Jensen Huang resigns

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned amid scandal over alleged extramarital affairs and ties to a Chinese spy, sending shares plummeting. The company has named Colette Kress as interim CEO and will consider internal and external candidates to replace him.

Rust 1.100.0

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Cargo has introduced new features, including a linting system and minimum publish age configurations. These changes aim to improve the package management process with more control over dependencies and build artifacts.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

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Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a new AI model that offers speed and efficiency for everyday coding and agentic workflows, surpassing its predecessor in certain areas. It's priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

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Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

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Google is releasing Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator, a dynamic model pairing for efficient task execution. These tools aim to improve quality, efficiency, and latency in coding and agentic workflows.

Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page

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Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

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Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate, 2026 ED138, in the distant solar system. The object is estimated to be between 370-930 miles across and orbits the sun every 281 years.

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.

Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

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ZigZag is a visual embroidery editor built in Rust for performance, allowing users to create and edit designs alongside AI agents. The app supports various file formats and can export designs to multiple embroidery machines or send them directly to a Brother Skitch over Bluetooth.

I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

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This project, smolmaxxing, unlocks the capability of devices like TVs and old phones by finding the biggest language model each device can run. It achieves this by customizing kernels, memory usage, and weight streaming on devices with limited resources. The results show that a 2B model runs faster than larger models on a Xiaomi TV Box S.

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.

22-Year-Old PostgreSQL Bug Turned into Remote Code Execution

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The author discovered a 22-year-old zero-day vulnerability in PostgreSQL core, which allowed for type-confusion attacks. The exploit was triggered by manipulating composite types and exploiting the way PostgreSQL handles Datum values.

Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times

Relax is a live compiler and JIT runtime for Rust that compiles each function when it's first called, optimizes hot ones while running, and patches edits into the process. It runs in one process with its own pipeline from source bytes to executable memory.

Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents

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AgentRun is an open-source platform that supercharges agents, adding self-improvement and durable execution. It helps agents learn from their runs and retain useful information for future use.

ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS

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ExcalidrawZ is an enhanced version of Excalidraw with added features like file management, iCloud sync, and AI assistance. It records checkpoints for app-managed drawings and integrates with Apple platforms for a seamless experience.

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 ...

Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep

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Nintendo sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting Yuzu and Citron Neo emulators, as well as mod chip firmware. The move aims to prevent users from playing pirated copies of Nintendo games on the Switch console.

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.

AWS Lambda Web Functions keep billing memory ~7 minutes after the last request

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The authors initially used AWS Lambda Web Functions but switched to running their own compute due to high idle memory costs. They found that running their own compute was faster and more cost-effective, with initial experiments handling 300 concurrent requests without errors.

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.

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.

Paths in Pieces

Many Linux distributions and package managers audit binaries for non-relocatable paths, but string constants are not always stored literally in the binary.

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

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The user has a PCIe switch with six cards, including four AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700s and two RTX 3090s, which are connected to the CPU without going through it. The user installed a module from GitHub to set the Resizable BAR sizes for each card before loading the GPU drivers.

Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation into Suspected Spy's Company

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Singapore's government says the US provided little help in its investigation into Alice Huang, a woman at the center of a spy plot involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Singapore authorities held her passport and issued a stern warning after finding "insufficient evidence" against her.

A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console

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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.

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.

Creating Worlds: Runes and Spells Prototype

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We're creating a magic system based on runes and spells, with the goal of building a comprehensive spell book. The system will include various elements such as runes, spell casting, and interactions between them.

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.

Apify Security Incident

Apify experienced a breach on November 9-10 where an unauthorized third party accessed internal systems using compromised credentials. The access path is closed, and affected users are being notified; additional security measures have been implemented.