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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · May 23
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This thread will help you decide if it is worthwhile following this profile. There are lots of HN bots on Bluesky - allow me to explain why I am different.
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How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one
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Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)
Also: World League Basketball
32bits.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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GitHub: Git operation failures
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Git operation failures
GitHub's Status Page - Git operation failures.
www.githubstatus.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Gemini 3 Pro Model Card
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Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
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Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
ericmigi.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
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“The Fall Of Icarus”: You Have Never Seen An Astrophotography Picture Like This!
This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.
www.iflscience.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
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Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don
My blog containing posts about open source software, statistics, history, and related topics
huijzer.xyz
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
fabiensanglard.net
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Core Devices keeps stealing our work
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Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work
This is a post that we don’t take any joy in writing. When we wrote last month about our agreement with Core Devices, we went into it believing that coopera...
rebble.io
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
Microsoft is moving forward with its plans to turn Windows 11 into a full-fledged “AI” operating system amidst Copilot backlash. The first big move in that direction is an experimental feature called “Agent Workspace,” which gives AI agents access to the most-used folders in your directory, such as Desktop, Music, Pictures, and Videos. It will […]
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Blender 5.0
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
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Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Google Antigravity
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Google Antigravity
Google Antigravity - Build the new way
antigravity.google
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Rebecca Heineman has died
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Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.
www.pcgamer.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Gemini 3
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A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.
blog.google
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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An official atlas of North Korea
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An official atlas of North Korea
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
www.cartographerstale.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Replicate is joining Cloudflare
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Replicate is joining Cloudflare – Replicate blog
replicate.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
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Building a Simple Search Engine That Actually Works
You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.
karboosx.net
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
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Giving C a Superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
Let's be honest: most people have a love-hate relationship with C. We love its raw speed, its direct connection to the metal, and its elegant simplicity. ...
hwisnu.bearblog.dev
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Compiling Ruby to machine language
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Compiling Ruby To Machine Language - Pat Shaughnessy
patshaughnessy.net
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
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WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
The new AI model delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global weather predictions.
blog.google
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails
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network-ui
epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A file format uncracked for 20 years
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A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years | lander's posts
"I’ve had enough reasonable file formats fired at me in my time to tell you that wasn’t one" - Sam Fisher
landaire.net
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
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Microsoft: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500,000 IP addresses
Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM