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3 38d +3m reedybear.bearblog.dev 23Show HN: Tokenflood – simulate arbitrary loads on instruction-tuned LLMs 0 21 44d +6d github.com/twerkmeister/tokenflood 24Meta acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not violate antitrust law: Judge 3 23 38d +18m nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-antitrust-monopoly-ruling.html 25New EU Chat Control proposal moves forward 25 139 38d +33m techreport.com/news/new-eu-chat-control-proposal-privacy-experts-see-dangerous-backdoor 26Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark 57 180 38d +31m simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3 27When 1+1+1 Equals 1 28 41 43d +4d mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/when-111-equals-1 28Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations 40 124 38d +3m github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat 29Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M to operate US public radio system 61 124 38d +24m apnews.com/article/trump-npr-lawsuit-2cc4abfa8cf00fe6f89e387e63eb4a2a 30Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 2 76 38d +50m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/googles-sundar-pichai-warns-of-irrationality-in-trillion-dollar-ai-investment-boom 31[dead] ? 7 38d +1h login.corp.google.com 32A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out 10 17 45d +6d prashanth.world/squeaky-nail 33Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript 30 103 38d +16m github.com/coder/guts 34Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward 244 461 38d +10m ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward 35Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature 11 41 44d +5d elicit.com/blog/literature-based-discovery 36Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges 34 74 38d +13m chipsandcheese.com/p/strix-halos-memory-subsystem-tackling 37Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors 95 219 38d +26m arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030 38Google Brings Gemini 3 AI Model to Search and AI Mode 9 84 38d +30m blog.google/products/search/gemini-3-search-ai-mode 39Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality 9 27 38d +6m github.com/neul-labs/fast-litellm 405 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI 42 103 38d +28m developers.googleblog.com/en/5-things-to-try-with-gemini-3-pro-in-gemini-cli 41A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center 78 179 38d +19m igorslab.de/en/a-day-at-hetzner-online-in-the-falkenstein-data-center-insights-into-server-technology-cooling-production-rma-and-sustainability 42Google Antigravity 4 193 38d +9m antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity 43Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas 0 27 43d +5d tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036811.2025.2510472 44Google Antigravity 1058 1060 38d +21m antigravity.google 45How long can it take to become a US citizen? 292 68 38d +2m usafacts.org/articles/how-long-can-it-take-to-become-a-us-citizen 46Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities 1 362 38d +3m blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-developers 47Gemini 3 1 346 38d +5m blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3 48Gemini 3 1041 1700 38d +8m blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3 49I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws' 23 54 42d +3d remindmagazine.com/article/15694/jaws-arcade-video-game-killer-shark-atari-sega-electromechanical 50'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO? 74 53 38d +58m theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/fear-really-drives-him-is-alex-karp-of-palantir-the-worlds-scariest-ceo 51Short Little Difficult Books 114 201 38d +9m countercraft.substack.com/p/short-little-difficult-books 52Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default 129 112 38d +27m evanhahn.com/typescript-immutability-experiment 53Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright 871 848 38d +8m bbc.com/news/articles/c1j8ewy1p86o 54Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to 370 479 38d +1h huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cloudflare-if-you-dont 55Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival 1 17 44d +5d publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia 56Mathematics and Computation (2019) [pdf] 13 87 38d +1h math.ias.edu/files/Book-online-Aug0619.pdf 57Only Criminals Don't Want to Be Gassed by the Government 20 74 38d +38m popehat.com/p/only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government 58Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 87 197 38d +15m ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/11/17/ruby-4-0-0-preview2-released 59[dead] ? 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