Hacker News: Top 100

This popup has been a constant gripe of mine for years. I almost NEVER want to allow this permission and there is no system setting to disable it globally and prevent the popup from interrupting your typing, etc. This tiny swift app I built will autoclose it in 1/4th of a second…

28. Pico CSS is no longer maintained

github.com — 128 points, 53 comments

29. El Niño is flooding California's coasts with the highest tides to come

gizmodo.com — 126 points, 59 comments

30. Perspectiva Kogui: A message on artificial intelligence from the Kogui people

sonidoselva.com — 124 points, 104 comments

31. DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B

about.doordash.com — 124 points, 5 comments

32. A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

journal.animationstudies.org — 119 points, 28 comments

33. 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

16colo.rs — 119 points, 9 comments

34. Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

fig.blue — 118 points, 122 comments

35. Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees

yle.fi — 117 points, 66 comments

36. Patrick Stewart Has Died

nytimes.com — 108 points, 6 comments

37. The importance of communities around software

lumi.codeberg.page — 106 points, 113 comments

38. Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027

timeanddate.com — 103 points, 239 comments

39. ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

elementary.codes — 99 points, 23 comments

40. Proton goes all in on using AI

convo.casa — 97 points, 96 comments

41. Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

github.com — 94 points, 11 comments

42. Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

martinfowler.com — 93 points, 131 comments

43. After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

nytimes.com — 92 points, 71 comments

https://archive.ph/NCeML

44. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

github.com — 87 points, 27 comments

Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM is turing complete btw) and exchange…

45. Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling

theverge.com — 85 points, 17 comments

46. Toxic experts (2017)

nedbatchelder.com — 71 points, 51 comments

47. The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

claremontreviewofbooks.com — 69 points, 39 comments

48. Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

68 points, 21 comments

Hi HN, we're Ahnaf and Seungmin from Simantic ( https://simantic.com ). We are building the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware without hardware. Before Simantic, we were ex-firmware engineers at companies like Neuralink and Tesla. We’ve…

49. Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers

projects.freehackers.org — 64 points, 16 comments

50. Google value plunges by $500B as AI fears rattle Wall Street

bbc.com — 63 points, 28 comments

51. CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation

penligent.ai — 56 points, 34 comments

52. Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history

finance.yahoo.com — 55 points, 8 comments

53. Show HN: Arsaze – Cursor for video editing (Tab-complete and agent edits)

arsaze.com — 54 points, 0 comments

54. Cormac McCarthy's Library

cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu — 53 points, 23 comments

55. Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks

otwstatus.org — 51 points, 26 comments

56. I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened

spectrum.ieee.org — 47 points, 26 comments

57. IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf]

divergencelabs.com — 46 points, 37 comments

58. Polymarket got hacked

twitter.com — 44 points, 10 comments

59. Show HN: UK Farming Simulator

butterbean.farm — 42 points, 45 comments

60. MIT professor says AI is taking over your brain

bostonglobe.com — 42 points, 25 comments

61. Reddit will require an account to access

reddit.com — 42 points, 10 comments

62. Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

chengela.substack.com — 41 points, 6 comments

63. Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape

github.com — 40 points, 3 comments

Hi HN, I'm Ruud, co-founder of Lont. We turn company emails into personalized videos. Video captions cost us manual work twice: fixing misheard words, then fixing layout, like lines ending on “the”. Overtone uses multiple models to listen to the audio: gpt-transcribe, Azure STT…

64. Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."

twitter.com — 39 points, 32 comments

65. Over $5B drained from Binance in apparent hack

twitter.com — 39 points, 3 comments

66. CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions

ubuntu.com — 38 points, 3 comments

67. Trump and aides helped Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil amid criminal investigations

nytimes.com — 30 points, 1 comment

68. Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites

29 points, 3 comments

The prompt issue:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138
The LLM sends it to websites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhqvzn/opus_55_just_shared_my_email_address/

69. Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge

github.com — 28 points, 6 comments

Lasm has been my dream for a good part of 2026. I firmly believe that formal verification is the next evolution of software engineering and programming languages. This next wave will largely be enabled by the incredibly intelligent LLMs that understand formal verification and…

70. Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?

27 points, 22 comments

Is it just me, or has Opus suddenly turned dumb as rocks with 0 attention span over the last half day or so? Noticeably worse output across multiple agents on very different projects.

71. I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform

github.com — 26 points, 17 comments

72. Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?

26 points, 8 comments

What inspired you to build that project and how long did it take?

