Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)
\n\n\n\n337 points | 245 comments
\n\n\n\nBeautifully shows how most predictions that extrapolate from past data are too simplistic. We're approaching peak global population and almost all industrialized nations are more worried about population decline than overpopulation these days. Which is why I'm not worried about superintelligence or data centers in space.\n— dnlgrmm\n\n","metadata":{"score":337,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"304fe8bbbf11c846","title":"Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com","link":"https://status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn","author":"__vivek","published_at":"2026-11-13T10:18:13+00:00","content":"\n\n
Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com
\n\n\n\n443 points | 356 comments
\n\n\n\nDepending on what your job is, this is either the adult equivalent of a snow day or some of the greatest stress in a long time.\n","metadata":{"score":443,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"579d5898e1e35fcd","title":"Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours","link":"https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121079061774491735","author":"player85","published_at":"2026-11-13T05:08:23+00:00","content":"\n\nI have experienced, half a decade ago during some more frequent but less lengthy O365 errors that there are some higher ups who get when this is not something you can fix and some you very much can't. Wishing strength to any \"but it's our mail\" and \"but we bought the Claude\" meetings that happen today.\n— Topfi\n
Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
\n\n\n\n322 points | 227 comments
\n\n\n\nMicrosoft is unable to run a reliable hosted email service, given infinite resources. What people don't realise is that the former is in part a consequence of the latter. Without a forcing function, complexity multiplies, silent fragility accumulates, end-to-end understanding dwindles. There is no incentive to simplify.\n— nickdothutton\n\n","metadata":{"score":439,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"dbaa787592d20006","title":"IceWM","link":"https://ice-wm.org/","author":"inatreecrown2","published_at":"2026-11-13T04:54:53+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
326 points | 181 comments
\n\n\n\nI'm mildly bemused at the other comments treating this as a blast from the past. I use icewm today as a super low resource DE for a headless remote desktop system, with a major benefit being that it's all in one with no configuration needed; one unit includes panel, app menu, and window manager that work out of the box.\n— yjftsjthsd-h\n\n","metadata":{"score":326,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"84434b45a3ce797c","title":"Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang","link":"https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-employees-petition-for-jensen-huangs-return/","author":"lavendermon","published_at":"2026-11-13T02:16:24+00:00","content":"\n\n
Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
\n\n\n\n493 points | 351 comments
\n\n\n\n> \"We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance,” wrote another.\n","metadata":{"score":756,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"18c962ac09e30aac","title":"Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer","link":"https://edge0.ai/blog/introducing-edge0-145b-frontier-ai-capabilities-on-your-own-computer","author":"sroussey","published_at":"2026-11-12T23:06:17+00:00","content":"\n\nI think if it was one affair, this would hold. It is allegedly 3 and counting, and includes a likely spy from a rival nation, and likely knowledge of selling to the rival nation despite the current laws.
You can think he is amazing at many parts of this job, but at this point it is less of a mistake, and more a pattern of behavior that he knew was hugely risky and decided to cover up.
This is a terrible time for Nvidia employees. But the solution is not to invite the cause of the terrible time back in.\n— soundworlds\n
Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer
\n\n\n\n321 points | 96 comments
\n\n\n\nThis just a quantized version of 3.8 next flash on strata that’s branded?\n— _boffin_\n\n","metadata":{"score":321,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"73de0ea95b0bf7de","title":"Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud","link":"https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/","author":"scottjg","published_at":"2026-11-12T22:03:09+00:00","content":"\n\n
Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud
\n\n\n\n420 points | 121 comments
\n\n\n\nI'm a simple man. I see people freeing their devices from proprietary clouds and reclaiming ownership, I upvote.\n— Zopieux\n\n","metadata":{"score":420,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1c3af959a0b1594f","title":"Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs","link":"https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics","author":"firloop","published_at":"2026-11-12T21:56:11+00:00","content":"\n\n
Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs
\n\n\n\n342 points | 144 comments
\n\n\n\nChinese AI companies are free to use any Nvidia GPU they want as long as the GPU is not physically located within China. It is entirely consistent with US export controls for Chinese AI companies to remotely use GPUs located in Singapore or Malaysia.\n","metadata":{"score":342,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"9456a84bb884e1da","title":"Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say","link":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-had-relationship-with-second-employee-sources-say-2026-11-12/","author":"jbredeche","published_at":"2026-11-12T19:51:33+00:00","content":"\n\n“In facilities across the region, Megaspeed rents Nvidia chips to Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba, an arrangement that does not violate current US export control regulations.” See [1].
[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/beyond-the-spy-sc...\n— flowerlad\n
Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say
\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/11/12/jensen-...\n\n\n413 points | 446 comments
\n\n\n\nI find it interesting that people can jump to their judgement assuming \"sources\" are true. Do you really trust everything they say?\n— chj\n\n","metadata":{"score":413,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"ea6f0c82cea09269","title":"Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun","link":"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-found-a-mysterious-object-orbiting-far-beyond-pluto-it-could-be-a-new-dwarf-planet-hidden-in-our-solar-system-180989857/","author":"cybermango","published_at":"2026-11-12T19:05:33+00:00","content":"\n\n
Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun
\n\n\n\n320 points | 131 comments
\n\n\n\nIf anyone is interested, here is its orbit, my old day job was to compute orbits for asteroids and comets.\n","metadata":{"score":376,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"dbf549835a52b33c","title":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator","link":"https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/","author":"jonbaer","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:52:01+00:00","content":"\n\n(This uses wasm, meant for a desktop, and will download the asteroid catalog of about 65mb, you have been warned)
https://dahlend.github.io/ketev/#t=2009-07-01.717&sel=2026%2...
