top 50% hacker news stories for today

Chicago schools to Google – we'd rather lose Search than be forced to accept AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114532-chicago-schools-tell-google-they-can-live-without.html

1 hour ago

20 upvotes – 2 comments

Alice Huang, tied to Nvidia CEO, was barred from re-entering Singapore since Feb

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/alice-huang-entry-ban-nvidia-megaspeed

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 2 comments

US Intel isn't sure if Alice Huang spied on Nvidia for China

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/politics/alice-huang-us-intel-jensen-huang-nvidia

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Railway's Breach Shouldn't Have Been Possible

https://forteplatforms.com/blog/railway-breach-should-have-been-prevented

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 4 comments

Claude designed FPGA scaler board for 6th-gen consoles

https://github.com/bryfur/tang-av-scaler

36 minutes ago

★ 3 Python
5 upvotes – 0 comments

Jensen Huang resigns

https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-megaspeed-china-singapore-huang-5403f152a601cf82ce939f1d24fffa0f

11 hours ago

4 changes
2950 upvotes – 2787 comments

Anthropic IPO

https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/

13 hours ago

819 upvotes – 805 comments

Service degradation on Microsoft 365

https://status.cloud.microsoft/

7 hours ago

5 changes
502 upvotes – 464 comments

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen/

7 hours ago

463 upvotes – 296 comments

Rust 1.100

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/

7 hours ago

1 change
418 upvotes – 171 comments

Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471668

7 hours ago

401 upvotes – 1 comments

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately

https://www.reuters.com/live/nvidia-live-board-meets-fate-ceo-jensen-huang-after-affair-reports-2026-11-12/

11 hours ago

374 upvotes – 14 comments

"Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding"

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/humble-bundle-just-completely-killed-most-of-their-security-through-vibecoding.1346295/

18 hours ago

1 change
370 upvotes – 220 comments

Writing correct software is hard and math alone won’t help us (2016)

https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity

15 hours ago

3 changes
358 upvotes – 168 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cve-2026-119618-rce-apache-http-server-vulnerability

23 hours ago

355 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag

8 hours ago

★ 244 Rust Apache-2.01 change
336 upvotes – 138 comments

Rust 1.100

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/releases/tag/1.100.0

7 hours ago

★ 121.8k Rust Apache-2.01 change
308 upvotes – 9 comments

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/

6 hours ago

302 upvotes – 72 comments

I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing/

10 hours ago

★ 289 C MIT
278 upvotes – 95 comments

Nintendo Takes Down Emulators and Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-takes-down-switch-emulators-and-mod-chip-firmware-in-massive-github-dmca-sweep

9 hours ago

270 upvotes – 211 comments

Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable

https://www.moddb.com/mods/openq4/downloads/openq4-0141-windows-x64

11 hours ago

239 upvotes – 82 comments

Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

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/

6 hours ago

198 upvotes – 94 comments

Talking Zen 6 with Mike Clark at AMD In-Depth

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/talking-zen-6-with-mike-clark-at

11 hours ago

187 upvotes – 2 comments

Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/11/data-centers-need-power-lower-income-rural-residents-pay-price

5 hours ago

171 upvotes – 192 comments

Our software engineering interviews are changing a little

https://blog.janestreet.com/software-engineering-interviews-are-changing-a-little/

11 hours ago

2 changes
170 upvotes – 163 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6zjry11v8w1t

11 hours ago

168 upvotes – 5 comments

Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs

https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics

3 hours ago

166 upvotes – 46 comments

Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation into Suspected Spy's Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/business/nvidia-megaspeed-alice-huang.html

7 hours ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE

https://mehmetince.net/part-3-6-how-i-ended-up-turning-a-22-year-old-postgresql-type-confusion-primitive-into-rce-cve-2026-6460/

7 hours ago

1 change
145 upvotes – 19 comments

Libreagi – Save OSS Models

https://libreagi.com/

11 hours ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

Foundation Models framework

https://developer.apple.com/foundation-models-framework/

4 hours ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 16 comments

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

https://www.getlazarus.org/forums/topic/17/

19 hours ago

120 upvotes – 39 comments

Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/researchers-discover-rare-star-system-that-emits-radio-signals-every-eight-minutes/

14 hours ago

117 upvotes – 59 comments

ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS

https://github.com/chocoford/ExcalidrawZ

10 hours ago

★ 1.8k Swift MIT
107 upvotes – 24 comments

PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC 2 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-187-1712-1616-1520-1425-and-19-rc-2-released-3442/

11 hours ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-had-relationship-with-second-employee-sources-say-2026-11-12/

5 hours ago

98 upvotes – 100 comments

AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers

https://synthanatomy.com/2026/11/ai-is-turning-apples-app-review-process-into-a-nightmare-for-developers.html

4 hours ago

95 upvotes – 81 comments

Running web sites makes me not want to

https://lowkey.party/running-web-sites-makes-me-not-want-to

11 hours ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore

https://devonestes.com/bad-ideas-that-arent-bad-anymore

22 hours ago

87 upvotes – 79 comments

Why You Should Expect an AI Crash

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/11/12/why-you-should-expect-an-ai-crash

2 hours ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 66 comments

Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable Bars Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux

https://doug.sh/posts/gpu-bars-behind-a-pcie-switch/

10 hours ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: AgentRun – open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents

https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun/blob/main/README.md

7 hours ago

★ 600 JavaScript Apache-2.0
75 upvotes – 16 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-resigns-reports-extramarital-relationships-rcna608402

11 hours ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

AWS Lambda Web Functions keep billing memory ~7 minutes after the last request

https://www.easel.sh/blog/lambda-web-functions-idle-memory

8 hours ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Fable52.games – Play and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games

https://fable52.games

10 hours ago

62 upvotes – 54 comments

Lean Grimoire

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/11/lean-grimoire/

23 hours ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

I caught Microsoft Defender uploading my unreleased software without asking

https://garrettstimpson.ca/posts/2026/11/11/caught-microsoft-red-handed-with-hodometer/

1 day ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments
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