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• (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

Declarative Dragging
https://declarative-dragging.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368481

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU
https://ketchup3d.github.io/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418176

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
https://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 DMARC
https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416158

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU
https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50411961

Writing as a thinking tool
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412067

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418975

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming
https://duxlabs.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416053

Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
https://twitter.com/shanemelaugh/status/2119192075505893695
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422069

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• (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

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403097

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406670

The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406563

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407882

Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi
https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410107

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
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/
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 controller
https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406292

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)
http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404599

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• (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

Libghostty 1.0
https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399933

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397429

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
https://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 Flash
https://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 research
https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397994

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2
https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397219

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394855

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401867

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project
https://devvm.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395450