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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/
24•ibobev•1h ago

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yodon•52m ago
Raymond Chen is one of the great treasures of the web.
mschuster91•34m ago
> The sketch demonstrated infrared file sharing and other mobile scenarios. Remember infrared file sharing? Of course you don’t.

Oh hell yes I do. Dog slow but at least it worked decently well, something I can't say about Bluetooth.

jeffrallen•20m ago
I remember waiting for IR file sharing. It was SLOW.
wayne•6m ago
I mostly remember infrared transfers in the context of beaming contacts between PalmPilots. It was pretty fast for that, and actually, much more reliable than modern AirDrop.
michalpleban•8m ago
Of course I remember IR file sharing! And contact beaming from Palm devices.

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
443•dbreunig•1h ago•117 comments

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

https://subvocal.company/
275•aarushyadav•2h ago•190 comments

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

https://momentic.ai/
70•wuweiweiwu•2h ago•49 comments

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names
133•xoobdev•3h ago•131 comments

Agentic Backdoors via Pretraining Poisoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37741
35•gmays•1h ago•8 comments

Let Me Ch...

https://blog.alxgsv.com/let-me-check/
97•alxgsv•2h ago•14 comments

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/
20•smilelamp•43m ago•6 comments

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre

https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/
117•stared•3h ago•22 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)

114•whoishiring•3h ago•88 comments

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/
217•ingve•6h ago•52 comments

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Technical Graduates in Denver (Engineering/CS Focus)

https://bitmovin.com/careers/8660599002/
1•slederer•2h ago

SOML – A Config Format for Humans

https://github.com/soml-lang/soml
13•microflash•56m ago•8 comments

WTF Ubuntu?

https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
955•chalmovsky•4h ago•475 comments

We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/
85•wondersky•4h ago•28 comments

Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11
173•entryleveljobsc•2h ago•139 comments

Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/
24•ibobev•1h ago•5 comments

LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/
55•pretext•4h ago•19 comments

My Favourite Laptop

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop
84•ibobev•2h ago•66 comments

Skill to Create Product Videos

https://github.com/aaitor/skill-video-studio
9•aaitor•1h ago•1 comments

Making Peace with the Projective Plane

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/
6•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb
116•emschwartz•3h ago•88 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part11/
26•ibobev•4h ago•8 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
291•EA-3167•18h ago•110 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/
46•torutofu•5h ago•18 comments

GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum

https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-rosalind-6
50•gmays•4h ago•44 comments

Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API

https://syscall.sh/
174•guitmz•10h ago•47 comments

Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-su...
278•fergie•7h ago•350 comments

Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean

https://byesky.pirhoo.com
19•pirhoo•1h ago•13 comments

Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineer...
119•mancerayder•4h ago•142 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
793•soheilpro•2d ago•468 comments