Libghostty 1.0(mitchellh.com)
1012 points by mfiguiere | 176 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto announces libghostty-vt 1.0, a stable portable C library for terminal emulation from Ghostty, covering adopters, ABI stability, packaging, and portability.
Hacker News on
Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser(nfsu2.xyz)
1075 points by fluxusars | 272 comments
Fan-made browser port of Need for Speed Underground 2, statically recompiled from the PC game to run in Chrome and Firefox with online free roam and races.
Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier(8rank.ai)
825 points by infwhispers | 438 comments
A security research write-up dissecting the undocumented on-device personal knowledge graph that macOS daemons build about users and their contacts, with an open-source viewer tool.
A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost(hightouch.com)
568 points by theanomaly | 142 comments
Hightouch blog post benchmarking cheap decision models (Jev, GPT-6 Luna) against frontier LLMs for grading identity resolution, finding a Jev+Opus hybrid matches Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost.
The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group(hunch.net)
477 points by srean | 290 comments
Business Examiner news article reporting John Langford's departure from Microsoft and the end of the roughly 50-person AI Frontiers research group.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3(asahilinux.org)
386 points by ackyshake | 333 comments
Asahi Linux progress report for Linux 7.3 covering upstreamed drivers, M3 general availability, M3 GPU reverse engineering, Thunderbolt support, and per-process page sizes for gaming.
Upload Your RAM(uploadyourram.org)
246 points by susanthenerd | 247 comments
A satirical parody site mocking Sam Altman and AI-driven RAM demand by offering to 'upload' idle RAM from your computer as a donation in 2, 4, or 16 GB tiers.
The $8 Linux Computer (2022)(thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com)
247 points by zenincognito | 95 comments
Blog post (part 1) describing the hurdles of flashing firmware onto the $8 Pine64 Ox64 RISC-V board using an RP2040 as a UART bridge, toward running Linux.
Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP(pv-magazine.com)
190 points by doener | 90 comments
Article page about CATL's sodium-ion battery reaching cost parity with LFP in 2026, but it shows a WordPress database connection error.
They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7(kevinboone.me)
178 points by andsoitis | 106 comments
Kevin Boone's retrospective blog post on Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5), its strengths for early Windows programming, and why it declined.
Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller(github.com)
265 points by hedgerow-dev | 61 comments
GitHub repo for Coldframe, a Python low-interaction honeypot mimicking Danfoss AK-SM 800A and Dixell XWEB supermarket refrigeration controllers to log attacks.
What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab(blog.bosscher.ch)
760 points by LaurensBER | 131 comments
A blog post describing the self-hosted services the author runs on a $10 OpenStick 4G modem stick running Debian, including AdGuard Home, Zeroclaw, Beszel and Gatus.
A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals(science.org)
236 points by benbreen | 211 comments
Science news article reporting ancient DNA studies showing the Goths migrated from Scandinavia, supporting Jordanes's origin story.
How Long Can Life Wait?(mceglowski.substack.com)
132 points by Ariarule | 82 comments
Substack essay by Maciej Cegłowski on how long microbes can remain dormant yet viable, and implications for spacecraft contamination, lithopanspermia, and life on Mars.
The End of AI Frontiers(hunch.net)
78 points by andsoitis | 27 comments
John Langford's blog post explaining that Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group ended after a reorg into Microsoft AI, and why he left over its scaling-only, anti-research focus.
I don't care if web content is AI-generated(kevinboone.me)
4 points by andsoitis | 0 comments
Personal essay by Kevin Boone arguing that AI-generated web content should be judged like any untrusted content, since human content is often equally unreliable.
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production(nbcnews.com)
1112 points by PLenz | 1982 comments
Reuters article on MSN reporting Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory around mid-2027 after weak sales, to make room for Cybercab output.
Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell(theguardian.com)
489 points by user_7832 | 306 comments
Guardian article reporting a researcher's discovery of Apple's hidden 'grey list' of 100,000+ words and phrases iPhone predictive text and swipe-typing won't complete.
Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2(pwn.ai)
271 points by SerCe | 117 comments
Running a law firm on Free software(decoded.legal)
276 points by DeepLogin | 130 comments
A UK tech law firm owner's 2026 update listing the Free software tools he uses client-side, server-side, and on mobile to run his practice.
The Components of Agent Memory(anthropic.com)
141 points by geoffbp | 72 comments
Anthropic engineering post describing components of AI agent memory—notes, representations, injected context, and 'dreaming' consolidation—with evaluations on CL-Bench and Pokémon Red.
