#IgorNews 1. Once again someone at Safari has contrived to stuff time into forms. They say complaints about the broken autofill have been dragging on for years, and the cart’s still stuck in the mud. No drama — just the "time" field suddenly getting something other than what was asked for, and there you stand watching your favorite browser invent a new reality. And it’s been inventing it for a long time. Everyone’s just used to it and keeps quiet.
https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/11/06/safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time/5308006
2. A map laying out year by year how the tech vein in Silicon Valley grew. Sounds like good infographics, but in fact it’s yet another attempt to draw a "success story" from scratch. Funny that it was posted on HN and scraped together a whole 4 points and 3 comments — apparently nobody cares anymore. Maps like this look good in an investor deck, not as an argument. The Valley’s success wasn’t down to lucky dots on a map, but to who happened to be there.
https://tomorrowasusual.com/living-maps/bay-area-tech/
3. Analysts have tallied up how many apps in the App Store are abandoned, how much a subscription costs, and how much of everything now revolves around AI. The numbers look solid, and it sounds alarming.
But in fact — it’s just another way of saying that half the apps are dead, subscriptions are getting more expensive, and the word "AI" gets slapped on everywhere they used to write "new." Nothing new, but in a pretty wrapper with charts.
https://obelisk.club/research/app-store-2026
4. Tanks that blast real buildings from OpenStreetMap to bits. So someone looked at a map of their neighborhood and thought: wouldn’t it be nice to tear all this down with treads. Fun, sure, but there’s a catch — in a couple of years delivery couriers will be driving on that same map, and they’ll really appreciate that someone already demolished the neighbor’s house in multiplayer.
Projects like this always look cute until you remember who’s actually drawing your OpenStreetMap, and why.
https://worldstrike.fun/
5. Markets are in a panic again: the Democrats won the midterms, and investors suddenly remembered that the AI bubble is a bubble. It feels like all this hype around artificial intelligence was held up not by profit but by faith that the bot would be driven by anyone except regulators. Now everyone’s staring at each other and waiting to see who runs for the exit first. Stocks are falling not because AI got worse, but because reality once again turned out duller than the pitch deck.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/nov/06/global-stocks-tumble-ai-panic-markets-democrats-midterms-success-jobs-oil-dollar-latest-news-updates
6. Once again someone has made a "Google Earth alternative" for macOS. Kugelblitz, in short. And it seems fine — a native app, not some browser hack, 28 likes on HN, two comments.
But personally, every time I see a "native alternative," I remember that I’ve been waiting for it about the same way I’ve been waiting for that project on GitHub promised a year ago. And Google Earth still lives in the browser just fine.
https://apps.metaebene.me/en/kugelblitz
7. Someone has finally benchmarked UI framework speed and discovered that Blender beats GPUI. Sounds like a win, but let’s be honest: it’s the same Blender that takes longer to open than the kettle takes to boil, and then thinks for another minute before showing its interface. The community, naturally, is already deciding whose alternative is "more correct" and arguing in the comments as if that will stop an interface from being an interface.
https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI
8. Indian security researchers found hardcoded credentials in the Tata Motors app. Meaning a login and password right in the code, available to anyone with the APK and half an hour to spare. A classic of the genre, like leaving keys under the doormat — except the doormat’s been downloaded millions of times.
Nothing exotic, just another reminder that "we’re a serious corporation" and "we handle security properly" are two different press releases.
https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2026-0537
9. Britain has decided that salaries in job postings must be stated upfront. Good for them, what can you say. Only I somehow have little faith in the magic of mandatory wording. All those "from 50 to 200 thousand" aren’t going anywhere — they’ll just widen the range and lure you with it.
So formally it’s more honest, but in fact it’s the same guessing game. Only now with a legal aftertaste.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/britain-make-salary-disclosure-job-ads-mandatory-2026-11-05/
10. Someone on LessWrong seriously doubts there’s a drop of genuine inventiveness in AI development. And here I sit reading it, realizing the question isn’t whether geniuses work there. The question is what we’ve gotten used to calling a "breakthrough" when behind it is a stack of other people’s papers and slightly more compute than the neighbor has. Maybe it does work — it’s just that calling it "talent engineering" already feels a bit awkward.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DALNiKBjMGMF8grme/arjun-panickssery-s-shortform?commentId=fJtaHHHfx45tD7BSL
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