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The FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop for departing flights on Friday. The order lasted more than five hours and brought U.S. air traffic to a standstill.

A new Wall Street Journal report alleges that Nvidia artificially inflated the GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that then purchased Nvidia GPUs and built data centers. The report follows the departure of now-former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and claims the company effectively engineered scarcity to sustain demand.

Ukrainian drone strikes hit nine Russian oil refineries in 13 days, knocking out 36% of Russia’s oil refining capacity. The blitz marks a significant escalation in attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.

The FAA lifted a National Ground Stop at 01:19 UTC, according to its advisories database. No further details about the reason for the stoppage or affected flights were included in the advisory.

The GGML project has released version 1.0.0 of its tensor library for machine learning. The open-source library is hosted on GitHub under ggml-org/ggml and invites developers to contribute.

Amtrak’s booking system experienced a network outage that coincided with a nationwide FAA ground stop, causing major issues for users. The company said its booking system is now returning to normal.

A tech writer argues that an old smartphone can replace a Raspberry Pi for many DIY projects because it already includes the camera, GPS, storage, battery, and mobile data that would otherwise need to be assembled separately. Using second-hand hardware can therefore be cheaper and simpler than building around a Pi.

A retrospective traces 3Com’s rise from Bob Metcalfe’s networking innovations through the dot-com boom and iconic 3C509 network card, explaining how the once-dominant brand faded rather than exited with fanfare. Despite its early influence, 3Com was ultimately absorbed into HP, ending its run as an independent networking company.

Bloomberg’s investigation into Penlink’s Webloc ad-based surveillance system has found that security agencies worldwide use it, building on prior Citizen Lab research. The reporting identifies additional customers of the system.

A new side-by-side comparison showcases all 13 display modes of The Secret of Monkey Island across eight editions, including Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, FM Towns, and Sega CD. Using the same 12 scenes, it highlights how the 1990 classic looked across different platforms.

Readers discussing the Ask HN thread suggest the most useful concrete AI skills are engineering fundamentals—especially scaling verification through testing practices, clear problem framing, and knowing when an LLM is stuck—rather than generic prompt tricks. Others recommend hands-on experience building models or harnesses around completion models to understand how LLMs actually behave. Some argue the core skill is management-style communication and requirements structuring, especially when working with cheaper or less capable models.

A new Show HN project offers a live and replayable map of U.S. air traffic during the FAA’s nationwide ground stop on Nov. 13, 2026. It visualizes flights airborne compared with a normal Friday, along with departures and the resulting backlog at major airports.

Anthropic has upgraded Claude Code Projects so it can run parallel AI workers hands-free. The Projects coordinator is now proactive, answering questions and posting thread status updates directly in chat.

Readers discuss how many local and free music players fail at shuffle, often replaying songs in the same predictable order or looping a small subset instead of randomizing the full library. Complaints also cover USB/car players with broken shuffle, crashes, and missing subdirectory support, while some users contrast this with better implementations like PlexAmp and Amperfy.

A Show HN project presents a model zoo of 15 blood glucose forecasting models trained and tested on the creator’s own data. The T1DMAI repository shares these personal-data-trained forecasters for blood glucose prediction.

A developer got Zed’s remote development feature working with a FreeBSD machine by tricking the editor into accepting the unsupported setup. The workaround hinged on a 768-byte buffer, highlighting the quirks of running Zed’s remote server outside its officially supported platforms.

The piece reflects on Philip Roth turning 70 in 2003, a surprising milestone for a writer long viewed as an enfant terrible known for chutzpah and comic mischief. It traces how Roth’s work gradually deepened and changed, with David Remnick getting personal in the conversation.

Unsloth has released a Dynamic v3.1 update for its Qwen3.8-27B quantizations. The accompanying guide covers how to run Qwen3.8 quantized models, including the 27B version, on a local setup.

OpenOrange lets you run Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, and Workflows unchanged on AWS, GCP, Azure, or your own servers. The project is open source under Apache 2.0.

An Nvidia director sold nearly $1 billion in stock weeks before a scandal involving Jensen Huang. Huang has stepped down as CEO after reports emerged of a second extramarital relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.

In 2015, artists secretly scanned the bust of Nefertiti at Berlin’s Neues Museum using a hacked Kinect without the museum’s permission. The clandestine 3D scan, released as “The Other Nefertiti,” raised questions about cultural ownership and public access to museum artifacts.

LLDB has been extended with a vendor-neutral accelerator plugin architecture in lldb-server for debugging applications that span CPUs and GPUs. The design separates shared debugger infrastructure from hardware-specific device support.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crew caught a rare yellow burbot in Oswego Harbor during a routine Aquatic Invasive Species Survey last month. The fish’s saturated yellow-orange appearance is caused by xanthochromism, a rare biological condition.

Researchers studying Asian elephants have found that population declines are leaving the highly social animals increasingly isolated and their communities fractured. They warn that crossing a social “tipping point” could be detrimental to the species’ future.

AI-built websites are suddenly full of the ↗ arrow, usually as a trendy external-link or call-to-action icon. The pattern reflects generative models imitating modern web design tropes and then repeating the glyph across generated layouts.

Cabo Pulmo, a small Mexican fishing village, fought to protect its stretch of the Sea of Cortez and saw marine life rebound within a decade. The piece connects that community-led recovery to John Steinbeck’s earlier observations of the region.

The FAA has issued a national ground stop, according to its advisories database. No further details, including the cause or scope, were provided in the advisory description.

Nik Ivanov introduces significant hardware upgrades to this open-source project, including a new ESP32-based controller, improved motor performance, and a custom renderer for detailed image plotting. The guide covers the assembly process, firmware setup, and calibration steps necessary to achieve reliable, high-quality wall drawings.

Researchers have used AI to unlock Kurt Gödel’s 1,009 pages of densely written notebooks, much of it in an obsolete shorthand. The material is said to contain hundreds of previously inaccessible proved theorems.

A 1960 article that forecast doomsday for Friday, 13 November 2026 is being revisited as an example of how extrapolating past trends can oversimplify complex systems. Readers note that demographic projections now point toward peak population and decline in many industrialized nations, shifting concerns from overpopulation to economic dependence on growth. The discussion debates whether population pressure or political and distributional choices drive crises, and whether economies must be restructured for a world without continual growth.