Europe's electric car sales jump 49% as global EV sales grow
AI summary Global EV sales grew 8% in October, with Europe's BEV sales up 49% and North America seeing its first year-over-year increase in 2026.
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Claude Is Down
Claude's Incident and Scheduled Maintenance History
Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com
Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com.
Is there a 'right amount' of AI?
A recent flap over a development house using LLMs ‘sparingly’ in a popular game raises uncomfortable but necessary questions, especially for indie developers.
The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer
AI summary A new role, the Data Intelligence Engineer, is emerging as AI changes data work, focusing on verifying AI-generated numbers.
The Netherlands Is Dismantling the International Criminal Court
AI summary The Netherlands is negotiating with the US to weaken the ICC, potentially granting immunity to heads of state, excluding jurisdiction over non‑state nationals, and denying cases…
Global Microsoft Outage
A massive Microsoft outage has left millions around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life. Follow for live updates
Scientists claim the universe is twice as old as believed
AI summary A model suggests the universe could be 26.7 billion years old, double the current estimate, without dark matter or energy.
Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed they're not taking as expected. We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be…
Show HN: PharmA2A, an open protocol for pharmacy-to-supplier orders on A2A
AI summary PharmA2A is an open protocol for pharmacy-to-supplier orders, using A2A technology.
IceWM
AI summary IceWM is a lightweight C++ window manager for the X Window System, created in 1997 by Marko Maček. It emphasizes speed and simplicity, offering extensive configurability…
Show HN: I built a Rick and Morty explainer video generator
> paste any site or article or a script > we turn it into a Rick and Morty sketch with dialogues, scenes, action and Rick and Morty of course > click generate to turn the script…
Switcher (2004)
The first commercial product that I worked on after going on leave of absence from Apple in March 1984 (see Leave Of Absence) was a low cost, high resolution scanner for the…
Anthropic carelessly killed a Claude Code feature users built on, no warning
AI summary Claude Code removed a feature without warning, causing user agents to stop working and losing visibility into their operations.
Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol
AI summary Brave Search API now supports agentic payments via the x402 protocol, allowing real-time payments with USDC on the Base blockchain.
Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia’s former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
NYC Council passes ban on 'surveillance pricing'
“It's a practice that worsens the affordability crisis," Speaker Julie Menin said.
Chicago schools to Google – we'd rather lose Search than be forced to accept AI
AI summary Chicago schools may stop using Google Search if forced to accept AI services, exploring other search solutions.
Adding RSA Support to swift-nio-ssh
AI summary The swift-nio-ssh library lacks RSA support, which is needed for older Amazon EC2 key pairs. Adding RSA required modifying the module and external dependencies.
Richard A. Posner has died
AI summary Richard A. Posner, a renowned legal scholar and judge, died at 87. He was influential in law and economics.
Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer
AI summary Edge0-145B is an open-source AI model with 145 billion parameters, usable on a personal laptop, rivaling cloud models.
Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs
AI summary Chinese AI companies may have used NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs despite export restrictions, according to model analysis.
Show HN: RealtimeVAD – trading false positives for 110ms earlier end-of-speech
AI summary RealtimeVAD is a tool that detects end-of-speech 110 ms earlier than standard detectors by combining Silero VAD with a faster audio-level check. It provides a demo for testing on…
Foundation Models Framework (macOS)
AI summary The Foundation Models framework allows developers to integrate large language models into apps using a native Swift API, supporting both on-device and server models.
AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers
AI summary AI-generated apps are overwhelming Apple's app review process, causing difficulties for developers.