Hacker News Digest
· 82 Hacker News
The FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center advisory page, linked from a Hacker News post titled "FAA Issues National Ground Stop," displays only the message "NO Advisory." No ground stop, re…
LibreOffice's social media team posted a one-line jab at Microsoft 365's subscription model: the free, open-source office suite works 365 days a year, no subscription required. The post leans on the…
An internal Nvidia post urging the board to weigh employee sentiment about the company's former CEO Jensen Huang has drawn more than 1,600 comments, most of them backing his reinstatement. WIRED repo…
Tired of Coway's flaky cloud service banning his account and breaking his Home Assistant integration, a homeowner reverse-engineers the Airmega IconS purifier to control it locally. The trick: a 2026…
Anthropic is investigating an authentication issue affecting claude.ai, Claude Console at platform.claude.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The incident was posted on the Claude status page at 09:…
Microsoft has spent over 12 hours fighting an outage that knocked out Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 connectivity across multiple regions. Servers failed automated health checks and dropped offlin…
In a 1960 Science paper, Heinz von Foerster and his University of Illinois colleagues Patricia Mora and Lawrence Amiot fit world population data from the previous two millennia and found it accelerat…
IceWM is a lightweight X Window System window manager built for speed, simplicity, and staying out of your way. Created by Marko Maček in 1997 and now maintained on GitHub, it ships a taskbar with pa…
Edge0 open-sources Edge0-145B and Edge0-120B, calling the 145B version the first open-source on-device model at that scale. It runs locally on a compatible laptop with 29GB peak memory, 1,100+ tokens…
Kurt Gödel's 1,009 pages of 1940s workbooks, written in an obsolete German shorthand, had been yielding about a page a week to a Helsinki research team. Then Claude digested the whole archive in days…
A Hacker News discussion reacting to Rachel Kadish's essay on how AI-generated text undermines trust between writers and readers. Commenters push back hard: one argues there was never any trust to be…
A massive Microsoft outage knocked out Outlook, Teams and other office staples for millions worldwide, spreading from the Americas to 74 countries and territories within about an hour, according to D…
Six pallets of NVIDIA computer hardware worth a reported $11.4 million disappeared on a truck route from Oakland to Fort Worth. The vehicle, bearing a food transport company's logo, made several hour…
Teachers on r/Teachers are fed up with classroom technology after one parent counted 16 taps for a kid to open a PowerPoint on an iPad — and 17 more if the password is forgotten. The thread blames bl…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei promised, just before his company's IPO, that AI would make cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness relics of the past within ten years. Eli Lilly CEO Dave R…
Brave has added x402 support to its Search API, letting developers and autonomous AI agents pay per request in USDC on the Base blockchain instead of managing API keys. A request without payment gets…
C is still the author's favorite language, but not the one he wants to write new code in. Zig keeps C's small, close-to-the-metal, no-GC character while fixing the parts that cost time: errdefer repl…
After 600 experiments on LeWM, a JEPA world model benchmarked on Push-T, Haddy Alchaer found its learned predictions plan as well as the simulator's exact physics over its trained paths. The bigger w…
A Microsoft outage took down Outlook, Teams, and Copilot, and the fallout spread far beyond offices: schools, universities, and courts were affected too. The author argues that mass layoffs of engine…
Anthropic's Claude status page logged an active incident, and the outage quickly climbed to the top of Hacker News. The page offers email, SMS, Slack, Teams, webhook, and RSS alerts for anyone who ne…
A group of engineers and leaders at AIE Code Summit 2026 drafted a manifesto modeled on the 2001 Agile Manifesto, arguing that AI output becomes slop when we pass it along without owning its quality.…
A live aviation radio feed from Orcas Island's KORS airport in Washington's San Juan Islands, covering all frequencies at once. A traffic board compiled automatically from radio calls shows the busie…
M-VAVE has published the FM-1 Workbench, an open development kit for its FM-1 synthesizer. The app ships under GPLv3 with an SDK linking exception, while the boot, update, and recovery resources fall…
The Haskell Foundation's newly bootstrapped Technical Leadership Committee has laid out a vision for the ecosystem: iteration speed to rival Go, debugging to rival C#, onboarding to rival Rust, plus…
Google now requires schools that want to block AI Overviews to give up Google Search altogether, and parents and educators are furious. A former Google education lead suggests the policy may shield t…
U.S. producer prices climbed 6.5% year over year in October, the highest since November 2022, edging past the prior 6.3% but just under the 6.6% forecast. Month over month, PPI rose 0.3%, below the e…
Caixa Vida e Previdência, a subsidiary of Caixa Seguridade, told Brazil's data protection authority that attackers copied personal data out of its systems on November 6, 2026. Names and CPF taxpayer…
