Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

This is a Hacker News front page listing for November 8, 2026, aggregating the top submissions by score and comment count. Leading stories include a developer's switch from Claude to a tool called Pi, a $10 OpenStick homelab setup, and Goldman Sachs reportedly pulling Claude Code access from its bankers and traders. Other items cover a 284B-parameter DeepSeek model running on 64GB RAM without a GPU, an Nvidia CEO letter and board statement, Outlook.com rejecting email from domains lacking DMARC, and GitHub's new pull request overview page in public preview.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/front. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.

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