TILens Daily Edition
2026-11-07
Filters: topic=general, github=hidden

Stats: 121 articles, 7 sources
Top topics: General, AI, Open Source

## News

- After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/07/after-the-midterms-things-are-looking-rocky-for-elon-musk-and-data-centers/

- Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/07/chinese-exec-was-recruited-to-spy-on-nvidia-ceo-according-to-us-intelligence-memo/

- Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/07/parents-want-safer-phones-for-kids-these-companies-are-answering-the-call/

- Binance CFO is leaving to ‘pursue a new venture’ after $6.3 billion hack
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/07/binance-cfo-is-leaving-to-pursue-a-new-venture-after-6-3-billion-hack/

- Amazon’s new basic Kindle proves you don’t need all the bells and whistles
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/07/amazons-new-basic-kindle-proves-you-dont-need-all-the-bells-and-whistles/

- Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
  Source: theregister
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/07/fireworks-says-youre-wasting-money-on-ai-unless-youre-using-all-the-models/5308277

- The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
  Source: ars-technica
  Topic: General
  URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/the-migration-that-transformed-africas-languages-genes-and-cultures/

- British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
  Source: ars-technica
  Topic: General
  URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/british-soldier-ignored-order-to-pull-his-sim-card-then-got-blackmailed/

- NHS breach helpline left staff carrying a 'significant emotional burden'
  Source: theregister
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/07/nhs-breach-helpline-left-staff-carrying-a-significant-emotional-burden/5308201

- Windows takes a break at UK motorway services
  Source: theregister
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/07/windows-takes-a-break-at-uk-motorway-services/5307862

- Sequoia shutting down its Scouts program marks the end of an era
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/sequoia-shutting-down-its-scouts-program-marks-the-end-of-an-era/

- From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/from-the-front-row-to-the-hot-seat-what-the-midterms-mean-for-big-tech/

- Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/crusoe-sells-troubled-wyoming-data-center-project-to-google/

## Community

- PHP2Shell — Deep Dive
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://djad04.github.io/php2shell-deep-dive/

- Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-products/commodore-pet-the-worlds-first-personal-computer/

- GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-05-new-pull-request-overview-page-in-public-preview/

- IRA Velinsky – Commodore's Industrial Designer
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/ira-velinsky-commodores-amazing-industrial-designer/

- Making any integer with four 2s (2025)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/

- Are big problems more difficult to solve?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://paulitaylor.com/2026/09/11/are-big-problems-really-more-difficult-to-solve/

- Ex-PlayStation boss says "true innovation" would be making a $300 console again
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/playstation/ps6-doesnt-need-more-power-ex-playstation-boss-says-because-true-innovation-would-be-making-a-usd300-console-again/

- Show HN: An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://eyesrhythm.com/

- Billion Watts in the Speaker [video]
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHOcTXYaMfg

- The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video]
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=havcACdx0Y0

- World of Warcraft: Forever Has Its First Level 60 Player
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/world-of-warcraft-forever-has-its-first-level-60-player/

- MeccanicOS
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://meccanicos.com/

- Shadow of the Sun (2021)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://mattlakeman.org/2021/07/27/shadow-of-the-sun/

- Show HN: Where Were We
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://wherewerewe.app/

- Major construction ongoing near Iran missile bases, satellite images suggest
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckjrwx1r2d5ro

- Good Riddance to the Cybertruck, the Chariot of the Dumbest Gods
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/good-riddance-elon-musk-cybertruck-1235654079/

- Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again

- Hackers pull off $133M French bank heist via service provider
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-pull-off-133-million-french-bank-heist-via-service-provider/

- Upgrading NetBSD from 11.0 to 11.1
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-upgrade/

- What should we learn now?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://ducktape.blot.im/what-should-we-learn-now

- How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/

- Container Windows in CoW
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UsYaSRhf6dw

- What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/

- The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://hunch.net/?p=13764006

- GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor (2016)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-geoworks-microsoft-windows-upstart-90s-competitor

- China drafts lifetime ID codes for every robot it makes, not just humanoids
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/china-drafts-lifetime-id-codes-for-every-robot-it-makes-not-just-humanoids/

- You are protesting the wrong technology, people
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/you-are-protesting-the-wrong-technology

- Time for AVIF everywhere?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.michaelponders.com/2026/11/isnt-it-time-for-avif-everywhere.html

- Dear Open Source Developers: It's OK not to embargo
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/10-embargo/

- Five memorable books about programming (2008)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html

- Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe

- I’m not a fan of Deno’s security model (2024)
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://goldstein.lol/posts/deno-security/

- Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://p0pcycle.com/2026/11/06/hacking-the-meta-ray-ban-smartglasses/

- MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/

- Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-grey-list-means-your-iphone-wont-help-you

- Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://psalm.dev/articles/psalm-7

- The largest open-source DLE collection
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/trizoza/dles/blob/main/assets/daily-games/DLES.md

- Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://longreads.com/2026/11/05/time-capsules-ashley-stimpson/

- America's economy is becoming zero-sum
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/11/07/crypto-sports-betting-tariffs-zero-sum-economy/92396495007/

- They Can Barely Drive, They're Flying Planes: The Surprising Rise of Teen Pilots
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/they-can-barely-drive-but-theyre-flying-planes-the-surprising-rise-of-teen-pilots-28446f72

- How Long Can Life Wait?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-long-can-life-wait

- Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies

- Datastructures-JS – The JavaScript data structures project
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/datastructures-js

- Echoloc: A minimalist echolocation horror videogame
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://level102.itch.io/echoloc

- They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html

- Terry Pratchett's Study
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.sussi.dk/terry-pratchetts-study

