Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

162 xx_ns 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC blog.nns.ee Llama Share 38

The user's 2014 Renault Latitude car has a TomTom Carminat LIVE navigation system that requires a legitimate SD card with specific data to function, including the time settings. The user successfully exploited a kernel vulnerability using the LOG command and core_pattern string manipulation to execute arbitrary code on the rootfs.

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

168 bookofjoe 2026-11-03 13:04:11 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 69

Fujifilm invests $63 million to increase magnetic tape production fivefold due to growing demand from cloud giants and data centers. The company attributes this surge to the spread of generative AI, which produces exponential growth in data needs worldwide.

Mac at Any Scale

77 anner_ 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC namespace.so Llama Share 20

The author shares their experience building custom Mac racks for a datacenter, overcoming challenges such as limited supply of Mac Minis and designing efficient cooling systems. They also discuss the use of Apple's Virtualization framework to run macOS instances in the datacenter.

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

645 syllogism 2026-11-03 13:04:11 UTC honnibal.dev Llama Share 146

The author explains that the "Astra can read and write weights" post is misleading, as it doesn't actually demonstrate a single technique to analyze or modify network weights. The experiments involve different tasks and techniques, including writing code snippets to analyze or modify weights.

Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine

112 ceejayoz 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 83

Google will allow K-12 students to use AI tools unless school administrators opt out, but restricting AI may also block access to Google search. Schools must choose between allowing or blocking AI for their students.

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs

0 2026-11-03 17:02:11 UTC ashbyhq.com Full Share

Join a team that strives to do their best work every day.

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

54 benbreen 2026-11-03 14:04:11 UTC scrollprize.substack.com Llama Share 2

A $50K First Letters Prize was awarded to Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill for their work on PHerc. 306B, a carbonized scroll from the Vesuvius eruption in AD79, after reviewing 25 submissions that identified readable text within a specific area.

Tiny Basic for Arduino

22 AlexeyBrin 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC dilshan.github.io Llama Share 3

Tiny Basic for Arduino is a lightweight BASIC interpreter designed for mid-range MCU boards, allowing direct code writing and running on the hardware. It features an extensive standard library with built-in functions for hardware I/O, math, and bit manipulation.

Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack

77 ibobev 2026-11-03 13:04:11 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 51

Charles David Tandy was a successful entrepreneur who expanded three retail chains: Tandy Leather, Radio Shack, and Pier 1 Imports. He built his business empire through strategic acquisitions and innovative marketing strategies.

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats

86 user052919 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 31

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Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel

24 drewlem 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC hissingkitty.com Llama Share 7

A sample of public Hacker News comments from the last 3 years was analyzed to count complaints about tracked software, with tools requiring 3 complaints in 2 threads to be listed. The results were sourced from a public search API and nightly updates.

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

265 markusw 2026-11-03 08:04:11 UTC nicholas.carlini.com Llama Share 129

A computer program called Deep Blue defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1996, but a modern chess engine running on the same hardware could beat him. A custom-built engine using Stockfish and adapted to run on 1996 hardware achieved an estimated Elo rating of 3300.

Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws

62 rbanffy 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 29

The US government is suing Utah over its attempt to ban Kalshi, a prediction market that offers sports bets. The CFTC claims Utah's efforts obstruct Congress's decision to federally preempt state law regarding prediction markets.

Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables

31 pmkary 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC mattkeeter.com Llama Share 7

Antimony is a CAD tool that uses Python 3.x and Lisp machine-inspired scripting, allowing users to create custom shapes and transforms. It can export heightmaps for 2.5D processes and .stl files for 3D manufacturing with built-in features and support for user-defined custom shapes.

Show HN: Interactive notes on RLHF, attention, LoRA and LLM evals

19 laxmena 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC concepts.laxmena.com Full Share 2

Interactive explainers for computer science and engineering concepts, one per page.

Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one

15 psxuaw 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC blog.bear.app Llama Share 6

Bear, a note-taking app created by three friends in 2013, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with new features and design principles. The app prioritizes simplicity, naturalness, and safety to provide a comfortable space for users to create notes.

Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE

37 gmays 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 11

A new study found that 75% of professional football players who died over a 15-year span had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the highest estimate to date. The condition can cause memory loss, depression, and violent mood swings, but diagnosis is only possible during autopsy.

Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection

112 thebigship 2026-11-03 09:04:11 UTC katamari.vaguespac.es Full Share 34

Every single thing in this gallery is a real object from The Met's Open Access collection, at its real size. Start small. Coins, thimbles, netsuke. End with the Temple of Dendur. This is a project by Jay Mollica. Objects: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0).

Quili AI

72 Shugyousha 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC quili.ai Llama Share 40

Quilicura, Chile hosts many AI data centers using its water supply, but a severe drought is expected until 2040 due to climate change. Residents took action by becoming "human A.I." for a day to raise awareness about the impact of irresponsible AI use on local resources.

No brother of mine will play the flute

24 surprisetalk 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC homosabiens.substack.com Llama Share 23

The author discusses the importance of respecting individual preferences and boundaries, particularly when it comes to touch and social interactions. They argue that forced intervention can exacerbate problems rather than solve them.

Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?

54 shcallaway 2026-11-03 13:04:11 UTC asteriskmag.com Llama Share 64

The Sagrada Família's completion marks the end of an era for Art Nouveau architecture, a style that was popular in Europe from around 1890 to 1910. The movement's excesses and lack of scalability led to its decline, replaced by modernist styles like Bauhaus and International Style.

Handles are the better pointers (2018)

13 vinhnx 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC floooh.github.io Llama Share 6

The author discusses a memory management approach using 'index-handles' to prevent common memory-related problems in C and C++. This approach involves moving memory management into centralized systems, reducing the use of pointers, and ensuring that only system-private array base pointers are exposed.

DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs

328 bpierre 2026-11-03 02:04:11 UTC github.com/jiafeimiao-k-cat Llama Share 74

Disc Image Studio 是一款 Windows 桌面版和 Linux 和 macOS 的实验性命令行版，可用于生成 CD、DVD 和蓝光镜像，并可将图像转换成符合这些介质物理层约束的数据。

Toit v2.0.0

186 floitsch 2026-11-03 07:04:11 UTC toit.io Llama Share 64

Toit v2.0.0 is released after 4+ years of alpha development with over 200 releases, featuring significant improvements and stability. The new version includes a major refactor allowing peripheral APIs to accept pin numbers directly, but more features are planned for future releases.

Gitbook Breached

6 punchmesan 2026-11-03 16:47:11 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 1

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Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology

234 campervans 2026-11-03 08:04:11 UTC github.com/nvidia Llama Share 92

Auto Ontology is an open library that builds a context layer for agents to access and analyze data from enterprise metadata, reconciling definitions across systems. It provides a semantic catalog/ontology layer over relational sources, stored in Postgres alongside the catalog it describes.

Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News

429 polpenn 2026-11-03 02:04:11 UTC hackertimes.ca Llama Share 131

A team at MIT CSAIL reports early experiments with GPT-6 Astra, a language model that can modify neural-network weights without writing a training loop. HackerTube gathered 6,454 YouTube videos mentioned by Hacker News readers over nearly two decades.

Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust

40 donk8r 2026-11-03 15:04:11 UTC github.com/muvon Llama Share 32

Octomind is a CLI-first AI coding agent runtime that gives an LLM real access to your repo, allowing it to read and write files, run shells, and more. It's built for autonomous work and can be used in various ways, including interactive sessions, piped commands, daemon mode, and scheduled runs.

Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network

4 eob 2026-11-03 16:04:11 UTC edwardbenson.com Prefix Share 0

This post is mostly me thinking out loud: how is it possible to install a boolean circuit sidecar to an otherwise trained neural network? The representation part is relatively straightforward. A neuron is a weighted sum of inputs, plus a bias, passed through an activation function. If we assert that the inputs are all either 0 or 1, and the activation function is simply “is it greater than ...

Life with Down Syndrome

126 NaOH 2026-11-03 12:04:11 UTC esquire.com Llama Share 80

Gabe, a man with Down syndrome, enjoys simple pleasures like walking to the farm shop for coffee and muffins, working at a movie theater where he's valued for his skills. He dreams of finding love and independence but faces challenges due to his disability.