Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

85 Philpax 2026-11-04 19:50:26 UTC ricursive.com Llama Share 31

Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose language model that achieves US open-weight state-of-the-art (80.52) on agentic coding, trained from scratch for $32M. The model is designed to be efficient and scalable, with a dense architecture and optimized training recipe.

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

911 pseudolus 2026-11-04 12:50:26 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 555

A major PHP2Shell vulnerability was discovered in late October, putting numerous websites at risk of data breaches and malware installation. A patch has been released, but experts warn that this may be a canary in the coal mine for future AI-driven vulnerabilities.

A new Go API for JSON

131 olexsmir 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC go.dev Llama Share 35

The Go standard library has updated its JSON support with a new version, v2, which addresses several issues and improves performance. The new encoding/json/v2 package provides a more flexible and efficient way to marshal and unmarshal JSON data in Go.

Insects Don't Swarm at LED Lights

36 speckx 2026-11-04 19:51:26 UTC birdsoutsidemywindow.org Llama Share 20

Insects are attracted to outdoor lights, but LED lights emit less UV light than incandescent or fluorescent lights, making them less appealing. This reduced attraction can help mitigate disturbances to wildlife and insect-borne diseases.

Progress on provable inference for large language models

133 ltononro 2026-11-04 17:50:26 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 60

Researchers at Anthropic have developed a system called FlashProve, which enables provable inference for large language models. The system uses zero-knowledge succinct arguments (zkSNARKs) to prove that a response came from the specific model requested by the user.

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

24 peter_d_sherman 2026-11-04 19:56:26 UTC qualcomm.com Llama Share 7

The Qualcomm AI Inference Suite is a comprehensive software solution for on-premises and cloud deployments, offering ready-to-use AI applications and tools for operationalizing generative AI. It supports various APIs, frameworks, and services for building enterprise-grade chatbots, co-pilots, and AI agents.

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

19 PaulHoule 2026-11-04 19:50:26 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 10

DoorDash's CEO Tony Xu notes that AI agents are generating a "very low use case" for ordering food, despite handling over 1 billion orders in the third quarter. He sees potential for AI to be helpful with long consideration purchases and major decisions.

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

539 novaRom 2026-11-04 08:50:26 UTC mindstudio.ai Llama Share 243

The RTX Spark laptop's GPU is underpowered when running Linux due to a lack of power management firmware, causing it to run at 780 MHz instead of 2 GHz. A dual-boot setup using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) provides better performance and avoids the throttling issue.

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

38 lukeigel 2026-11-04 17:50:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 23

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Have I Befriended a Murderer?

58 gmays 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC longreads.com Llama Share 20

The author spent 5 years researching the case of Robin Garbutt, a man convicted of murdering his wife Diana in their post office. He met with Robin while visiting him in prison and discovered that he had sent the author extensive documents detailing his life and case, including witness statements and forensic evidence. The author is now considering whether Robin's guilt or innocence can be proven.

Tencent Hy4

129 Philpax 2026-11-04 14:50:26 UTC hy.tencent.ai Llama Share 39

Hy4 is a major leap forward in open-source models, offering vision capabilities and significant gains in instruction following, long-context understanding, and more. It supports vision perception for the first time and has been integrated into various products to improve financial research, office document tasks, game development, and team collaboration.

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

96 itunpredictable 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC openai.com Llama Share 41

OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company, Inc to build on its Git workflows and adapt them for coding agents. The acquisition aims to advance the future of source control across the industry with Codex as a central platform.

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

342 rbanffy 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 114

AMD reports its highest quarterly revenue ever, driven by strong demand for Epyc data center processors and Instinct AI accelerators. The company expects Q4 revenue to reach $17 billion, surpassing Intel's forecast for the first time in history.

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

479 smalltech 2026-11-04 14:50:26 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 282

North Korean hackers used social engineering tactics, including fake job interviews and malware downloads, to breach Binance's systems before a record-breaking $6.3 billion heist. The attack involved multiple stages and techniques, including compromised internal AI tooling and endpoint takeover.

