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  1. 14h ago

    11.9.26 | Jensen Huang addresses affair, Declarative Dragging, KetchUp open source SketchUp alternative

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair (01:06) - Declarative Dragging (02:10) - KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU (03:12) - Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world (04:16) - Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC (05:23) - Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU (06:34) - Writing as a thinking tool (07:35) - I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists (08:43) - Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming (09:47) - Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 (10:43) - Outro Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affairhttps://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-companyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418016Declarative Dragginghttps://declarative-dragging.github.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368481 KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPUhttps://ketchup3d.github.io/app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418176 Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the worldhttps://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50419215 Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARChttps://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416158 Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPUhttps://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchiphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50411961 Writing as a thinking toolhttp://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412067 I'm not convinced the AI bubble existshttps://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-existshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418975 Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theminghttps://duxlabs.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416053 Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3https://twitter.com/shanemelaugh/status/2119192075505893695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422069

  2. 1d ago

    11.8.26 | Need for Speed Underground 2, Mac family member classifier, OpenStick homelab setup

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser (01:12) - Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (02:21) - What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab (03:30) - The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group (04:35) - Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (05:59) - Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi (06:52) - Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why (08:10) - MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?" (09:21) - Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller (10:16) - The $8 Linux Computer (2022) (11:17) - Outro Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browserhttps://nfsu2.xyz/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403052Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifierhttps://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403097 What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelabhttps://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406670 The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers grouphttps://hunch.net/?p=13764006https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406563 Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub fileshttps://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-againhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407882 Goodbye Claude, Hello Pihttps://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410107 Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed whyhttps://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/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403507 MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406222 Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controllerhttps://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406292 The $8 Linux Computer (2022)http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404599

  3. 2d ago

    11.7.26 | Tesla winding down Cybertruck production, Libghostty 1.0, Jev helps Opus accuracy cheaply

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production (01:17) - Libghostty 1.0 (02:30) - A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost (03:41) - US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 (04:35) - Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (05:38) - AI is dramatically accelerating AI research (06:55) - Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2 (08:16) - First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI (09:18) - Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 (10:36) - Devvm.dev: One VM for every project (11:46) - Outro Tesla to wind down Cybertruck productionhttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-rcna607817https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391456Libghostty 1.0https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399933 A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower costhttps://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolutionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397429 US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-out-floppy-disks-air-traffic-control-by-2028-2026-11-05/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50388001 Gemini Omni 1.2 Flashhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50392118 AI is dramatically accelerating AI researchhttps://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397994 Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escapehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397219 First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFIhttps://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394855 Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401867 Devvm.dev: One VM for every projecthttps://devvm.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395450

  4. 3d ago

    11.6.26 | Claude Code leaks email addresses, MS Paint code execution vulnerability, Motorola Signature 27 supports GrapheneOS

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claude Code sends your email address to websites (01:22) - MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (02:17) - Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support (03:18) - I wish tech companies knew more about me (04:14) - Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue (05:36) - Window Sweaters (06:30) - Download your favourite YouTube videos (07:29) - The Hackintosh Reborn (08:24) - Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI (09:34) - Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory (10:37) - Outro Claude Code sends your email address to websiteshttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385272MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilityhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384233 Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS supporthttps://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810 I wish tech companies knew more about mehttps://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942 Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenuehttps://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385870 Window Sweatershttps://github.com/saragordic/window-sweatershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381383 Download your favourite YouTube videoshttps://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571 The Hackintosh Rebornhttps://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383057 Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUIhttps://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389333 Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatoryhttps://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/britain-make-salary-disclosure-job-ads-mandatory-2026-11-05/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389222

  5. 4d ago

    11.5.26 | AI forces technical debt repayment, White House residential proxies detected, Kimi K3.1 Pro weights released

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (01:25) - Residential proxies detected on White House network (02:20) - Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (03:44) - A thousand fewer paths to root (04:42) - Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? (05:42) - A new Go API for JSON (06:58) - Images 2.6 (08:01) - Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (08:58) - Sshole (09:57) - Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (10:59) - Outro AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debthttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerabilityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336Residential proxies detected on White House networkhttps://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-networkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246 Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are outhttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Prohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999 A thousand fewer paths to roothttps://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372929 Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117 A new Go API for JSONhttps://go.dev/blog/jsonv2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369106 Images 2.6https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372945 Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366522 Ssholehttps://sshhole.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228 Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Codinghttps://www.ricursive.com/ripplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925

  6. 5d ago

    11.4.26 | Postman auto installs AI plugins, car navigation time jailbreaking, Qwen 3.8 27B interprets weights

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (01:25) - Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (02:32) - Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (03:44) - Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (04:44) - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (05:46) - Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (06:46) - Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (07:42) - C++26 Disapproved (08:36) - The Internals of PostgreSQL (09:36) - Jelly Sheet (10:22) - Outro Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API datahttps://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the timehttps://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339288 Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, toohttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251 Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robothttps://neufangled.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demandhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336918 Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562 Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channelshttps://hackertv.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755 C++26 Disapprovedhttps://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164 The Internals of PostgreSQLhttps://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702 Jelly Sheethttps://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268

  7. 6d ago

    11.3.26 | Astra improves Qwen weights, Subvocal enables silent computer control, Back up loved websites

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (01:29) - Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise (02:36) - If you love a website, back it up (03:38) - US boy names that became girl names and vice versa (04:40) - Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (05:35) - Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre (06:28) - DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (07:32) - Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You (08:34) - Resisting Cognitive Surrender (09:35) - Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era (10:37) - Outro Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwenhttps://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088 If you love a website, back it uphttps://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518 US boy names that became girl names and vice versahttps://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-nameshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397 Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker Newshttps://hackertimes.ca/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981 Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centrehttps://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339221 DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discshttps://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudiohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849 Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for Youhttps://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-youhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619 Resisting Cognitive Surrenderhttps://knlb.dev/essays/surrenderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323123 Egoless Mathematics in the AI Erahttps://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736

  8. Nov 2

    11.2.26 | HackerBooks HackerTube for HN books, Postgres 19 delayed by bugs, TV privacy recommendations

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (01:18) - Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (02:11) - Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? (03:16) - OccupySaaS (04:15) - Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (05:13) - Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (06:21) - Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology (07:22) - Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (08:23) - Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (09:18) - One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (10:16) - Outro Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HNhttps://hackerbooks.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326821Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found nowhttp://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408 Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896 OccupySaaShttps://occupysaas.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402 Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HNhttps://wikihack.netlify.apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333339 Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rusthttps://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325253 Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geologyhttps://outcrop.rocks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290533 Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and genericshttps://tibleiz.net/copper/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308754 Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solvedhttps://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solvedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217 One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systemshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314617

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