The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop, barring any flights from departing for US airports after an equipment outage. Aircraft already airborne are still cleared to land, and inbound international f…
Under pressure from US sanctions, the Netherlands is reportedly negotiating with Washington over restrictions that legal experts say would amount to dismantling the ICC: immunity for heads of state,…
Isometric SF transforms the entire San Francisco Bay Area into a browsable isometric pixel-art map. Built with Leaflet and rendered from Google Maps Photorealistic 3D Tiles, OpenStreetMap data, ESA W…
In a talk that answers its own provocative question, Jonathan Blow argues that AI tools haven't transformed software because organizations and people haven't changed what they optimize for or how the…
In 1984, Andy Hertzfeld demoed Thunderscan to Byte and saw a DOS utility called Memory Shift. He realized he could build an app switcher for the 512K Macintosh. Microsoft, worried about Lotus Jazz, f…
OpenAI has dissolved its stand-alone robotics team, reassigning researchers to its core research and applied groups, and even left its CoRL booth empty. The company says its general-purpose frontier…
MotherDuck's lead data engineer has no backlog for the first time in his career, but he's busier than ever: his job shifted from computing correct numbers to verifying the numbers an LLM or agent pro…
In Zimbabwe, a solar farm has no conventional site at all — just rows of panels on the rooftops of two tobacco warehouses in Harare, wired to supply a nearby factory. The Economist reports that such…
A Minnesota guitarist has invented Palmfrets, a device that lets players fret notes with the palm of the hand rather than the fingertips, opening up new chord shapes and techniques. The project has i…
A controlled probe shows that one model acting as an editor can write persistent changes directly into another model's weights, making a small Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct target answer "Buenos Aires" to a…
Lonewolf v0.3.0 is a pre-1.0, single-node XMPP server written in Rust. This release adds certificate-authenticated federation with other servers, direct TLS listeners, bidirectional connections, and…
A prolonged Microsoft 365 outage that began on November 12 knocked out Exchange Online, Teams, Copilot, and more, with recovery still underway the next day. Rivals including Nextcloud and Civo offere…
Researchers have identified granzyme K, an enzyme that accelerates ageing in the body's tissues. Aged mice engineered to lack the protein showed improved heart and liver function and less kidney dama…
A tracker of all 27 EU states' digital identity wallets shows just Denmark and Italy have publicly available national wallets, and neither is EUDI-certified yet. Three countries have wallets in real…
A filing with the SEC addresses reports of a hack at TSMC, but the company states it has found no evidence that its systems were compromised. The data in question was verified to match information st…
The FAA ordered an extremely rare nationwide ground stop at all U.S. airports on Friday afternoon, citing "extraordinary circumstances" and "reasons of safety." An air traffic control advisory direct…
A restaurant owner with no coding experience built a staff task app using Claude Code and asked the author to host it. It looked clean but had no login, no responsive layout, no error states, and no…
A nationwide student campaign is pushing universities to cut ties with Flock Safety's automated license plate readers. Since April, at least ten campuses in seven states have scrapped their contracts…
Rajendra Gupta and postdoc Nikolaos Samaras have spent two years testing CCC+TL, a model in which physical constants drift over time and light loses energy as it travels. The framework reproduces the…
Global EV sales rose 8% in October to 2.09 million, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Europe led with a 49% jump in battery electric vehicle sales, while North America posted its first yea…
William Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1984 novel that gave us cyberspace and brain-computer interfaces, has defeated Hollywood for four decades. On January 22, Apple TV releases the first screen adaptati…
Perplexity released Decider v1.3 and a distilled Flash v1.3, decision models that return probability distributions over yes/no, multiple-choice, or ordered-score questions in one forward pass. Built…
On November 9 and 10, an unauthorized third party used a compromised credential to obtain account credentials and access related Apify accounts. Apify detected the activity on November 11, cut off th…
The FBI says state-sponsored North Korean hackers have taken over $400 million in cryptocurrency from more than 900 victims in 18 months through a scheme dubbed FaceStealer. Hackers lure targets in c…
A worldwide Microsoft outage has knocked out Outlook, Teams and Copilot for more than ten hours, hitting users in 74 countries and disrupting government systems from Singapore to Japan. Microsoft bla…
After Google warned K-12 schools that rejecting its AI services would cost them student access to Search, Chicago Public Schools said it will simply find another search solution. A spokesperson said…
Sift is a Guile 3.0 tool that reads Lisp source as a tree of forms and rewrites only whitespace, guaranteeing byte-exact preservation of comments and idempotent formatting. It handles Scheme, Emacs L…
New York City's Council passed a bill banning surveillance pricing — charging shoppers different prices based on algorithms or personal data like browsing history, credit, and location. Fines reach $…