This is a big boy.\n— ddahlen\n
Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
\n\n\n\n286 points | 64 comments
\n\n\n\nThis is essentially what Anthropic does with the advisor mode and what GitHub does with their multi-model pipeline using the HydraFusion model, which is just a large set of different models with different qualities used in a pipeline to produce an answer.\n","metadata":{"score":483,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"396e209a692e2f5a","title":"Rust 1.100","link":"https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/","author":"mbStavola","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:39:05+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat I don't understand is how they all make it work with caching in general. Looking at how the advisor mode in claude work you seem to only be billed the output tokens and cache hit on the whole session when it calls out to the advisor, making it super cheap compared to running the more expensive model for the entire session.\n— vegardx\n
390 points | 163 comments
\n\n\n\nWoohoo, that's a release! My personal favorites:\n","metadata":{"score":839,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"031ff2763c94e591","title":"Rust 1.100","link":"https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.100.0","author":"thesuperbigfrog","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:24:06+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n- Stabilize never type
- Stabilize custom allocators
- Introduced minimum publish age configurations, also known as dependency cooldowns. When the relevant config is set, the resolver ignores versions published more recently than that, unless they are already in Cargo.lock. (RFC 3923) docs #17335
- cargo-install: now uses the existing lockfile in the .crate tarball by default. --locked in cargo install becomes a no-op. #17388\n— nirinor\n
308 points | 9 comments
\n\n\n\nBetter link: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/\n","metadata":{"score":313,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b0ad4aef096b9b14","title":"Service degradation on Microsoft 365","link":"https://status.cloud.microsoft/","author":"dkpk","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:20:48+00:00","content":"\n\nThe blog post summarized the most important changes.\n— iknowstuff\n
Service degradation on Microsoft 365
\nhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-13/microsoft-outage-affe...https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xuje83/microsoft...
https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/\n\n\n
468 points | 438 comments
\n\n\n\nCopied this from my post in the other thread:\n","metadata":{"score":1119,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"751dce42c7638b12","title":"Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?","link":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471668","author":"nazgulsenpai","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:17:13+00:00","content":"\n\nFor the past 5 minutes all of our Microsoft Cloud connections are down. Anyone else? The Status page won't even load.\n\n\nThe Status page is not working well, but I managed to subscribe to their RSS feed and it has been sending out updates periodically. I'll post some of them here.
9:02 PM UTC: We've validated an alternative health check method on a subset of affected infrastructure, which allowed the servers in that subset to successfully return to service, and we're now applying this change more broadly. We're also preparing an automated recovery process to continually detect and restart unresponsive servers, to help keep them in service while this change progresses. Additionally, our review of recent changes has identified a small number of configuration updates that we're investigating as potential contributors to the issue.
Previous status: While validating the targeted change, we found that many of the affected servers have become unresponsive, which is preventing us from confirming whether the change is effective. We're restarting these servers so they can come back online with the change in place, and we're applying the same approach to additional affected portions of our infrastructure to validate the results more broadly.
8:52 PM UTC: While validating the targeted change, we found that many of the affected servers have become unresponsive, which is preventing us from confirming whether the change is effective. We're restarting these servers so they can come back online with the change in place, and we're applying the same approach to additional affected portions of our infrastructure to validate the results more broadly.
Previous Status: While we haven't identified any recent changes that correlate with the start of impact, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component on the affected servers that's responsible for processing them. We're deploying a targeted change to bypass this component on a subset of servers to validate whether this restores availability, and we've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being removed from service while we work to return the affected servers to service. We're also investigating why affected servers are experiencing elevated processor usage while handling requests.
7:52 PM UTC: We've identified that affected servers are failing automated health checks, which is causing them to become unavailable, and this may be related to a recent change to a component involved in processing those checks. We're testing a configuration change on a subset of affected infrastructure to address this and, if successful, will apply it more broadly. In parallel, we've initiated a restart of all affected servers and are validating whether they're successfully returning to service.
7:30 PM UTC: We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've determined that the elevated load isn't driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We're investigating what's causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.
7:16 PM UTC: We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've also moved traffic for some services off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load, with additional traffic moves in progress.
6:59 PM UTC: We've completed redistributing connection traffic across our worldwide infrastructure, and we're moving additional traffic off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load. We're also restarting affected servers to return them to service. In parallel, we're investigating whether the elevated traffic reflects a genuine increase in requests or a shift in how traffic is being routed across our infrastructure.\n— beowulfey\n
401 points | 1 comments
\n\n\n\nComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471731.\n— tomhow\n\n","metadata":{"score":402,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"3be245a2debf6cc8","title":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","link":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen/","author":"dvaplima","published_at":"2026-11-12T18:01:48+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
452 points | 292 comments
\n\n\n\nThis was rolled out RIGHT away, as when I just went to use Gemini, seeing 3.8 Flash be replaced with \"4 Hydrogen\" was less hype and more a thought along the line of \"What [on Earth] is Gemini Hydrogen???\", then me going here to figure it out.\n","metadata":{"score":554,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"ab7ed7821e341956","title":"Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app","link":"https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag","author":"simpsoka","published_at":"2026-11-12T17:02:42+00:00","content":"\n\nThis model naming scheme works for separate products, but using elements, molecules, etc. for products you're supposed to compare with each other... Not very helpful.
