Hacker News: Top 10

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2. A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

lynchlab.net — 670 points, 274 comments

3. I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

talkweb.eu — 550 points, 280 comments

4. Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

theintercept.com — 525 points, 152 comments

5. Lula wins election after final votes tallied

reuters.com — 515 points, 653 comments

6. Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism

panamericandispatch.org — 501 points, 344 comments

7. OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

minimaxir.com — 442 points, 437 comments

8. IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

theregister.com — 427 points, 339 comments

9. Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

arstechnica.com — 415 points, 70 comments

10. Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

titleart.dvy.io — 405 points, 82 comments

Issue #25

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. We should be more ambitious with the software we build

danluu.com — 907 points, 777 comments

2. No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

apollo.com — 649 points, 677 comments

3. Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

stealmybitcoin.com — 623 points, 450 comments

Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!

4. The Goose Programming Language

aardappel.github.io — 602 points, 367 comments

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2113704269274636568

5. America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

apricitas.io — 546 points, 590 comments

6. Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

block.xyz — 534 points, 199 comments

7. Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

steveblank.com — 490 points, 506 comments

8. OBS Studio 33

github.com — 474 points, 177 comments

9. Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

tvfandomlounge.com — 453 points, 457 comments

10. Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more

broccoli2shell.com — 405 points, 219 comments

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2...

Issue #24

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

blog.calif.io — 1,123 points, 732 comments

2. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

kimi.ai — 1,096 points, 679 comments

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro
https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/china-open-source-ai

3. Apple Music 404 Not Found

music.apple.com — 941 points, 278 comments

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/23/apple-music-has-a-hidde...

4. Root shell on Samsung TV

twitter.com — 858 points, 642 comments

Merged threads: "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you": https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896 "Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events"…

5. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

grapheneos.social — 691 points, 340 comments

6. Start Doing Graph Theory

vertex.degree — 613 points, 137 comments

7. Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

kadoa.com — 559 points, 400 comments

8. Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

vanityfair.com — 556 points, 230 comments

9. Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

bbc.com — 549 points, 214 comments

10. Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

keepandroidopen.org — 544 points, 378 comments

Issue #23

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

edjefferson.com — 1,719 points, 255 comments

2. Quad9 to exit France

quad9.net — 1,376 points, 479 comments

3. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

emudhra.com — 1,157 points, 745 comments

4. Docker is weird

codeandcake.dev — 885 points, 370 comments

5. Jailbreaking the Switch 2

pepsipu.com — 839 points, 307 comments

6. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry

753 points, 270 comments

I posted here about the then-upcoming PHP RCEs related to CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619. I appreciate this has had considerable knock-on effects with the schedule for co-ordinated disclosure, and created additional workload. I am truly sorry. I take full responsibility for…

7. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

680 points, 755 comments

Title is a bit of an exaggeration but the question is more: if the frontier models are so good, why even sell them as your primary money maker? Couldn't OpenAI or Anthropic make a lot more money by just starting companies themselves that leverage the models and building their…

8. Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

404media.co — 666 points, 729 comments

9. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

modelcompare.ai — 666 points, 646 comments

10. Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

safedep.io — 596 points, 201 comments

Issue #22

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. PHP 8.2.35

github.com — 1,107 points, 581 comments

Related ongoing thread: Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987

2. Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

scotthelme.co.uk — 957 points, 461 comments

3. Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

thephp.foundation — 816 points, 405 comments

Related ongoing thread: PHP 8.2.35 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873
(links to more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184935)

4. EA is shutting down BioWare

theverge.com — 709 points, 481 comments

5. Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

cnbc.com — 701 points, 430 comments

https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/the-new-mexico-department-of...

