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If you run the popular Homebrew installer @brew.sh you might want to read this. E.g. signed binaries will become mandatory soon, and there is a deadline (2027) for Intel support on macOS.

In today’s Russian papers: ▪️ Russia’s budget deficit gets bigger ▪️ plans for a new “tax on gadgets” ▪️ a “cooling off period” for SIM cards ▪️t he dangers of rehabilitating Joseph Stalin #ReadingRussia

Type stripping is now stable. Enjoy 🌞

Node excitement 😉 Congrats to @marcoippolito.dev on making it official: type-stripping in Node 25 is now declared to be stable 🎉 You can run: node index.ts The capabilities have not changed since Node 24. This is purely a maturity indicator.

Today on the pod, Node 24 goes LTS, Nuxt Image V2 brings TS goodies, and Anders shares insights on TypeScript's AI era rise. Plus community takes on engineering practices! share.transistor.fm/s/b87c759b #typescript

A planned supersized floating wind turbine with two spinning heads will generate nearly double the amount of energy as the current record-holder

German Nazi party is trying to forbid school teachers from condemning Nazism, calling it "unacceptable political indoctrination". Which formally makes sense, as Nazis are an official party in the parliament, and schools need to stay neutral. Thats the sort of paradoxes you get if you tolerate Nazis.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 TC39 has a *packed* agenda for next week & will consider advancing: 4️⃣ Intl.Locale info 4️⃣ Iterator Sequencing 4️⃣ JSON.parse source 3️⃣ Intl Era Month Code 3️⃣ Joint Iteration 2️⃣.7️⃣ Error.prototype.stack 2️⃣.7️⃣ export defer 2️⃣ Amount 2️⃣ await dictionary 2️⃣ Declarations in Conditionals 🧵

Today one Russian paper suggests the US midterms “could undermine Donald Trump’s power & hurt Russia.” Other papers focus on Russia’s economic problems: “Zero growth in the 4th quarter…a gradual increase in crisis phenomena in manufacturing.” #ReadingRussia

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

In today’s Russian papers: “Budget revenues still falling, trade with China declining" & ”petrol supply problems in the regions.” Plus an interesting editorial: “In a situation where almost everything is prohibited, a little something at least should be permitted” #ReadingRussia

New article, North Korea’s unreported submersible torpedo boat may be uncrewed www.hisutton.com/North-Korean... #OSINT

Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

I love this project infinitemac.org

Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?

As seen, briefly, in “A House of Dynamite.”

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

My "The Building Blocks of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Language Models" talk at the PyTorch Conference is now up on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=nDl6... The silver lining of my late arrival and rescheduling: There was no talk after mine, it's followed by a 30 min Q&A instead of just the usual 5 :)

Currently available in early release for O’Reilly subscribers: www.oreilly.com/library/view... and it’ll be properly published and widely available from February

Why does it feel like Chinese AI labs are informally sharing information with one another? How else can Alibaba, Baidu, MiniMax, Moonshot AI, and Zhipu AI all release state-of-the-art models around the same time?

The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs. The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.

blog.cloudflare.com/async-quic-a... Cloudflare has open-sourced the tokio-quiche library, which combines the QUIC implementation they created six years ago with the Rust asynchronous runtime Tokio, to facilitate easy support for HTTP/3 and QUIC.

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Ukraine with high impact to Poltava, also affecting parts of Kyiv after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌📉

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

What is it about the radical right Alternative for Germany and the former GDR? Glad you asked, b/c I have a free manuscript for you.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

my kids are going to lose their minds when they see this Sticker Dream: Just imagine a sticker and have it printed in seconds

"Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data. Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI." www.wired.com/story/google...

"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. "

The @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social JSON viewer got better in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social : the console offers access to the original json data via `$json`. This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

New TIL: Using Codex CLI with gpt-oss:120b on an NVIDIA DGX Spark via Tailscale til.simonwillison.net/llms/codex-s...

Notes on Kimi K2 Thinking, the huge new open weights (but not open source, it's under a "modified MIT license") model from Moonshot AI simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/k...

Trump is 100% "America first," except when it comes to Argentinian beef

The German Parliament's AfD lawmakers asked hundreds of detailed questions about Germany’s military and cyber systems. Officials now suspect these were meant to expose weaknesses — one warned they looked like “a task list from the Kremlin.” euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/06/d...

Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking Congrats to the Moonshot AI team on the awesome open release. For close followers of Chinese AI models, this isn't shocking, but more inflection points are coming. Pressure is building on US labs with more expensive models. www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-th...

NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

team is aware of some service problems. looking into it.