TILens Daily Edition 2026-11-09 Filters: topic=general, github=hidden Stats: 192 articles, 10 sources Top topics: General, AI, AWS ## News - Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling high-profile sex scandals a year ago Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/jensen-huang-reportedly-engaged-a-pr-firm-with-a-history-of-handling-high-profile-sex-scandals-a-year-ago/ - Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/hotel-giant-wyndham-exposed-customer-data-after-app-security-lapse/ - A short seller flagged Nvidia CEO’s ties to a suspected Chinese spy six months before the scandal Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/a-short-seller-flagged-nvidia-ceos-ties-to-a-suspected-chinese-spy-six-months-before-the-scandal/ - France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/france-blames-iran-for-supermarket-hack-meltdowns/5308591 - The race is on to sue Nvidia Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/the-race-is-on-to-sue-nvidia/ - DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/11/dcu-shake-up-james-gunn-and-peter-safran-out-post-merger/ - Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/man-who-lost-308000-on-sports-bets-sues-kalshi-for-offering-illegal-gambling/ - Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power tech Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/fervo-now-has-12b-in-orders-for-its-geothermal-power-tech/ - A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management Source: ars-technica Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/a-sam-altman-parody-offers-an-amusing-lesson-in-memory-management/ - Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/jensen-huang-pulls-out-of-elevenlabs-summit-amid-nvidia-controversy/ - Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/attackers-backdoor-trusted-aws-integrations-to-steal-secrets/5308553 - Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/vulnerability-that-lets-hackers-ssh-into-linux-devices-is-under-active-exploitation/ - YouTube streaming data returns to Billboard charts, ending major disagreement Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/youtube-streaming-data-returns-to-billboard-charts-ending-major-disagreement/ - Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/anthropic-releases-new-mythos-and-fable-models-amid-rsi-concerns/ - AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/ai-hardware-startup-nominal-triples-valuation-to-3b-in-8-months/ - France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/france-blames-iran-for-mass-hacks-targeting-freezers-in-grocery-stores-and-blood-banks/ - Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/us-military-notionally-interested-in-satellite-constellation-around-moon/ - Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/jensen-huangs-affair-with-alleged-chinese-spy-puts-nvidias-china-ambitions-under-scrutiny/ - Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/meta-releases-muse-ember-a-new-lightweight-model-for-agent-execution/ - Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/researchers-pwn-automakers-android-apps-to-remotely-unlock-cars-honk-horns/5308483 - Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claude-code-settings-files-expose-thousands-of-secrets-on-github/ - Insight about how 'nature makes no leaps' promises better robot predictions Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/09/insight-about-how-nature-makes-no-leaps-promises-better-robot-predictions/5308301 - Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/uber-launches-parking-service-following-spothero-acquisition-with-an-eye-on-robotaxis/ - Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines Source: techcrunch Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/anthropic-joins-ais-natural-gas-frenzy-buys-3-4b-worth-of-turbines/ - Microsoft takes three decades to make Sticky Keys less sticky Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/11/09/microsoft-takes-three-decades-to-make-sticky-keys-less-sticky/5308491 - Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/mediums-new-tk-app-brings-ai-assistance-directly-into-the-writing-process/ - NASA keeps its PROMISE to raid Mars testbeds for parts Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/11/09/nasa-keeps-its-promise-to-raid-mars-testbeds-for-parts/5308475 - SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/spacex-now-fundamentally-an-infrastructure-company-senior-official-says/ - Meta expands Instagram’s AI age-guessing tech globally Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/meta-expands-instagrams-ai-age-guessing-tech-globally/ - Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/waymo-robotaxis-kept-illegally-passing-school-buses-after-software-fix-feds-say/ - Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-as-nvidia-probes-possible-chinese-espionage/ - F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/11/f1-in-brazil-drivers-at-their-very-best-in-tricky-conditions/ - Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/microsofts-azure-linux-gets-470-plus-security-fixes-in-one-almighty-patching-session/5308434 - Who Gives A Crap? Hackers, apparently, after toilet paper maker's customer data exposed Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/who-gives-a-crap-hackers-apparently-after-toilet-paper-makers-customer-data-exposed/5308419 - The AI bubble can wait, but your exit plan can't Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/09/the-ai-bubble-can-wait-but-your-exit-plan-cant/5308415 - Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/automattic-debuts-a-platform-to-deploy-vibe-coding-apps-amid-a-changing-internet/ - Meet Drops, the new music app bringing back the fun of sharing songs with friends Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/meet-drops-the-new-music-app-bringing-back-the-fun-of-sharing-songs-with-friends/ - Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/musk-says-tesla-will-refund-some-cybertruck-deposits-defends-decision-to-end-production/ - Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft's authentication crackdown goes sideways Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/11/09/outlookcom-bounces-legit-emails-as-microsofts-authentication-crackdown-goes-sideways/5308428 - Who can still open your files after they've left? Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/11/09/sponsored-who-can-still-open-your-files-after-theyve-left/5306418 - Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund Source: cloudflare-blog Topic: General URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/launching-vite-ecosystem-fund/ - Japanese homeware giant pulls online store after cloud breach puts 7.7M records at risk Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/09/japanese-homeware-giant-pulls-online-store-after-cloud-breach-puts-77m-records-at-risk/5308377 - Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027 Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/11/09/datacenters-elon-musk-and-ai-are-all-on-the-chopping-block-once-congress-changes-hands-in-2027/5308250 - New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome Source: ars-technica Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/new-democratic-congress-will-likely-strip-the-gilding-from-trumps-golden-dome/ - AI echo chambers and sanity in tech leadership: Three case studies Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/09/ai-echo-chambers-and-sanity-in-tech-leadership-three-case-studies/5308046 - Portal breach at Germany's top university exposes every registered user's password Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/09/portal-breach-at-germanys-top-university-exposes-every-registered-users-password/5308380 - Tesla expands robotaxi service to San Antonio Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/tesla-expands-robotaxi-service-to-san-antonio/ - AI Slop FM radio experiment puts machines on trial, one dodgy tune at a time Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/09/ai-slop-fm-radio-experiment-puts-machines-on-trial-one-dodgy-tune-at-a-time/5308161 - Memory crunch makes refurbished kit look a lot less secondhand Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/11/09/memory-crunch-makes-refurbished-kit-look-a-lot-less-secondhand/5307758 - Dev error bricked 600 PCs, caused $1M CD-ROM write-off Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/09/dev-error-bricked-600-pcs-caused-1m-cd-rom-write-off/5308039 - Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s ‘about a 50-50’ Source: techcrunch Topic: General URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/08/is-jensen-huangs-job-on-the-line-yales-jeffrey-sonnenfeld-estimates-its-about-a-50-50/ - Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/linus-torvalds-sees-signs-ai-prompted-patch-flood-has-peaked/5308345 - Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/09/huawei-says-its-made-a-100-percent-chinese-pc/5308335 - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with possible Chinese asset Source: theregister Topic: General URL: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/11/09/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-admits-affair-with-possible-chinese-asset/5308327 - Nvidia CEO's spy affair 🕵️, Agentic Siri 📱, programming fatigue 👨‍💻 Source: tldr-tech Topic: General URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-11-09 ## Community - LHCb finds evidence for the decay B0 to mu+ mu-, with improved B0s measurement Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00230 - Evaporative cooling cuts solar panel temperature by about 30 C in tests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-panel-cooling - French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/04/france-national-blood-service-hack-cyber-attack-europe - Why Is AI Slop So Frustrating to Read? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://zonderlabs.com/slop - Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://notesbylex.com/fable-5-2-one-shotted-my-nephews-dream-game - Boston Dynamics – Atlas on a Roll [video] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL65Awuv8gU - Exact – a new cross platform UI framework Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/expo/exact - Testing Jev for IAM Access Decisions Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.trustle.com/post/jev-least-privilege - Process Explorer for macOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/microsoft/Procexp-Mac - A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_year_after_the_100_ai_mandate_nobody/ - Flying on Green: Why Farmers Are Turning to Drones for Cover Crop Seeding Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.agweb.com/news/machinery/flying-green-why-farmers-are-turning-drones-cover-crop-seeding - Which VPNs have published an independent audit, with sources Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://top10vpns.com/tools/vpn-audit-tracker - TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/tpu-8i-max-and-8tx/ - USB: A trust layer for AI skills and MCP servers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/PeepSick/usbplus - Ergodic Literature Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_literature - Courses built from Hacker News posts Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hackertutorials.com/ - M4 Pro vs. M5 Pro (24GB): Qwen 3.8 Flash Next at 374 Tok/S Prefill with MoEShift Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/davide-troiani/moeshift - Indie Game Development with AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.sandromaglione.com/articles/indie-game-development-with-ai - You should try Gleam Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://nchagnet.eu/blog/you-should-try-gleam - Shake Signals – The economy through a small business owner's eyes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://shakegraph.com/signals - Supply chain attack on Qubole customers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://sentra.io/blog/breaches/inside-the-qubole-supply-chain-attack - Norway has purchased 500k drones for Ukraine (Norwegian) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.forsvaretsforum.no/droner-fma-forsvarsmateriell/noreg-har-kjopt-500000-dronar-til-ukraina/531540 - Vanderbilt University responding to an active cybersecurity incident Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/11/09/nov-9-active-cybersecurity-incident-updates/ - Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://blog.nozomi.space/posts/sw2_dock/ - Do or do not. There is no backlog Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ben.page/backlog - Show HN: Airgap-check – find what your AI app silently downloads offline Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/humanethq/airgap-check - Tiny Core Linux Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://tinycorelinux.net/ - Creating Worlds: Runes and Spells Prototype Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.fractalkitty.com/creating-worlds-runes-and-spells/ - Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-fable-5-2 - Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://hannahilea.com/blog/daylight-clock/ - USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://postalpro.usps.com/zcb - Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://parkgraph.com/parking-app-fees - CUI – Native UI components for C Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/ - I ran 120B MoE models on my 32GB M1 Max using under 16 GB Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://mitln.github.io/moe-inference-engine/ - Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17506494-claude-fable-5-2-launch-offers - Testing Claude on real-world electronics design Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-electronics-design - Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2 - Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://someonewashere.app/ - Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/blunt-banhammer-blocks-basic-bots-ballistically/ - E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://e-means.github.io/ - Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://meowdisplay.app/ - DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.eetimes.com/deepx-tapes-out-second-gen-chip-projects-6-7x-performance-gain-with-lpddr5x-pim/ - The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.infineon.com/press-release/2026/infpr202611-028 - Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/ - Show HN: Rollare – Bracket maker with registration and live scoring Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rollare.com/ - A ZIP-style Prolog VM for trilog Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/no382001/zipc - Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Dodaios/ste80-humanizer - Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember - EU to blacklist ten manipulative online design 'traps', leaked draft shows Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/09/eu-to-blacklist-ten-manipulative-online-design-traps-leaked-draft-shows - Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.watched.earth - Beans at altitude: stovetop vs. pressure cooker Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://highaltitudelife.com/beans-at-altitude-stovetop-vs-pressure-cooker/ - When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/11/03/when-will-this-stop-the-raspberry-pi-5-16gb-sbc-now-sells-for-385/ - Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-11-08 - Did Life Begin in an RNA World? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-life-begin-in-an-rna-world-20261109/ - The race to secure record-like information for domains Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://alexsci.com/blog/the-race-to-secure-record-like-information-for-domains/ - Parents, teachers call Google's Search threat over AI blocks 'extortion' Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/09/parents-teachers-google-search-schools-ai - Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 user's cables almost melted, even when limited to 500W Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-users-cables-almost-melted-even-when-limited-to-500w-12v-2x6-cables-appear-to-still-cause-problems-show-clear-signs-of-melting - AWS Nitro Sandboxes on Amazon EKS, ECS and EC2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/nitro-sandboxes-eks-ecs-ec2/ - Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+PostgreSQL) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50427934 - Docker has always used microVMs (well, since 2016) Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://dave.recoil.org/docker-has-always-used-microvms/ - Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Hardware) URL: http://www.righto.com/2026/11/signetics-st680a-dtl-nand.html - Two apps one process Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://andersmurphy.com/2026/11/09/two-apps-one-process.html - More than 400k Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/09/russians-killed-ukraine-war-leaked-data - Commerce Dept Inquiry into Megaspeed Halted After Nvdia Intervention Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/business/economy/nvidia-megaspeed-investigation-huang.html - Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.payments.ca/canada-launches-real-time-rail-bringing-247-payment-infrastructure-national-economy - PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Python) URL: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/ - Show HN: 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/Neighborhood-Grid/flatpoints - Why I wrote the BEAM book (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/ - The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/datareceipts/data-receipts/tree/main/109-gpu-pricing - Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge" Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.denverpost.com/2026/11/06/ethereum-suicide-pledge-lawsuit-mandate-boulder-crypto/ - Pigshell: Unix the Web Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/ - The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://isac.uchicago.edu/publications/search - Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/physicists-listened-to-electrical-noise-to-crack-a-superconductor-mystery/ - On Being an Engineer in 2026 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://shahar.blog/2026/11/08/on-being-an-engineer-in-2026/ - Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426593 - I saw your HN comment Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://joshstrange.com/2026/11/09/i-saw-your-hn-comment/ - Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-11-09-ip-camera-pt2/ - Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/ikey4u/zebkit - Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-trick-yet/ - Ask HN: How do you evaluate the skills your AI agents use? