Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

863 meetpateltech 2026-11-09 18:56:29 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 521

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models have improved capabilities in coding, reasoning, and vision, with strong cybersecurity and biology safeguards to prevent misuse. These models are suitable for ambitious technical work and can be used for various applications such as robotics evaluations, hardware engineering, and scientific research.

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

822 vismit2000 2026-11-09 12:19:22 UTC foldableflight.com Full Share 134

X-01 Missile spirals as it flies and is ready to take down your next target! Vapor is one of the easiest planes on this website, and it flies really well!

Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

724 rzk 2026-11-09 07:04:25 UTC twitter.com/shanemelaugh Full Share 468

quick test on a real bug showed Opus 5.5 high jumping into action too quickly, getting confused and being unable to find a fix after 3 full hours. meanwhile Opus 5.5 xhigh takes a moment to think, finds a fix after a few minutes.

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

597 infosecau 2026-11-09 00:10:50 UTC shubs.io Llama Share 328

A security researcher collaborated with Sam Curry to test the connected car system of a major automaker, finding vulnerabilities in their OpenIDM instance. They exploited weaknesses in authentication and authorization mechanisms to gain remote access to vehicles across Australia.

Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia

467 edward 2026-11-09 12:30:20 UTC economist.com Llama Share 410

The Yongle encyclopedia, a 15th-century reference work, was surpassed by Wikipedia after just six years. Today, Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia with over 30 billion words in more than 300 languages.

Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system

447 ocd 2026-11-09 16:00:45 UTC payments.ca Llama Share 254

Payments Canada launched the Real-Time Rail, a national payment system enabling instant speed and settlement in real-time. The RTR will transform day-to-day payments for Canadian businesses and consumers with greater visibility and control over cash.

RIP, Harvest

430 zdw 2026-11-09 01:58:21 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 134

The author, a self-employed contractor, expresses disappointment with Harvest's recent price increase and changes in their service. They are now considering finding a new invoicing and bookkeeping system due to concerns over the cost and lack of customer support.

USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

409 munro 2026-11-09 19:58:59 UTC postalpro.usps.com Llama Share 203

USPS ZIP Code Boundaries provides accurate national map data for industries like mapping, logistics, and real estate. It helps correct existing data as changes occur and serves as a proxy for delivery location groupings.

I saw your HN comment

403 joshstrange 2026-11-09 15:01:03 UTC joshstrange.com Llama Share 289

The author's online interactions have become increasingly spammy, with most emails being pitches rather than genuine conversations. They're struggling to distinguish between real questions and deceptive sales attempts using AI-generated emails.

Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

331 gf74918 2026-11-09 18:24:38 UTC github.com/thisisme6598 Llama Share 84

Google has quietly reversed its promise that personal content from Gmail, Docs, and Drive is not seen by human reviewers. Google now confirms that connected Drive/email is routed into human review pipelines without explicit tags.

Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)

316 nosecreek 2026-11-09 18:27:58 UTC westcentralonline.com Llama Share 471

Canada's nationwide consultation on men's health found nearly 6,000 Canadians are struggling with mental health and social isolation issues. The findings will help shape the country's first federal strategy dedicated to improving men's health and well-being.

Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

292 EmX_3000 2026-11-09 17:36:20 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 180

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When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385

275 pera 2026-11-09 17:42:55 UTC cnx-software.com Llama Share 242

Raspberry Pi has increased prices for most models with 16GB RAM, with the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB now costing $385. Other single-board computers and system-on-modules have also seen price hikes due to high RAM costs.

Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics' cleverest trick yet

262 speckx 2026-11-09 14:31:39 UTC anthropocenemagazine.org Llama Share 164

Researchers developed semi-transparent solar panels that allow plants to receive necessary wavelengths while generating electricity, potentially increasing crop yields and reducing land use. This innovative approach could help meet US electricity needs with minimal impact on agriculture.

Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, Highest So Far

260 theanonymousone 2026-11-09 20:04:55 UTC artificialanalysis.ai Llama Share 182

Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) is a high-intelligence model with expensive pricing ($8/1M input tokens and $40/1M output tokens), but scores well above average on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (65).

