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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

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• (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

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384233

Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810

I wish tech companies knew more about me
https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385870

Window Sweaters
https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381383

Download your favourite YouTube videos
https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571

The Hackintosh Reborn
https://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 GPUI
https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389333

Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/britain-make-salary-disclosure-job-ads-mandatory-2026-11-05/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389222

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• (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

Residential proxies detected on White House network
https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999

A thousand fewer paths to root
https://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 JSON
https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369106

Images 2.6
https://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

Sshole
https://sshhole.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925

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• (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

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
https://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, too
https://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 robot
https://neufangled.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
https://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 27.3
https://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 channels
https://hackertv.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755

C++26 Disapproved
https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164

The Internals of PostgreSQL
https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702

Jelly Sheet
https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268

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• (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

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088

If you love a website, back it up
https://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 versa
https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397

Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
https://hackertimes.ca/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre
https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339221

DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849

Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619

Resisting Cognitive Surrender
https://knlb.dev/essays/surrender
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323123

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736

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• (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

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328896

OccupySaaS
https://occupysaas.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402

Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
https://wikihack.netlify.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333339

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325253

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
https://outcrop.rocks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290533

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
https://tibleiz.net/copper/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308754

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in-power-grids-solved
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315217

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314617