6. The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable

unric.org — 662 points, 826 comments

7. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

simedw.com — 652 points, 195 comments

8. There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

eliastaylor.com — 636 points, 478 comments

9. mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

github.com — 628 points, 149 comments

10. Security Disclosure

blog.railway.com — 603 points, 344 comments

Issue #21

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

github.com — 2,353 points, 892 comments

2. Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

php.net — 1,561 points, 659 comments

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167754

3. eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com — 1,281 points, 504 comments

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/10/20/protecting-fire...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449

4. Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits

permit.petercai.com — 940 points, 428 comments

5. Voxtral 3

mistral.ai — 770 points, 202 comments

6. The Future of CSS

joshwcomeau.com — 634 points, 279 comments

7. Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

teddysvoronos.com — 609 points, 296 comments

8. What shall I teach my son?

stevekrouse.com — 496 points, 650 comments

9. OpenBSD 8.0

openbsd.org — 493 points, 159 comments

10. No more icons in every menu by default

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 483 points, 283 comments

Issue #20

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

redact.dev — 744 points, 222 comments

2. I built a drone with only one motor [video]

youtube.com — 677 points, 150 comments

3. Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system

wjcl.com — 650 points, 374 comments

4. Linux 7.3

lwn.net — 635 points, 301 comments

5. Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

628 points, 766 comments

I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m... > I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This…

6. Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

mistral.ai — 624 points, 127 comments

7. Wine ported to OpenBSD

marc.info — 615 points, 219 comments

8. DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

reuters.com — 584 points, 544 comments

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-21447.pdf

9. I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

po-ru.com — 526 points, 514 comments

10. MiniMax M3.1 Flash

minimax.io — 517 points, 221 comments

Issue #19

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

reddit.com — 695 points, 365 comments

2. DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

api-docs.deepseek.com — 607 points, 282 comments

3. Starcraft: Ashfall

starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev — 592 points, 201 comments

4. Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

github.com — 570 points, 162 comments

5. Someone behind the software

karrisaarinen.com — 556 points, 198 comments

6. Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

arxiv.org — 520 points, 239 comments

https://x.com/Jiaru_Zou/status/2110400256647340476
https://github.com/togethercomputer/HybridAgent
https://huggingface.co/collections/togethercomputer/hybridag...
Evaluations: https://arxiv.org/html/2610.18861v1#S5

7. RepRapMicron

github.com — 445 points, 74 comments

8. The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

readtheprofile.com — 412 points, 597 comments

9. Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com — 353 points, 87 comments

10. Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

sciencealert.com — 348 points, 221 comments

Issue #18

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

twitter.com — 976 points, 185 comments

2. DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

huggingface.co — 959 points, 726 comments

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

3. It's still ok to enjoy programming

chriskiehl.com — 711 points, 652 comments

4. Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

pv-magazine.com — 698 points, 454 comments

5. Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

meidasnews.com — 650 points, 424 comments

6. Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

pele.run — 597 points, 63 comments

7. There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

youtube.com — 557 points, 822 comments

8. DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

openrouter.ai — 520 points, 5 comments

9. NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

tomshardware.com — 465 points, 224 comments

10. Gold is now the top U.S. export

numismaticnews.net — 428 points, 240 comments

Issue #17

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

anthropic.com — 1,066 points, 391 comments

https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/

2. You could have invented transformers from memory

alexwang.ai — 670 points, 152 comments

https://twitter.com/heyyalexwang/status/2111158818730397932

3. 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

mercor.com — 634 points, 581 comments

4. Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

nature.com — 560 points, 119 comments

https://archive.ph/zIPG4

5. How the Claude Code team does code review

claude.dev — 488 points, 481 comments

6. Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts

niemanlab.org — 469 points, 170 comments

7. Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

thereallo.dev — 428 points, 212 comments

8. Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

furifont.antfu.me — 409 points, 83 comments

9. New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

support.withings.com — 406 points, 293 comments

10. I know why the mathematicians weep

derekthompson.org — 400 points, 676 comments

Issue #16

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Tesla Roadster

tesla.com — 1,645 points, 3,162 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qg
https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2110788059008819215

2. Muse Spark Open

research.meta.ai — 922 points, 479 comments

https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark-ope...
https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-new-muse-spark-...

3. Neural networks are clean

already-clean.goodfire.com — 849 points, 344 comments

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056

4. Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

github.com — 704 points, 282 comments

5. What I self-host

viceconsole.fyi — 675 points, 433 comments

6. Jev meets the Trolley Problem

zachlandes.com — 656 points, 264 comments

7. AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

citizenlab.ca — 543 points, 690 comments

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-f...
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-cli...

8. Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

androidauthority.com — 529 points, 151 comments

9. Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say

theguardian.com — 518 points, 1 comment

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-cli...

10. AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

github.com — 510 points, 255 comments

Issue #15

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Things to know when you get cancer

jjmaxwell4.com — 1,978 points, 479 comments

2. How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

not-ship.com — 954 points, 768 comments

3. Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

csoonline.com — 952 points, 630 comments

4. OpenCode 2.0

anoma.ly — 890 points, 397 comments

5. Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

typeof.net — 756 points, 318 comments

6. Tiny Little Office

tinylittleoffice.com — 705 points, 202 comments

7. Passkeys are not a trap

scotthelme.co.uk — 677 points, 819 comments

8. Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

dataforprogress.org — 599 points, 575 comments

9. Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

telegraph.co.uk — 598 points, 825 comments

10. ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

prospect.org — 535 points, 375 comments

Issue #14

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Gemini 4 Argon

deepmind.google — 1,467 points, 1,047 comments

See also: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869

2. Redesigning source control at Anthropic

anthropic.com — 900 points, 1,014 comments

3. Firefox Enterprise

firefox.com — 788 points, 331 comments

4. Apple HomeView

apple.com — 763 points, 920 comments

5. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

github.com — 751 points, 446 comments

6. OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

sfstandard.com — 657 points, 545 comments

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132

7. Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

guitoro.com — 573 points, 161 comments

Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free…

8. Thunderbird for iOS

blog.thunderbird.net — 468 points, 218 comments

9. CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

bloomberg.com — 464 points, 268 comments

10. We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

eg2.haku.sh — 436 points, 100 comments

Issue #13

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

tomshardware.com — 918 points, 1,007 comments

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supe... , https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo , https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/10/12/french-s... Related: https://www.claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controlle... I think the military…

2. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

youtube.com — 877 points, 259 comments

3. AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

yyhh.org — 808 points, 608 comments

4. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

bleepingcomputer.com — 796 points, 515 comments

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wa...
https://crypto.news/ledger-confirms-hidden-chip-in-crypto-wa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnHdr30v4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlgv3Q
https://www.tibane.net/research/ledger-nano-x-implant

5. A Modern Web App in C

prophitt.me — 716 points, 329 comments

6. GLM-Legal

z.ai — 676 points, 371 comments

7. Muse Wonder

research.meta.ai — 672 points, 385 comments

8. Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

bbc.com — 625 points, 205 comments

9. Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

github.com — 610 points, 294 comments

10. Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns

theguardian.com — 467 points, 182 comments

Issue #12

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Passkeys are a trap

nonfunctional.substack.com — 1,150 points, 577 comments

2. Do dentists know what they're doing?

mapwriting.substack.com — 990 points, 707 comments

3. Fingerprints are the new cookies

royfish.dev — 753 points, 380 comments

4. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

twitter.com — 730 points, 1,074 comments

5. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

nanolathe.gg — 702 points, 271 comments

6. Bot traffic from Yandex

radar.cloudflare.com — 656 points, 261 comments

7. 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

status.yandex.cloud — 644 points, 809 comments

8. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

nyc.gov — 618 points, 327 comments

9. Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

teorth.github.io — 566 points, 550 comments

10. Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

nitter.net — 481 points, 255 comments

Issue #11

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

housing.over.pizza — 558 points, 201 comments

2. Lobbying is corruption

carette.xyz — 528 points, 296 comments

3. Build your own decision model

nishtahir.com — 480 points, 105 comments

4. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

typesafe.ai — 446 points, 357 comments

5. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

carrierexplode.com — 433 points, 55 comments

Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands. carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurations, etc. There’s still quite a bit of work to be done in…

6. Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

github.com — 421 points, 194 comments

7. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

cphpost.dk — 413 points, 229 comments

8. Bitwarden Dual License Model

community.bitwarden.com — 408 points, 311 comments

9. OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

techcrunch.com — 367 points, 231 comments

Later: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/openai-fired-researchers-ai-...