I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West(josef.cn)
132 points by josefchen | 93 comments
Blog post by Josef Chen recounting a tour of Unitree's Hangzhou factory, arguing Chinese robot production is mostly manual and the West can win at automating it.
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files(apiiro.com)
609 points by shmulc | 410 comments
Apiiro research blog post finding thousands of real secrets in public GitHub repos leaked via Claude Code's .claude/settings.local.json "don't ask again" allowlists.
ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card(community.openai.com)
83 points by Aldipower | 35 comments
OpenAI Developer Community forum thread reporting that ChatGPT silently routed a follow-up MCP tool call, carrying a confirmation code, through a different connector.
Google Described Its Agent Sandbox. I Built One with Firecracker and Measured It(antonau.tech)
4 points by attilathehoon | 0 comments
A blog post building a Google Agent Compute Engine-style agent sandbox on Firecracker microVMs in Go, with snapshot-fork, idle checkpointing, no-NIC networking, and benchmarks.
Lighting the Skies(computer.rip)
22 points by dverlaeckt80 | 3 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter essay by J. B. Crawford on the history of searchlights, from arc lamps and the 1870 Siege of Paris to military use and world's fair displays.
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028(reuters.com)
396 points by ChrisArchitect | 321 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US FAA plans to phase out floppy disks from air traffic control systems by 2028.
Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE(smithsonianmag.com)
188 points by derbOac | 26 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on Akrotiri, a Bronze Age Cycladic settlement on Santorini buried by the Thera eruption, and what its ruins reveal.
RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters(multifamilydive.com)
167 points by raybb | 141 comments
Multifamily Dive news article on a federal court approving nearly $360M in settlements in the RealPage algorithmic rent-pricing antitrust litigation.
MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"(maxxbench.unlap.ai)
373 points by antiuniverse | 101 comments
Research post introducing MaxxBench, which mutates 89 DeepSWE coding tasks to test whether frontier coding agents adapt to changed requirements or game hidden tests.
What do the next 4000 emoji look like?(jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
78 points by lacieargyle | 77 comments
Substack essay by Unicode emoji subcommittee chair Jennifer Daniel comparing emoji evolution to ancient writing systems and speculating on modifiers and compounds over new glyphs.
Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log(textjs.org)
103 points by nateb2022 | 48 comments
Landing page for Text.js, a framework for building full-stack React apps that render inside the browser DevTools console via console.log, with docs and a course.
British Library Legal deposit and web archiving(bl.uk)
55 points by robtherobber | 25 comments
British Library page explaining how UK websites are archived under legal deposit law, how sites are identified and crawled, and the status of the UK Web Archive.
Show HN: Did prediction markets do any predicting this midterms?(app.artifactbin.dev)
21 points by nuwandavek | 8 comments
Interactive data visualization comparing Kalshi prediction market accuracy against Nate Silver's FLIPR model and polls across 2026 midterm Senate, governor and House races.
Making any integer with four 2s (2025)(eli.thegreenplace.net)
193 points by germanrabbit | 51 comments
Blog post by Eli Bendersky on the puzzle of expressing any integer using four 2s, culminating in Dirac's general solution with nested square roots and logarithms.
AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)
333 points by yurivish | 300 comments
Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.
![Screenshot of edu.postgrespro.com: PostgreSQL Internals [pdf] (2023)](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/11/7/3e9a006e-7acf-4f8d-8ff8-0713ad92fb72.jpg)
PostgreSQL Internals [pdf] (2023)(edu.postgrespro.com)
76 points by Foe | 7 comments
Free PDF of the book "PostgreSQL 14 Internals" by Egor Rogov, published by Postgres Professional in 2023.
Five memorable books about programming (2008)(prog21.dadgum.com)
119 points by andsoitis | 76 comments
James Hague's 2008 blog post recommending five lesser-known programming books, including Zen of Assembly Language, Scientific Forth, and Thinking Forth.
Building the NBC News Big Board(ejfox.com)
54 points by whalesalad | 21 comments
EJ Fox's project page describing building NBC News' touchscreen "Big Board" election results app used live on air by Steve Kornacki in 2018.
Retro Song Bird: Plug in any Game Boy cartridge to hear the soundtrack(retrosongbird.com)
71 points by hentrep | 16 comments
Product page for Retro Song Bird, a speaker that plays soundtracks from inserted Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges and also backs up saves and ROMs.
