NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition

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NVIDIA's Board of Directors announced Jensen Huang's resignation as CEO, effective immediately. Colette Kress will serve as Interim CEO until a permanent successor is named.

Anthropic IPO

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Anthropic is a public benefit corporation using AI to accelerate scientific innovation and mitigate its risks, with an upcoming IPO. The company's shares will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "ANT" starting November 19th.

Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable

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The Quake 4 expansion, The Awakening, is now playable with openQ4 0.14.1, featuring a second campaign and various improvements. This update brings polish to the game's engine and gameplay mechanics.

Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

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AMD's Zen 6 and Zen 6c cores have evolved from the previous generation, with improvements in IPC, vector scheduler size, and branch predictor accuracy. The new designs aim to balance performance and power efficiency.

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard

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Writing correct programs is hard because it requires understanding and analyzing complex interactions between basic components, which are inherently intractable to fully reason about mathematically. To overcome this limitation, empirical study and ad-hoc techniques can be used to identify useful local properties and simplify assumptions for specific cases, but there is no single solution or ...

Our software engineering interviews are changing (a little)

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Jane Street is evolving its coding interview process to incorporate AI tools, focusing on software design and code quality rather than just writing code. The new format will include more high-level discussions and less coding, but traditional coding interviews will still be a part of the process.

Libreagi – Save OSS Models

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LibreAGI is a private BitTorrent tracker for model preservation, where members keep copies of models likely to disappear. It uses Apache-2.0, MIT or Qwen Community License and allows public access with no account needed.

Socratic Tutor

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User requests structured Socratic tutoring on a specific topic, using the maieutic method to teach by asking questions that force reasoning and explanation.

A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console

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Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes

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Scientists at Curtin University have linked mysterious radio pulses to a dead star and a Sun-like star, breaking new ground in understanding long-period transients. The discovery provides insight into the pulsations coming from a region close to the white dwarf or possibly even from it itself.

Electric Ship Batteries Promise Compact, Cooler Power

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Xing Mobility's Immersio CTP pack, a submerged battery system, claims to store up to twice the energy of conventional marine batteries. The company says its design reduces dead weight and sheds heat more efficiently than traditional systems.

ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS

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ExcalidrawZ enhances Excalidraw with file management, iCloud sync, and AI tools while maintaining compatibility. It offers version history, export options, and optimized workflows for Apple platforms.

Tim Peters has died

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The author shares a personal tribute to Tim Peters, a key figure in Python's development and design evolution. He credits Tim with influencing his own programming style and career, citing his positive influence on the language's growth from 2001 to 2014 as Director of the Python Software Foundation.

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

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Researchers found that 93% of paint splatters can be parsed as valid Perl code, but they also identified seven examples that are not. These invalid programs were created by OCR software and did not follow standard Perl syntax.

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

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A critical synchronization vulnerability (CVE-2026-119618) in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. Vulnerable installations should be updated to version 2.4.71 or later, or temporarily disabled until patched.

Show HN: Fable52.games – Play and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games

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3D and 2D games built autonomously by Claude Fable 5.2, most from a single prompt and many as one self-contained .html file. Play instantly, read the prompt next to the game, and inspect every line of source. The original one-prompt FPS: cut three uplink relays in a rainy container port while drones and robot dogs hunt you. The original one-prompt FPS: cut three uplink relays in a rainy ...

AWS emulator

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AWS Emulator is a local emulator of AWS APIs for testing and development without incurring additional service fees. It can be installed on various platforms, including Linux, Windows, and macOS, with optional telemetry data collection enabled by default.

Show HN: Build a PC in 3D in the Browser

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3D PC Builder and Part Picker. Find compatible parts for the lowest prices and see how your build looks before you buy.

Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock

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The author created a custom dock for their Nintendo Switch 2 using a generic hub and modified the firmware to work with the console. The dock now supports TV mode, HDR over HDMI, and charging, but lacks VRR support.

Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable Bars Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux

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My PCIe switch is a Broadcom PEX88096 in the board’s one x16 slot, with four AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700s and the two RTX 3090s from my PCIe splitter post behind it, and the build post has the whole box. The switch gives each card eight lanes and lets the cards copy to each other without going through the CPU. AMD’s ROCm calls that peer-to-peer (P2P), and it only turns it on when each card’s ...

Roadside investigations of psyllids, ants and eucs

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I was driving down a country highway on the 25th of October, in the late afternoon sun. One of the better things to do when driving is a bit of drive-by botany. Honestly it's hard to ignore for me. I couldn't help but notice that all the new River Red Gums recruits appeared to be dead or dying. When I use the term 'recruits', its a shortening for the word ...

PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC 2 Released

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PostgreSQL has released an update to all supported versions, including 18.7 and 19 RC2, fixing 52 security vulnerabilities and over 140 bugs reported in the last several months. The update also includes fixes for various issues such as index corruption, partition pruning, and query performance regressions.

The largest open-source DLE collection

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The largest open-source DLES collection of 1124 daily games collected at dles.gg, ordered by newest first. Missing a game? Submit it to the collection. Daily Putt - Play 3 holes of mini golf, dragging back from the ball and releasing to putt, with a longer pull for more power. Bank shots off barriers and read the hazards: sand slows the ball, trees and water cost 1 stroke and drop you back at ...

Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math

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The author reflects on how AI in research and teaching may shift the importance of traits like eccentricity and creativity, as well as the value of "useless" knowledge. He praises his former teacher Dr. Allan Chapman for his unique approach to history education, which emphasized exploring alien epistemologies and outmoded ideas.

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

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The author recounts a false smoke alarm in Jane Street's NYC datacenter, which triggered sprinklers and threatened to destroy servers. He pulled power cords to prevent damage before the temperature rose too high.

Gemini Decisions API

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The Gemini Decisions API offers fast, closed-set decisions with a new model called Gemini Decision 1, available through the Google AI Studio. The API provides primitives for bounded choices and scores options in a single forward pass with low latency and no output token charges.

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

You've made significant progress on your Linux pinball simulation engine, adding features like sound systems and physics improvements. You plan to showcase the demo at IAAPA Expo next week to gauge interest in support and collaboration for future development.

Pulling the Lever in a Subway Problem

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Eleven years ago I was on the Red Line (not the section that's a trolley), and found myself in a variant of the classic moral dilemma. I wrote about it on Reddit at the time: Hi! I'm the person who pulled the brake. What I saw: The train starts pulling out of the station. Someone begins shouting that their arm is caught in the door. I look over, see that the door is closed somewhere ...

Show HN: AI Red Lines – write down what would make you act on AI

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Decide now what would make you act on AI, and what you'd do. Then share it. Writing a red line down is a start. These steps make it more likely you'll keep it. Do each one, or skip it, and the next one opens. In 138 trials, keeping track of a goal helped nearly three times as much when other people could see it. Where this comes from Send it to two people, and ask them where their red ...

Running web sites makes me not want to

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