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.

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.

Service degradation on Microsoft 365

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

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Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a new AI model that offers speed and efficiency for everyday coding and agentic workflows, surpassing its predecessor in certain areas. It's priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, making it accessible to a broader audience.

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.

Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately

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"Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding"

Writing correct software is hard and math alone won’t help us (2016)

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Writing correct programs is hard because it requires understanding and analyzing complex interactions between basic components, which are inherently intractable to fully reason about mathematically. To overcome this limitation, empirical study and ad-hoc techniques can be used to identify useful local properties and simplify assumptions for specific cases, but there is no single solution or ...

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

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A critical synchronization vulnerability (CVE-2026-119618) in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. Vulnerable installations should be updated to version 2.4.71 or later, or temporarily disabled until patched.

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.

Rust 1.100

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Cargo has introduced new features, including a linting system and minimum publish age configurations. These changes aim to improve the package management process with more control over dependencies and build artifacts.

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.

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.

Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep

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Nintendo sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting Yuzu and Citron Neo emulators, as well as mod chip firmware. The move aims to prevent users from playing pirated copies of Nintendo games on the Switch console.

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.

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.

Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

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AMD's Zen 6 and Zen 6c cores have evolved from the previous generation, with improvements in IPC, vector scheduler size, and branch predictor accuracy. The new designs aim to balance performance and power efficiency.

Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price

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Researchers found that data centers disproportionately burden lower-income and rural residents with energy costs, despite paying only 38% of infrastructure costs. The study recommends changes to cost-sharing rules and strategies to alleviate the strain on grids.

Our software engineering interviews are changing a little

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Jane Street is evolving its coding interview process to incorporate AI tools, focusing on software design and code quality rather than just writing code. The new format will include more high-level discussions and less coding, but traditional coding interviews will still be a part of the process.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, has resigned after allegations of an affair with a Chinese spy and another woman at his company. Colette Kress will be interim CEO until a new leader is found.

Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs

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Researchers have found evidence that six Chinese AI models, including those from DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, were trained on export-controlled NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. The findings suggest that these companies gained access to the restricted hardware despite export restrictions.

Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation into Suspected Spy's Company

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Singapore's government says the US provided little help in its investigation into Alice Huang, a woman at the center of a spy plot involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Singapore authorities held her passport and issued a stern warning after finding "insufficient evidence" against her.

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.

Libreagi – Save OSS Models

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LibreAGI is a private BitTorrent tracker for model preservation, where members keep copies of models likely to disappear. It uses Apache-2.0, MIT or Qwen Community License and allows public access with no account needed.

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.

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

You've made significant progress on your Linux pinball simulation engine, adding features like sound systems and physics improvements. You plan to showcase the demo at IAAPA Expo next week to gauge interest in support and collaboration for future development.

Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes

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Scientists at Curtin University have linked mysterious radio pulses to a dead star and a Sun-like star, breaking new ground in understanding long-period transients. The discovery provides insight into the pulsations coming from a region close to the white dwarf or possibly even from it itself.

ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS

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ExcalidrawZ is an enhanced version of Excalidraw with added features like file management, iCloud sync, and AI assistance. It records checkpoints for app-managed drawings and integrates with Apple platforms for a seamless experience.

PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC 2 Released

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PostgreSQL has released an update to all supported versions, including 18.7 and 19 RC2, fixing 52 security vulnerabilities and over 140 bugs reported in the last several months. The update also includes fixes for various issues such as index corruption, partition pruning, and query performance regressions.

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

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AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers

The surge of AI-generated apps is overwhelming Apple's app review process, causing delays and rejections for many developers. The flood of new iOS music apps has led to a backlog in reviews, with some developers waiting weeks or even months for their apps to be approved.

Running web sites makes me not want to

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Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore

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The author reflects on their 15 years of experience in software development, realizing that their intuition and gut feelings may not be as reliable due to changes in the industry. They share examples of successful "bad ideas" and discuss how they're adapting to a new reality where knowledge is less valuable but judgement is still important.

Why You Should Expect an AI Crash

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Artificial-intelligence models are rapidly growing in power, with a major listing expected next week. However, concerns over scandals and potential tech busts may cast doubt on the industry's stability.

Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable Bars Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux

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The user has a PCIe switch with six cards, including four AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700s and two RTX 3090s, which are connected to the CPU without going through it. The user installed a module from GitHub to set the Resizable BAR sizes for each card before loading the GPU drivers.

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.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned amid reports of multiple extramarital relationships, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

AWS Lambda Web Functions keep billing memory ~7 minutes after the last request

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The authors initially used AWS Lambda Web Functions but switched to running their own compute due to high idle memory costs. They found that running their own compute was faster and more cost-effective, with initial experiments handling 300 concurrent requests without errors.

Show HN: Fable52.games – Play and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games

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Claude Fable 5.2 is a frontier model that can autonomously build 3D and 2D games from single prompts, producing complete games in one HTML file. The models' creations range from FPS games to open-world westerns, with all code generated at runtime for offline play in any modern browser.

Lean Grimoire

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I rebuilt a Javascript interactive textbook called "Lean Grimoire" to teach propositional and first-order logic, adding features like in-progress proof display and fantasy mode. I'm looking for playtesting to improve the app as a teaching tool for logical proofs.

I caught Microsoft Defender uploading my unreleased software without asking

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The author's Windows Defender uploaded their unreleased programs to Microsoft without consent, and they later discovered this was due to a default setting that automatically sends safe samples. The author disabled the setting but found it changed back, resulting in 25 uploads after re-enabling it.

Electric ship batteries promise compact, cooler power

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Xing Mobility's Immersio CTP pack, a submerged battery system, claims to store up to twice the energy of conventional marine batteries. The company says its design reduces dead weight and sheds heat more efficiently than traditional systems.

Adapting CPython for Yk

The author has successfully adapted the YK JIT compiler to work with CPython, a popular Python interpreter, achieving performance gains of 2.7x compared to the original CPython and 0.43x compared to the experimental JIT compiler. The adaptation involved adding support for YK's meta-tracing JIT compiler and optimizing interpreter dispatch.

Show HN: Kapso – Iterative learning from enterprise data

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Distributed Ray Tracer

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A Rust-based distributed ray tracer: describe a scene, and every tile is traced in parallel on Cloudflare Workers, orchestrated by Hatchet.

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.

Show HN: AI Red Lines – write down what would make you act on AI

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A red line is a written goal with specific actions to take when it's crossed, helping people reach their objectives more effectively. By implementing steps such as sharing goals, reporting progress, and keeping records, individuals can increase their chances of success.

Darling Development Update – Q4 2026

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The Darling project has adopted a new policy on AI-assisted contributions and achieved initial ARM64 support, allowing it to compete with Apple on a more level playing ground. The team plans to stabilize AppKit support, add GUI applications, and make the codebase easier to contribute to.

Richard Posner has died

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Richard Allen Posner, a renowned law and economics scholar and former federal appellate judge, died at 87. He was widely considered the most influential legal scholar of all time for his prolific writings and judicial decisions.

Jensen Huang resigning effective immediately

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Paths in Pieces

Many Linux distributions and package managers audit binaries for non-relocatable paths, but string constants are not always stored literally in the binary.

AI Models Know What Women, Peace and Security Is. They Just Don't Bring It Up

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The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) has developed a benchmark to evaluate AI systems' ability to follow Women, Peace and Security (WPS) principles in global peacekeeping. The benchmark assesses models' performance on 30 scenarios, with scores ranging from 0.16 to 0.87, indicating varying levels of gender sensitivity.

Code Smells of Desperation (2023)

The author analyzed the math exception handler of WIN87EM.DLL, a Windows 3.1 library that emulates x87 floating-point operations, and found it to be convoluted and seemingly nonsensical. The code appears to have been written in desperation to make it work despite numerous changes and potential hardware issues.

Show HN: A self-hosted PHP platform combining CMS, e-commerce and more, built-in

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Vale is a web platform combining CMS, e-commerce, newsletters, forms, analytics, multilingual content, security, and more.

Apify Security Incident

Apify's internal systems were accessed by an unauthorized third party on November 9-10, but access was cut off and the incident is still under investigation. Affected users will be notified individually if their account or data was compromised.