If anything, my intuition would say that Hydrogen is more powerful than Argon... I don't know. Not liking this naming scheme trend.\n— wds\n
Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app
\n\n\n\n309 points | 129 comments
\n\n\n\nI'm going to assume Claude did the heavy lifting here (because it's Q4 2026 and the odds are in my favor), so if I'm right: this is one of the best examples of the way LLMs can empower users to not only scratch all the itches, but demonstrate to anyone who stumbles by just how satisfying it can be to do so themselves.\n","metadata":{"score":687,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f8fad2bea57e8d3a","title":"Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep","link":"https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-takes-down-switch-emulators-and-mod-chip-firmware-in-massive-github-dmca-sweep","author":"CharlesW","published_at":"2026-11-12T16:29:13+00:00","content":"\n\nYour app represents a future that I, an old, actually love. When I see projects like this, I don't think about ongoing support or if the project will be abandoned. I think, \"Woah, I hadn't thought of that. Now I'm going to try it. Because why wouldn't I try to get all the value I can out of my $20/month Claude subscription?\"
Even though I've been a developer for 30+ years (and a nerd for longer), I've never felt so motivated by the potential of a technology to make an individual's life richer. Thanks for sharing it.
And if you wrote it by hand, my hat's off to you for sharing that, too.\n— spdustin\n
Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep
\n\n\n\n303 points | 234 comments
\n\n\n\nReminder to all that barring access to internal docs, use of internal software/firmware components and information obtained through nefarious means, emulation is 100% legal pretty much everywhere in the world.\n","metadata":{"score":309,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"a03cfd6acdbfb00f","title":"I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices","link":"https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing/","author":"mrashad74","published_at":"2026-11-12T15:23:10+00:00","content":"\n\nEdit: of course there's the gray area of scrapers, game downloaders etc... but those are not emulators.\n— dormento\n
I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices
\n\n\n\n344 points | 127 comments
\n\n\n\nFor the last five months or so, opus and fable have both been able to do this task as a soneshot prompt. An inference engine is almost pure compute and to a first approximation the only operation your hardware needs to support to do llm inference is multiplication [the rest of an inference engine is \"some trig\"].\n","metadata":{"score":457,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1af4104bcb7b1e91","title":"Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately","link":"https://www.reuters.com/live/nvidia-live-board-meets-fate-ceo-jensen-huang-after-affair-reports-2026-11-12/","author":"ksec","published_at":"2026-11-12T13:56:11+00:00","content":"\n\nSo to get any model working on $OLD_HARDWARE, the hardest part of the task is now sourcing the hardware itself and giving the agent ssh access -- a modern agent will be able to source a compiler, write the implementation, optimize it, test in qemu (or any other simulator) and push it onto the device.
Example prompt: \"write an inference engine for qwen3 0.6b in pure assembly that runs on this device. Write a script to attach the weights to the resulting binary. Prefix is supplied as a stream of u32 token IDs on stdin. The engine streams u32 token IDs on stdout.\"\n— Farmadupe2\n
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately
\n\n\n\n373 points | 35 comments
\n\n\n\nduplicate of this maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467087\n— dbalatero\n\n","metadata":{"score":375,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"7470a71c5220b2cf","title":"NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition","link":"https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition","author":"lldb","published_at":"2026-11-12T13:52:29+00:00","content":"\n\n
NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
\nhttps://www.reuters.com/live/nvidia-live-board-meets-fate-ce...\n\n\n1590 points | 1660 comments
\n\n\n\nI hope people understand that the affairs are not the reason he is being fired - NVIDIA has supposedly been skirting the export ban put in place by the previous administration. This was put in place for national security reasons. Whether you agree or disagree with the ban, it exists and Jensen&NVIDIA are in a world of trouble if this comes to light.\n","metadata":{"score":3933,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"9d4ac0ba932c940e","title":"Anthropic IPO","link":"https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/","author":"josephljohnston","published_at":"2026-11-12T11:46:41+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom all the reporting I've read, it is hard for me to avoid the conclusion that NVIDIA sold to China despite the export ban. I'd love to be wrong\n— duplessitous\n
617 points | 625 comments
\n\n\n\nIt strikes me that if their models were good enough for recursive self improvement, then the VCs would have pushed to delay IPO until such time that they had clear market dominance.\n","metadata":{"score":985,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d95c733c923cc4c3","title":"Why writing correct software is hard and why math (alone) won’t help us (2016)","link":"https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity","author":"AriFordsham","published_at":"2026-11-12T10:28:26+00:00","content":"\n\nFor some reason they need the $100B today at the cost of dilution, rather than additional private rounds and/or using cashflow+profits to continue the advancement.\n— maerF0x0\n
Why writing correct software is hard and why math (alone) won’t help us (2016)
\n\n\n\n353 points | 166 comments
\n\n\n\nI believe there's a hard distinction between abstract, mathematical correctness in software and functioning in the real world. Any software that's processing inputs and provides complex workflows to humans has to necessarily deal with the endless vagaries of reality.\n","metadata":{"score":364,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"c05d16b0dd6ecaeb","title":"Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding","link":"https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/humble-bundle-just-completely-killed-most-of-their-security-through-vibecoding.1346295/","author":"rdmuser","published_at":"2026-11-12T06:52:48+00:00","content":"\n\nThat's not to say there isn't value in formal correctness, but the important part is identifying when it's useful and when its more trouble than its worth...\n— turbobutton\n
Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding
\n\n\n\n286 points | 168 comments
\n\n\n\nWeird that they lay all this at the feet of vibecoding. I've asked for authentication systems several times and they've tended to come with pretty good feature-sets. Perhaps it's because I know what I'm asking for.\n","metadata":{"score":397,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"3ce8244a5135c43e","title":"Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server","link":"https://www.wiz.io/blog/cve-2026-119618-rce-apache-http-server-vulnerability","author":"soheilpro","published_at":"2026-11-12T02:11:11+00:00","content":"\n\nEdit: I've just tried to log in and it's failed through both Google and email. Whatever they've done, they haven't tested it well.\n— oliwarner\n
Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server
\n\n\n\n334 points | 172 comments
\n\n\n\nPatch looks like https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/5ed39287660daacd1233c...\n— jamesy0ung\n\n","metadata":{"score":366,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"626d00491296c1d3","title":"93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)","link":"https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/","author":"zenincognito","published_at":"2026-11-11T22:34:23+00:00","content":"\n\n
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
\n\n\n\n383 points | 50 comments
\n\n\n\nSIGBOVIK papers are almost always a delight\n","metadata":{"score":578,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"780e2ee6a62d15fd","title":"Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang","link":"https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad","author":"jbredeche","published_at":"2026-11-11T22:31:06+00:00","content":"\n\nEDIT: From their 2026 publication
>Permission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for personal use is granted;\npermission to make digital or hard copies of portions of this work for classroom use is also granted,\nbut seems ill-advised\n— snitty\n
Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang
\n\n\n\n391 points | 594 comments
\n\n\n\nIt's really interesting to me how unaggressive Jensen has been vs. his peers about tighting up control over his company (even during the recent years when he had huge leverage):\n","metadata":{"score":1220,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"07745d74816a0ea8","title":"Lock Your GitHub Actions","link":"https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/","author":"gslin","published_at":"2026-11-11T22:16:41+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n- His board setup is ... odd. He isn't Chairman of the Board (a role over 50% of Fortune 100 CEOs apparently hold). He seems to be responsible for Nvidia having a wierdly more egalitarian structure (all directors including him, are equal, with a designated lead independent director)
- His compensation (~$35M, primarily stock) is ... not up there with other tech CEOs
- He doesn't seem to have ever pushed for super-voting rights (he only has like ~3.5% of the company), but I guess that's hard to change once you IPO
I kinda wonder if this ends with him taking a month off, spending 12-18 months transitioning to a successor and ending as the chairman of the board or some such. He really does seem vital to the company (and thus the stock price).\n— rao-v\n
318 points | 62 comments
\n\n\n\nThe advice here is really great (as I'd expect from Hugo), but as the maintainer of zizmor I want to note some caveats with the current iteration of workflow lockfiles:\n","metadata":{"score":332,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1c1eb32b1611e0cd","title":"Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/technology/jensen-huang-nvidia-affair.html","author":"louiereederson","published_at":"2026-11-11T22:03:58+00:00","content":"\n\n- They only lock normal action calls. If your workflows invoke other reusable workflows, you need to keep those hash-pinned manually for now.
- Composite actions are not themselves locked. Instead, they get locked transitively through their callsites i.e. the workflows that call them. This makes any individual caller that uses lockfiles safe, but it also makes the current `gh actions-lock` default unsafe (since it removes hash-pins from the composite action itself, meaning that any external caller that invokes the action loses their transitive pinning).
- Other forms of `uses:` clauses, like Docker images, are also not currently locked via the lockfile. And the same for forms of interior mutability (like an action running `npx ...` under the hood, although the latter is fully outside of GitHub's control to prevent. But these mean that you can't assume that a fully locked Actions setup is in fact 100% immutable.
I hope they address these gaps soon, because it's otherwise an excellent (and long-awaited) feature.\n— woodruffw\n
Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him
\n\n\n\n352 points | 425 comments
\n\n\n\nhttps://archive.is/9fQ6Y\n— thebeardisred\n\n","metadata":{"score":410,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"41244832463c9b4f","title":"United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers","link":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/","author":"herpderperator","published_at":"2026-11-11T21:24:35+00:00","content":"\n\n
United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
\n\n\n\n325 points | 307 comments
\n\n\n\nHow do they plan on stopping me from using Claude code with the Claude in chrome plugin, or some other computer use agent?\n","metadata":{"score":676,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0b9b15fbea3643f2","title":"Emacs in the Age of Magic","link":"https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt","author":"ggcr","published_at":"2026-11-11T20:26:32+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nAt this point it feels like I have an adversarial relationship with many merchants I use online. I wish the simple “you have a product, I have money” relationship was possible. I don’t want to take part in your giant human behavior optimization problem. You have a product and I have money why does it have to be more complicated than that?
