11.8.26 | Need for Speed Underground 2, Mac family member classifier, OpenStick homelab setup

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
• (01:12) - Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
• (02:21) - What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
• (03:30) - The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
• (04:35) - Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
• (05:59) - Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi
• (06:52) - Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
• (08:10) - MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
• (09:21) - Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
• (10:16) - The $8 Linux Computer (2022)
• (11:17) - Outro

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
https://nfsu2.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403052

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403097

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406670

The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406563

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407882

Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi
https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410107

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-starting-screen-and-70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403507

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406222

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406292

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)
http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404599