73. US economy beats forecasts to grow at 3.4% rate in third quarter

ft.com — 25 points, 14 comments

74. Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot

nytimes.com — 25 points, 3 comments

75. Reddit will force everyone to log in

theverge.com — 24 points, 6 comments

76. Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts

wired.com — 24 points, 4 comments

77. Tesla caught altering specs following rear suspension collapse reports

carnewschina.com — 23 points, 0 comments

78. Why big tech stopped building useful stuff

rubenerd.au — 22 points, 2 comments

79. Binance hot wallet drained of about $2.5B in tokens on Ethereum

etherscan.io — 20 points, 6 comments

80. Polymarket Pauses Trading After Some Users Report Funds Drained

wsj.com — 20 points, 1 comment

81. Are stochastic parrots alive?

stefano.petrilli.xyz — 19 points, 25 comments

82. Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for less than $20

scraping.club — 19 points, 15 comments

83. A Defense Contractor Gave Their AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System

wired.com — 19 points, 6 comments

84. Polymarket halts trading after compromise, impacted users will be 'made whole'

nbcnews.com — 18 points, 3 comments

85. Tor Browser 16.0

blog.torproject.org — 18 points, 0 comments

86. AI Made Me Homeless

medium.com — 17 points, 9 comments

87. AI Contributions to GHC

serokell.io — 17 points, 8 comments

88. Sorry Harvey! I Made a Free Open-Source Alternative to Your Overpriced Legal AI

sorryharvey.com — 17 points, 4 comments

89. Show HN: Squishy 3D helpers powered by Three.js

prathje.github.io — 16 points, 10 comments

90. React.lazy, Suspense and the Hidden 300 ms Delay

tabwidgets.com — 16 points, 8 comments

91. FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4

phoronix.com — 16 points, 3 comments

92. Patrick Stewart Dies at 86

bbc.co.uk — 16 points, 1 comment

93. NTFS3 Hardened in Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Maliciously-Crafted NTFS Volumes

phoronix.com — 16 points, 1 comment

94. Residential proxy sourcing and consent: Q&A with Massive's CEO

reddit.com — 16 points, 0 comments

95. Capital Wants a Monopoly

larrysalibra.com — 15 points, 10 comments

96. Billionaires or Democracy: Choose One

thenation.com — 15 points, 4 comments

97. SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency

arstechnica.com — 14 points, 8 comments

98. Reddit will require you to log in eventually, CEO confirms

arstechnica.com — 14 points, 4 comments

99. DAO DE JING

factsanddetails.com — 14 points, 3 comments

100. Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss

bbc.com — 14 points, 3 comments

Issue #29

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

nullpt.rs — 1,551 points, 296 comments

2. Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com — 1,191 points, 408 comments

3. Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

wired.com — 1,186 points, 1,001 comments

4. Gemini 4 Carbon

blog.google — 1,007 points, 799 comments

5. StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

data.stackexchange.com — 788 points, 707 comments

6. Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

divagr.com — 687 points, 145 comments

7. MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

apple.com — 617 points, 1,073 comments

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-groundb...

8. Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

gist.github.com — 567 points, 230 comments

9. CNC Stone Carving

carmelitegothic.com — 525 points, 142 comments

10. Emacs Turns 50

technologyreview.com — 513 points, 239 comments

11. Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

religionnews.com — 488 points, 537 comments

12. Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

wired.com — 429 points, 262 comments

13. Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale

dreamagainusa.org — 347 points, 436 comments

14. A Health Update

furbo.org — 347 points, 62 comments

15. Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

paulfwalsh.substack.com — 288 points, 77 comments

16. Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

surgehq.ai — 255 points, 173 comments

17. GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229

alpinelinux.org — 252 points, 120 comments

18. AlpineBSD

wiki.alpinebsd.org — 246 points, 243 comments

19. Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

blog.orange.tw — 241 points, 38 comments

20. US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar

reuters.com — 240 points, 106 comments

Previously: Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775183 - April 2026 (119 comments)

21. Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

formlabs.com — 222 points, 178 comments

22. Archive.today links going forward

reddit.com — 212 points, 157 comments

23. Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

euronews.com — 199 points, 1 comment

24. We won't "just hang out"

borretti.me — 185 points, 301 comments

25. Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

arstechnica.com — 168 points, 76 comments

26. About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs

support.apple.com — 164 points, 81 comments

27. The Agent SDK

cursor.com — 141 points, 132 comments

28. Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

github.com — 138 points, 12 comments

29. The case of the 9 bit AES key

v12.sh — 136 points, 71 comments

30. Leak website releases data on DHS employees

reuters.com — 134 points, 40 comments

31. Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages

huggingface.co — 133 points, 25 comments

32. I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

youtube.com — 125 points, 15 comments

33. Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B

oxfam.org — 102 points, 52 comments

34. Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision

thetimes.com — 99 points, 382 comments

35. The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR

blog.google — 98 points, 94 comments

36. Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880

electrek.co — 95 points, 110 comments

37. The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history

cnn.com — 91 points, 60 comments

38. Scaling Hierarchical Networks

cartesia.ai — 91 points, 13 comments

39. AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

techcrunch.com — 89 points, 73 comments

40. It's now official, tech is the new tobacco

cailinoconnor.substack.com — 89 points, 42 comments

41. Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

slidebyside.com — 80 points, 35 comments

Why is it useful? - Present slides without sharing the screen and have every one be on the same page. - Present together with other cohosts and all control the current page. - Other features such as presentation collab features. Why should I not just vibe code my own solution…

42. Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results [pdf]

s206.q4cdn.com — 79 points, 57 comments

43. Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok

theconversation.com — 78 points, 69 comments

44. noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang

github.com — 78 points, 47 comments

45. Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning

research.google — 78 points, 6 comments

46. Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

quantamagazine.org — 76 points, 9 comments

47. Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms

github.com — 72 points, 13 comments

The linked repo is 100% vibe coded, but it was built on a handful of principles: - Most tax software derives trust from the party who maintains it (e.g. Intuit, the IRS, etc.) - Vibe coded software lacks this trustworthiness. - Therefore any formalization should build in…

48. Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it

github.com — 69 points, 38 comments

49. Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft

kotaku.com — 69 points, 37 comments

50. Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones

invenglobal.com — 68 points, 82 comments

51. Study: Schoolwide phone bans show no significant impact on mental health

jamanetwork.com — 68 points, 59 comments

52. Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released

apple.com — 65 points, 81 comments

53. Rising rates of colorectal cancer found in nearly all age groups

uchicagomedicine.org — 61 points, 98 comments

54. Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action over failed real estate venture

reuters.com — 60 points, 17 comments

55. Suffering as a Feature

blog.codinghorror.com — 59 points, 16 comments

56. New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled

niemanlab.org — 57 points, 108 comments

57. MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

github.com — 57 points, 74 comments

58. Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

56 points, 69 comments

Text too big for this (limit 4000 chars), so I'll post in comments. How to join the strike: You simplify inform your employer that you are going on strike. Feel free to send them a link to this thread. Inform them how you feel about your specific situation. There is no need to…

59. Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

restofworld.org — 51 points, 44 comments

60. GitHub saw 7.4B commits in Sep., adding 4M CPU cores+160 PB storage to keep up

thenewstack.io — 47 points, 23 comments

61. Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)

bbc.com — 47 points, 16 comments

62. The October inflection point for vibe game development

simonwillison.net — 40 points, 51 comments

63. Electronic fibers weave touchscreen into sleeve that survives machine washing

designboom.com — 40 points, 7 comments

64. Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++

lemire.me — 38 points, 5 comments

65. Show HN: Yavashark: I've Built a JavaScript Engine Every Day for 950 Days

yavashark.dev — 38 points, 3 comments

Feel free to give me feedback or discuss what you have on your mind. I had lots of fun building this, so I hope you have too reading this!