E-means: 10x faster k-means at equal loss

250 porridgeraisin 2026-11-09 18:45:43 UTC e-means.github.io Llama Share 15

e-means outperforms Lloyd's algorithm in k-means clustering by achieving lower test loss and faster training times, with a 10-45x speedup on GPU and 8-15x speedup on CPU. e-means uses exponential moving averages to update centroids, which provides better initialization and dead-cluster revival strategies compared to traditional mini-batch methods.

Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

230 dvaplima 2026-11-09 17:58:46 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 96

Muse Ember is a model that helps agents with coding and agentic tasks by carrying out business workflows end-to-end, reading files, running tests, and making targeted fixes. It's available today on Muse Code and Meta Model API for $0.10 per million input tokens.

What is malloc doing, anyway?

213 benmandrew 2026-11-09 11:31:05 UTC benmandrew.com Llama Share 59

The malloc function in GNU libc uses a combination of syscalls and bookkeeping to manage memory. It can be optimized by using a bump allocator, which moves the program break up instead of requesting new memory from the kernel.

Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos

212 a585gupt 2026-11-09 17:51:31 UTC watched.earth Full Share 42

Enter any place on Earth. See every satellite that passed over it this week, and the actual pictures they took.

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

205 DenGorbachev 2026-11-09 08:17:49 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 71

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Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge"

189 ceejayoz 2026-11-09 15:23:57 UTC denverpost.com Llama Share 176

The Ethereum Foundation sent a 38-page document to employees outlining leadership's vision for the next 1,000 years, which included a suicide pledge that sparked employee resistance. The foundation ultimately fired an employee who led opposition to the pledge and later settled with her in a lawsuit.

Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

175 theanonymousone 2026-11-09 07:20:37 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 40

A new model called Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) is introduced, which combines coarse-to-fine framework and parallel sampling to improve generation speed. NCM achieves better generative perplexity than diffusion models while running significantly faster on various tasks.

TPUs

169 _benx_ 2026-11-09 21:56:57 UTC blog.google Llama Share 28

Google has released four new TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) systems, including 8t for large-scale training, 8i for real-time reasoning, 8tx for secure and confidential inference, and 8i Max for massive context windows. These systems offer improved performance and efficiency in various AI workloads.

The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it

165 datareceipts 2026-11-09 15:39:01 UTC github.com/datareceipts Llama Share 84

On-demand GPU rental prices vary significantly across AWS, Azure, and the neoclouds. The cheapest option is around $1,964 per month for a single GPU from RunPod Community or Azure's ND series with 400 Gbps InfiniBand.

Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present

159 speckx 2026-11-09 13:27:01 UTC reactormag.com Llama Share 124

Children of Men (2006) is a thought-provoking sci-fi film that explores the consequences of human infertility and societal collapse, offering a powerful commentary on politics, power, and hope. The movie's innovative cinematography and direction create a visceral experience that draws viewers into its bleak yet hopeful world.

CUI – Native UI components for C

141 hilti 2026-11-09 19:35:16 UTC yappologistic.github.io Full Share 71

Native UI components for C: about 190 components with spring motion and keyboard support, running live.

DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W

136 giuliomagnifico 2026-11-09 18:33:58 UTC eetimes.com Full Share 22

A Critique of GPUI

133 ByteAtATime 2026-11-09 03:51:10 UTC blog.zortax.de Llama Share 96

The author questions the suitability of GPUI and egui as native desktop GUI frameworks due to their state models being dead ends for complex applications. They argue that these frameworks' inability to track reads and provide precision in updates leads to performance issues.

Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster

118 unikcc 2026-11-09 04:43:12 UTC github.com/omnijev Llama Share 28

Flide is a fast inference infrastructure for Jev-style decision models, offering exact state forking that accelerates inference by up to 9.5 times compared to vLLM and SGLang.

Try Gleam

113 nchagnet 2026-11-09 11:55:14 UTC nchagnet.eu Llama Share 120

The author has been exploring Gleam, a functional language targeting the Erlang VM and JavaScript, finding it similar to Rust but with simpler syntax. The language's strong type system and ability to compile to both BEAM and JavaScript make it suitable for building concurrent systems.

Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library

109 Riiiiichard 2026-11-09 14:34:00 UTC github.com/ikey4u Llama Share 42

Zebkit is a library that embeds Chromium's engine, providing a fast and lightweight alternative to Electron. It allows developers to build native applications with web views, media support, and more.

Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers

98 rbanffy 2026-11-09 10:11:47 UTC rbanffy.github.io Llama Share 36

The VM/370 Community Edition OS can be run on emulated or real machines, offering a set of improvements and fixes based on IBM's original VM/370 release. Users can interact with the system using x3270 emulator, edit files with EE editor, and access various features such as disk management and file transfer.

Infineon marks innovation milestone with 300mm power silicon carbide wafer

94 sshah03 2026-11-09 18:25:01 UTC infineon.com Llama Share 58

Infineon successfully processed 300-millimeter silicon carbide wafers into functional power devices, showcasing its innovation strength in power semiconductors and wide-bandgap technologies. The company will present the first processed 300-millimeter SiC wafer at the electronica trade show starting November 10, 2026.

Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI

92 shayan_abbas 2026-11-09 16:36:38 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 33

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6 Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here

75 samirswr 2026-11-09 11:36:55 UTC github.com/samir-sarwar Llama Share 12

This project teaches LLM inference from first principles using a C++ and CUDA engine, explaining the process between prompt loading to generated token output. The code includes various batching strategies for efficient processing of multiple requests concurrently.

PixelOS

74 emilburzo 2026-11-09 07:31:14 UTC pixelos.net Full Share 62

PixelOS is an AOSP based ROM, with Google apps included and all Pixel goodies. We aim to provide an experience similar to Google Pixel phones with numerous performance enhancements and a small amount of useful additional features.

Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse

70 raiseCatError 2026-11-09 18:39:22 UTC meowdisplay.app Llama Share 25

MeowDisplay turns an iPhone, iPad or Android into a Mac display for mirroring and controlling with touch. It allows individual windows to be displayed as tabs or split into panes on the external device.

A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code

64 thelifeline 2026-11-09 22:19:12 UTC reddit.com Full Share 65

To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer tokenIf you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.

Pigshell: Unix the Web

64 pbohun 2026-11-09 15:18:19 UTC pigshell.com Full Share 18

Loading kernel... Follow @pigshell Github Blog

Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says

57 disenchanted 2026-11-09 19:33:09 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 80

France vows European sanctions against Iran for massive cyber-attacks on supermarkets and other facilities, described as "unprecedented scale and aggression". The attacks, linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, have caused significant damage and disruption across Europe.

Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?

51 hasley 2026-11-09 09:50:03 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 71

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Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100

48 Dodaios 2026-11-09 18:05:44 UTC github.com/dodaios Llama Share 12

STE80 Humanizer is a tool that makes AI-written text readable like a human wrote it, without changing its content. It combines two methods: Karpathy's STE80 method and the humanizer method to achieve this goal.

Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests

48 amelius 2026-11-09 16:01:45 UTC science.org Full Share 49

Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session)

47 parkgraph 2026-11-09 19:55:53 UTC parkgraph.com Full Share 25

The per-session fee parking apps charge drivers in 312 U.S. places: ParkMobile, PayByPhone, Passport, Flowbird and city apps, from official help and city pages.

Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away

47 4onthefloor124 2026-11-09 18:50:56 UTC someonewashere.app Llama Share 19

A Mac app called Someone Was Here takes photos of people who use it while you're away and sends them to your phone instantly. It's a free download with an optional $4.99 one-time purchase for instant alerts on your iPhone.

Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware

46 p4p1 2026-11-09 09:22:30 UTC leosmith.wtf Llama Share 13

The author shares their research on secure boot, a feature that was initially misunderstood as locking down the operating system. They explain how it actually ensures the integrity of the booting OS and can be bypassed with Microsoft-signed keys or custom enrollment.

The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010)

45 niceguitars 2026-11-09 03:15:17 UTC mamememo.blogspot.com Llama Share 2

Google's system detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using Google services temporarily.