Realistically though I know that’s not happening. I will continue to access online merchants in the way I prefer and will do my best to avoid detection or blocking. At least so far Claude is happy to play along but I suspect I will need to seek out an obliterated agent in the not to distant future. (Once the corporate capture of the frontier cloud AI models is complete.)\n— doctoboggan\n
295 points | 147 comments
\n\n\n\nThere are several points of view here. Some people claim they will never need to \"program\" again because the LLM will do everything. That text editors are dead... and so is the career of programmer or software engineer. That nowadays, with Claude Code, you can reimplement anything (given a large enough context window, of course). That it is like being an expert in every programming language and system out there. That we should remove politicians and CEOs and put an AI in their place.\n","metadata":{"score":307,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"a7ca0d8a6ef7f3f3","title":"Gemini Decisions API","link":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/","author":"iamdelirium","published_at":"2026-11-11T18:32:42+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, many people claim that machine-generated software STINKS. That it is extremely verbose, that it reimplements similar methods over and over again. That it would rather cut corners at a low level than build high-level abstractions. That it pulls in libraries and makes serious security mistakes. That it writes tests that are basically incomplete. That it is unable to synthesize and keep context. In short, it has the same flaws as humans.
I think these are binary points of view, and both are right. We have vampires that are incredibly fast, super-strong, super-intelligent and super-agile, that suck your blood (your money), and that die as soon as the sunlight of security or complexity hits them.
There has to be another way. Nobody questions the versatility LLMs provide, or the boldness they give you to take on new projects. But I am not convinced that programmers or software engineers are going to disappear. I am not convinced that a manager can ship a new feature in a couple of afternoons and then lay off, or skip hiring, a junior or senior developer. There is a line near the beginning of Dune that goes something like this: \"there was a time when men handed their thinking over to machines in the hope of being freed, but that only allowed other men with machines to enslave them.\"
We need to find a new path between smartphone addiction and being dumbed down by LLMs.\n— esFran\n
398 points | 122 comments
\n\n\n\nI'm sort of surprised it took Jev for everyone to realize \"oh yeah, this is a useful thing that we should have in our product portfolio\".\n","metadata":{"score":565,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b482682e11159194","title":"AWS emulator","link":"https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator","author":"super_linear","published_at":"2026-11-11T18:21:38+00:00","content":"\n\n\nhttps://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-autonomous-ai-agent...But maybe this is one of those things that's only obvious in retrospect? I'm sure people were trying something similar years ago with grammar-constrained outputs (for example to only output a simple json structure), but you can't get probabilities out of the model that way. Which makes me wonder: how do these models calculate probabilities?\n— eminence32\n
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-an...\n\n\n
646 points | 211 comments
\n\n\n\nSkeptical of using because it's not clear whether this was just an exercise or a real product they are going to ship and maintain.\n","metadata":{"score":981,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"ff77a6799599e7b4","title":"A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter","link":"https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/","author":"mbac32768","published_at":"2026-11-11T16:38:44+00:00","content":"\n\nFloci[0] has been great for me. Use the Testcontainers[1], too.
Bonus: works for GCP and Azure, too (so far have only used in limited capacity, though).
[1] https://testcontainers.com/modules/floci/\n— CharlieDigital\n
A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter
\n\n\n\n401 points | 198 comments
\n\n\n\nThe article reminds me of when Hurricane Sandy took out a bunch of New York DCs with 3+ feet of water and people were carrying diesel up stairs to keep generators running.\n","metadata":{"score":581,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1ac583715734a9a8","title":"Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola","link":"https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt","author":"brownrout","published_at":"2026-11-11T15:33:06+00:00","content":"\n\n“The superhuman folks at the data center are hauling 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs. Assuming they're able to sustain a rate of transfer that exceeds the rate of consumption, the data center should run until electricity is restored. The latest estimate from Con Edison for lower Manhattan is 4 days. (The New York Stock Exchange will be open tomorrow, also running on generator power.)”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720388 (https://web.archive.org/web/20121101194314/http://status.fog...)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-o...\n— reticulates\n
Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola
\nHey HN, I’m Eric and I want to share an OSS project that I’ve been building in my free time. Yogurt is a free, MIT licensed desktop app that uses on-device AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with your meetings.Here's a quick demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFfbXAwRq98
Similar to Granola, Yogurt runs in the background and does not join your calls. But unlike Granola, Yogurt is open-source, free to use, and private. Your meeting transcripts, call recordings, and summaries never leave your computer.
As small OSS models have gotten faster and more powerful, Yogurt seemed like a pretty obvious win for privacy and cost conscious folks. You do not need a frontier model to summarize meeting notes or answer questions about them. And if you want to make your notes available to a frontier model, you can just share it with Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. directly via Yogurt’s local MCP server. There’s no need to use a paid cloud service as a middleman.
