news, !paper 2026-11-02

2801 Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen / rikiyat.github.io / 855

1559 WTF Ubuntu? / chalmovsky.com / 649

738 Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise / news.ycombinator.com / 349

598 If you love a website, back it up / blog.mistys-internet.website / 138

555 Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks / freenode.net / 169

427 US boy names that became girl names and vice versa / namedaisy.com / 412

398 Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack / theguardian.com / 443

370 The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public / techpolicy.press / 277

339 Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News / hackertimes.ca / 107

334 Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay / businessinsider.com / 256

291 Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre / p.migdal.pl / 46

276 DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs / github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat / 54

271 BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter / electrek.co / 281

260 Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You / nist.gov / 74

242 Scaling Git at OpenAI / openai.com / 166

233 Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1 / cnbc.com / 275

227 Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) / news.ycombinator.com / 188

225 Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API / syscall.sh / 52

220 Resisting Cognitive Surrender / knlb.dev / 110

216 Anthropic's growth just flattened / regenerator1.com / 249

215 Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads / finance.yahoo.com / 191

194 My Favourite Laptop / blog.jsbarretto.com / 144

190 Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout / cnbc.com / 168

189 Net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S. / keepingup.com / 96

188 Let Me Ch... / blog.alxgsv.com / 85

185 We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85% / blog.cloudflare.com / 74

182 Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN / news.ycombinator.com / 25

181 Moving our warehouse off DuckDB / posthog.com / 116

179 Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom / bloomberg.com / 249

173 Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) / quora.com / 239

172 Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era / terrytao.wordpress.com / 129

167 Never Complain, Never Explain / en.wikipedia.org / 65

157 China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48 / labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org / 87

147 Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app / momentic.ai / 99

147 European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative / erici.eu / 80

145 Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club? / news.ycombinator.com / 22

144 Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code / polyend.com / 51

142 Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal / devblogs.microsoft.com / 49

137 Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse / twitter.com/OcanaSantero / 110

134 BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it / pcgamer.com / 148

126 Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It / gizmodo.com / 110

122 The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" / simonwillison.net / 52

108 Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack / bbc.com / 1

107 Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service / propublica.org / 73

107 Skill to Create Product Videos / github.com/aaitor / 35

103 Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning / arxiv.org / 30

100 Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings / stephenjgallagher.substack.com / 33

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