370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

44 theanonymousone 2026-11-09 07:21:33 UTC enca.com Llama Share 87

South African writer Coral Hart has published over 370 books using artificial intelligence since 2025, despite criticism and threats. She defends her use of AI in publishing, citing its ability to produce high-quality content that sells well.

On Being an Engineer in 2026

42 talboren 2026-11-09 15:07:23 UTC twitter.com/shaharglazner Llama Share 60

The author reflects on how AI agents are increasingly taking over tasks, but still acknowledges human leverage in certain areas. Despite the rise of AI, humans retain some unique abilities that cannot be fully replicated by machines.

Jensen Huang scandal sparks divorce speculation

39 MadrasThorn 2026-11-09 22:50:35 UTC forbes.com Full Share 57

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A Bit about Email

39 vinhnx 2026-11-09 02:46:21 UTC maurycyz.com Llama Share 4

The author explains the process of sending an email, from user's MUA to recipient's LDA, involving various components like SMTP, MTA and LDA. The email is checked for authentication and SPF before being delivered to the recipient.

Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering

31 ForHackernews 2026-11-09 11:30:27 UTC zenodo.org Llama Share 62

Human-Directed Agentic Engineering (HDAE) successfully built a Rust-first x86-64 kernel that boots and runs Linux programs, demonstrating rapid integration of established systems mechanisms. However, the prototype has narrow compatibility and hardware coverage, lacks an independent security audit, and is not production-ready.

Our newest TPUs: 8tx and 8i Max, built for the agentic era

27 meetpateltech 2026-11-09 13:02:50 UTC blog.google Llama Share 4

Google has released four new TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) systems, including 8t for large-scale training, 8i for real-time reasoning, 8tx for secure and confidential inference, and 8i Max for massive context windows. These systems offer improved performance and efficiency in various AI workloads.

Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game

23 lexandstuff 2026-11-09 23:08:13 UTC notesbylex.com Llama Share 9

A user asked Fable 5.2 to create a custom beat 'em up game based on their nephew's drawings, with family members as playable characters and unlockable pets, aiming for a fun and arcade-like experience like Ninja Turtles. The generated game exceeded expectations with original art, music, and an announcer shouting out character names in a four-player mode.

I did a meditation and it sort of changed my personality?

19 gHeadphone 2026-11-09 22:23:00 UTC benkuhn.net Llama Share 2

The author attended a Jhourney meditation retreat, which profoundly reshaped their relationship with themselves and emotions. They learned to welcome and accept all emotions, leading to increased emotional awareness and depth in personal relationships.

Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows

18 tapper 2026-11-09 10:23:02 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 26

The UK's new car market saw a significant shift towards battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in October, with BEV sales accounting for 32% of the market. This trend is expected to continue, potentially leading to petrol cars being overtaken by BEVs within a year.

Supply chain attack on Qubole customers

15 ronreiter 2026-11-09 21:07:26 UTC sentra.io Llama Share 6

A Qubole vendor key compromise exposed dozens of customers' data, as an attacker moved through multiple organizations using access granted by the compromised vendor. Sentra uncovered the attack in under 24 hours and helped affected companies contain it.

Exact – a new cross platform UI framework by the Expo team

14 vmg12 2026-11-09 22:59:13 UTC github.com/expo Llama Share 6

A coding agent can build, run and test an app on multiple platforms including web, macOS, iOS and Linux using Exact's cross-platform application runtime. The agent uses a declarative language to describe the interface and data logic in TypeScript or Rust.

Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers

14 danc2050 2026-11-09 19:12:16 UTC support.claude.com Llama Share 2

Claude Fable 5.2 is launching on November 9, offering extra Fable usage to subscribers with eligible paid plans for a limited time. The number of resets depends on subscription length, ranging from one reset under six months to three resets over a year or more.

Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt

11 Bnjoroge 2026-11-09 17:59:05 UTC github.com/preloopdev Llama Share 5

Loopt generates GitHub Actions workflows from TypeScript, Python, Go, and Rust source code. It creates a starter workflow that can be edited freely before generating the final YAML file.