66. At least 68 killed in Spanish high-speed train crash

bbc.com — 37 points, 4 comments

67. An architectural comparison of Obsidian Canvas and Heptabase

fluxlinks.com — 35 points, 15 comments

68. Get Ready for Touch on Mac

developer.apple.com — 33 points, 75 comments

69. Decompiling Games with AI: Virtueel Zoetermeer

bou.ke — 33 points, 8 comments

70. Trump says he's ending restrictions on climate-warming methane from oil drilling

npr.org — 33 points, 3 comments

71. Old.reddit.com Gone

32 points, 21 comments

It may just be me, but old.reddit.com is finally gone. And, at last, I am free

72. Scanning 7.25M Public Repositories on China's Largest Git Platform for Secrets

mongodb.com — 29 points, 6 comments

73. Nintendo's worst nightmare begins as Switch 2 games start running on PC and Mac

videocardz.com — 27 points, 10 comments

74. Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows

nasscad.com — 26 points, 23 comments

75. TLP Is Not a Suggestion

akamai.com — 25 points, 10 comments

76. Mecca Defence Alliance

en.wikipedia.org — 25 points, 1 comment

77. Outrage after airport self-service checkout asks for 18% tip

the-independent.com — 23 points, 6 comments

78. Major Memory Vendor: We're Basically Sold Out Through 2029

pcmag.com — 21 points, 8 comments

79. Newly discovered Kerberos delegation abuse path

hunio.org — 21 points, 1 comment

80. Opus 5.5 causing an identity crisis is real

kondz.io — 20 points, 41 comments

81. Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?

20 points, 41 comments

There is quite opposing discourse on the internet as to whether AI is going to take everyone's job, or if we are witnessing one of the greatest pre-IPO PR jobs in history. Or both.
I'm wondering what people smarter than me believe or don't believe.

82. Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%

empirical.health — 20 points, 17 comments

83. We let our cloud agents query prod (with OIDC, not secrets)

formal.ai — 20 points, 15 comments

84. eMudhra are now blocking access to their certificate revocation list

bugzilla.mozilla.org — 19 points, 4 comments

85. MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

apple.com — 19 points, 3 comments

86. New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare's AI Experiment

eff.org — 19 points, 2 comments

87. Creating interactive data visualization with Flint-interactive

microsoft.github.io — 19 points, 1 comment

88. DietPi v10.8 has been released

19 points, 1 comment

DietPi - the lightweight Debian based Linux distribution. Our major changes: DietPi-Wireguard: New tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients DietPi-Software: Software packages are setup via names instead of IDs HAProxy: Optimized installation (apt) without recompile needed…

89. Germanys' AfD in Saxony-Anhalt: Porno, Putin, Criminals, Nazi Songs, Corruption

crossbordertalks.eu — 19 points, 0 comments

90. Who Is Responsible for Tackling Professional Deskilling?

degruyterbrill.com — 18 points, 7 comments

91. An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment

blog.adafruit.com — 18 points, 4 comments

92. "Boy Born on Tuesday" a Thornier Problem Than the Monte Hall Problem?

