Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

J Neyman discussed a mathematical theory of populations as clusters in 1957. eLetters is a forum for scholarly commentary on the article, with specific submission guidelines.

Reverse Engineering My Coway Air Purifier to Ditch the Cloud

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A user reverse-engineered a Coway air purifier to control it without the cloud service, using techniques like man-in-the-middle (MitM) and artificial intelligence. The device can now be controlled through Home Assistant, eliminating the need for the cloud service.

Why Zig over C for Systems Programming

The author compares Zig to C, highlighting how Zig addresses common issues with C, such as resource cleanup and error handling. The author prefers writing new code in Zig due to its safety features and compile-time checks that catch many errors that would occur at runtime in C.

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.

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com.

IceWM

IceWM is a fast and customizable window manager for the X Window System, focusing on simplicity and user-friendliness. It offers various features like taskbar, pager, keyboard shortcuts, and theme support across multiple Linux distributions.

Rust 1.100

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Rust 1.100.0 is released, featuring the stable never type (!) and various other improvements including allocator_api stabilization, core::mem::DropGuard, zero-sized types in unsafe code, and Cargo's min-publish-age aware dependency resolution.

Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol

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The Brave Search API now supports instant, pay-as-you-go payments via the open x402 payment protocol. Users can query the search index without creating an account or selecting a plan by transferring USDC stablecoin to their agent's wallet.

Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous medical claims

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The Anthropic CEO made exaggerated claims about curing cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness in under 10 years. Critics argue that such timelines are unrealistic and border on fantasy.

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.

Show HN: Reflota – Open-source data recovery for NTFS/FAT disks with phased copy

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Reflota es un programa gratuito y de código abierto que recupera archivos de discos NTFS, FAT32, FAT16/FAT12 y exFAT.

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.

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

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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.

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

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The Edge0-145B model is the world's first open-source on-device AI model with 145 billion parameters, allowing coding, reasoning, and agent capabilities to rival cloud models. It enables local use on laptops without corresponding cloud-model token or API fees.

AI Is Destroying the Trust Between Writers and Readers

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The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer

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A new role, the Data Intelligence Engineer, has emerged as AI changes data teams' jobs. This engineer automates tasks like ingestion and transformation by creating software agents that encode knowledge into shared context.

Mercedes-Benz to halt 'all future investments' in Germany

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The 42-Year Journey to Bring 'Neuromancer' to the Screen

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Briana Middleton discusses the upcoming Apple TV adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer, a classic sci-fi novel. The show aims to bring the book's epic journey to life with its unique blend of retro-futurism and gritty realism.

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.

Service degradation on Microsoft 365

US test reactor cleared for operations

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Oklo's Groves-1 test reactor in Texas has been cleared for unrestricted operations by the US Department of Energy, allowing it to advance into its research and testing phase. This clears the way for Oklo to prepare teams and systems needed to support future nuclear projects.

Foundation Models framework

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The Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API for integrating large language models into apps, offering features like guided generation and image understanding. It provides on-device access to Apple's foundation models and extends to server models through the same Swift API.

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.

Switcher (2004)

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The author created a high-resolution scanner for the Macintosh called Thunderscan, and later developed an application switcher utility that was initially intended to be part of the Mac OS. The author worked with Microsoft on this project before deciding to develop it independently.

Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE

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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.

Building collapses in Brooklyn with 8 people dead so far

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A three-story apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a construction site, killing at least 8 people and injuring over a dozen. Rescue efforts have been ongoing for nearly 24 hours, with no more survivors found.

Global Microsoft Outage

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Microsoft's global outage has left millions without access to Outlook email and Teams meeting tools, affecting banks, governments, and courts worldwide. The outage is causing significant disruptions globally.

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.

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.