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Why Is Nvidia Valuable?

fraserphysics — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:19:08 +0000

In the 1980s I programmed two kinds of array processors for signal processing. It was mostly matrix vector multiplication. It was tedious.

I imagine that video cards are kind of like that. NVIDIA has their products fabbed at TSMC. What value does NVIDIA add? What is their moat?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50475155

Points: 1

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Inception.ai winding down their Mercury API service

UncleOxidant — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:10:51 +0000

I got the following email from Inception.ai today:

Update - ACTION NEEDED by December 28

Hi ,

We want to share an important update regarding the Mercury API. After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to wind down the service. The Mercury API will remain fully available through December 28, 2026.

After this date, you will no longer have access to the service or any data submitted to the platform. We encourage you to retrieve any necessary data before then. If you have questions or need assistance with the transition, please reply to this email. We’re happy to help.

It’s been a privilege building Mercury alongside customers like you. Your feedback and ideas have been invaluable in shaping the platform, and we’re deeply grateful for your support and trust.

Warmly, The Inception Team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50475057

Points: 2

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MS Defender, Intune and Purview possibly affected in outage. Any confirmation?

ArcHound — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:10:49 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50475056

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Second Anti Virus Software?

3000 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:04:11 +0000

I got a windows 10 machine, with ms windows security as (only) anti virus software.

Whats a good portable(!) 2nd opinion anti virus app anyone can recommend?

//thanks in advance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50474252

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Has AI coding changed who builds your internal tools?

utemissov — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:40:04 +0000

In a large company, a dedicated team might build an internal tool that dozens of other teams use. If your team needs a feature for its own workflow, you have to explain the use case, agree on how it fits into the shared tool, and wait for it to get prioritised.

With AI coding tools, it might now be faster for the team that needs the feature to build and maintain its own tool or completely scratch the tool and rebuild it if need. I’m curious how that plays out once the tool has been in use for a while.

So is paradigm shifting where we remove centralisation of building internal tools and let teams decide?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50473926

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?

simonebrunozzi — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:31:53 +0000

I promise you that the title was not AI-generated. And also, I promise you (but most of you won't believe me) that all the comments and submissions I did so far have been typed by hand. But besides this, the question remains: I have a sense that the % is non-zero, and perhaps it is higher than 50%. What do you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50473788

Points: 2

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Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas

wmchen — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:00:58 +0000

Service status: https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/

X: https://x.com/MSFT365Status

>We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas. More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543. -- >We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues when accessing or using Microsoft Teams functionality in North America, and more details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under TM1550488.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50472411

Points: 8

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Ask HN: What do you all use to share context with team mates?

Satoshri — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:55:11 +0000

Problem: My cofounder and I work exclusively in Claude code. However, I've no idea about the conversation he is having with his agents. The only point of contact is what gets merged in Github, which is the contract. But there are times when it would be very useful for me to understand the decisions/conversation that led him to arrive at this juncture. All this context is lost.

The current best methods I've found are 1. Team/Org/Dept level shared-context.md in a cloud folder - who updates?, when?, how often?, what level of summarization?, are all unknown 2. External Tools to store context - pg, supabase, any vectordb, but then you have to maintain it, and all the same questions apply 3. Use git to share context

I've not found a single satisfactory way to achieve this. We both have multiple Claude code sessions open right now and we have no good way to communicate what each of us is trying to achieve in the session.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50472301

Points: 1

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Tell HN: Inception Labs Shutting Down M3 API

wwmenace — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:23:22 +0000

Very surprised by this announcement. We were testing it at our company for some browser use cases. They sent us an email with the following body. I haven't found any post online.

Update - ACTION NEEDED by December 28 Hi ,

It’s been a privilege building Mercury alongside customers like you. Your feedback and ideas have been invaluable in shaping the platform, and we’re deeply grateful for your support and trust.

Warmly, The Inception Team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471779

Points: 4

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Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:17:13 +0000

For the past 5 minutes all of our Microsoft Cloud connections are down. Anyone else? The Status page won't even load.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471668

Points: 399

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Tell HN: Hardware flaws to confidential AI are probably worse than they let on

arboles — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:13:24 +0000

By "they", I mean services that advertise private AI inference running in confidential computing environments like Intel SGX/TDX.

My point is: I've seen arguments that RAM interposition showcased in tee.fail would probably be too obvious in a reputable data center, but you can seemingly just extract a key through a physical attack once and pretend to be that CPU in software thereafter.[1]

I'm not very knowledgeable in this topic, but how are users of this service meant to verify that the TDX verifications quotes aren't forged from a key extracted from a processor as seen in tee.fail?

