A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
AI summary Mozilla studied browser fingerprinting with 25 million Firefox users, finding that 75% were uniquely identifiable before protections reduced this to 46%.
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Starlink Mini 2
Starlink delivers fast, reliable internet at home and on the go. Seamlessly stream, video call, game and more with high-speed connectivity even in the most rural and remote places.
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
AI summary Mike Lothian's attempt to improve DisplayLink drivers for Linux was halted by Synaptics due to patent claims, leaving Linux users without full feature support.
Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives
AI summary A new tool helps coding agents use modern web features instead of outdated JavaScript practices, with 200+ guides and improved performance.
Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data
AI summary Claude introduces Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data features for team collaboration and data sharing.
An Open Field Guide to Inference Engineering
AI summary This guide helps platform engineers understand inference engineering, including running models in production and using open models for cost and control benefits.
Life on Claude Nine
AI summary Ivan builds an email automation system with Claude, expanding to other tasks, feeling both empowered and exhausted.
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U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50+ miles with no fast EV charger (map)
AI summary As of November 10, 2026, 878 highway stretches in the U.S. have more than 50 miles without a fast EV charger.
AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast
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.name Grandfathered
AI summary Verisign has retracted its plan to terminate 22,000 .name domains and email redirects, keeping them active indefinitely.
Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support
AI summary Blender 5.3 adds support for 3D Gaussian Splats, allowing import and rendering in various modes.
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Today, we’re making Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers.
.NET 11
AI summary Microsoft announced .NET 11, a Standard Term Support release with improvements in C# 15, ASP.NET Core, and more. It offers two years of support.
Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress
AI summary Palantir hires former Sen. Jon Tester as it faces scrutiny from Democrats in the new Congress.
Smart home devices should work without the internet
AI summary The author prioritizes smart home devices that function without internet, using local hardware and software for reliability.
Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View
AI summary An isometric pixel-art map of València, Spain, replicates real buildings and landscapes in a SimCity-style format.
The Hardest Tarball?
AI summary A tar archive can be extracted in different ways depending on the tool used, due to a hard link and pax header manipulation.
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The Death Knell of Digital Search
Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it survive when A.I. answers all of our questions?
Compress any LLM 3x in one click,near-lossless,in under 50 MB RAM
AI summary The article explains that generative AI models stall on edge devices because GPU memory bandwidth limits data transfer, causing a 7‑billion‑parameter model to read 14 GB of…
Don't buy AR glasses
AI summary The article warns against buying AR glasses, arguing they could lead to a cluttered, ad-filled experience similar to the current web.
Ableton Live 13
See what’s coming in Ableton Live 13: experimental sound design tools, precision mixing effects and workflow improvements to bring your ideas into focus.
Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008)
AI summary Let Over Lambda is a 2008 book about advanced Lisp programming, focusing on macros and their power.
What's new in the .NET 11 runtime
AI summary The .NET 11 runtime raises minimum hardware requirements, adding newer instruction sets for x86/x64 and Arm64, and updates ReadyToRun targets to leverage these capabilities…
AlphaProof Code
AI summary Google DeepMind used AlphaProof Code to formally verify the Signal protocol's security, marking a first in AI-assisted cryptographic verification.