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426070 - Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://reactormag.com/children-of-men-the-future-is-a-mirror-for-the-present/ - A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://codeberg.org/wvhulle/bootvine - Corruption Is a Cost-of-Living Issue: App Store Edition Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://infrequently.org/2026/11/app-stores-pwas-and-corruption/ - Bain Capital, Bridge Data Centres (BDC) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bridgedatacentres.com/who-we-are/ - Microsoft are rejecting your mail Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2026/11/09/microsoft-are-rejecting-your-mail/ - RAM-Altman reports unused RAM on your machine, one email a day Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/IainKay/ram-altman - Sure mate, buy me a bloody coffee Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://peateasea.de/sure-mate-buy-me-a-bloody-coffee/ - Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/10/29/humans-will-never-again-create-a-project-quite-like-wikipedia - Nvidia's China Problem [pdf] Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Culper_NVDA_5-13-2026.pdf - Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.foldableflight.com - CompuServe Information Service remade for the modern web Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://compuserveweb.com/ - 6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://github.com/samir-sarwar/samir-vllm - Plane lifted into back garden as bunker takes shape Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqkgjv4pj023o - What is malloc doing, anyway? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway - I was wrong about dark mode Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Web) URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/11/09/dark-mode/ - Variable-width Bézier curves (2025) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://luthert.web.illinois.edu/blog/posts/775.html - Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://rbanffy.github.io/fun-with-big-computers/fun-with-vm370/ - Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++? Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50423371 - DIY Injection Molding: Making Plastic Recycling Accessible to All Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxiLs3mAZJ8 - Terminal2Shell: Critical flaw grants instant shell access on every major OS Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://terminal2shell.com/ - Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing Day 2 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/11/palestine-action-supreme-court-hearing-day-2/ - Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://leosmith.wtf/blog/not-so-secure-boot.html - Playing classical music on a classic PC with GentleOS Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp16LLOvegw - ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+AI) URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422628 - PixelOS Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://pixelos.net/ - Making the Iron Giant Live Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the-iron-giant-live - 370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.enca.com/lifestyle/370-books-20-months-sa-author-defends-her-use-ai - Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162 - Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://twitter.com/shanemelaugh/status/2119192075505893695 - A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std::sort Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://tiki.li/blog/about_blqsort - Horrible public key tricks Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/badcert/ - Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://tisiphone.net/2026/11/08/lets-talk-about-why-all-this-ot-stuff-is-connected/ - Slightly better interpolating spline Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://gasiulis.name/new-spline/ - What's new in Node.js 27 Source: lobsters Topic: General (+JavaScript) URL: https://nodejsdesignpatterns.com/blog/whats-new-in-nodejs-27/ - A Critique of GPUI Source: lobsters Topic: General (+Rust) URL: https://blog.zortax.de/posts/a-critique-of-gpui - Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://github.com/OmniJev/Flide - Cryptocurrencies slide to two-month lows after US midterms Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/cryptocurrencies-slide-two-month-lows-after-us-midterms-2026-11-08/ - Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marian-wawrzeniecki/ - What are you doing this week? Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://lobste.rs/s/tt42jc/what_are_you_doing_this_week - The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010) Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html - Unremarkable things we made in 2026 Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://www.neilchen.co/blog/things2026 - Asahi Linux Drops MIT, Goes Full GPL After AI Used to Steal Unreleased Code Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/asahi-linux-drops-mit-for-gpl/ - A Bit about Email Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://maurycyz.com/misc/email/ - RIP, Harvest Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/427-rip-harvest - Ian Murdock – And we learn about Debian Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://larrymurdock.substack.com/p/ian-murdock-72d - How Much Energy Does Building Distro Packages Use Source: lobsters Topic: General URL: https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2026/distro-energy-use/ - Microsecond accurate NTP with a Raspberry Pi and PPS GPS(2021) Source: lobsters Topic: General (+DevOps) URL: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/04/19/microsecond-accurate-ntp-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-pps-gps/ - Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world Source: hacker-news Topic: General URL: https://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/ ## Media - How Gemini 4 Argon & Carbon were built (ft. DeepMind’s Head of Gemini Product) Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUcvhFGc4mw - The Future of AI Infrastructure Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pabDkNR7jIs - Fix your vibe coded app with one prompt Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivW7cqypZEY - AI agent memory explained: Short-term vs. long-term state Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY27JLlV3Ps - AI agents explained: Chatbots vs. workflows vs. agents Source: youtube-googlecloud Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQEq8ZS-4-8 - OpenAI spent $1.2 million hacking Linux... and it was a bargain Source: youtube-fireship Topic: Web (+AI, General, JavaScript) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5tXJZM1Rw - Key takeaways from GitHub's Octoverse report in 60 seconds Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TNBTFejit2g - I made my Octolamp think with GitHub Copilot CLI hooks Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjoXOjjwMLs - Turning the GitHub Universe badge into a retro gaming console Source: youtube-github Topic: Open Source (+General) URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9fk4qzhA9Q