Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

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Researchers found that frontier LLMs can read and write neural network weights, a capability known as Weight-Space Programming. This allows them to understand and improve the performance of neural networks without training or gradient information.

Anthropic's growth just flattened

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Anthropic's Q3 financials show slower growth, contradicting expectations and potentially affecting "neocloud" providers like CoreWeave. The slowdown may indicate moderating demand for AI services or companies using cheaper models from China.

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

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Apple reports fourth quarter results

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Apple announced its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter financial results, with revenue of $114.5 billion and diluted earnings per share of $2.10, up 12% year over year. The company also declared a cash dividend of $0.27 per share and reported record September quarter sales for iPhone and Services.

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

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Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

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Mo tests the app end-to-end to verify critical flows and find bugs, using Momentic's automated testing capabilities. The user flow involves adding terminology, expected behavior, and test guidance to the Knowledge base, running tests against the app with AI-assisted steps and reviewing proposed repairs.

If you love a website, back it up

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A web archiving enthusiast shares tools to preserve favorite websites, including browser extensions and a standalone app, after discovering a beloved anime fansite was replaced with online gambling ads. The author encourages readers to take action and archive their own sites using standard formats like WARC.

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

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Central Warsaw in 1 m voxels, built from OpenStreetMap, LiDAR and the city's tree database. Walk around the Palace of Culture, change the date, hour and weather, or possess a pedestrian. Inspired by Minecraft, MagicaVoxel and Dungeon Keeper.

The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

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Anthropic's financial report reveals a massive $900 billion in spending commitments, mostly for the 2030s, with revenues that appear impressive but may not sustain extraordinary growth. The company faces intense competition and high costs due to AI industry margins being squeezed by demand pressure, commoditization, cost pressures, and external constraints.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)

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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

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Windows 2000 was launched with a San Francisco expo and event, where team members gave presentations and answered questions. The launch itself featured Patrick Stewart as the presenter, who effectively promoted the new operating system.

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

Mathematicians must reevaluate the purpose of their work in light of AI's development, considering what gives mathematical work its worth and whether truths exist independently. The pursuit of truth should shape intellectual life, not just individual achievements or recognition.

Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a guide for small business owners, specifically solopreneurs, to protect their businesses from cyberattacks. The guide provides actionable cybersecurity basics tailored to the needs of solo entrepreneurs with limited technical knowledge or financial investment.

Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks

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Ubuntu's 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04 LTS releases lack patched kernels due to a critical CVE-2026-98432 vulnerability with a CVSS rating of 9.8. Affected systems remain exposed until official kernel packages are released by Ubuntu without an announced ETA for the fixes.

WTF Ubuntu?

Ubuntu failed to patch a critical Linux kernel bug, CVE-2026-98432, despite it being rated 9.8 and having a working exploit. Ubuntu's lack of timely patches has led the author to move servers off the platform due to lost trust in its reliability.

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

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Oracle plans to issue $20 billion in new debt and sell $10 billion in stock to fund its AI buildout. The move is seen as a relief by investors, who had expressed concerns about the company's massive debt levels.

Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code

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Polyend is releasing Tracker firmware source code and Community Edition 1.0 on GitHub, allowing users to modify and share their own versions. The update includes new features such as sample editing, effects, and synth engines for the original Tracker and its variants.

A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy

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For most of its history, full-text search has been synonymous with one library: Apache Lucene. Written in Java and battle-tested over two decades, Lucene powers Elasticsearch, Solr, and much of the search infrastructure the industry relies on today. It's the kind of project that makes you think the problem is solved, that there's no room left to rethink the fundamentals. Then in 2017, ...

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Technical Graduates in Denver (Engineering/CS Focus)

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Skill to Create Product Videos

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This user guides a video-production workflow using the Claude Code skill, capturing real product interactions and adding title cards with HyperFrames.

When Modernization Breaks Working Code: A Study of LLMs on Legacy PHP

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Researchers studied using large language models to modernize old PHP code, finding that the results are often worse than leaving it alone. Most LLMs broke 32-51 working files while repairing at most 10, with only a small percentage of changes required under PHP 8.3.

We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

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Cloudflare's Zone Builder now uses a targeted build planner and scheduler to reduce full builds, cutting peak memory by 85% and halving the time from DNS change to data being written to Quicksilver. The new system reduces full builds by about 40%.

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

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The author discusses the development of a C64 BASIC dungeon game, introducing character progression and level design. The game now features five levels with increasing difficulty and rewards for collecting chalices, leveling up, and completing challenges.

SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory conducts cutting-edge research across multiple scientific domains. It is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.

The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data

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BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter

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BYD sold a record 490,168 new energy vehicles in October, with battery electric vehicles driving growth. The company's sales are outpacing the US market and positioning China as a leader in the global EV transition.

LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

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LongCat-2.5 is a multimodal model for long-horizon agentic tasks with 1.6 trillion parameters, offering native visual understanding and agentic coding capabilities through discrete tokenization and offline visual preprocessing.

Making Peace with the Projective Plane

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The author reflects on their initial struggle with projective space and homogeneous coordinates, finding them abstract until motivated by a bottom-up approach. They now advocate for introducing these concepts early to make geometry more elegant and practical.

Can’t fish Ethernet? Use “invisible” fiber instead

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The user has a NYC townhouse with Cat6 cables that have been upgraded to fiber for better network performance, despite one cable being faulty and only providing 100 Mbps. They successfully DIY-ed the fix using an HPE AP25 and MikroTik CRS304-4XG-IN switch, saving them from hiring a contractor.

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB

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PostHog rebuilt its warehouse using Trino and created a custom table format, HogLake, after experiencing issues with DuckDB's scalability and compatibility. The company is now looking for design partners to help improve their data warehouse solution.