TILens Daily Edition 2026-11-08 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 113 articles, 6 sources Top topics: General, AI, Open Source ## News - Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/apps-to-distract-you-from-the-endless-cycle-of-doomscrolling/ - Nvidia will investigate CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with possible Chinese spy Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-says-its-investigating-ceo-jensen-huangs-relationship-with-possible-chinese-spy/ - If Snap’s Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they’re also a lot more comfortable than they used to be Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/if-snaps-specs-are-still-ridiculously-expensive-theyre-also-a-lot-more-comfortable-than-they-used-to-be/ - Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here’s how researchers solved the mystery. Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/coordinated-disturbances-haunt-grids-worldwide-heres-how-researchers-solved-the-mystery/ - Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/sequoia-partners-reportedly-blindsided-when-roelof-botha-joined-spacex-board/ - SNL has a new impression of Elon Musk, ‘the worst thing South Africa has ever done’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/snl-has-a-new-impression-of-elon-musk-the-worst-thing-south-africa-has-ever-done/ - He arrested a hacker, then spent 18 months clearing his own name. Now he’s a cybersecurity VC. Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/the-ex-secret-service-agent-who-flipped-a-hacker-is-now-raising-a-second-250m-cybersecurity-fund/ - TechCrunch Mobility: The Cybertruck experiment is over Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/techcrunch-mobility-the-cybertruck-experiment-is-over/ - Ninja’s AutoBarista is impressively versatile, but one feature was a dealbreaker for me Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/ninjas-autobarista-is-impressively-versatile-but-one-feature-was-a-dealbreaker-for-me/ - Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/physicists-listened-to-electrical-noise-to-crack-a-superconductor-mystery/ - Doom delivers five minutes of terminal violence on an IBM mainframe Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/08/doom-delivers-five-minutes-of-terminal-violence-on-an-ibm-mainframe/5308092 - Internet governance about to get its quadrennial stress test at ITU meeting Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/08/internet-governance-about-to-get-its-quadrennial-stress-test-at-itu-meeting/5308031 ## Community - I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists - When a language's creator and its owners strongly disagree [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P4454R0.pdf - unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/ - Chimera Vocal Synth Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app/ - KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ketchup3d.github.io/app/ - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company - Nvidia opens investigation: Was CEO Jensen Huang target of foreign intelligence? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/08/nvidia-jensen-huang-investigation - Show HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/SafeScript/safescript - Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50417407 - Sem86: a full-system x86 emulator without hardcoded semantics Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://liblisa.nl/sem86/ - Statement from Nvidia board of directors Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/statement-from-nvidia-board-of-directors - Nvidia Board to Probe Spying Case After CEO Admits Affair Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-08/nvidia-board-to-probe-spying-case-after-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-infidelity - Peer-to-peer WebRTC connections with built-in signaling and discovery Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/lukks/like-webrtc - Grote Reber and the 'Square Kilometre Array' Near Bothwell, Tasmania (2017) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319702287_THE_HISTORY_OF_EARLY_LOW_FREQUENCY_RADIO_ASTRONOMY_IN_AUSTRALIA_8_GROTE_REBER_AND_THE_%27SQUARE_KILOMETRE_ARRAY%27_NEAR_BOTHWELL_TASMANIA_IN_THE_1960s_AND_1970s - Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15 - The Web Is More Than Enough Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ftrain.com/aboard-the-web-is-more-than-enough - Systemd Loves Rust Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://amutable.com/blog/systemd-loves-rust - Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://nayak.im/posts/optimizing-reference-deletion/ - How I'm fighting the AI brain fry Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sergeykuhne.com/blog/fighting-ai-brain-fry - PDP-8/E Restoration Log Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipment/dec-pdp-8e/pdp-8e-restoration-log - Fishermen find Royal Caribbean cruise ship employee in water 20 miles off coast Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/newport-beach-fishermen-find-man-treading-water-royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-employee/ - Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc - Etsy changes terms to train AI on your creations, while blocking you doing it [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrlLUUdqDJI - Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://duxlabs.dev/ - Playing with the STM32MP2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://serd.es/2026/11/08/playing-with-stm32mp2.html - Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/11/signetics-st680a-dtl-nand.html - Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker CEOs Aren't Buying It Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/silicon-valley-promises-ai-will-cure-disease-drugmaker-ceos-arent-buying-it-5218511c - Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://kevinboone.me/cpmzork.html - Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.thestateofai.com/news/goldman-sachs-claude-code-traders-bankers - The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/08/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly - Show HN: Build a PC in 3D in the Browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.buildcores.com - Ads in Popular Apps Give Police a Powerful Tool to Spy on Users Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-police-phone-tracking-advertising-tech/ - RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://respawnfirst.com/linux-script-emails-sam-altman-unused-ram-ram-altman/ - I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://jatorre.github.io/garden/ - US believes Nvidia's Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ft.com/content/a55a2a22-4479-4f93-a445-6147a5c6d790 - A Little Snitch for Windows Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://packethound.app/ - I Dislike Pull Requests (2020) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://medium.com/@pia.fak.sunnanbo/i-hate-pull-requests-17836dd3cc38 - A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/vsmutok/FuckCaptcha - A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/15/a-compendium-of-abandoned-greenhouses/ - Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S. Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/science/space/holley-bockelmann-astrophysicist-space-trump.html - Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/11/07/tesla-hasnt-had-a-successful-new-product-launch-since-jb-straubel-stepped-down-as-cto/ - Message Queues Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/message-queues - From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/ - Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ghanastreetgames.com/ - "Jumping genes" helped ants evolve after the extinction of the dinosaurs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=15659&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08 - Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/sshah03/recalc - Virtualized Redox: from Virtio-FS to Cloud Hypervisor, and beyond Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.redox-os.org/news/virtualized-redox/ - Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/drone-mimicking-bird-test/ - OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/11/07/openai-just-raised-11-billion-at-a-1-25-trillion-valuation-below-the-1-4-trillion-it-first-sought/ - I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://goldstein.lol/posts/deno-security/ - Sunshine Atlas – the climate of 3,833 destinations, month by month Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sunshineatlas.com/ - AI stance is not binary Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/ai-stance-is-not-binary/ - The Learjet Repo Man (2009) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.salon.com/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/ - Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron - Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/climate/jet-engines-ai-data-center-generators-boneyard.html - How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/ - Anthropic strikes $3.4B deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.ft.com/content/41bf5c6a-9735-4f1a-a8e3-2bcccad58ba0 - How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/cnc-plasma-cutter.html - How to prove equations using diagrams, part 3 Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-3/ - NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://neongd.com/articles/netbsd11-rpi4.gmi - PHP2Shell Deep Dive Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://djad04.github.io/php2shell-deep-dive/ - Person of Interest Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://krthr.co/person-of-interest/ - Playing with the STM32MP2 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: https://serd.es///2026/11/08/playing-with-stm32mp2.html - What can I realistically do with local AI on a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/umsitb/what_can_i_realistically_do_with_local_ai - Stable URLs for 42,000 Huts and Peaks Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://peter-hoffmann.com/2026/stable-urls-for-huts-and-peaks.html - Unattended reboots with encrypted disks Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://jmmv.dev/2026/11/zkeys-intro.html - Petered Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/petered - JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://linebender.org/blog/jit-bitmap-text/ - Writing as a thinking tool Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html - Who wants to crowdsource LLM scans of articles submitted to Lobste.rs? Source: lobsters Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://lobste.rs/s/jbdtim/who_wants_crowdsource_llm_scans_articles - SFLC.in Statement Regarding the Takedown Requests Against Its X Account and Posts Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://sflc.in/sflc-in-statement-regarding-the-takedown-requests-against-its-x-account-and-posts/ - Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip - GitHub Down Again? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/torvalds/linux - I'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/kobaltgit/StatCraft - Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.oled-info.com/deuteriums-impact-oled-displays - Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.lorekit.io/blog/open-agent-memory-format - Why Is Everyone Leaving New Zealand? [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIxTKc67tHU - Following breadcrumbs in code - What accidentally committed Ad-Hoc logs reveal about developer comprehension Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-026-10988-z - Never Gonna Print You Up Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://dixken.de/blog/never-gonna-print-you-up - WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/graealex/WaveDudeNext - A bit about email Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://maurycyz.com/misc/email/ - My parents chose to die together and I was left to grieve alone Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c81dwllzv113o - Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.economist.com/interactive/2026/11/06/pinot-noir-inside-the-criminal-gangs-making-fake-wine - Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://imagesco.com/articles/kirlian/kirlian-photography.html - Simon Winchester has died Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/obituaries/simon-winchester-dead.html - I Use Development-Driven Specs, Not Spec-Driven Development Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/waywardgeek/ensemble - Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/AmSach/maple - ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/dmunozv04/isponsorblocktv - Goodbye Claude, hello Pi Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html - Introducing Project Steadfast Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://noteflakes.com/articles/2026-11-07-introducing-project-steadfast - Nspawn 3.0: A Docker-compatible Engine API for systemd-nspawn containers Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://blog.nspawn.org/posts/nspawn-3-0-a-docker-compatible-engine-api-for-systemd-nspawn-containers/ - Show HN: LLM weight editing tool made by a 15-year-old Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/Miyamoto-Renya/LaplacesScissors - Microsoft Removes PC-to-PC Migration from Windows 11, Pushes Users to OneDrive Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2026/11/03/microsoft-removes-pc-to-pc-migration-from-windows-11-and-points-users-to-onedrive-based-windows-backup/ - Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://x86.cx/blog/redanger - Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/wearable-device-makers-are-harvesting-brain-data-train-ai-without-telling-users?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F - ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/crmne/zapfast - A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/field-museum-karl-patterson-schmidt-deadly-snakebite-diary/ - Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple (2020) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tedium.co/2025/01/19/television-test-patterns-history/ - Usenet's Back, Baby (this time, the search works) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://tedium.co/2026/09/14/usenet-rewind-archive-revival-website/ ## Media - 17 agents, one SDLC: How Levi Strauss reimagined development on GitHub Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpxKKgoWWg - Give yourself permission to play: how to learn with side projects Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vtjr3YzLnvc