11.5.26 | AI forces technical debt repayment, White House residential proxies detected, Kimi K3.1 Pro weights released

Hacker News Highlights · Nov 5, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 5, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

(01:25) - Residential proxies detected on White House network

(02:20) - Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

(03:44) - A thousand fewer paths to root

(04:42) - Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

(05:42) - A new Go API for JSON

(06:58) - Images 2.6

(08:01) - Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

(08:58) -…