win-vector.com — 18 points, 3 comments

93. Latest Drop by DDoS Contains Contact Info for 40k DHS Employees

techdirt.com — 18 points, 0 comments

94. Please Let the Internet Die

wired.com — 17 points, 8 comments

95. The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

wsj.com — 17 points, 8 comments

96. Google AI Search Refuses to Say Who Won the 2020 Election

karlbode.com — 17 points, 7 comments

97. Particle-1

particle.ai — 17 points, 7 comments

98. Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76M into the Midterms

wired.com — 17 points, 4 comments

99. Defund Elon Musk

theguardian.com — 17 points, 2 comments

100. Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took

twitter.com — 17 points, 1 comment

Issue #28

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. Ghostty 1.4

ghostty.org — 1,344 points, 433 comments

2. US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

wired.com — 1,091 points, 451 comments

3. Genie 4

deepmind.google — 1,039 points, 587 comments

4. AI promised less work. I've never worked more

oioannou.com — 677 points, 660 comments

5. Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books

stanforddaily.com — 599 points, 296 comments

6. Python's experimental JIT to be removed

lwn.net — 576 points, 335 comments

7. Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

brangus.io — 538 points, 202 comments

8. Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

spectrum.ieee.org — 516 points, 241 comments

9. Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

open3dlab.com — 484 points, 281 comments

10. Git for the US Code

lexifina.com — 449 points, 263 comments

11. New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

apple.com — 435 points, 619 comments

12. Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

gizmodo.com — 398 points, 312 comments

13. Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

tailscale.com — 391 points, 198 comments

14. Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

futurism.com — 385 points, 291 comments

15. New iMac with M6

apple.com — 378 points, 486 comments

16. Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

bitlog.com — 345 points, 347 comments

17. Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google

discord.com — 332 points, 215 comments

18. Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

anthropic.com — 328 points, 347 comments

19. Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth

arstechnica.com — 316 points, 245 comments

20. A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There

wired.com — 243 points, 172 comments

21. Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

cfsg.axiommath.ai — 241 points, 77 comments

22. I will no longer upload to NEW

lists.debian.org — 238 points, 145 comments

23. Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees

bret.dk — 226 points, 153 comments

24. Is my data used for model training?

privacy.claude.com — 225 points, 121 comments

25. Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

blog.adrq.dev — 209 points, 107 comments

26. PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends

wiz.io — 192 points, 60 comments

27. Four Months of Zig

gracefulliberty.com — 185 points, 150 comments

28. A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies

wsj.com — 177 points, 65 comments

29. Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence

liquid.ai — 171 points, 67 comments

30. Gforth 1.0

gforth.org — 170 points, 26 comments

31. New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

apple.com — 167 points, 205 comments

32. A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division

benjoffe.com — 155 points, 13 comments

33. Alleged Israeli spy company targeted Starlink users

reuters.com — 144 points, 33 comments

34. Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers

felixrieseberg.com — 129 points, 99 comments

35. Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often

bettascore.ai — 113 points, 102 comments

36. US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'

thehill.com — 107 points, 135 comments

37. Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs

github.com — 98 points, 38 comments

38. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

artificialanalysis.ai — 96 points, 82 comments

39. MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark

dmux.github.io — 95 points, 24 comments

40. Hex Raises $100M

hex.tech — 83 points, 64 comments

41. Radio-tagged Monarch butterflies

news.vt.edu — 77 points, 26 comments

https://celltracktech.com/pages/blumorpho
https://monarchresearch.org/news-and-events/monarch-research...
https://monarchwatch.org/radiotag/
https://swmonarchs.org/ProjectMonarch.php
https://blog.cwf-fcf.org/index.php/en/tiny-tracking-tags-for...

42. JetBrains IDEs are now powered by libghostty

blog.jetbrains.com — 77 points, 13 comments

43. Maine banned phones in schools to help teens focus and connect. It's working

apnews.com — 72 points, 16 comments

44. She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On

nytimes.com — 71 points, 27 comments

45. Three TLS Bugs in GoAhead

foxio.io — 70 points, 15 comments

46. PHP2Shell, LiteLLM, GitLab: Find What You Need to Patch

cloudsleuth.io — 65 points, 13 comments

47. Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro headed to US, sources say

reuters.com — 64 points, 67 comments

48. Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

theyeshivaworld.com — 63 points, 58 comments

49. I've used WordPress for 20 years, and I've stopped recommending it

hatamoto.dev — 63 points, 34 comments

50. Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron

qwen-neurons-site.vercel.app — 60 points, 60 comments

51. Data Recovery CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Ransomware Victims

propublica.org — 57 points, 9 comments

52. Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government

anthropic.com — 51 points, 37 comments

53. AI is ruining haunted houses

plagiarismtoday.com — 48 points, 111 comments

54. Python on My Wrist

tildeweb.nl — 44 points, 7 comments

55. Greg Abbott Took $9M from Data-Center Donors. Now He Regulates Them

gadgetreview.com — 43 points, 3 comments

56. New Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System

rubinobservatory.org — 41 points, 5 comments

57. Historical Scientific Instruments

nealstephenson.substack.com — 41 points, 3 comments

58. Partitioning my digital life into security domains (2011)

blog.invisiblethings.org — 40 points, 4 comments

59. Trump says he will ban everyone from using the phrase 'artificial intelligence'

independent.co.uk — 39 points, 14 comments

60. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0

artificialanalysis.ai — 39 points, 5 comments

61. Police Are Pulling People over Because AI Deems Their Driving "Suspicious"

aclu.org — 38 points, 10 comments

62. I used to be homeless. That experience shapes my science

science.org — 38 points, 1 comment

63. Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls

kevinreuning.com — 37 points, 61 comments

64. Show HN: Specification First Agentic Development Plugin and Prove

spec-first.dev — 34 points, 32 comments

Implemented agent smith since start 2026 with over 1000 specifications which lead to about 500k lines of code. The procedure with that spec-first works well. How do you do it?

