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November 6, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #817

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. //G.K. Chesterton

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#Favorites


Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
//rikiyat.github comments→

sshole
//sshhole comments→

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
//spectrum.ieee comments→

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
//neufangled comments→

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
//simonwillison comments→

If you love a website, back it up
//blog.mistys-internet.website comments→

I wish tech companies knew more about me
//rakhim.exotext comments→

How I use AI
//ben.stolovitz comments→

Resisting Cognitive Surrender
//knlb comments→

#Ask HN


Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

What's your current AI agentic setup?

Are you tired too in this AI era?

#Classifieds


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#Show HN


Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise //news.ycombinator

Git for the US Code //lexifina comments→

OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust //github comments→

Window Sweaters //github comments→

Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform //github comments→

#Code


Nango: 10,000+ open-source tools for AI agents //nango sponsored

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks //nolanlawson comments→

C++26 Disapproved //andreasfertig comments→

A new Go API for JSON //go comments→

It's the memory latency, stupid //pivotlake comments→

#Data


Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now //rhaas.blogspot comments→

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry //labs.ycombinator comments→

MCP Explained //mcp-explained comments→

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB //posthog comments→

Inkling 2 Small //thinkingmachines comments→

MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark //dmux.github comments→

#Design


Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes //visitnorway comments→

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 //webkit comments→

Lemmings CSS Animation //markblah.github comments→

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX //github comments→

Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? //asteriskmag comments→

#Books


HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN //hackerbooks comments→

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer //arxiv comments→

The Internals of PostgreSQL //interdb comments→

Jules Verne's Lost Novel //blue-continuum comments→

Novellas with Groff //movq comments→

Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds? //news.ycombinator

#Working


AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them //newsletter.signoz comments→

U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947 //fortune comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother //blog.zamzar comments→

#Learn


US boy names that became girl names and vice versa //namedaisy comments→

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span //science comments→

Insects don't swarm at LED lights //birdsoutsidemywindow comments→

#Watching


HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN //karpathy.bearblog comments→

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane //youtube comments→

Geolocation leak using plane doppler curves //youtube comments→

Moment of Ruby: An Argument for Nothing //aha comments→

#Startup News


Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data //github comments→

Search for everyone //kagi comments→

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes //wired comments→

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history //tomshardware comments→

Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1 //cnbc comments→

Conductor is joining Meta //conductor comments→

#Fun


elect.horse //elect comments→

After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander
//fireflyk64.github comments→

HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels //hackertv comments→

Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre //p.migdal comments→

Casio Watches of the 1980s //casio comments→

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal //github comments→

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