HN Top 10 — November 13, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com
⭐ 233 💬 169 👤 __vivek 🔗 Discuss on HN
Claude services experienced elevated errors affecting authentication and access to Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Console, and Claude Cowork. A fix was deployed, and the team is monitoring for recovery.
2. Jensen Huang resigns
⭐ 3640 💬 3190 👤 lldb 🔗 Discuss on HN
Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of NVIDIA, with reports citing personal misconduct allegations and questions about the company’s handling of US export restrictions on advanced chips to China. Commenters debate whether perception, national-security concerns, or timing drove the departure. The move is seen as significant for NVIDIA and the broader AI industry reliant on its GPUs.
3. IceWM
⭐ 214 💬 105 👤 inatreecrown2 🔗 Discuss on HN
IceWM is a lightweight, highly configurable window manager for the X Window System, designed for speed and simplicity. It provides a taskbar, multiple workspaces, keyboard and mouse controls, theming, and support for multi-monitor setups. It is available on many Linux distributions and BSD systems.
4. Rust 1.100
⭐ 721 💬 264 👤 mbStavola 🔗 Discuss on HN
Rust 1.100.0 is a new stable release that stabilizes the never type, allowing diverging computations to be named as ! and coerced to any type. It also introduces new APIs such as Allocator and DropGuard, along with Cargo improvements including unused dependency reporting, reduced cache collisions, and a minimum publish age feature. The release includes additional stabilized standard library APIs and some edition-related changes to never type fallback.
5. Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol
⭐ 130 💬 78 👤 sjdh76 🔗 Discuss on HN
Brave Search API now supports agentic payments through the x402 protocol, allowing automated agents to pay for API access. This update is intended to simplify machine-to-machine transactions and support AI-driven workflows that need search data.
6. Europe’s electric car sales jump 49% as global EV sales grow
⭐ 25 💬 8 👤 cisc 🔗 Discuss on HN
Global electric vehicle sales rose 8% in October to 2.09 million, with Europe leading growth as battery electric vehicle sales jumped 49% and overall EV sales increased 36% year over year. North America posted its first annual increase of 2026, but the rebound is limited because it compares against a weak month following the expiration of the US federal EV tax credit. China saw year-over-year sales decline, though EVs reached a new record share of its shrinking new-car market.
7. Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app
⭐ 559 💬 192 👤 simpsoka 🔗 Discuss on HN
ZigZag is a Rust-based visual embroidery editor created to avoid a machine subscription. It converts SVG artwork into stitch designs, supports AI agents via MCP, and exports to common embroidery formats or sends designs directly to a Brother Skitch over Bluetooth. The project includes a cross-platform editor and command-line tool for creating, editing, and digitizing embroidery files.
8. Claude Is Down
⭐ 117 💬 90 👤 cornfieldlabs 🔗 Discuss on HN
Claude is currently experiencing a service outage. The status page tracks the incident and provides updates on its resolution.
9. Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
⭐ 428 💬 125 👤 jonbaer 🔗 Discuss on HN
Google is introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen and a new Orchestrator option in Google Antigravity. Orchestrator dynamically switches between Hydrogen and the stronger Gemini 4 Carbon during a task, aiming to combine frontier-level planning with faster execution and lower quota use. Hydrogen also works as a standalone model for everyday coding and agentic workflows, with adjustable reasoning depth.
10. Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun
⭐ 327 💬 135 👤 cybermango 🔗 Discuss on HN
Astronomers have identified a new dwarf planet candidate, 2026 ED138, that orbits the Sun about 46 times farther than Earth and takes roughly 280 years to complete one orbit. The object was found while analyzing data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and confirmed using historical images, including plates from 1937. Its final classification depends on determining whether it is large enough to meet the criteria for a dwarf planet.