10. No Man Is an Island

borretti.me — 333 points, 210 comments

Issue #10

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Triple-A Minesweeper

minesweeper.mikelacher.com — 1,449 points, 289 comments

2. Cloudflare acquires Deno

deno.com — 1,391 points, 728 comments

3. Sorry, I'm in a meeting

iminafleeting.com — 1,056 points, 289 comments

4. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

rea.tools — 814 points, 340 comments

5. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

gizmodo.com — 709 points, 364 comments

6. Our $445M Series D

oxide.computer — 705 points, 342 comments

7. The Lightbulb Computer

lightbulbcomputer.com — 619 points, 99 comments

8. US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

reuters.com — 523 points, 528 comments

9. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

nobelprize.org — 493 points, 254 comments

10. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

beaksec.github.io — 473 points, 329 comments

Issue #9

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

cactuscompute.com — 964 points, 185 comments

2. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

apnews.com — 945 points, 1,615 comments

3. Yes, and

htmx.org — 799 points, 309 comments

4. Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

778 points, 245 comments

Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of…

5. Theranos.world

theranos.world — 572 points, 209 comments

6. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

ascii.rest — 474 points, 76 comments

7. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

cnbc.com — 434 points, 301 comments

8. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

quesma.com — 418 points, 199 comments

9. The Mathocalypse

scottaaronson.blog — 409 points, 426 comments

10. ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

frontiersin.org — 409 points, 271 comments

Issue #8

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Margaret Hamilton has died

news.mit.edu — 2,123 points, 259 comments

2. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

dgt.is — 1,141 points, 990 comments

3. Claude Haiku 5.5

anthropic.com — 1,049 points, 489 comments

4. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

dexerto.com — 962 points, 575 comments

https://x.com/NomadsGalaxy/status/2107284088247689290

5. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

openai.com — 761 points, 459 comments

6. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

bigwords.page — 728 points, 166 comments

7. 2D Vehicles

patkerr.co.uk — 628 points, 119 comments

8. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

mathstodon.xyz — 616 points, 655 comments

9. Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

classaction.org — 607 points, 449 comments

10. Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

developer.chrome.com — 575 points, 409 comments

Issue #7

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Mistral Large 4

mistral.ai — 2,044 points, 1,216 comments

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0

2. Sharing AI progress in mathematics

openai.com — 1,363 points, 1,539 comments

https://github.com/openai/math
https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints

3. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

antonfrolov.substack.com — 941 points, 209 comments

4. JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

helgilibrary.com — 596 points, 567 comments

5. Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

586 points, 349 comments

I am a developer of https://www.photopea.com, a popular photo editor that runs in a web browser. Many people are asking AI models to take the Javascript code from my website, remove all ads from it, and they publish such a "new product" on Github for everyone to download. There…

6. Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

nobelprize.org — 584 points, 211 comments

7. Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

mistral.ai — 522 points, 5 comments

8. Grieving the loss of details

purplesyringa.moe — 506 points, 420 comments

9. Polars 2.0

pola.rs — 472 points, 107 comments

10. EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

blog.google — 439 points, 44 comments

Issue #6

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Web Search API

developers.cloudflare.com — 596 points, 286 comments

2. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

niemanlab.org — 559 points, 428 comments

3. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

reflection.ai — 556 points, 172 comments

4. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data

cpr.dk — 510 points, 353 comments

5. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

vals.ai — 495 points, 341 comments

6. Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

discuss.grapheneos.org — 439 points, 316 comments

7. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

100r.ca — 369 points, 183 comments

8. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

debugbear.com — 363 points, 250 comments

9. Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

techfundingnews.com — 350 points, 390 comments

10. The lamps in my house

arslan.io — 350 points, 132 comments

Issue #5

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

github.com — 940 points, 420 comments

2. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

techspot.com — 840 points, 680 comments

3. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

github.com — 775 points, 559 comments

4. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

1011now.com — 530 points, 716 comments

5. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

wieslawsoltes.github.io — 419 points, 138 comments

6. 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

shahidhussain.com — 374 points, 134 comments

7. We ported the original Doom to SQL

cedardb.com — 339 points, 55 comments

8. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

cosmowenman.substack.com — 336 points, 213 comments

9. Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

nolanlawson.com — 330 points, 370 comments

10. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

cses.fi — 326 points, 86 comments

Issue #4

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

947 points, 222 comments

I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of the Nerds". He will be missed.