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

206 zenincognito 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC 99percentinvisible.org Llama Share 144

A group of urban activists in San Francisco installed protected bike lanes using traffic cones, prompting the city to make the change official after a similar installation elsewhere. The move suggests that cities are open to progress and may be willing to support changes in street safety.

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

202 ersinesen 2026-11-04 09:50:26 UTC blog.cosmos-institute.org Llama Share 117

Jessica Hullman argues that the value-free ideal in science, prioritizing correctness over understanding and accountability, is flawed. She believes this ideal distorts how we seek truth and threatens human capacities that sustain science.

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

230 kevcampb 2026-11-04 10:50:26 UTC githubstatus.com Full Share 117

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues.

Conductor Is Joining Meta

25 kenrose 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC conductor.build Llama Share 14

Conductor was launched in July 2025, and the team has big plans for its next interface. Conductor will continue to work normally until early next year, with Conductor Cloud shutting down over the next few weeks.

Show HN: I built a tool that prices a prebuilt PC part by part

71 adlep 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC pcdealcheck.com Llama Share 49

PC Deal Check is a tool that helps users compare computer prices by analyzing retailer listings and estimating component costs. It provides a report with the deal's grade, estimated parts cost, and price comparison to help users make informed purchasing decisions.

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

252 abrarthought 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 66

Kimi K3.1 Pro is a multimodal agentic model that delivers improvements in coding, 3D creation, and factual accuracy compared to its predecessor Kimi K3. It uses Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention layers for efficient long-context modeling.

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

557 jameslk 2026-11-04 10:50:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 141

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Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

11 daniel_rh 2026-11-04 19:50:26 UTC fireflyk64.github.io Llama Share 2

The author created a multiplayer version of the classic game Wing Commander using DOSBox and WebRTC, allowing players to connect and play together online. The project involved reverse-engineering the game's memory layout and writing custom code to control player movement and interactions.

Jelly Sheet

435 memalign 2026-11-04 03:50:26 UTC mrdoob.github.io Full Share 110

CODEVEMBER 2026 / 01 / FOLD Preparing plastic…

Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language

77 jordan_bonecut 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC evergreenlang.net Llama Share 72

Evergreen ensures explicit contracts, checked invariants, and memory control through constructor preconditions and postconditions. It verifies obligations at compile-time to guarantee correctness.

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region

6 gmays 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC news.cornell.edu LocalLLM Share 0

A study found domesticated foxes show reduced aggression-related neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus compared to wild and aggressive foxes. This suggests rapid neurological changes underlie tame behavior, offering insights into how domestication alters brain structure.

Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust

18 witcher 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC bwplotka.dev Llama Share 3

The author built benchfmt.rs, a zero-dependency Rust benchmark runner that converts to Go's benchstat format. It includes features like heap tracking and pprof profiling, allowing for A/B testing between Go and Rust. The author benchmarks varint and Prometheus Remote Write 2.0 decoding across both languages to compare efficiency.

Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole

27 isalexlog 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC streamvessel.com Llama Share 2

A Slack bot and service on a VPS are trying to register with an MCP server, but the registration fails due to an invalid redirect URI. The issue is that the MCP server only accepts addresses from its operator's allowlist, which includes domains like Claude and ChatGPT.

Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet

38 reedciccio 2026-11-04 15:50:26 UTC getgrist.com Llama Share 23

A traditional spreadsheet's "previous row" concept is flawed when rows are rearranged, and alternative methods like OFFSET() or SCAN() formulas can solve this issue. Database-like tools like Airtable and Baserow use window functions to achieve a running balance, while Grist uses the PREVIOUS() function with ordering in the formula for accurate results.

Kitty 0.50

337 porridgeraisin 2026-11-04 09:50:26 UTC sw.kovidgoyal.net Llama Share 212

kitty has been updated with numerous features, including support for Custom Shaders, docked windows, and improved performance. The update also includes new options for customizing kitty's behavior, such as remapping modifiers and controlling how padding strips are colored in splits layouts.

This Month in Ladybird – October 2026

76 BitPirate 2026-11-04 18:50:26 UTC ladybird.org Llama Share 23

Ladybird browser moved style and layout to their own thread, allowing animations to run while JavaScript is busy. The new JIT engine improves performance by compiling hot JavaScript to machine code.