Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

The author has retired Claude Code as their main coding harness due to frustrations with its features and stability. They're now using Pi, a more stable and customizable alternative that offers better performance and user experience.

Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

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Goldman Sachs has restricted access to AI coding tools, including Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub, for most traders and bankers. The bank now limits these tools to its engineers only.

Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang

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NVIDIA's Board is launching an independent investigation into reports of a foreign intelligence effort targeting CEO Jensen Huang. The inquiry will examine all available information to ensure U.S. national and economic security interests are protected.

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

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This project demonstrates that a 64 GB CPU can run large MoE models, such as 284B DeepSeek-V4-Flash and 30B Nemotron-3.5-A3B, at full context using zero GPUs.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, apologizing to his family and promising cooperation in an investigation. He vowed to earn back trust from colleagues and shareholders after damaging the company's reputation.

Person of Interest

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I started watching Person of Interest and it's brought back memories of the early 2010s, including tech forums and online communities. The show has aged remarkably well despite being 15 years old.

Writing as a thinking tool

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Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Without DMARC

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Microsoft's consumer mail service is rejecting emails from domains without a DMARC record, starting November 5, 2026. Adding a single TXT record with v=DMARC1; p=none can fix the issue and improve domain security.

RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC

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Iain Kay created an open-source BASH script called "Ram Altman" to mock Sam Altman's comments on OpenAI's RAM needs. The script emails sarcastic messages about unused RAM to users if set up correctly.

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

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Dux Modular Shell is a fast, customizable file manager with features like tabs and search. It's free to use, but donations support its development and releases.

Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down

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Tesla's Cybertruck has been a significant failure, with a $2 billion net loss and underwhelming sales. The company's lack of new product launches since JB Straubel stepped down as CTO in 2019 is concerning for its future direction.

OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation

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OpenAI raised $11 billion in funding at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below its initial ask of $1.4 trillion or $1.5 trillion, affecting investors like Microsoft and NVIDIA. The gap may impact the companies' valuations as OpenAI's business continues to grow despite AI stocks selling off after the round closed.

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

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The author proposes a shared format for agent memory, building on existing proposals and tools like OpenTelemetry. A standard agreement is needed to avoid fragmentation and allow different tools to read each other's data.

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

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KetchUp is a free, open-source 3D modeling app for woodworking and furniture design. It allows users to create and edit models with various tools and features before exporting them as OBJ files or saving locally.

Petered

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The Peter Principle suggests people are promoted until they reach incompetence, but career pressure can lead them to take on more tasks and risk losing their job. This creates a situation where individuals may become "imposters," pretending competence while actually doing dirty work or sabotaging others to advance their careers.

How I Fight AI Brain Fry

The author shares their solution to managing multiple tasks with AI tools, using a priority queue in Git and a script that prioritizes items waiting on human judgment. This approach helps focus on one task at a time, reducing mental exhaustion and improving productivity.

ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

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iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that skips YouTube ads and auto-mutes them, but may require device pairing due to changes in screen ID codes. It can be run on a computer with network access, either automatically or manually added with a YouTube TV code.

GitHub Down Again?

The Linux kernel is the core of any Linux operating system, managing hardware and providing fundamental services. Users can find various resources for getting started, reporting bugs, building kernels, and contributing to the community.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

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Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

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Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding

Varnish cache server

ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui

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ZapFast is a WhatsApp client written in Rust with egui and fastframe, offering native desktop apps and encrypted chat storage. It allows users to send formatted text, media, and messages without linking to a server.

A Little Snitch for Windows

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PacketHound is a Windows tool that enhances the firewall by asking for permission before outgoing connections, allowing users to block specific apps or websites. It integrates with Windows Firewall and doesn't collect any data, making it a useful alternative to traditional firewalls.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

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The author has developed a text rendering technique for the RP2350 microcontroller board, using bitmap fonts and a "just-in-time" (JIT) compiler to generate optimized code. The JIT compiler runs under 100µs before scanout of the video line, making it suitable for real-time applications like racing-the-beam rendering.

Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker CEOs Aren't Buying It

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Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship

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SpaceX's Starship is set to launch on November 13, with a live webcast and potential hours of live views from orbit. The mission aims to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and test the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.

I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)

The author criticizes Deno's permission system as fundamentally insecure and misleading, citing issues with its terminal prompt feature and environment variable handling. This approach allows for potential sandbox escapes and security risks due to the lack of proper isolation.

UK House of Lords to propose mandatory CSAM detection software on smartphones

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A cross-party alliance in the UK parliament proposes blocking all smartphones and tablets from viewing or creating child sexual abuse material, with technology companies required to install software on devices sold in Britain. The government has already promised legislation to force Apple and Google to prevent children from taking or sharing nude images on devices.

Chimera Vocal Synth

CHIMERA: a physically modelled voice synthesizer. Every sound comes from a simulated airway.

Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment

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Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina developed high-voltage photography in 1939, leading to the field of Kirlian Photography. The process involves applying high voltage to an object, creating a corona discharge that is recorded onto film.

The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford

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The author launched a web-based office suite, TinyLittleOffice.com, which gained significant attention and became the top ten on Product Hunt. The success highlights how powerful web browsers have become for app development, making it easier and cheaper to create software.

How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1

The author discusses e-graphs, a data structure for maintaining congruence relations on expression trees. They introduce the concept of initial functors and how they can be used to reason with diagrams in a finitely presented category.

Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S.

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Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise

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Ornithopter drone mimics bird flight to evade detection, successfully hiding from sensors at a recent Air Force tech exercise. The small UAS can change color and shape to blend in with its environment, making it difficult for humans and counter-UAS systems to detect.

Herb Sutter: When a language's creator and its owners strongly disagree [pdf]

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WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator

WaveDude Next is a 2D wave simulator for optics on Windows, allowing users to create and edit scenes with various optical parts. The program offers features such as GPU acceleration, export options, and manual documentation.

A field guide to CAPTCHA types and how they break

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FuckCaptcha is an open reference for CAPTCHA types, their context and approaches, intended for education and authorized research. It provides a practical guide to navigate and compare CAPTCHA families with responsible use guidelines.

A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books

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I have never seen a game fail because the artists were too slow

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The article discusses the high cost of rework in software development, particularly in AAA game projects, where 30-50% of effort is spent on reworking code. This can lead to significant financial losses and a lack of stability in project direction. The author argues that measuring the impact of AI-generated assets on production costs is crucial to understanding its effectiveness.

Playing with the STM32MP2

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The author has been working on a project using the STM32MP2 microcontroller, which they found to have a silicon bug in its Resource Isolation Slave unit (RISAF) that allows for potential TrustZone bypass. This bug can be exploited by sending 32-bit read transactions to the PCIe configuration and BAR address spaces, resulting in all-zero readbacks instead of actual values. The author has ...

Apple CEO Presses Software Chief to Pursue More Ambitious AI Strategy

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Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)

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The article guides users on how to run CP/M 3.0 on Linux using the z80pack Z80 emulator, specifically to play Zork 1, a classic text-based adventure game. Users need to download and build z80pack and cpmtools before setting up virtual disks for the game files.

I'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone

StatCraft is a free, open-source statistical software package built in 100% pure Safe Rust, offering an intuitive graphical interface and deterministic analytical engine. It provides various statistical procedures and data manipulations with zero legacy C/Fortran code.

Show HN: Maple – Sub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU

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The MAPLE pruning method reduces the size of a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, from 9.92 GB to 4.75 GB while maintaining its performance and functionality on target tasks, such as Python algorithmic synthesis and data structures. This is achieved by identifying and removing dormant experts that are not active in the target domain.

I Use Development-Driven Specs, Not Spec-Driven Development

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The Ensemble coding agent is built using C# 14 and .NET 10, developed inside Cadence, to create an executable specification for building a system. The goal is to pair-program with the AI, document expertise through code and notes, and test the teaching with a new student agent.