Hacker News Digest
· 15 Hacker News
Between October 30 and November 11, Ukrainian drone strikes hit at least nine major Russian refineries with a combined annual capacity above 120 million metric tons — 36% of the country's total refin…
The FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center lifted the National Ground Stop at 0119Z, according to the ATCSCC advisory page. The advisory page now shows no active advisory, marking the end of…
Amtrak's website and app went down Friday evening just as the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop over a temporary telecommunications outage, sending stranded flyers scrambling for train tickets. Hun…
Ratatui maintainer Joshka has built a terminal protocol that draws thin lines on cell edges instead of using box-drawing glyphs, so borders no longer eat a row and column on every side. It's implemen…
3Com, founded by Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe, once dominated network cards and was worth $5.8 billion at the dotcom peak. But it abandoned enterprise networking, overpaid for US Robotics' dial-…
Ground Stop Watch is an independent, unofficial live map that tracks U.S. commercial flights during the FAA nationwide ground stop. Built on the adsb.fi community ADS-B network and the FAA NAS Status…
Claude Code Projects now lets a coordinator assign work to independent cloud sessions, each with its own repository copy and Git branch, while posting status updates directly in the project chat inst…
After internet blackouts in Iran pushed him to build an offline music player in Zig, Ali Chraghi tried vibecoding with a gifted Claude Max subscription. Anthropic banned his account for being in Iran…
Zed has no FreeBSD remote server, so Hayzam spoofed the platform string with a small uname wrapper, letting FreeBSD's Linuxulator run the Linux build. That exposed a kernel regression: a February 202…
An Nvidia board member sold close to $1 billion in shares just weeks before the scandal surrounding Jensen Huang erupted, and no trading plan was disclosed for the sale. The timing drew scrutiny as N…
Unsloth released updated Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs using its Dynamic V3.1 algorithm, which boosts average accuracy by 5–10% at comparable sizes across Terminal Bench 2.1, DeepSWE 1.1, LiveCodeBench v6, GPQA…
Researchers at UC San Diego tracked more than 440 wild female Asian elephants in Sri Lanka's Udawalawe National Park for 12 years, publishing their findings in Science. As deaths and departures outpa…
Ember is an open-source macOS utility that gives you control over the status light on your MacBook charger. Whether you want to dim it, turn it off, or customize its behavior, Ember puts you in charg…
The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. flights on Friday, citing "extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." A SpaceX launch's debris separately halted West Coast departure…
Hawaiʻi's Department of Transportation says all flights between the islands and the West Coast were stopped after debris from a SpaceX Starship launch, following an earlier nationwide FAA ground stop…