Show HN: Where Were We(wherewerewe.app)
35 points by zkiihne | 15 comments
Where Were We is a web game that turns uploaded photos into a quiz where players guess where and when each photo was taken, using EXIF metadata.
GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview(github.blog)
166 points by xiaoyu2006 | 113 comments
GitHub changelog post announcing an opt-in public preview of a new pull request Overview page with a compact merge readiness summary and comment filters.
The Flash C Compiler(blog.adafruit.com)
91 points by AlexeyBrin | 43 comments
Adafruit blog post about Flash C, a from-scratch C89 compiler emitting static ELF binaries for x86-64 Linux with a Turbo C++-style text-mode IDE.
Outbound SIP calling is now available to all organizations(developers.openai.com)
56 points by arbayi | 44 comments
OpenAI developer documentation explaining how to connect inbound and outbound phone calls to GPT-Live or the Realtime API via SIP trunking.
The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes(kadoa.com)
54 points by hubraumhugo | 44 comments
Kadoa Company Atlas data piece comparing a 2026 AI-driven stock sell-off to historic S&P 500, Nasdaq and chip-stock crashes and their recovery times.
Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5(github.com)
51 points by zaiev | 8 comments
GitHub repository for Spindle, a type-safe, multicore, Eio-native web framework for OCaml 5 with OpenAPI, Zod and Melange client generation and MCP support.
Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas(hamza.se)
84 points by hamza512b | 50 comments
Blog post introducing Tasfer, an open-source local-first text editor that renders everything on an HTML5 2D canvas instead of using contentEditable, with CRDT peer-to-peer sync.
Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist(acid.vegas)
39 points by NewCzech | 17 comments
Blog post exploring TCP port 0: why it can't normally be used, running an IRC server on it, and results of scanning all IPv4 for services listening there.
Enterprise Brain – Memory that learns from work(ampup.ai)
16 points by irodov_rg | 0 comments
Product page for AmpUp's Enterprise Brain, a versioned shared memory system for AI coding and enterprise agents that learns from graded outcomes, with benchmark results.
Show HN: Backwords – Let AI teach you how to speak in reverse(backwords.greg.technology)
9 points by gregsadetsky | 1 comments
Backwords is a web app where AI speaks a typed sentence backwards so users can practice saying it in reverse, then record and reverse their own attempt.
First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI(kevinboone.me)
242 points by LaSombra | 48 comments
Index page for Kevin Boone's five-part tutorial series on developing bare-metal UEFI applications for PCs using a Linux workstation.
Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why(windowslatest.com)
438 points by thunderbong | 448 comments
Windows Latest article on Discord's new Rust-based Windows client launching faster than its Electron app and using about 70% less RAM.
Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?(pivotlake.io)
112 points by ntur1337 | 17 comments
Blog post from Pivot describing a slot-based partition pruning optimization that speeds up top-K GROUP BY queries in its open source analytics database.
ToothPaste(brisk4t.github.io)
82 points by speckx | 17 comments
Blog post describing ToothPaste V2, an ESP32-S3 device with a crypto chip that types AES-encrypted keyboard input sent from a Web BLE app to any USB host.
Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed(arstechnica.com)
199 points by rbanffy | 139 comments
Ars Technica article on a PNAS Nexus paper analyzing surviving uranium cubes, concluding Germany's WWII B8 reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to go critical.
Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted(bong.glendalab.com)
19 points by captain_bender | 5 comments
Bong is an open-source, self-hosted search shortcut service like DuckDuckGo bangs, with 61 dot-prefixed shortcuts to sites such as Google, GitHub, and Naver.
Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign(infohawk.com)
154 points by fiej | 81 comments
InfoHawk research report on 820 typosquatted .delivery domains impersonating US restaurant chains to skim credit cards and SMS verification codes via reverse proxies.
The typo generation is damaging literature(metropolitanreview.org)
54 points by bryanrasmussen | 73 comments
A Metropolitan Review essay criticizing typos and editorial sloppiness in Percival Everett's novel The Trees and arguing for a broader 'Typo Generation' in literature.
Turning every radio into a radar(tiaminetworks.com)
61 points by hasley | 13 comments
Tiami Networks blog post explaining Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), using existing 4G/5G signals for passive radar sensing such as drone detection.
Notes on San Marino(mattlakeman.org)
123 points by yorwba | 47 comments
Matt Lakeman's travel blog post with notes, photos, and history from three days spent in the European microstate of San Marino.