65. Play Cyberpunk 2077 in the Browser

cyberpunk2077.lol — 33 points, 17 comments

66. Vicious Cycles: Theses on a philosophy of news (2020)

harpers.org — 33 points, 9 comments

67. One reviewer per layer: splitting code review by the way code is read

djordjepuzic.com — 31 points, 10 comments

68. Solving Postgres' Count Problem

paradedb.com — 31 points, 3 comments

69. Antique Fonts Collection – Restored 19th Century Typefaces

centurylibrary.com — 30 points, 14 comments

70. Industry Knew for Decades That Microplastics Could Infiltrate Human Bodies

e360.yale.edu — 30 points, 3 comments

71. Cancer vaccines are finally here. How do we get them to patients?

statnews.com — 30 points, 1 comment

72. 'Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month

wsoctv.com — 26 points, 54 comments

73. My video has unit tests

pertiller.tech — 26 points, 11 comments

74. Just put some HTML on the web

anderegg.ca — 25 points, 4 comments

75. So you say you hate 'surveillance pricing'

cnn.com — 25 points, 4 comments

76. AI models cost more when you don't use English

restofworld.org — 25 points, 1 comment

77. Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering

anthropic.com — 25 points, 1 comment

78. Muhammad Aqeel: Undo for Postgres, without losing the rest of your day

pgedge.com — 24 points, 9 comments

79. Blanets and Weird Worlds

antipope.org — 24 points, 2 comments

80. GPT-6.1 Terra (Max) Scores 48 on Artificial Analysis

artificialanalysis.ai — 24 points, 2 comments

81. Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60k workers

twitter.com — 24 points, 2 comments

82. Everything Rhymes with Porcelain

worksinprogress.co — 24 points, 1 comment

83. BYD’s $10,000 EV blows a tire at nearly 90 mph — Watch what happens

electrek.co — 23 points, 19 comments

84. One year of Dioxus fullstack in production: the good, the painful

oxidt.com — 23 points, 12 comments

85. Popcorn 1.0 Released: Moving from AtomVM to Full Erlang VM

swmansion.com — 23 points, 1 comment

86. Intel to Acquire Classiq to Create a Full-Stack Quantum Computing Platform

intc.com — 23 points, 0 comments

87. Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

devblogs.microsoft.com — 23 points, 0 comments

88. Grand theft AI: Highway thieves are stealing millions in data center gear

nbcnews.com — 23 points, 0 comments

89. 'I Felt Blind Panic.' They Opened Their New $2k iPhone Duo–and It Broke

wsj.com — 22 points, 26 comments

90. Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce

arstechnica.com — 22 points, 3 comments

91. Literallyeveryfont: Every font on the internet, free for personal use

literallyeveryfont.com — 22 points, 2 comments

92. Show HN: Wraps – Resend-style email on your own AWS SES, open source

wraps.dev — 22 points, 1 comment

93. Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

theguardian.com — 21 points, 3 comments

94. Google can now use your Gmail data for ads: How to turn it off

proton.me — 21 points, 1 comment

95. Initial Support for the Apple M4 and Apple A18 Pro Make It into Linux 7.4

phoronix.com — 21 points, 1 comment

96. Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

arxiv.org — 21 points, 0 comments

97. Why a patched PC still loaded the BlackX bootkit, and how to check yours

theainewsreport.com — 21 points, 0 comments

98. Swarmatory: Shared chatroom/feed for your team's coding agents

github.com — 21 points, 0 comments

99. Dispatch 006: Cheers at Angola

metanoia-research.com — 21 points, 0 comments

100. AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java

reddit.com — 21 points, 0 comments

Issue #27

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. Anthropic S-1

sec.gov — 1,703 points, 1,676 comments

2. Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

openai.com — 1,156 points, 703 comments

Related:
The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

3. Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

seattletimes.com — 1,080 points, 1,170 comments

4. Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

magazine.sebastianraschka.com — 854 points, 116 comments

5. The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

github.com — 798 points, 301 comments

See also: Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344

6. GPT-6.1 Terra

openai.com — 636 points, 427 comments

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-6.1-terra

7. The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

circuithub.com — 560 points, 260 comments

8. CSS-Tricks has a new owner

css-tricks.com — 552 points, 115 comments

9. Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

bbc.com — 546 points, 783 comments

10. Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

blog.enlyth.com — 540 points, 334 comments

11. The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

j11g.com — 488 points, 361 comments

12. Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

blocks.manifold3d.ch — 482 points, 221 comments

13. Websites Should Be Printable

brennenputh.me — 400 points, 213 comments

14. OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

the-decoder.com — 358 points, 248 comments

15. Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

panamericandispatch.org — 333 points, 161 comments

16. Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

cohere.com — 331 points, 132 comments

17. In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real

404media.co — 322 points, 209 comments

18. The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

motherjones.com — 308 points, 58 comments

19. Pharo 14

pharo.org — 275 points, 87 comments

20. New iPad mini

apple.com — 272 points, 627 comments

21. Type Server Protocol

github.com — 268 points, 176 comments

22. ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

404media.co — 263 points, 95 comments

23. A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com — 236 points, 102 comments

24. US designates helium as a critical material

apnews.com — 230 points, 141 comments

25. Nietzschian Debugger

github.com — 218 points, 66 comments

26. CorridorKey 2.0

corridorkey.com — 206 points, 78 comments

27. DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

freedom.press — 201 points, 95 comments

28. Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

hothardware.com — 184 points, 32 comments

29. Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

brown.edu — 182 points, 177 comments

30. Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

blog.cloudflare.com — 181 points, 79 comments

31. Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

inventor7777.github.io — 176 points, 55 comments

32. Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT

github.com — 175 points, 43 comments

Hey HN, I'm Christian and this is a new OSS project I've been noodling on for the last couple of weeks. Hob is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that works on your files the way the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps do, except the model runs on your own…

33. Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

ubicloud.com — 172 points, 74 comments

34. How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

cocoterra.com — 163 points, 50 comments

35. Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

english.elpais.com — 162 points, 223 comments

36. OLED iPad Mini

apple.com — 158 points, 3 comments

37. I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

eliasfarhan.ch — 153 points, 89 comments

38. Somebody please stop the spam texts

notes.npilk.com — 151 points, 168 comments

39. 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

github.com — 149 points, 34 comments

40. Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce

kuow.org — 136 points, 155 comments

41. Jokes for the ZX81

spelk.press — 125 points, 19 comments

42. Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

cuis.st — 107 points, 15 comments

43. Iterating Backwards in C

davidpriver.com — 101 points, 65 comments

44. Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job

404media.co — 99 points, 45 comments

45. There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek

allmodels.io — 98 points, 120 comments

46. Nixpkgs for the frontend impaired

fzakaria.com — 90 points, 19 comments

47. Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

unix.dog — 88 points, 9 comments

48. Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

xpipe.io — 87 points, 37 comments

49. Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office

variety.com — 84 points, 36 comments

50. Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System

blog.landeconomics.org — 80 points, 29 comments

51. Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

danielmiessler.com — 75 points, 42 comments

52. Requests, Please

morronel.github.io — 73 points, 17 comments

53. Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet

stalw.art — 72 points, 30 comments

54. NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket

nytimes.com — 71 points, 70 comments

55. Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days

dynomight.net — 69 points, 53 comments

56. Edit an SQLite database in your browser

editsqlite.com — 68 points, 34 comments

57. The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market

wsj.com — 66 points, 23 comments

58. Human-enhanced tsunami hazard in large lakes

nature.com — 64 points, 6 comments

59. Walter Koenig, Chekov from 'Star Trek,' Has Died

nytimes.com — 64 points, 5 comments

60. Image generation has come a long way since August 2022

hbrooks.com — 62 points, 27 comments

61. Just imagining a workout can make you stronger (2016)

nautil.us — 60 points, 33 comments

62. Everything

github.com — 59 points, 59 comments

63. The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

wired.com — 58 points, 94 comments

64. The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration

entire.com — 57 points, 40 comments

65. UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student

africa.businessinsider.com — 55 points, 79 comments

66. Treap (Cartesian Tree)

cp-algorithms.com — 55 points, 9 comments

67. “AI Skills” are worthless in 2026

fishbowl.pastiche.org — 53 points, 25 comments

68. Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository

typemill.net — 52 points, 54 comments

69. ICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'

wbur.org — 50 points, 16 comments

70. Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST

github.com — 50 points, 14 comments

71. Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It

gregoryalexander.com — 49 points, 39 comments

72. Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas

blog.ericgoldman.org — 47 points, 51 comments

73. Wages Fall to 43% of U.S. Gross Domestic Income, Lowest Since 1929

unusualwhales.com — 47 points, 9 comments

74. Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original 'Star Trek' series, dies at 90