I tried some of the most popular OSS note taking tools, and most were missing features like calendar integration, MCP server, etc. or required you to connect or create an account. And more than that, they didn’t feel polished enough for it to be something I actually wanted to use daily, and so I built Yogurt to scratch that itch. I spent a lot of time fine-tuning every UI interaction/animation and optimizing the model calls to get the most out of your hardware + make it snappy.
To support Windows/Mac/Linux, I decided to go with Electron. I use whisper.cpp for transcription and Apple’s on-device SpeechAnalyzer if your system supports it. For call summaries and questions, I use a local open weight LLM that automatically gets downloaded and set up based on what your hardware can handle without your cooling fans firing off like crazy (this part uses llama.cpp).
I’ve spent a lot of time working on details like echo detection/reduction, global/folder/local level search respectively, and auto-end recordings. Hope this is useful for any of you who have held out on using AI note tools for privacy or cost reasons, or for folks using cloud tools who want to switch to something free and open source that still feels great to use.
Would love to hear what you think about the onboarding and note taking experience :)\n\n\n
285 points | 111 comments
\n\n\n\nThis is a much nicer version of something I threw together because I started having professional meetings in French and needed help.\n","metadata":{"score":285,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b71884f9b9ce141b","title":"I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you","link":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012372/tv-privacy-acr-questions","author":"Brajeshwar","published_at":"2026-11-11T13:56:05+00:00","content":"\n\nhttps://github.com/gdevenyi/RabbleFish
I think my name is cooler though...\n— gdevenyi\n
I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you
\n\n\n\n337 points | 235 comments
\n\n\n\n\n","metadata":{"score":377,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"e81a56328c6a2528","title":"Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2","link":"https://av.github.io/safe-sand/","author":"everlier","published_at":"2026-11-11T13:39:29+00:00","content":"\n\n\nHold on, we already know this is not true. There is even an option in the settings to disable this (which is usually automatically reverted by LG within a week).LG: No. ACR in LG TVs does not collect or store screenshots, screen images, screen recordings...\n\n\nThe setting has the obvious name of \"Live Plus\".\n— throwa356262\n
Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2
\n\n\n\n297 points | 63 comments
\n\n\n\nSuper loud sound warning, us parents and folks wearing headphones would really appreciate default sound off. Or at least a some indication to turn volume down before tapping \"pour\"\n— evnp\n\n","metadata":{"score":442,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"6a2a3d66110d134a","title":"Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?","link":"https://nathan.rs/posts/weight-space-lp/","author":"emschwartz","published_at":"2026-11-11T12:30:17+00:00","content":"\n\n
Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?
\n\n\n\n291 points | 45 comments
\n\n\n\nMaybe this is what the author is getting at, but if LP solvers are useful tools for editing weights, then Astra access to this methodology might make it more effective at weight editing.\n","metadata":{"score":292,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b00ec426b21c9277","title":"Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h","link":"https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/?maya","author":"eyvindn","published_at":"2026-11-11T12:05:22+00:00","content":"\n\nThe interpretation here is not so much that an LP can do Astra's work -- after all the Astra prompt was \"improve Qwen's math by changing weights\" or similar. Instead, it's that with some guidance (eliminate this behavior, preserve that behavior, as expressed through linear constraints) the solver is much more efficient than Astra's trial and error. So essentially the solver would be a way of cutting through all the time consuming stuff and expressing Astra's intent more immediately. And then presumably Astra could iterate on that to a better solution.
The use of an LP solver here is a really cool insight.\n— jsw97\n
Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h
\n\n\n\n756 points | 283 comments
\n\n\n\nThe site in question was found earlier: https://bsky.app/profile/indyfromspace.bsky.social/post/3n22...\n","metadata":{"score":1032,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"6a7192b631106e08","title":"Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card","link":"https://blog.kate.land/posts/using-voltage-glitching-to-unlock-the-a100/","author":"lae","published_at":"2026-11-11T10:48:40+00:00","content":"\n\nThe Mexican govt may not have had the right records, but you can see what the site looked like at the time it was first found here: https://bsky.app/profile/indyfromspace.bsky.social/post/3n22...\n— LordOmlette\n
Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card
\n\n\n\n291 points | 115 comments
\n\n\n\namazing to think there was a time (literally not too long ago) where you would throw 80 GB of HBM onto a chip and turn 90% of it off\n— htrp\n\n","metadata":{"score":339,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1591f0fd332d2c9e","title":"Tim Peters has died","link":"https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028","author":"ayhanfuat","published_at":"2026-11-11T07:03:17+00:00","content":"\n\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Python/s/2Cm5dBcvQw\n\n\n
828 points | 92 comments
\n\n\n\n\n","metadata":{"score":1408,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"3a7ea02d0a5517ea","title":"Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave","link":"https://gatezh.com/posts/macos-secure-enclave-ssh-keys/","author":"js2","published_at":"2026-11-11T04:28:57+00:00","content":"\n\n\n— w-m\n$ python -c \"import this\"\n The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters\n\n Beautiful is better than ugly.\n Explicit is better than implicit.\n Simple is better than complex.\n Complex is better than complicated.\n Flat is better than nested.\n Sparse is better than dense.\n Readability counts.\n Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.\n Although practicality beats purity.\n Errors should never pass silently.\n Unless explicitly silenced.\n In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.\n There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.\n Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.\n Now is better than never.\n Although never is often better than *right* now.\n If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.\n If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.\n Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave
\n\n\n\n356 points | 126 comments
\n\n\n\nSecurity features like this works, until it doesn't.\n","metadata":{"score":396,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1d4233a1ab33ff36","title":"A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)","link":"https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html","author":"palsecam","published_at":"2026-11-11T01:56:31+00:00","content":"\n\nWhen I installed WireGuard on macOS, I was happy to discover that it stores private keys in the system keychain. Accessing the private key requires Touch ID.
Then one day after a system upgrade, the WireGuard app crashed on startup with:
\nThen the app deleted all profiles because they are all \"orphaned\", apparently for \"keychain consistency\" [0].[APP] Unable to open config from keychain: -25300\nFrom then on, I just use a text editor to edit my WireGuard configuration files, and import them to the app. The bug still exists to this day [1].
[0] https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/commit/dfb685f2...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/wyt828/osx_wireg...\n— database64128\n
A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)
\n\n\n\n261 points | 61 comments
\n\n\n\nSomewhat related [1]:\n","metadata":{"score":261,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"236a076b5340bb4a","title":"Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities","link":"https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update","author":"panic","published_at":"2026-11-10T22:17:56+00:00","content":"\n\n> Years ago, I was working at Video Seven, a now-vanished video adapter manufacturer, helping to develop a VGA clone. The fellow who was designing Video Seven’s VGA chip, Tom Wilson, had worked around the clock for months to make his VGA run as fast as possible, and was confident he had pretty much maxed out its performance. As Tom was putting the finishing touches on his chip design, however, news came fourth-hand that a competitor, Paradise, had juiced up the performance of the clone they were developing by putting in a FIFO.
> That was all he knew; there was no information about what sort of FIFO, or how much it helped, or anything else. Nonetheless, Tom, normally an affable, laid-back sort, took on the wide-awake, haunted look of a man with too much caffeine in him and no answers to show for it, as he tried to figure out, from hopelessly thin information, what Paradise had done. Finally, he concluded that Paradise must have put a write FIFO between the system bus and the VGA, so that when the CPU wrote to video memory, the write immediately went into the FIFO, allowing the CPU to keep on processing instead of stalling each time it wrote to display memory.
> Tom couldn’t spare the gates or the time to do a full FIFO, but he could implement a one-deep FIFO, allowing the CPU to get one write ahead of the VGA. He wasn’t sure how well it would work, but it was all he could do, so he put it in and taped out the chip.
> The one-deep FIFO turned out to work astonishingly well; for a time, Video Seven’s VGAs were the fastest around, a testament to Tom’s ingenuity and creativity under pressure. However, the truly remarkable part of this story is that Paradise’s FIFO design turned out to bear not the slightest resemblance to Tom’s, and didn’t work as well. Paradise had stuck a read FIFO between display memory and the video output stage of the VGA, allowing the video output to read ahead, so that when the CPU wanted to access display memory, pixels could come from the FIFO while the CPU was serviced immediately. That did indeed help performance—but not as much as Tom’s write FIFO.
[1] https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#the-challenge-o...\n— taspeotis\n
Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities
\n\n\n\n391 points | 181 comments
\n\n\n\nLast week I deployed GLM-5.3-Flash on our on-premise servers, ran it against all repos, and in 6 hours it found 13 vulnerabilities across our products/sites, including 1 full account takeover and an RCE on all our sites, which involved a pretty sophisticated __destruct gadget (all vulns verified to work).\n","metadata":{"score":457,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0ccf9f3eba849fa6","title":"Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy","link":"https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/10/apple-has-new-mac-app-coming-to-make-running-local-ai-models-easy/","author":"linolevan","published_at":"2026-11-10T21:25:03+00:00","content":"\n\nAs an experiment, I also pointed it at PHP's source code, and it was able to write PHP code that triggered a use-after-free (or a segfault, if you prefer DoS). I failed to find the vulnerability in the list of CVEs, so maybe it's a 0day, I don't know.
Sure, it's not a frontier model, but it can find many issues that were overlooked by all the commercial security scanners we run regularly as well. The nice thing about this setup is that we can run it 24/7 probing our code/infra, constructing exploits, etc. without having to care about token usage/bills. Plus, I think sending all that sensitive information about your internal infrastructure and the vulns found to Anthropic is a vulnerability in itself.\n— kgeist\n
Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy
\n\n\n\n467 points | 482 comments
\n\n\n\nApple, to me, is the winner in the end of this AI chapter.\n","metadata":{"score":548,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"20a32524c1cbd70d","title":"Six Math Essentials","link":"https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/six-math-essentials.html","author":"digital55","published_at":"2026-11-10T20:58:44+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nDistillation works: we can get models leaner, have better performance with lesser and lesser parameters, more efficient, running locally. Apple gets this and we'll see the result with M7 Max/ultra chips and I reckon this will be one of the titular apps when M7 line of chips are introduced.
