top 50% hacker news stories for today

I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West

https://josef.cn/blog/unitree

1 hour ago

32 upvotes – 15 comments

Paraguay Freezes millions of bank Accounts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/11/05/paraguays-president-out-after-bank-implosion-freezes-millions-accounts/

2 hours ago

7 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Goethe – The infrastructure for self-hosted AI

https://github.com/meshapplied/Goethe

2 hours ago

★ 45 Rust Apache-2.0
5 upvotes – 1 comments

Sony Debuts Wired Headphones with '80s-Inspired Design

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-05/sony-debuts-retro-60-wired-headphones-in-tribute-to-1979-walkman

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-rcna607817

14 hours ago

2 changes
871 upvotes – 1732 comments

Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI

19 hours ago

★ 1.4k C++ GPL-3.0
687 upvotes – 278 comments

Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/105

17 hours ago

★ 367
622 upvotes – 407 comments

Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/britain-make-salary-disclosure-job-ads-mandatory-2026-11-05/

19 hours ago

565 upvotes – 430 comments

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution

7 hours ago

355 upvotes – 80 comments

Deus Ex

https://www.filfre.net/2026/11/deus-ex/

11 hours ago

343 upvotes – 178 comments

Pwn.college

https://pwn.college/

23 hours ago

306 upvotes – 53 comments

From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/

22 hours ago

302 upvotes – 103 comments

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/

13 hours ago

302 upvotes – 220 comments

RIP Cybertruck

https://www.wired.com/story/rip-cybertruck-you-were-unloved-unwanted-and-utterly-absurd/

11 hours ago

1 change
301 upvotes – 4 comments

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-out-floppy-disks-air-traffic-control-by-2028-2026-11-05/

22 hours ago

289 upvotes – 228 comments

Inkling 2 Small

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/

1 day ago

283 upvotes – 90 comments

Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-06/anthropic-ipo-valuation-expectations-pressured-after-ai-rout

9 hours ago

2 changes
246 upvotes – 498 comments

Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

https://apps.metaebene.me/en/kugelblitz

19 hours ago

244 upvotes – 65 comments

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0

3 hours ago

241 upvotes – 36 comments

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-ai

6 hours ago

214 upvotes – 160 comments

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html

10 hours ago

195 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50393105

11 hours ago

183 upvotes – 117 comments

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape

7 hours ago

182 upvotes – 80 comments

I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DALNiKBjMGMF8grme/arjun-panickssery-s-shortform?commentId=fJtaHHHfx45tD7BSL

21 hours ago

180 upvotes – 185 comments

Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

https://worldstrike.fun/

18 hours ago

167 upvotes – 119 comments

Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)

https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9096

16 hours ago

1 change
164 upvotes – 52 comments

Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web

https://github.com/anomalyco/rune

10 hours ago

★ 2.6k Rust MIT
155 upvotes – 112 comments

We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years

https://github.com/Unleash/unleash

15 hours ago

★ 14.1k TypeScript AGPL-3.0
148 upvotes – 99 comments

We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/we-know-15-579-websites-are-infected-how-do-we-tell-them/

8 hours ago

1 change
144 upvotes – 125 comments

Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/11/06/sodium-ion-batteries-approach-cost-parity-with-lfp-with-70-gwh-covered-by-supply-agreements/

3 hours ago

2 changes
137 upvotes – 58 comments

University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/university-libraries-ai-data-scraping-bots-9.7408287

12 hours ago

125 upvotes – 56 comments

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

https://devvm.dev/

9 hours ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)

https://github.com/dsx-ai-factory/nvke

23 hours ago

★ 287 Go Apache-2.0
123 upvotes – 27 comments

Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/11/06/after-courting-trump-corporate-america-faces-democratic-reckoning/

7 hours ago

122 upvotes – 122 comments

Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/kalshi-court-losses-pile-up-as-judges-refuse-to-block-state-gambling-laws/

