SHE'S A DIGITAL CONSTRUCT? ZAYUM! 👅
Democrats might actually take your penis this time
Y Combinator investments in police state mass surveillance:
https://ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
https://ycombinator.com/companies/conntour
https://ycombinator.com/companies/edgetrace
https://ycombinator.com/companies/traces
https://ycombinator.com/companies/ambient-ai
https://ycombinator.com/companies/lexius
https://ycombinator.com/companies/verdun
https://ycombinator.com/companies/synara
https://ycombinator.com/companies/rimward
Y Combinator investments in worker/customer surveillance:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/optifye-ai
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tenyks
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aura-vision
Drone surveillance disguised as birds with flapping wings:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ornadyne
High altitude global surveillance:
Other MUD player: Could you take a look at script and tell me what's wrong with it?
Me: Sure.
Other MUD player: I tried to have Claude Code make it.
Me: ... At that point, I'd rather you just GIVE me the specs and I'll write it from scratch properly.
Show HN: Stroq finds leaked secrets in your coding agent sessions and guards the next one, locally.
https://github.com/AGGIB/Stroq
OpenSSH 10.6p2 fixes a password authentication bypass on musl Linux without PAM: update now.
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html
Chris Wellons on why we can do better than line-buffered output.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/11/05/
A gym forced its social app on members, so one pulled the QR check-in out of it.
https://shayon.work/blog/reverse-engineering-gym-pass
Jay Tholen remembers being a kid making games and posting them online in the early 2000s.
https://jaytholen.net/teengamedev/
Servo's September update adds <progress>, rounded rectangles, new CSS functions and WebGL2 fixes.
https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/
Baidu opens ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B-A14B MoE pretraining base.
https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/
Launch HN: Rivet is an open-source orchestrator for everything an agent's workload needs.
https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet
Show HN: Stroq finds leaked secrets in your coding agent sessions and guards the next one, locally.
https://github.com/AGGIB/Stroq
OpenSSH 10.6p2 fixes a password authentication bypass on musl Linux without PAM: update now.
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html
Chris Wellons on why we can do better than line-buffered output.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/11/05/
RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/117566669269224071
Such a glorious night of schadenfreude. May we experience it again in 2 years! And then FREEDOM!
Discord is ditching Electron for Rust, and its new desktop app uses less RAM.
https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app
Window Sweaters is a macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.
https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
PhobosLab gets 44.1 kHz stereo onto the N64 at near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the CPU.
https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec
Servo's September update adds <progress>, rounded rectangles, new CSS functions and WebGL2 fixes.
https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/
Baidu opens ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B-A14B MoE pretraining base.
https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/
Launch HN: Rivet is an open-source orchestrator for everything an agent's workload needs.
https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet
Vibe Coding & AI News to Use: November 5, 2026…
Walker Playground: tiny walkers ride your page's borders, buttons and text, and you can flick them.
https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
Seattle-area ctrl+alt+create live: Builder Day co-working workshops and Builder Night networking, no experience needed.
https://luma.com/ctrlaltcreatelive
https://ctrlaltcreate.live/
Discord is ditching Electron for Rust, and its new desktop app uses less RAM.
https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app
Window Sweaters is a macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.
https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
PhobosLab gets 44.1 kHz stereo onto the N64 at near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the CPU.
https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec
Mangelnde Datenschutzaufsicht, null Einsicht in den internationalen Geheimdienstdatentauschring: Dobrindts #Geheimdienstreform https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Geheimdienstreform-Schaffen-Befugnisse-ohne-zu-wissen-wer-sie-morgen-nutzt-11512569.html
Vibe Coding & AI News to Use: November 5, 2026…
Walker Playground: tiny walkers ride your page's borders, buttons and text, and you can flick them.
https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
Seattle-area ctrl+alt+create live: Builder Day co-working workshops and Builder Night networking, no experience needed.
https://luma.com/ctrlaltcreatelive
https://ctrlaltcreate.live/
Democrats Win in Districts Redrawn in Gerrymandering Efforts Pushed by Trump
Democrats won seats in at least 12 districts that Republicans had redrawn in large-scale gerrymandering efforts.
Just watched @avilewis get into an impromptu debate with Finance Minister Champagne -- thank you for calling out the tax breaks for large corporations. So much money left on the table that could go to healthcare and, as you point out, government-run grocery stores.
Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/11/meta-pulls-down-controversial-terms-of-service/
http://www.techmeme.com/261105/p63#a261105p63
#Puppet build reveal! The kind folks of #TheGamersTavern commissioned me to design and build the new mascot! Meet The Innkeeper! I’ll be the primary performer too! Video soon!
Find out more about TGT here: https://home.gamerstavern.online/
Open-sourcing your plagiarism is still plagiarism.
Vibe-coding a 1:1 pixel clone of an indie app over the weekend and slapping an MIT license on it doesn’t make you Linus Torvalds.
It makes you a dickhead.
https://jawestenberg.substack.com/p/when-did-open-source-become-a-twitter
@Daojoan to be fair being Linus Torvalds also makes you a dickhead
La valo de Nvidia à -9%
@AugierLe42e Outch...
#GAwx
Last night a 1 in 1000 Year Rainfall Event occurred over Blue Ridge, GA. Both the 12-hour rainfall amount of 11.19 in and the 6-hour rainfall amount of 10.28 in exceeded the 1 in 1000 year rainfall event mark during their respective time frames per the NOAA Atlas 14.
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, 1955.
#GuyFawkes #VForVendetta #BackToTheFuture #BTTF #FanArt #StupidPopCultureCrossover #ThereWasNoGoodReasonForThis
It's so disheartening to explain this over and over working in critical infrastructure cybersecurity full time. It's because everyone demands cheap, fast remote support and AI enabled real time telemetry and control. We’ve worked ourselves into this corner through demanding connectivity and I see next to nothing truly airgapped anymore. In fact, it’s impossible to convert some critical systems back at this point.
A lot of our power infrastructure is so complex with microgrids and renewables and real time billing and buy backs that it can’t be switched to manual anymore. A lot of industrial vendors won’t provide warranty support if their remote access is removed.
And this is all happening in super low maturity environments with limited if any cybersecurity resources or tools.
We’re trying, but the state of things is pretty dire, the barrier to basic disruptive attacks is lowering rapidly, and we can’t find enough people who understand the industrial environments and cybersecurity on thirty year old computers fast enough to hire close to enough people.
@hacks4pancakes It's similar in the life sciences and pharmaceutical fields.
Vendors that "require" their malware on a machine or they won't support it. (their RMM)