I guess it explains the haste Anthropic and OpenAI are in to IPO, cash out and leave the the retail investor holding the bag.\n— pen2l\n
322 points | 58 comments
\n\n\n\nI quite liked this interview:\n","metadata":{"score":337,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"ddb7ee7937b12114","title":"Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America","link":"https://www.theautopian.com/scion-is-back-and-its-going-to-sell-a-freaking-kei-truck-in-america/","author":"NaOH","published_at":"2026-11-10T19:50:46+00:00","content":"\n\nTerence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE\n— tveita\n
Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
\n\n\n\n307 points | 228 comments
\n\n\n\nI use a kei truck for farming. They are incredibly pragmatic little vehicles. They are very capable driving around on dirt/gravel agricultural roads with 4WD, and they are inexpensive and robust enough that you can really beat them up and use them as a tool without worry. Repairs and replacement parts are ubiquitous and inexpensive. Having the sides of bed fold down is also really useful.\n","metadata":{"score":559,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"771b863527ab3afe","title":"Starlink Mini 2","link":"https://starlink.com/mini-2","author":"robertjfclarke","published_at":"2026-11-10T18:22:32+00:00","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nThey aren't comfortable to drive at all (although just having A/C at all on a hot summer day in the field is a godsend), and I wouldn't want to do longer trips in one - although you certainly could in a pinch.
It seems like Toyota/Scion is just testing the waters here, and I'm not sure how successful they'll be. But I hope there is a future for kei trucks in the US.\n— freetime2\n
382 points | 394 comments
\n\n\n\nWe bought a Starlink Mini for the use case of frequent travel to far-off (international) places with limited mobile service, where we occasionally need to get online for high-priority work tasks or meetings. For $55 / month for 100GB and flexible usage in many countries, it was extremely useful.\n","metadata":{"score":510,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"2d2b75a68ec0fa78","title":"Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers","link":"https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102549/acbc92e00cee3a3f/","author":"speckx","published_at":"2026-11-10T18:02:02+00:00","content":"\n\nThen, recently, SpaceX changed the terms such that the 100GB and 300GB subscriptions are no longer usable internationally (technically outside of North America). You have to pay for the unlimited service tier and even then can only use it for 30 days before returning to the home region.
A huge decrease in utility and a tripling in cost. A new device with a built-in battery is definitely not going to make up for that.
(Still a great service when it works, am posting this from remote western Mongolia.)\n— sib\n
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
\n\n\n\n283 points | 140 comments
\n\n\n\n> If you fail to comply with our demands by the specified deadline, Synaptics will seek monetary\ncompensation from you in the amount of US$25,000 to recoup the costs and effort required to\ncreate the attached documentation of your infringing acts.\n","metadata":{"score":487,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"22564ea02722f9c5","title":"Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives","link":"https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance","author":"paulirish","published_at":"2026-11-10T18:01:15+00:00","content":"\n\nObviously this is intended as a scare tactic, but, surely that could never hold up in court? Surely the burden of proof is on the owner of the patents to prove that someone's work is infringing, and you can't then say \"We are charging the defendant to prove that we have a valid case against them.\" ?\n— AdmiralAsshat\n
Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives
\nBrowsers natively handle a lot of what used to take 50 lines of JS (or a dependency): `CSS.highlights` for text range highlighting without <span>s everywhere, `<dialog>` and showModal() give you backdrops and ideal focus management, `field-sizing` to auto-grow textareas as the user types.. (Something yesterday's ftrain post touched on [0])Models know about some of these by name, but consistently won't default to using the platform-native solution and instead prefer the incumbent <div>+JS based pattern. We started an effort in Chrome to supplement coding agents with this key domain knowledge and we're shipping our 1.0 today, in collaboration with Firefox, MDN, and Edge.
200+ guides (~1.7MB) of curated, hand-crafted implementation best-practices from web experts, updated as the web evolves. (Open source, obv, so.. we'll welcome your bikeshedding ;) Readable versions here: [1]
I've spent the last 9 months obsessing over how to ship this as an agent skill + (Agentic RAG) CLI without blowing up your context window. (Or cedeing activation mechanics to MCP dynamic tool search). The skill description is minmaxed for activating on relevant frontend tasks. The RAG work I'm pretty proud of… originally a 500mb native stack down to a ~7MB pure-JS package, ~10ms search on your CPU.
We just introduced a deterministic 'legacy-scan' (trained on 30k github repos) to identify old 'n dusted patterns that your agent can modernize. (92% avg precision on held-out repos.)
People make a lot of claims about what coding agents are good/bad at. We wanted receipts, so we invested heavily in eval infra [2] to help us hill-climb, but also to identify when knowledge is common enough we can prune our guides. (Ofc, some of the things we thought AI didn't know turned out to be wrong :) We run codex/claude/agy against 200 tasks without the skill and then with.. In total ~1,700 playwright/AST-based assertions. Agents go from 55% pass unguided to 92% guided.
Try it out:
DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 npx modern-web-guidance@latest install\n DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 npx modern-web-guidance@latest search \"animate dialog modal\"\n DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 npx modern-web-guidance@latest legacy-scan ./src\nLonger write-up on the 1.0: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/modern-web-guidance-v1
---
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416456
1: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance/guides
2: https://googlechrome.github.io/modern-web-guidance-src/\n\n\n
349 points | 105 comments
\n\n\n\nI've been using this skill with Claude on a new project and it's nice, but it's quite expensive, token wise. It's ~$5 per use, on my codebase, which seems fairly high to me.\n— dflock\n\n","metadata":{"score":434,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}}]