The US Department of Energy has cleared Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor near Lockhart, Texas, for unrestricted operations, moving it into research, testing, and training. Groves-1 hit first critic…
CERN is upgrading the Large Hadron Collider to the High-Luminosity LHC, aiming for 140 to 200 particle collisions 40 million times per second after 2030. The key: quadrupole magnets wound from brittl…
- ▲ 68Android's clipboard protections can be bypassed, and the clipboard itself is a security nightmare
A Hacker News discussion of a post on bypassing Android's clipboard read restrictions. Commenters argue the clipboard is a legacy feature that would never pass a modern privacy review, since any list…
Anthropic's Claude Meetings beta lets Claude sit in on Google Meet calls, answer questions aloud or in chat, and build docs and whiteboards live while the team edits. It writes notes and action items…
A blogger discovered that mataroa.site is serving a scraped, outdated copy of his personal blog, complete with watermarked images and hidden links to a cloning tool. The fake site impersonates both h…
A working prototype brings live migration to bhyve on FreeBSD 15.1: a running amd64 guest shifts between two hosts over TCP, pausing only for the final stop-and-copy. Built on experimental snapshot s…
Nvidia has approached Arm chief executive Rene Haas as it searches for a successor to Jensen Huang, according to the Financial Times. The move puts one of the chip industry's most prominent leaders i…
The National Weather Service reported nationwide internet and communications failures on Friday, leaving its forecasts and radar products unavailable or outdated while technicians worked to restore s…
Kelley Blue Book puts the average new-vehicle transaction price at $51,109, about $500 above the previous record set in December 2025. Tariffs, pricier chips and copper, and Americans' taste for big…
Richard A. Posner, who joined the University of Chicago Law School in 1969 and spent 36 years on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, died November 10 at 87. He authored some 3,300 opinio…
US intelligence agencies remain divided over whether Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman who had an affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to spy…
Charlie Holtz announced that Conductor's development will continue, admitting the team itself had spread reports of its death. Regular updates resume next week. The reversal caught users mid-migratio…
A skeptical developer wrestles with whether there's an acceptable minimum of LLM-assisted coding. When Big Walk's House House admitted using LLMs for under a percent of a percent of its code, the aut…
The author, a self-described Bash enthusiast, builds a small set of shell functions that create a FIFO-backed command queue managed by xargs -P. Commands can be submitted over time rather than all up…
RealtimeVAD solves a critical bottleneck in voice assistants: the wait for speech to end. It keeps Silero VAD for speech detection but adds a second, faster check every 10 ms that compares audio leve…
In a 42-minute IPO roadshow video, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in less than a decade. Physicians and…
Reflota is a free, open-source, read-only recovery tool for NTFS, FAT32, FAT16/FAT12, and exFAT drives. It rebuilds folder trees from the NTFS MFT, lists deleted files with recoverability status, and…
We're two years into the current AI wave, and I'm still looking for something that an AI did entirely by itself that is genuinely new. Everything I've seen so far still involves a human identifying t…
Gnomon is a PostgreSQL extension that brings Git-style branching to your data. Each branch is just a connection string and copies nothing, so agents, pull requests, and tests can work on isolated cop…
Technology is best understood as a search through an unimaginably vast design space: with 272 known physical regularities, the possible combinations exceed the number of atoms in the observable unive…
A local inference lab called Lightreason runs Qwen models faster on one RTX 4090 by reusing prepared GPU work and checking multiple tokens together. The 3B model jumps from 63 to 139.6 tokens per sec…
PharmA2A is an open protocol that standardizes direct orders between community pharmacies and their suppliers—labs, wholesalers, and buying platforms—on top of the A2A (Agent2Agent) protocol from the…
Cerulion (YC S24) is an open-source, zero-copy robotics runtime that gives AI agents a physical body inside safety limits the robot itself enforces. It records every run, then replays failures agains…
Maggie Appleton, a design engineer at GitHub Next, explains how the lab turns weak signals into working prototypes and then ships them to GitHub — Copilot, Spark, Workspaces and Agentic Workflows all…
LogRaker needed SSH RSA keys, but swift-nio-ssh deliberately supports only modern algorithms, and its private key type offers no extension point. So the team vendored a fork: eight files, a new signa…
llama.cpp's tiled K-quant matmul had inner kernels only for AVX-512 VNNI, AVX2, and AVX, so on Arm, formats like IQ3_M fell back to re-unpacking weights for every dot product. A 164-line NEON SDOT ke…
- ▲ 6Home Assistant stores token secrets in cleartext, and changing your password revokes none of them
A security researcher tested Home Assistant 2026.11.0 and found that every user's refresh-token secret and JWT signing key sit unhashed in config/.storage/auth, while passwords are bcrypt-hashed. Two…