- A failed experiment in laptop cooling (2025)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://kevinboone.me/failed_cooling.html

- TideCloak | Tide Whitepaper Series
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://tide.org/whitepaper/tidecloak-integration

- An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/an-ode-to-livelyness-analysis/

- Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/Video-Rebirth/hyperflow-h3-flash

- Ask HN: How did you convince family and friends to join your XMPP/Matrix server?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405250

- Retro Song Bird: Plug in any Game Boy cartridge to hear the soundtrack
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.retrosongbird.com/

- *sshole, or when are we finally going to get rid of C?
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://sunshowers.io/posts/sshole/

- Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-11-air-holes-silicon-wafers-flat.html

- CHIMERA simulates organic sound with acoustic tubes
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app/

- The planet Vulcan: a cautionary tale
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://kevinboone.me/vulcan.html

- Workflow dependency lockfiles
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/security/workflow-dependency-lockfiles

- The Gordon Gekko effect: The role of culture in the financial industry (2016) [pdf]
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2016/epr_2016_gordon-gekko-effect_lo.pdf

- The $8 Linux Computer (2022)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html

- Cancer at Sea
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://biographic.com/cancer-at-sea/

- Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.worldhistory.org/Ur-Nammu/

- Catching prompt injections hidden in PDFs
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://tomclancy.info/joshua-judges-ruth.html

- Working with Designers
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-with-designers/

- Microsoft requiring DMARC now or just us?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://list.sys4.de/hyperkitty/list/mailop@mailop.org/thread/SSF3AS4J7HGO4DGDG5BRSM2VQMTUCDV7/

- Twelve things you could build on a live index of internet radio
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://tuneping.com/notes/twelve-things-to-build-on-a-live-radio-index/

- OpenBSD top(1) adds flag to show chroot, pledge and unveil status
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261106104957

- EU and UK spent millions on Israeli phone cracking tech despite risks
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://statewatch.org/news/2026/november/eu-and-uk-spent-millions-on-israeli-phone-cracking-tech-surveillance-despite-risks/

- GhostMap: The Android flaw that crashes your phone before you open the app
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/ghostmap-android

- Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-starting-screen-and-70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in/

- The cyber range builder for red, blue and purple teams.
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.purpleedge.io

- Upload Your RAM
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://uploadyourram.org

- Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403153

- Open-source firmwares for the M-VAVE FM-1, from their makers, in one place
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Hardware)
  URL: https://thefirmwarehub.com/

- Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph

- Running a law firm on Free software
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/

- Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://acid.vegas/blog/the-port-that-does-not-exist/

- Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://nfsu2.xyz/

- Just how far can the FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED Postgres queue go?
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Databases, PostgreSQL)
  URL: https://garbagecollected.io/posts/postgres-task-queue-where-it-breaks/

- Alpine Linux : openssh-server password authentication bypass
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/

- Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://bong.glendalab.com

- The Components of Agent Memory
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory

- He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-yogurt-shop-killer-who-wasnt/

- Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/

- Show HN: JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://github.com/rkaehn/uniform

- 17776 (2017)
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

- Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://amutable.com/blog/amutable-foundations-technical-overview

- A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-reveals

- Show HN: Did prediction markets do any predicting this midterms?
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://app.artifactbin.dev/@vivek/AQTt2H-did-prediction-markets-predict-the-midterms

- How are you dealing with all the negative side effects of AI on the web?
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Web)
  URL: https://lobste.rs/s/ipplhe/how_are_you_dealing_with_all_negative_side

- Lighting the Skies
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://computer.rip/2026-10-25-searchlights.html

- Show HN: Backwords – Let AI teach you how to speak in reverse
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://backwords.greg.technology/

- Magnets and Rare Earths
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://robodienst.com/learning-paths/magnets-and-rare-earths

- Meridian — an experimental web browser built on Servo and GPUI
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Rust)
  URL: https://op.tngl.io/meridian/

- Brave Sells Its Search Index to AI, and Your Website Is Probably in It
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-sells-its-search-index-to-ai-and-your-website-is-probably-in-it/595829/

- Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape

- Two Dimensional Version Control
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-27-jujutsu-experience/

- The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/ai-selloff-perspective

- Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+Web)
  URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-bunny-geodns

- Organic farm in Switzerland is growing blueberries beneath 5,220 solar panels
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.autonocion.com/us/5220-solar-panels-10-5-feet-organic-blueberries-switzerland-four-weeks-longer/

- The School Apps Are Out of Control
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/11/school-apps-communication-broken/689312/

- I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://josef.cn/blog/unitree

- Implementing GPT-2 in CSS
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://shubhampatil.dev/blog/gpt2-css

- Sony Debuts Wired Headphones with '80s-Inspired Design
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-05/sony-debuts-retro-60-wired-headphones-in-tribute-to-1979-walkman

- Forwarded Without Question: How Web Frameworks Overtrust the Forwarded Header
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General
  URL: https://www.lkoskela.fi/blog/2026-11-05-forwarded-without-question/

## Media

- Gemini Flash vs. Pro vs. Flash-Lite: How do you pick the right model for speed, cost, and reasoning?
  Source: youtube-googlecloud
  Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ar5zQnD-VkE

- Work together, your way, with GitHub Copilot
  Source: youtube-github
  Topic: Open Source (+General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJBTPepfWUI

- Security in 60 Seconds: Vulnerability Prioritization with Dependabot
  Source: youtube-github
  Topic: Open Source (+General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2TmBPS4Ce-U

- Open Source Friday: pgmq
  Source: youtube-github
  Topic: Open Source (+General, PostgreSQL)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OeIemikGQ