx1ax1.htm - Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/doordash-says-outside-ai-agents-have-only-led-to-hundreds-of-orders-so-far/ - The road to opaque software is paved with good (engineering) intentions Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://tomasp.net/longreads/closing/ - Curiosity Traps Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/curiosity-traps/ - A Decade of Kill Bugs Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://alangrow.com/blog/a-decade-of-kill-bugs - Queen of the Bagel Business Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://thehustle.co/originals/the-unlikely-queen-of-the-bagel-business - Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal rest Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://themaister.net/blog/2026/10/29/killing-what-cant-be-handled-putting-a-spaghetti-demon-to-eternal-rest/ - Show HN: ClickBench inspired leaderboard for multiple database benchmarks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://benchmark.pivotlake.io/ - Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1 - LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/ - 40 °C heat extremes are no longer implausible in the Nordic countries Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44304-026-00290-9 - C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part11/ - Napping characteristics and incident dementia Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/81/10/glag208/8769491?login=false - WTF Ubuntu? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu - We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85% Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/ - GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-rosalind-6 - Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near - Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1 Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/anthropic-ant-s-1-quarter-financials.html - Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs? Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337431 - An Introduction to Bε-trees and Write-Optimization Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Databases) URL: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/oct15/bender - Bf16 might be freezing your weight updates Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/paper/bf16-might-be-freezing-your-weight-updates/art_487b1ed949e745a6ae0c42815b8d3cba - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/ - The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/ - This background sound leaks your exact location Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://youtu.be/UytYrhYLOKI - 433MHz TUI scanner: using a FT232H connected to a CC1101 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/cc1101-433mhz-scanner-ft232h/ - If you love a website, back it up Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/ - Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://alfy.blog/2026/04/23/stop-hardcoding-your-timeouts.html - $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/this-48-e-paper-display-can-be-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/ - Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/OcanaSantero/status/2115442964574908902 - Exploring the Legacy of Image Club Graphics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.somnolescent.net/2026/02/exploring-the-legacy-of-image-club-graphics/ - Never Complain, Never Explain Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_complain,_never_explain - Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack - The future in old computer magazines (1984–2004) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tomorrowasusual.substack.com/p/blast-from-the-past-the-future-in - New Release: Tor Browser 16.0 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-160/ - Virtual Art Museum built with Three js Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript) URL: https://dostoynikov.bearblog.dev/virtual-museum-for-my-wifes-artworks/ - eli venn Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://elivenn.com - Temperature soars at Swedish grocery store freezers, one store blames hackers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/temperature-soars-swedish-grocery-store-freezers-one-store-blames-hackers-2026-11-02/ - Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://syscall.sh/ - Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://backstage.polyend.com/t/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/25120 - Securing Internet-Critical Software: How We Could Have Backdoored Bash Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-gnu-savannah - European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://erici.eu - Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7875144 - Electrocutions, disease and no pay: worker exploitation in Europe's datacentres Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/30/electrocutions-disease-and-no-pay-how-workers-risk-exploitation-in-europes-datacentres - SuperVote: 15 year retrospective on an app for sharing political endorsements Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Java) URL: https://callejas.com/a/supervote/ - BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/none-of-these-people-have-ever-made-a-game-bioware-co-founder-greg-zeschuk-says-of-game-industry-executives-they-just-dont-know-how-it-works/ - Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/ - The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-advantages-of-mobile-linux-over-aosp/ - Proton's AI manifesto for software engineering Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://proton.me/blog/ai-manifesto - Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://remy.wang/blog/hilbert.html - gohawk | Resource-focused static analysis for Go Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Go) URL: https://gohawk.dev - What are you doing this week? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/maqsgl/what_are_you_doing_this_week - China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announcement-48-2/ - From Charlemagne to the Kitchen Boy: Reading the Hamburg Rathaus Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://alsterrunde.com/from-charlemagne-to-the-kitchen-boy-reading-the-hamburg-rathaus/ - Building a gemini server in python Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI, Python) URL: https://www.willmunn.xyz/gemini/python/2026/10/16/we-have-lift-off.html - Program Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://schmud.de/posts/2026-11-02-program.html - Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://wikihack.netlify.app - Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/16/why-don-t-we-life-in-an-art-nouveau-world - My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM Source: lobsters Topic: General (+DevOps, Hardware) URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ServerRAMGrowthReflex - Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://spoon-tamago.com/japan-jimi-mundane-halloween-costumes-2026/ - Pepperwind, a fictional company dataset with 223 tables and 79M rows Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333045 - the lost malloc() Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/ - Tyrtulia, a headless forum with no passwords, made for the terminal Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Python) URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/b5c8c6aa/i-built-a-forum-with-no-interface-no-passwords-made-for-the-terminal/ - Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://katamari.vaguespac.es/ - F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/ - JPEG XS - Wikipedia Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XS - AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture - Optical Circuit Switch Technology Built on Low-Loss Silicon Photonics Platform Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.psiquantum.com/news-import/psiquantum-unveils-optical-circuit-switch-technology-built-on-advanced-low-loss-silicon-photonics-platform - Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span - Vathographs: Photographic depth maps as creative expression Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://vathography.com/ - Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026 - Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://gardinerbryant.com/retro-gaming-has-a-port-slop-problem/ - Optimizing CPU-side Rendering Code Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://godotengine.org/article/rendering-cpu-optimizations/ - Show HN: Better Together – AI agents team up against spam calls and texts Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://better-together.fun/ - OccupySaaS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://occupysaas.com/ - Martian dust presents additional risks for future crewed missions to Mars Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2620747123 ## Media - Cloud Run vs.Compute Engine: When should you run a container on serverless vs. managing a full VM? Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yJ3U4TJqya0 - BigQuery vs. Production SQL: When should you use a data warehouse instead of a relational database? Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VhMuZFB0cdM - GitHub Universe 2026 was built different Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybo99Mo1GQk - GitHub Universe '26 was built different Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0G9JhlpHrg - Building an AI agent anyone's mom can use safely Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1AxeHxKLzKM - What can the GitHub Universe 2026 badge actually do? Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sPYYs-66-SA