Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Jensen Huang resigns

(01:26) - Service degradation on Microsoft 365

(02:29) - Anthropic IPO

(03:36) - Rust 1.100

(04:30) - Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

(05:30) - Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

(06:39) - Gemini 4 Hydrogen

(07:38) - Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

(08:44) - I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

(09:48) - Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

(10:43) - Outro

Jensen Huang resigns
https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-megaspeed-china-singapore-huang-5403f152a601cf82ce939f1d24fffa0f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467087Service degradation on Microsoft 365
https://status.cloud.microsoft/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471731
Anthropic IPO
https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50465829
Rust 1.100
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/11/12/Rust-1.100.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50472038
Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-employees-petition-for-jensen-huangs-return/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50477231
Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app
https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470488
Gemini 4 Hydrogen
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471431
Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50472260
I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices
https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50468888
Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/2121079061774491735
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478609

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Tim Peters has died

(01:10) - Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

(02:21) - My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

(03:39) - AWS emulator

(04:46) - United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

(05:48) - A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

(06:43) - 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

(07:39) - Gemini Decisions API

(08:47) - Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2

(09:36) - Jane Street: Socratic Tutor

(10:23) - Outro

Tim Peters has died
https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50450488Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang
https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459703
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?
https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50452455
AWS emulator
https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456631
United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458900
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/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455394
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459745
Gemini Decisions API
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456791
Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2
https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50453288
Jane Street: Socratic Tutor
https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills/blob/master/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50438261

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Smart home devices should work without the internet

(01:28) - .name Grandfathered

(02:19) - AlphaProof Code

(03:25) - AI usage generates a fragile codebase

(04:39) - Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America

(05:40) - Starlink Mini 2

(06:35) - Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers

(07:46) - Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities

(09:04) - Val Town is winding down

(10:00) - Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives

(11:21) - Outro

Smart home devices should work without the internet
https://docodethatmatters.com/home-automation-overnight-success/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50441707.name Grandfathered
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/11/10/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50442736
AlphaProof Code
https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-alphaproof-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50439193
AI usage generates a fragile codebase
https://evanxmerz.com/post/ai-usage-generates-a-fragile-codebase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50438318
Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
https://www.theautopian.com/scion-is-back-and-its-going-to-sell-a-freaking-kei-truck-in-america/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50445401
Starlink Mini 2
https://starlink.com/mini-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50444129
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102549/acbc92e00cee3a3f/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50443824
Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities
https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50447074
Val Town is winding down
https://blog.val.town/winding-down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50443427
Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50443812

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes

(01:05) - Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

(02:22) - Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

(03:21) - USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

(04:14) - Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system

(05:20) - E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs

(06:33) - Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider

(07:38) - Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos

(08:34) - Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

(09:42) - Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model

(10:37) - Outro

Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes
https://www.foldableflight.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424581Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429068
Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators
https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429426
USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
https://postalpro.usps.com/zcb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50431058
Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system
https://www.payments.ca/canada-launches-real-time-rail-bringing-247-payment-infrastructure-national-economy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50427362
E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs
https://e-means.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429734
Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
https://strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-saves-millions-replacing-sonnet-with-strands-decider/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50436640
Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos
https://www.watched.earth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50428907
Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-trick-yet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426175
Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model
https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429024

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

(01:06) - Declarative Dragging

(02:10) - KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

(03:12) - Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

(04:16) - Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC

(05:23) - Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

(06:34) - Writing as a thinking tool

(07:35) - I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

(08:43) - Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

(09:47) - Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

(10:43) - Outro

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418016Declarative Dragging
https://declarative-dragging.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368481
KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU
https://ketchup3d.github.io/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418176
Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
https://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50419215
Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC
https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416158
Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU
https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50411961
Writing as a thinking tool
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412067
I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418975
Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming
https://duxlabs.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50416053
Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
https://twitter.com/shanemelaugh/status/2119192075505893695
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422069