top 50% hacker news stories for today

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site

12 hours ago

2 changes
918 upvotes – 335 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028

17 hours ago

2 changes
819 upvotes – 86 comments

AWS emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator

6 hours ago

★ 1.7k Rust CC0-1.02 changes
630 upvotes – 209 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/

8 hours ago

396 upvotes – 196 comments

Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave

https://gatezh.com/posts/macos-secure-enclave-ssh-keys/

20 hours ago

379 upvotes – 136 comments

Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad

2 hours ago

1 change
367 upvotes – 366 comments

I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012372/tv-privacy-acr-questions

10 hours ago

336 upvotes – 235 comments

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/

3 hours ago

315 upvotes – 293 comments

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/

11 hours ago

294 upvotes – 62 comments

A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)

https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html

22 hours ago

261 upvotes – 61 comments

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

https://blog.kate.land/posts/using-voltage-glitching-to-unlock-the-a100/

14 hours ago

257 upvotes – 104 comments

Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1031507/apple-community-support-forum-shutting-down

10 hours ago

255 upvotes – 3 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/

6 hours ago

242 upvotes – 76 comments

Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

https://nathan.rs/posts/weight-space-lp/

12 hours ago

236 upvotes – 35 comments

Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports

https://twitter.com/watcherguru/status/2120645607866188008

2 hours ago

209 upvotes – 145 comments

Why are we still working this hard?

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/11/11/why-are-we-still-working-this-hard/

4 hours ago

206 upvotes – 247 comments

Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine

https://blog.atuin.sh/threads-agent-sessions/

10 hours ago

189 upvotes – 68 comments

We need more goat sacrifices

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/we-need-more-goat-sacrifices

12 hours ago

183 upvotes – 106 comments

Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/11/10/open-research-stronger-privacy-making-firefox-users-harder-to-fingerprint/

12 hours ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt

9 hours ago

★ 385 TypeScript MIT2 changes
161 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

https://termsheetplease.com/

5 hours ago

157 upvotes – 72 comments

To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA

https://www.science.org/content/article/deter-bioterrorism-u-s-imposes-new-rules-ordering-synthetic-dna

21 hours ago

153 upvotes – 153 comments

Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/technology/jensen-huang-nvidia-affair.html

2 hours ago

1 change
145 upvotes – 130 comments

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/faster-retrieval

7 hours ago

143 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS

https://github.com/adrbn/bo2-mac

19 hours ago

★ 190 C++ GPL-3.0
138 upvotes – 60 comments

Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble

https://lpeproject.org/blog/your-retirement-savings-are-fueling-the-ai-bubble/

5 hours ago

133 upvotes – 142 comments

Emacs in the Age of Magic

https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt

4 hours ago

133 upvotes – 48 comments

Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly

https://massimo-nocentini.github.io/pharo-vm/world.html

10 hours ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel

https://github.com/gmkurtzer/ginux

19 hours ago

★ 593 Rust Apache-2.0
114 upvotes – 76 comments

The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026

https://discussions.apple.com/welcome

21 hours ago

110 upvotes – 208 comments

AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-and-the-engineers-job-when-agents-write-the-code.html

6 hours ago

109 upvotes – 2 comments

In defense of giving a shit

https://www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/in-defence-of-giving-a-shit/

12 hours ago

1 change
108 upvotes – 127 comments

AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering

https://cabird.com/talks/shipping-faster/

8 hours ago

2 changes
103 upvotes – 100 comments

Lock Your GitHub Actions

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/

2 hours ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust)

https://github.com/0xdeadf1sh/AssemblyForNeovim

11 hours ago

★ 177 Lua Unlicense
96 upvotes – 17 comments

LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100

https://tis-100.wincon.dev/

1 day ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/

2 hours ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

GitHub Incident with Webhooks, Actions, etc.

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/dvy0t3mvh1lg

3 hours ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

Play GTA5 on Browser

https://playgta5.com/

3 hours ago

76 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)

https://github.com/klad-app/klad

8 hours ago

★ 121 Rust
69 upvotes – 29 comments

The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/history.htm

8 hours ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Cancer vaccine for Yash, he's diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer

https://github.com/popvax/yash

5 hours ago

★ 40 Python
66 upvotes – 11 comments

Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/attention-mamba-distillation

11 hours ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/

5 hours ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs

https://yaksoy.github.io/PhysicalRelighting/

13 hours ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions

https://osssaysno.com

15 hours ago

61 upvotes – 106 comments

Next-Level Benchmarking Overfitting – Thomas Neumann

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/11/next-level-benchmarking-overfitting.html

12 hours ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

The Zig project is going nowhere

https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/10/the-zig-project-is-going-nowhere

13 hours ago

58 upvotes – 85 comments

AI is becoming an information gateway. Audiences still don’t want it making news

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/11/ai-is-becoming-an-information-gateway-audiences-still-dont-want-it-making-their-news/

1 day ago

1 change
57 upvotes – 77 comments
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