top 50% hacker news stories for today

First Strike

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/11/13/first-strike.html

52 minutes ago

50 upvotes – 35 comments

Tesla Opens Cybercab Orders to 'Select Customers' at $29,990 Plus $299 per Month

https://insideevs.com/news/815473/tesla-cybercab-pricing-sales-announced/

19 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

SpaceX Starship Flight 15 double catch has failed

https://bsky.app/profile/onemoney.bsky.social/post/3n2a3glt7bk2t

42 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

FAA issues national ground stop

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-departing-flights-reasons-safety-rcna609247

3 hours ago

4 changes
1236 upvotes – 744 comments

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year

https://twitter.com/LibreOffice/status/2121205272479998268

7 hours ago

1 change
815 upvotes – 251 comments

Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-employees-petition-for-jensen-huangs-return/

22 hours ago

790 upvotes – 647 comments

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

https://status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn

14 hours ago

484 upvotes – 382 comments

Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121079061774491735

19 hours ago

459 upvotes – 304 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291

12 hours ago

1 change
441 upvotes – 303 comments

IceWM

https://ice-wm.org/

19 hours ago

356 upvotes – 216 comments

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/13/kurt-godel-notebooks-ai-helps-unlock-hidden-discoveries-man-who-transformed-maths

7 hours ago

318 upvotes – 90 comments

AI is destroying the trust between writers and readers

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/11/ai-literary-scams-amazon/689391/

13 hours ago

1 change
309 upvotes – 194 comments

Global Microsoft Outage

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/business/live-news/microsoft-global-outage-intl-hnk

18 hours ago

285 upvotes – 180 comments

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/11-4-million-in-nvidia-hardware-vanishes-during-shipment-from-california-to-texas

6 hours ago

278 upvotes – 155 comments

It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1xuup7a/technology_sucks_it_literally_takes_16_clicks_for/

6 hours ago

268 upvotes – 135 comments

Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's medical claims

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-eli-lilly-ceo-becomes-latest

11 hours ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 364 comments

Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol

https://brave.com/blog/search-api-agentic-payments/

21 hours ago

256 upvotes – 146 comments

Why Zig over C for Systems Programming

https://www.mtsoukalos.eu/2026/11/why-zig-over-c-for-systems-programming/

10 hours ago

214 upvotes – 190 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa

6 hours ago

208 upvotes – 35 comments

Big tech is here to let us down

https://blog.jsweeting.me/big-tech-is-here-to-let-us-down

4 hours ago

200 upvotes – 181 comments

Claude Is Down

https://status.claude.com/history

14 hours ago

197 upvotes – 170 comments

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

https://www.slopmanifesto.com/

5 hours ago

179 upvotes – 99 comments

FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench

5 hours ago

176 upvotes – 101 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078

10 hours ago

175 upvotes – 79 comments

U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50484421

10 hours ago

163 upvotes – 204 comments

Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6029408

9 hours ago

163 upvotes – 162 comments

Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

https://orcasairband.com/

2 hours ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers

https://filemanager-cdn.mziq.com/published/3972906b-e50b-4f74-ab74-4d0d32125d11/9567a559-d20a-486e-a7ae-5c6bbc030c5e

9 hours ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

'The Netherlands is negotiating dismantling the International Criminal Court'

https://rightsforum.org/en/diplomatic-sources-the-netherlands-is-negotiating-the-dismantling-of-the-international-criminal-court/

16 hours ago

1 change
155 upvotes – 67 comments

All US airports are currently ground stopped

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/2121347654714077605

3 hours ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK8h67ol7Q

9 hours ago

147 upvotes – 133 comments

Switcher (2004)

https://folklore.org/Switcher.html

21 hours ago

1 change
145 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

https://isometricsf.com/

6 hours ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

https://fortune.com/2026/11/13/openai-disbands-robotics-team-as-its-general-models-start-running-robots/

6 hours ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer

https://motherduck.com/blog/the-data-intelligence-engineer/

15 hours ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

Africa's solar revolution is vast and speedy

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/11/12/africas-solar-revolution-is-vast-and-speedy

22 hours ago

136 upvotes – 72 comments

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord

9 hours ago

2 changes
131 upvotes – 81 comments

Weight Space Misfolding

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2611.weight-space-misfolding

6 hours ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 46 comments

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf/releases/tag/v0.3.0

10 hours ago

★ 70 Rust Apache-2.0
127 upvotes – 38 comments

Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-gives-customers-a-crash-course-in-dependence-on-redmond/5309805

6 hours ago

125 upvotes – 41 comments

EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board

https://myid.ie/business/eu-digital-wallet-tracker/

9 hours ago

119 upvotes – 85 comments

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3

5 hours ago

116 upvotes – 18 comments

TSMC Hacked

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046179/000104617926000800/a20261112statementregardin.htm

17 hours ago

115 upvotes – 17 comments

FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop

3 hours ago

109 upvotes – 32 comments

US university students tell surveillance cameras to Flock off

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/nov/13/universities-drop-flock-camera-contracts

10 hours ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

Scientists claim the universe is twice as old as believed

https://geekspin.co/scientists-claim-the-universe-is-twice-as-old-as-believed/

19 hours ago

102 upvotes – 110 comments

Europe's electric car sales jump 49% as global EV sales grow

https://electrek.co/2026/11/11/europes-electric-car-sales-jump-49-as-global-ev-sales-grow/

13 hours ago

95 upvotes – 96 comments

The 42-Year Journey to Bring 'Neuromancer' to the Screen

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-apple-tv-neuromancer-creator-interviews/

10 hours ago

94 upvotes – 73 comments

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-decider

5 hours ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqdj1ellpd70o

8 hours ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Apify Security Incident

https://status.apify.com/incidents/sxd1dj5j6749

7 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 10 comments

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 day ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft says attempts to fix global outage not going 'as expected'

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t

18 hours ago

89 upvotes – 70 comments

US test reactor cleared for operations

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/us-test-reactor-cleared-for-operations

10 hours ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

NYC Council passes ban on 'surveillance pricing'

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-council-passes-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-that-relies-on-personal-data

22 hours ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Mercedes-Benz to halt 'all future investments' in Germany

https://www.ft.com/content/f4a1fd87-9abc-4965-963a-a5349dbfdab7

10 hours ago

75 upvotes – 143 comments

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-hadron-collider-superconducting-magnets

10 hours ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

The Downfall of Jensen Huang: Nvidia's Greed and Corruption [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYU_geUwQoA

11 hours ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Jensen Huang Admitted He Was Facing an "Avalanche" of Excess Wafers and Memory

https://respawnfirst.com/before-resigning-jensen-huang-admitted-he-was-facing-an-avalanche-of-excess-wafers-and-memory-new-report-sheds-more-light-on-the-gpu-ram-crisis/

11 hours ago

68 upvotes – 77 comments

Claude Meetings

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-meetings

2 hours ago

66 upvotes – 58 comments

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

https://toninoble.com/post/ctrlc-ctrlv-ctrlcve

6 hours ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Someone's Impersonating This Blog

https://mattbee.mataroa.blog/p/someones-impersonating-this-blog/

5 hours ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Arm boss Rene Haas approached in Nvidia CEO search

https://www.ft.com/content/2a64f698-46dd-4178-a3f4-4c5f4c0a0926

7 hours ago

1 change
64 upvotes – 73 comments

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

https://gyptazy.com/blog/freebsd-bhyve-live-migration-support-rfc/

4 hours ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments
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