Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

(01:17) - Libghostty 1.0

(02:30) - A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

(03:41) - US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

(04:35) - Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

(05:38) - AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

(06:55) - Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

(08:16) - First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

(09:18) - Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

(10:36) - Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

(11:46) - Outro

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-rcna607817
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50391456Libghostty 1.0
https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399933
A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397429
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/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50388001
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50392118
AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397994
Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2
https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397219
First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50394855
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401867
Devvm.dev: One VM for every project
https://devvm.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50395450

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:20) - Claude Code sends your email address to websites

(01:22) - MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

(02:17) - Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support

(03:18) - I wish tech companies knew more about me

(04:14) - Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

(05:36) - Window Sweaters

(06:30) - Download your favourite YouTube videos

(07:29) - The Hackintosh Reborn

(08:24) - Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

(09:34) - Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

(10:37) - Outro

Claude Code sends your email address to websites
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385272MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384233
Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810
I wish tech companies knew more about me
https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385870
Window Sweaters
https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381383
Download your favourite YouTube videos
https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571
The Hackintosh Reborn
https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383057
Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389333
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/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389222

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

(01:25) - Residential proxies detected on White House network

(02:20) - Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

(03:44) - A thousand fewer paths to root

(04:42) - Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

(05:42) - A new Go API for JSON

(06:58) - Images 2.6

(08:01) - Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

(08:58) - Sshole

(09:57) - Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

(10:59) - Outro

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336Residential proxies detected on White House network
https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246
Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999
A thousand fewer paths to root
https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372929
Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117
A new Go API for JSON
https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369106
Images 2.6
https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372945
Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366522
Sshole
https://sshhole.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228
Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

(01:25) - Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

(02:32) - Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

(03:44) - Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

(04:44) - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

(05:46) - Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

(06:46) - Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

(07:42) - C++26 Disapproved

(08:36) - The Internals of PostgreSQL

(09:36) - Jelly Sheet

(10:22) - Outro

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339288
Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251
Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
https://neufangled.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336918
Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562
Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
https://hackertv.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346755
C++26 Disapproved
https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164
The Internals of PostgreSQL
https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702
Jelly Sheet
https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

(01:29) - Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

(02:36) - If you love a website, back it up

(03:38) - US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

(04:40) - Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News

(05:35) - Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

(06:28) - DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs

(07:32) - Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You

(08:34) - Resisting Cognitive Surrender

(09:35) - Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

(10:37) - Outro

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340088
If you love a website, back it up
https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518
US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397
Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
https://hackertimes.ca/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981
Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre
https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339221
DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849
Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619
Resisting Cognitive Surrender
https://knlb.dev/essays/surrender
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323123
Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736