[1] https://tee.fail/#:~:text=Recovering%20Attestation%20Keys%20from%20Intel%20Machines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471606

Points: 1

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Have you paid creators to make videos for your software?

h-liber — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 18:08:26 +0000

If you’ve hired someone to make demos, tutorials, or short videos for your software, how did it go?

Where did you find them, roughly what did you pay, and what was the hardest part of getting usable content? Did you hire them again?

I’m exploring a marketplace connecting software founders with creators and have built an early prototype. Before taking it further, I want to understand whether there’s a problem here that existing options handle poorly.

I’d also like to hear from people who tried this and stopped. Was it the cost, the results, the time involved, or something else?

Please mention whether you bought videos for your own marketing or paid for posts on the creator’s account.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471527

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How many GPUs do you run on your OpenCode dev setup?

roschdal — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:56:31 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471352

Points: 3

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Gemini Hydrogen available now on aistudio and antigravity

algoth1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:56:06 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471343

Points: 1

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I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership

AnneTrotter — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:36:51 +0000

Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Alex Karp, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc, etc. I know the reasons why this stuff happens. Power is absolutely toxic to ethics, consequences are often minimal until a line is crossed, crossing the line is often not an immediate trigger to consequences, success breeds overconfidence, money breeds echo chambers of sychophantic feedback which trigger garbage-in-garbage-out decision making. That last one has always been a special trap for the rich and famous, killing them and their reputation with tremendous efficiency for most of human history; but we're all kings of little AI domains now and can all curate our feedback to whatever feels best, ignoring any discomfort until it goes away.

Still. Knowing why it's happening doesn't stop the disappointment. Isn't anyone at that level aware of the GIGO problem? Does awareness make you less successful because responsible, prosocial, ordinarily intelligent actions are not profitable? What would be effective strategies to keep people at that level off drugs and relatively sane?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471061

Points: 5

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Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product

mv4 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:22:41 +0000

I've been building and selling B2B for most of my career and it seems things have changed quite a bit when it comes to launching a consumer product online.

Observations:

1. Product Hunt is dead. Everybody is selling something, and you get spammed instantly.

2. Show HN seems unbalanced. I've tried a few threads and the only traction I saw was getting emails (10-20 per day) from other startups, including YC startups, all following the same template which is incredible "Hey saw your Show HN, cool product. My startup does X and can help you with Y". I checked the numbers, Show HN is getting 200 submissions a day.

What is everyone doing these days to get traction ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470809

Points: 5

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Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?

salleisha — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:19:54 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470767

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?

niceguy1827 — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:07:57 +0000

Honest question. Jev seems to cost 10x as much as Deepseek and I can easily just put the same payload to Deepseek and add "follow this strict format ...". What am I missing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470591

Points: 5

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Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down

_matthew_ — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:51:58 +0000

Sad to hear, but I got an email from hello@inceptionlabs.ai announcing the Mercury API that hosts their diffusion models is shutting down.

No blog post yet but I assume one is coming.

Here is the full email: ``` Hi,

It’s been a privilege building Mercury alongside customers like you. Your feedback and ideas have been invaluable in shaping the platform, and we’re deeply grateful for your support and trust.

Warmly, The Inception Team ```

Also a shorter message on their discord from Yannis Miraoui: ``` Hi everyone, API access to all Mercury models will end on December 28, 2026. Mercury models will no longer be available from Nov 8 via OpenRouter.

Thank you for building with Mercury and for being part of this from the start! Please contact us if you have any additional questions. ```

Hacker News: Ask HN

Why Is Nvidia Valuable?

Inception.ai winding down their Mercury API service

MS Defender, Intune and Purview possibly affected in outage. Any confirmation?

Ask HN: Second Anti Virus Software?

Ask HN: Has AI coding changed who builds your internal tools?

Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?

Tell HN: Major Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Online/Teams Outage in the Americas

Ask HN: What do you all use to share context with team mates?

Tell HN: Inception Labs Shutting Down M3 API

Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

Tell HN: Hardware flaws to confidential AI are probably worse than they let on

Have you paid creators to make videos for your software?

Ask HN: How many GPUs do you run on your OpenCode dev setup?

Gemini Hydrogen available now on aistudio and antigravity

I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership

Ask HN: How do you market your consumer product

Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?

Ask HN: Why use Jev/decision models at all?

Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down

Ask HN: What are alternatives to LinkedIn to share good works