Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2(anthropic.com)
959 points by meetpateltech | 585 comments
Anthropic announcement of Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models, covering benchmarks, pricing, coding results, safety testing, and availability.
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Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2(anthropic.com)
841 points by lairv | 960 comments
Anthropic announcement of Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models, covering benchmarks, pricing, coding results, safety testing, and availability.
USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons(postalpro.usps.com)
711 points by munro | 373 comments
USPS PostalPro page describing its ZIP Code Boundaries product, a licensed national ZIP Code polygon dataset with quarterly updates, samples, and order forms.
Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider(strandsagents.com)
673 points by aloukissas | 233 comments
Strands Agents blog post describing how Amazon engineers replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 with the Strands Decider model for internal ticket labeling, cutting costs by 98%.
.name Grandfathered(neil.fraser.name)
902 points by p4bl0 | 196 comments
Neil Fraser's blog post announcing Verisign retracted its plan to terminate 22,000 .name domains and email redirects, grandfathering existing registrations.
AlphaProof Code(deepmind.google)
658 points by ilreb | 187 comments
Google DeepMind blog post introducing AlphaProof Code, an agentic AI framework that formally verified the Signal protocol's cryptographic implementation in Lean.
Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support(blender.org)
443 points by amlib | 68 comments
Official Blender 5.3 release notes page covering native Gaussian splat support, DLSS denoising, Cycles dispersion, EEVEE panoramic cameras, and compositor effects.
Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America(theautopian.com)
542 points by NaOH | 374 comments
The Autopian article on Toyota reviving the Scion brand, whose first product is the KEI-01, a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet kei truck for a US fleet pilot program.
Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities(vulncheck.com)
430 points by panic | 202 comments
VulnCheck blog post analyzing seven months of Anthropic's Project Glasswing, arguing its vulnerability findings yield few fixes, many duplicates, and burden maintainers.
Smart home devices should work without the internet(docodethatmatters.com)
1100 points by skittleson | 394 comments
Blog post laying out rules for building a smart home that works without internet, using Tasmota, MQTT, and Node-RED, with slide-by-slide walkthroughs of two talks.
Ableton Live 13(ableton.com)
318 points by phaser | 340 comments
Ableton's product page announcing Live 13, its digital audio workstation, detailing new features like Step Sequencer, ARA 2, Drum Synth and Softube effects.
TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max(blog.google)
247 points by _benx_ | 75 comments
Google blog post announcing two new eighth-generation TPU systems, TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for large context windows, plus TPU software updates.
Queens Public Library under ransomware attack(connect.queenslibrary.org)
191 points by rustyhancock | 106 comments
Queens Public Library service alert describing a ransomware-caused network outage affecting its website, app, public computers and digital media services.
Starlink Mini 2(starlink.com)
486 points by robertjfclarke | 540 comments
Starlink product page introducing the Mini 2 satellite internet dish with a swappable battery, built-in Wi-Fi 6, IP67 rating, and invitation-only preorders.
The Hardest Tarball?(stoppels.ch)
140 points by thatslast | 30 comments
Blog post describing a single GNU tar-built pax archive with a sized hard link that different tar tools and libraries extract in 8 distinct ways.
NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4(neongd.com)
123 points by jaypatelani | 75 comments
A step-by-step guide to installing NetBSD 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with UEFI firmware, WiFi setup, pkgin, X11 and the NsCDE desktop environment.
Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators(github.com)
660 points by gf74918 | 139 comments
GitHub README documenting how consumer Gemini with Connected Apps can pull Drive and Gmail content into chats that are subject to human reviewer annotation.
Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system(payments.ca)
573 points by ocd | 329 comments
Payments Canada press release announcing the launch of the Real-Time Rail, a national 24/7 instant clearing and settlement payment system with built-in fraud services.
E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs(e-means.github.io)
484 points by porridgeraisin | 71 comments
Project blog post introducing e-means, an open-source mini-batch k-means algorithm from Meta FAIR using exponential moving averages, claiming ~10x speedup over Lloyd's algorithm.
Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game(notesbylex.com)
406 points by lexandstuff | 328 comments
Blog post describing how the Claude Fable 5.2 model built a complete multi-level beat 'em up game from a child's drawings in one shot, plus playtesting notes.