8 hours ago

106 upvotes – 115 comments

Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

https://www.norvig.com/chomsky.html

18 hours ago

2 changes
103 upvotes – 87 comments

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

https://www.infohawk.com/news/2026-11-05-scamwich-restaurant-skimming

7 hours ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

Anthropic IPO valuation talks drop to $1.3T

https://epyhia.com/anthropic-ipo-valuation-talks-drop-to-1-3-trillion-as-major-investors

9 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 1 comments

Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21375

8 hours ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

https://www.wsj.com/finance/major-investors-are-skeptical-anthropic-ipo-can-achieve-1-5-trillion-valuation-ca965d8b’

1 day ago

90 upvotes – 106 comments

FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-begins-retiring-decades-old-floppy-disks-air

11 hours ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 2 comments

AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-researchers-use-claude

17 hours ago

88 upvotes – 37 comments

Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2026-0537

19 hours ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days

https://techlaws.pages.dev/tesla-and-spacex-lose-over-420b-in-combined-market-cap-in-the-two-days/

1 day ago

1 change
83 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-is-winding-down-oracle-deal-rent-ai-cloud-capacity-bloomberg-news-2026-11-06/

8 hours ago

82 upvotes – 16 comments

ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card

https://community.openai.com/t/security-follow-up-tool-call-silently-routed-to-a-different-connector/1413053

4 hours ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier

https://village.dev/blog/closed-ai-models-now-dominate-the-price-performance-frontier/

1 day ago

76 upvotes – 72 comments

GitHub's new Git storage architecture

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/inside-githubs-new-git-storage-architecture/

7 hours ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Size-It-Up (Game)

https://magnitudle.com/size-it-up

8 hours ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/japan-depopulation-biodiversity

7 hours ago

1 change
72 upvotes – 45 comments

Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs

https://frontier.replit.com/sandbox-engine-microvms-part-1/

7 hours ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Where each U.S. state gets its tax revenue from

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-each-states-tax-revenue-comes-from/

11 hours ago

1 change
69 upvotes – 85 comments

Lippitt-Knoster in Practice (Field Notes for Managing Complex Projects)

https://sharedphysics.com/lippitt-knoster-in-practice-field-notes-for-managing-complex-projects/

11 hours ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs

https://github.com/matthewmrichter/mooftcp

1 day ago

★ 41 C MIT
65 upvotes – 34 comments

MTG-I2 First Images

https://www.eumetsat.int/mtg-i2-first-images

12 hours ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

The Valley Bubble Breaks

https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/1106-valley-bubble.html

6 hours ago

62 upvotes – 69 comments

App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps

https://obelisk.club/research/app-store-2026

18 hours ago

60 upvotes – 52 comments

Perplexity launches AI agents for work

https://www.perplexity.ai/en-GB/hub/blog/teammates-are-agents-for-complex-ongoing-work

8 hours ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Scriptable GeoDNS: Leaving AWS for Bunny

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-bunny-geodns

10 hours ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

How octopuses squeeze through too small gaps

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/21/jeb253615/373332/How-octopuses-squeeze-through-too-small-gaps

12 hours ago

1 change
54 upvotes – 17 comments

Outbound SIP calling is now available to all organizations

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/voice-sip

3 hours ago

53 upvotes – 34 comments

Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging

https://maccus.fr/en/ozempic-drugs-trials-beyond-diabetes/

11 hours ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

Silicon Valley's Bad Night

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/11/americans-really-dont-like-data-centers-elections/689284/

22 hours ago

49 upvotes – 89 comments

PyLings: Solve Exercises and Learn Python

https://github.com/thesayfulla/pylings

9 hours ago

★ 47 Python
48 upvotes – 2 comments

40C3 halfnarp – Submit talk preferences to aid scheduling

https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de

8 hours ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Investors wipe $2.5T off Nasdaq as blue tsunami prompts AI fears

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ai-data-center-stocks-slip-democratic-sweep-clouds-expansion-plans-2026-11-05/

1 day ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments
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