AI usage generates a fragile codebase(evanxmerz.com)
601 points by plun9 | 566 comments
Blog post by a former Meta engineer arguing that heavy reliance on AI coding agents produces fragile, poorly tested, hard-to-understand codebases, with signs to watch for.
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers(lwn.net)
460 points by speckx | 256 comments
LWN article on Synaptics sending patent infringement claims and cease-and-desist demands to a developer writing Vino, a Rust-based Linux driver for DisplayLink docks.
Don't buy AR glasses(blog.yaros.ae)
96 points by Bluestein | 121 comments
A blog rant arguing people shouldn't buy AR glasses because ads, popups, and dark patterns from the web will inevitably spread into augmented reality.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)(archives.gov)
78 points by hashmap | 45 comments
National Archives Milestone Documents page on the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act, with historical background, a scan of the original act, and a full transcript.
How many people work from home?(nicholasdecker.substack.com)
32 points by surprisetalk | 37 comments
Substack essay by Nicholas Decker arguing online surveys overstate US remote work and that about 20% of work days are remote, per the American Time Use Survey.
Compress any LLM 3x in one click,near-lossless,in under 50 MB RAM(neuracryption.com)
22 points by anushka_gandhi | 15 comments
Research page from NeuraCryption presenting SPECTRA, a calibration-free 4-bit LLM compression framework with Triton kernels for running models on 4GB consumer GPUs.
Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far(artificialanalysis.ai)
347 points by theanonymousone | 247 comments
Artificial Analysis model page for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max), showing its Intelligence Index score of 65, pricing, verbosity, and technical specs.
Val Town is winding down(blog.val.town)
408 points by tosh | 99 comments
Val Town founder Steve Krouse announces the platform is winding down, with a shutdown timeline, migration guides, billing pause, and plans to open-source the code.
Your TV can see through walls (2025)(maurycyz.com)
242 points by Curiositry | 105 comments
A blog post showing how selective fading in an ATSC TV signal captured with an SDR can detect a person's movement through walls and estimate walking speed.
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available(blog.google)
198 points by meetpateltech | 117 comments
Google blog post announcing general availability of Gemini 4 Carbon, its frontier model for agentic coding, knowledge work, science and cybersecurity, with pricing and benchmarks.
Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026(news.exeter.ac.uk)
148 points by giuliomagnifico | 184 comments
University of Exeter news release on the 2026 Global Carbon Budget, projecting a 0.4% decline in fossil CO2 emissions driven by solar, wind, and the Iran conflict.
Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server(github.com)
145 points by CoderLuii | 131 comments
GitHub repository for HolyArrs, an AGPL-licensed self-hosted Go app that manages and streams your shows, movies, music and downloads in one place.
Six Math Essentials(teorth.github.io)
320 points by digital55 | 58 comments
Book page for Terence Tao's popular math book "Six Math Essentials" with publication details, description, and links to publishers, an excerpt, and reviews.
Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes(foldableflight.com)
1157 points by vismit2000 | 166 comments
Foldable Flight homepage offering a filterable catalog of 109 paper airplane designs with folding tutorials, flight ratings, and a shop for paper airplane books.
Locating the source of a mysterious beep(simonwillison.net)
302 points by bigwheels | 155 comments
Simon Willison's blog post on using Claude Code to build Beep Locator, a multi-device web app that triangulates a mysterious beep, which turned out to be an old CO detector.
Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives(github.com)
412 points by paulirish | 134 comments
GitHub repo for Modern Web Guidance, a Google Chrome-led set of agent skills and CLI that steer coding agents toward modern native web platform APIs.
Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data(claude.com)
258 points by Yorothegoat | 196 comments
Anthropic product announcement launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta and renaming Claude Dashboards to the generally available Claude Data.
What objective is reasoning solving?(alexwang.ai)
142 points by gmays | 65 comments
Blog post framing LLM reasoning as pathfinding in token space, explaining how RL with verifiable rewards maximizes success probability and why chains of thought may be unfaithful.
Mathematicians Are Like Luddites(alok.blog)
10 points by ilreb | 0 comments
Blog essay comparing mathematicians facing AI automation of proofs to the Luddite weavers displaced by mechanized looms, with etymology and history.
Horible public key tricks(maurycyz.com)
226 points by Curiositry | 77 comments
Blog post explaining how to embed a readable text message in an RSA public key modulus to get a trusted TLS certificate as a protest against the certificate system.
AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast(chipsandcheese.com)
248 points by pixelpoet | 102 comments
Chips and Cheese deep dive into AMD's Zen 6 and Zen 6c CPU cores, comparing microarchitecture changes from Zen 5 with benchmark measurements.
Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers(notion.com)
144 points by werrett | 49 comments
Notion help center notice explaining how a security breach at AI vendor Fireworks AI exposed unattributable Notion AI chat transcripts from under 1% of workspaces.
How hard is it to check for whitespace?(serce.me)
113 points by theanonymousone | 26 comments
Blog post examining Guava's isWhitespace implementation, Unicode whitespace definitions across Java, Python and JavaScript, and its perfect hash function.
Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser(ghanastreetgames.com)
96 points by samuelaidoo45 | 18 comments
Ghana Street Games is a browser-based 3D collection of 35 traditional Ghanaian street games like Ampe, Oware and street football, with multiplayer rooms.
Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model(research.meta.ai)
314 points by dvaplima | 135 comments
Meta AI blog post announcing Muse Ember, a small, low-cost multimodal model for agent tasks, with benchmark comparisons, safety notes, and API pricing.
What's new in the .NET 11 runtime(learn.microsoft.com)
248 points by stevefan1999 | 178 comments
Microsoft Learn documentation describing new .NET 11 runtime features, including updated minimum hardware requirements, Runtime Async, and JIT improvements.
Simon Winchester has died(nytimes.com)
92 points by benbreen | 31 comments
New York Times obituary reporting the death of Simon Winchester, author of 'The Professor and the Madman.'
rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption(rvpn.org)
59 points by michaelsbradley | 54 comments
Landing page for rVPN, an open-source AGPLv3 Rust VPN protocol that disguises traffic as ordinary HTTPS on port 443 to evade VPN blocking.
![Screenshot of hannahilea.com: Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/11/10/a1f8c03f-b2ef-453a-b032-b372ff631b98.jpg)
Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls(hannahilea.com)
42 points by evakhoury | 7 comments
A blog post describing the design and build of a 24-hour analog Daylight Clock with neopixel daylight lighting and a control box for adjusting date, latitude, and longitude.
The Race to Build a "Find My" for AI Chips(spectrum.ieee.org)
20 points by oldnetguy | 5 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on efforts to build location verification for AI chips, such as ping-based verification and sovereignty certificates, to deter smuggling to China.
Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics(anthropocenemagazine.org)
341 points by speckx | 231 comments
Anthropocene Magazine article on a study where broccoli grown under semi-transparent magenta CdTe solar panels kept similar yields while the panels generated electricity.
I deleted all my SSH keys(blog.infected.systems)
217 points by speckx | 118 comments
Blog post explaining how the author replaced on-disk SSH keys with hardware-backed keys using YubiKey, TPM via ssh-tpm-agent, and Apple Secure Enclave.
CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises(cnbc.com)
175 points by lxm | 169 comments
CNBC markets article reporting CoreWeave's bond yield topping 16% and rising credit default swap costs across AI-linked companies amid data center financing concerns.
Exact – a new cross platform UI framework(github.com)
119 points by vmg12 | 89 comments
GitHub repository for Exact, an MIT-licensed cross-platform UI framework from the Expo team, written mainly in Rust with Swift and JavaScript hosts.
Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress(text.npr.org)
119 points by DeepLogin | 107 comments
NPR article and transcript on Palantir hiring former Democratic Sen. Jon Tester as an adviser ahead of expected scrutiny from a Democrat-controlled Congress.
Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008)(letoverlambda.com)
59 points by theanonymousone | 15 comments
Website for Doug Hoyte's book Let Over Lambda on Common Lisp macros, now free to read online in HTML and PDF.
A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are(fingerprinting.study)
108 points by tomrittervg | 49 comments
Companion site to a Mozilla study measuring browser fingerprint uniqueness across 25 million Firefox users and the protections shipped in Firefox 143.
Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View(tinyvalencia.com)
217 points by leugim | 54 comments
Tiny València is an interactive isometric pixel-art map of València, Spain, generated by repainting real 3D city data with an AI image model in a SimCity style.
The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer(infineon.com)
147 points by sshah03 | 86 comments
Infineon press release announcing the first functional power devices processed on 300-millimeter silicon carbide wafers at its Villach, Austria fab.