apnews.com — 46 points, 8 comments

75. Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite

cnn.com — 44 points, 62 comments

76. KibernetykMono – A Geometric Monospace Typeface

pavlokilko.github.io — 43 points, 3 comments

77. Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software

tomshardware.com — 41 points, 23 comments

78. In China, the AI bubble has burst

reuters.com — 41 points, 2 comments

79. Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight

phys.org — 40 points, 8 comments

80. Fishing website for Susaki, Japan, hit by data leak, all 3 users affected

soranews24.com — 40 points, 2 comments

81. Microsoft offers 60k employees a voluntary exit

twitter.com — 39 points, 1 comment

82. What Happened to the Neanderthals?

nytimes.com — 38 points, 59 comments

83. US fired over 600 missile interceptors defending Israel in three years

stephensemler.com — 38 points, 23 comments

84. GPT 6.1 Terra

developers.openai.com — 37 points, 4 comments

85. Why is it so expensive to send an email?

evancz.dev — 34 points, 12 comments

86. Why I'm growing my Vancouver AI company in Taiwan and Europe instead of the U.S.

bcbusiness.ca — 33 points, 1 comment

87. 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy (2023)

npr.org — 32 points, 8 comments

88. Retrieval's bottleneck is moving from finding to selecting

kapa.ai — 32 points, 2 comments

89. Third Risk

thirdrisk.org — 32 points, 1 comment

90. LiberNT - A free NT operating system

libernt.com — 29 points, 11 comments

91. Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 at 184 tok/s on a single RTX 6000 Pro

meshapplied.com — 29 points, 6 comments

92. warp.dev Breached

twitter.com — 29 points, 4 comments

93. Binance gave Russia data on IT worker jailed 13 years for $700 Ukraine donation

meduza.io — 29 points, 0 comments

94. A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf]

shivakintali.github.io — 28 points, 10 comments

95. Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits

github.com — 28 points, 0 comments

96. Micron Taiwan increasing salaries for factory workers by 2.7X

ec.ltn.com.tw — 27 points, 12 comments

97. After LiteLLM's backdoor, we open-sourced an OS-level package firewall

github.com — 27 points, 1 comment

98. Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH

hexagonmath.org — 26 points, 6 comments

99. Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

techcrunch.com — 26 points, 1 comment

100. Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at Univ of Washington

theguardian.com — 25 points, 44 comments

Issue #26

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT

1. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

imaginationlibrary.com — 683 points, 112 comments

With today's news, I thought I'd share this great program: “When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister…

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

11. Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

reuters.com — 334 points, 183 comments

12. Why I Am a Programmer

alfie.wtf — 326 points, 105 comments

13. Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you

twitter.com — 295 points, 1 comment

14. Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

exhibits.stanford.edu — 274 points, 172 comments

15. The State of Context Engineering

dbreunig.com — 273 points, 66 comments

16. JetBrains Thinkrail

github.com — 242 points, 174 comments

17. AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

dailycal.org — 240 points, 342 comments

18. PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

github.com — 236 points, 88 comments

19. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

shraiwi.com — 229 points, 68 comments

20. fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

github.com — 220 points, 73 comments

21. Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

arstechnica.com — 211 points, 58 comments

22. SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

divemagazine.com — 200 points, 166 comments

23. Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

korindiehacker.bloffy.blog — 198 points, 128 comments

24. Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

arxiv.org — 194 points, 72 comments

25. Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

github.com — 182 points, 65 comments

26. Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

bigwhalehunting.com — 177 points, 49 comments

I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble. What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked. Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people. That's around $124 million…

27. What goes into making an animated film?

disneyanimation.com — 175 points, 78 comments

28. Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom

wsj.com — 175 points, 47 comments

29. If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

github.com — 171 points, 157 comments

30. Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

loeffelholz-codex.org — 169 points, 93 comments

31. iPhone Duo Teardown

ifixit.com — 166 points, 157 comments

32. Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

dreamhoststatus.com — 165 points, 71 comments

33. F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

hypnotize.works — 158 points, 95 comments

34. France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms

blast-info.fr — 154 points, 191 comments

35. Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

iosiflazaridis.github.io — 149 points, 56 comments

36. US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low

fred.stlouisfed.org — 147 points, 45 comments

37. Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

techspot.com — 145 points, 88 comments

38. Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events

twitter.com — 138 points, 3 comments

39. Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

xtramagazine.com — 127 points, 114 comments

40. Proton Flock Camera Map

proton.me — 124 points, 30 comments

41. OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp

atgreen.github.io — 111 points, 18 comments

42. Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks

gizmodo.com — 100 points, 137 comments

43. Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

twitter.com — 100 points, 80 comments

44. AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery

vithushansylvester.com — 99 points, 64 comments

45. Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

electrek.co — 97 points, 80 comments

46. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

isburmistrov.substack.com — 95 points, 38 comments

47. What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us

techbronerd.substack.com — 91 points, 99 comments

48. R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

reddit.com — 90 points, 128 comments

49. US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect

theconversation.com — 86 points, 154 comments

50. Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism

contraptions.venkateshrao.com — 84 points, 125 comments

51. Lego collaboration with Daft Punk

lego.com — 83 points, 61 comments

52. Eunice is almost here

armincat.com — 82 points, 79 comments

53. Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback

bbc.com — 76 points, 3 comments

54. Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry

businessinsider.com — 74 points, 62 comments

55. Challenge Is Gone

blog.alxgsv.com — 72 points, 115 comments

56. Lula Wins Brazilian Election

resultados.tse.jus.br — 72 points, 40 comments

57. Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

shattered.io — 72 points, 31 comments

58. LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

t3x.org — 72 points, 17 comments

59. Assembly Nights (2021)

ratfactor.com — 71 points, 23 comments

60. A mathematician reads the AI future

theatlantic.com — 70 points, 130 comments

61. Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

theguardian.com — 67 points, 10 comments

62. A few thoughts on intensity (2024)

tylerhogge.com — 65 points, 50 comments

63. Show HN: Farol – A risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

github.com — 60 points, 43 comments

64. Sabre Wulf Remastered

gp-64.com — 60 points, 10 comments

65. The result of the C++26 DIS ballot

train-it.eu — 59 points, 104 comments

66. A Stackless Floodfill Automaton

t3x.org — 55 points, 24 comments

67. Europe's summer heat wave killed more han 50k people in urban areas

science.org — 54 points, 29 comments

68. Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

spectrum.ieee.org — 48 points, 44 comments

69. UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

unicode.org — 48 points, 31 comments

70. APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing

nextplatform.com — 48 points, 10 comments

71. Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens

wiz.io — 47 points, 1 comment

72. Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)

dbohdan.github.io — 45 points, 16 comments

https://github.com/dbohdan/glider
https://bsky.app/profile/engineersneedart.com/post/3myrs2ngq...

73. Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram

alsterrunde.com — 44 points, 2 comments

74. If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay

economist.com — 38 points, 101 comments

75. Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards

freehire.me — 38 points, 9 comments

freehire is a filterable, job board aggregator, job tracker, and AI-assisted resume tailoring tool. Saving your skills and preferences changes which jobs appear and how your resume gets tailored. I've looked at a lot of these solutions over the years and found it really hard to…

76. How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller

ipinfo.io — 38 points, 4 comments

77. Bye Bye Brotli? Google's Compression Library Is a Security Mess

bugsink.com — 33 points, 7 comments

78. Flock [YC S17] Fever: A Review of Government Surveillance by Benn Jordan [video]

youtube.com — 33 points, 1 comment

79. Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

32 points, 17 comments

I've been trying to enroll for Apple Developer for over a month and nothing works. The Apple Developer app won't accept my Canadian passport for identity verification. The enrollment is for a Delaware LLC, so my Apple account region is set to US. I can't switch the account…

80. F45 (Fedora 45) Final Is No-Go

lists.fedoraproject.org — 32 points, 4 comments

81. Fine-tuned Qwen on my 16gb GPU to respond without the letter e

kevin-wu.ca — 31 points, 21 comments

82. Fuck Nuance (2015)

crookedtimber.org — 31 points, 6 comments

83. Oseberg Tapestry Fragments

en.wikipedia.org — 30 points, 6 comments

84. Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades

maritime-executive.com — 28 points, 4 comments

85. Kauldron: Modular, scalable library to train ML models

github.com — 28 points, 2 comments

86. Focused Company Operating Principles

focused.io — 25 points, 15 comments

87. U.S. birth rate drops to record low, but older women are having more babies

npr.org — 25 points, 10 comments

88. Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf]

gwern.net — 25 points, 8 comments

89. Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal

noyb.eu — 25 points, 2 comments

90. Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management

proc-cli.com — 24 points, 5 comments

91. Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public

arstechnica.com — 23 points, 4 comments

92. Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

22 points, 17 comments

I think there is still place for this type of coding where you autocomplete predictable chunks and review it as you go.
But I haven't seen much development in this space. Are there any notable models optimized for this task or full/semi-autonomous coding has taken over?

93. Psilocybin Replaces Lost Synapses in Depressed Brains

neurosciencenews.com — 19 points, 0 comments

94. Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers

unverifiablerewards.substack.com — 18 points, 14 comments

95. Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt

thestar.com — 18 points, 4 comments

96. A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science

sciencedaily.com — 18 points, 1 comment

97. US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B

timesofisrael.com — 17 points, 31 comments

98. Historical Telecommunications

retronetworking.org — 17 points, 8 comments

99. The Great Schlep: Israelis Are Flying Back to Vote

newyorker.com — 17 points, 6 comments

100. Show HN: Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks

github.com — 17 points, 4 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. Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

steveblank.com — 490 points, 506 comments

7. 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...

8. I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

southampton.ac.uk — 388 points, 345 comments

9. Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

cerebras.ai — 368 points, 142 comments

10. FreeDNS

freedns.afraid.org — 362 points, 93 comments

11. GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

github.com — 350 points, 83 comments

12. Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

github.com — 318 points, 116 comments

13. Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

blog.roku.com — 310 points, 224 comments

14. Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

nypost.com — 261 points, 212 comments

15. Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

arxiv.org — 258 points, 205 comments

16. Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)

lede-v2.nautil.us — 244 points, 48 comments

17. Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

computerworld.dk — 236 points, 196 comments

18. SpeedCrunch 1.1

speedcrunch.org — 236 points, 54 comments

19. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

healeycodes.com — 207 points, 42 comments

20. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

missileer.watch — 202 points, 137 comments

21. Small Programs and Languages

ratfactor.com — 192 points, 32 comments

22. Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report

aljazeera.com — 191 points, 145 comments

23. Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness

github.com — 185 points, 75 comments

24. Dream-1

dreamlabs.ai — 180 points, 77 comments

25. The Goose Programming Language

aardappel.github.io — 176 points, 1 comment

26. Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

bbtree.xiangpeng.systems — 163 points, 24 comments

27. PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

reuters.com — 150 points, 103 comments

28. An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

journaloflostspecies.org — 150 points, 67 comments

29. Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

benwinding.github.io — 149 points, 65 comments

Encarta is super nostalgic, and I was surprised it wasn't available to use online. So I embarked on the difficult task of making it so. The way this works is the most convoluted, nonsense and brittle system ever... but it works as a statically hosted gh-pages site! Please note…

30. Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

actu.epfl.ch — 141 points, 55 comments

31. The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

de.numista.com — 137 points, 50 comments

32. MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

oldvcr.blogspot.com — 128 points, 2 comments

33. The Curse of Soldered RAM

blog.hardill.me.uk — 123 points, 165 comments

34. Why Gopher in 2026?

gopher.muffinlabs.com — 122 points, 91 comments

35. The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

ratfactor.com — 120 points, 40 comments

36. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)

hallofdreams.org — 111 points, 77 comments

37. AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

torrentfreak.com — 98 points, 62 comments

38. A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

brennan.day — 97 points, 17 comments

39. Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer

darkhorizons.com — 91 points, 138 comments

40. Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

makeuseof.com — 76 points, 71 comments

41. The Fall of Scientific American

thenation.com — 75 points, 98 comments

42. VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

youtube.com — 72 points, 15 comments

43. Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

huggingface.co — 68 points, 27 comments

Hey HN, I’m open sourcing my Hurston-1 narrowband TTS model (Apache-2.0). It is very good with American English and does especially well with Southern American and Regional African English accents. Destined AI is based in Atlanta, and I built this because I’m amazed by what AI…

44. Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

adrs.systems — 66 points, 58 comments

Why is this worth your time? Essentially, this solves two problems of AI-assisted programming: (a) the first problem is how to do oversight and what do oversight of and this is solved through the ORRCF (for Options, Recommendation, Rationale, Confidence, Falsifier) question…

45. Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'

gizmodo.com — 64 points, 123 comments

46. Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist

tomshardware.com — 64 points, 9 comments

47. Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

latimes.com — 61 points, 13 comments

48. ThinkRail from JetBrains

thinkrail.ai — 59 points, 84 comments

49. Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

gitlab.com — 59 points, 19 comments

50. 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

news.artnet.com — 58 points, 10 comments

51. From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

cip.uw.edu — 56 points, 59 comments

52. "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week

showbiz411.com — 53 points, 18 comments

53. Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

terrytao.wordpress.com — 52 points, 43 comments

54. In Nigeria, Solar Panels Are the New Wedding Gift

bloomberg.com — 52 points, 14 comments

55. An incremental approach to JIT construction

dl.acm.org — 49 points, 10 comments

56. Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice

science.org — 48 points, 10 comments

57. FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered

codeberg.org — 47 points, 10 comments

58. The first broken iPhone Duos are here

theverge.com — 46 points, 22 comments

59. I Do Understand Relativity

southampton.ac.uk — 45 points, 6 comments

60. One Must Fall 2097 Remastered

github.com — 44 points, 30 comments

61. Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents

deallocatedobjects.com — 37 points, 10 comments

62. Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece

cbc.ca — 35 points, 15 comments

63. Elon Musk says he was behind restricting Ukraine's Starlink speed

chicagotribune.com — 31 points, 3 comments

64. Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities

tailworm.com — 29 points, 21 comments

65. Argus – a free, open-source agentic security operations platform – MIT

thomasunise.com — 27 points, 9 comments

66. 2k Boeing 737s Must Get Tail Inspections After Jets Pitched Up&Down Mid-Flight

simpleflying.com — 25 points, 11 comments

67. Total Historian

theideasletter.org — 25 points, 6 comments

68. Group in San Francisco graftng fruit-bearing branches onto street trees

twitter.com — 25 points, 4 comments

69. LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel

github.com — 25 points, 2 comments

70. Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?

chronicle.com — 23 points, 80 comments

71. Show HN: Enzyme – a programming language that compiles wikis for agents

github.com — 23 points, 9 comments

72. Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' depicts the sky on July 22, 1889

space.com — 23 points, 7 comments

73. Dental implants can hijack your immune system, scientists discover

sciencedaily.com — 23 points, 5 comments

74. Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: ~268s to ~50ms

phoronix.com — 23 points, 1 comment

75. iPhone Duo Owners Report Screens Breaking Along the Hinge

macrumors.com — 22 points, 10 comments

76. Claude Code slyly adding users' emails to outbound HTTP

twitter.com — 22 points, 8 comments

77. Factorio version 2.1, the final major update for the game, has been released

factorio.com — 22 points, 7 comments

78. Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster

skyvern.com — 22 points, 3 comments

79. AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings

nngroup.com — 22 points, 2 comments

80. AI is devastating higher education, but the system was broken

theconversation.com — 22 points, 1 comment

81. Doctors' offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals

washingtonpost.com — 21 points, 5 comments

82. AI devours a fifth of companies' IT budgets

computerworld.com — 21 points, 5 comments

83. AI Is Not a Tool

twitter.com — 20 points, 37 comments

84. DHH (of Omarchy) openly expresses support for AfD party in Germany

twitter.com — 20 points, 10 comments

85. Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here's What to Do Next

eff.org — 20 points, 3 comments

86. Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault

cio.com — 19 points, 10 comments

87. A CA key that was the number 4 passed its audit. Nobody was assigned to check it

pilgrima.ge — 19 points, 3 comments

88. An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

anthropic.com — 19 points, 3 comments

89. Brokerage Firms Want to Yank Away Your Investor Protections

wsj.com — 19 points, 2 comments

90. A Fix for Softmax and Cross-Entropy

jonbarron.info — 19 points, 1 comment

91. The attack chain behind the v1.107.0 LiteLLM release

docs.litellm.ai — 19 points, 0 comments

92. Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?

18 points, 30 comments

You too can get rich quick in real estate --- details in this book; only $49.95. If there really was a sure fire way to get rich quick, why sell books to the public? Why not keep it to yourself and apply it to make money? The same applies to AI. If it was really all that, they…

93. Wolves enter Finnish villages after Google clears 1300 acres for AI data centers

tomshardware.com — 18 points, 9 comments

94. The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV

theguardian.com — 18 points, 5 comments

95. What's Wrong with AI?

homepage.farm — 18 points, 4 comments

96. Oil spill washes up on UAE beaches after tanker strike

bbc.com — 18 points, 3 comments

97. The Great Vowel Shift

en.wikipedia.org — 18 points, 0 comments

98. Elon Musk's dangerous grip on outer space

theverge.com — 18 points, 0 comments

99. Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal

noyb.eu — 18 points, 0 comments

100. Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed

github.com — 17 points, 33 comments

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. Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

bbc.com — 549 points, 214 comments

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

keepandroidopen.org — 544 points, 378 comments

10. Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

block.xyz — 534 points, 199 comments

11. OBS Studio 33

github.com — 474 points, 177 comments

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

tvfandomlounge.com — 453 points, 457 comments

13. Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

theverge.com — 403 points, 203 comments

14. Twelve years of distributed SQLite

philipotoole.com — 392 points, 70 comments

15. Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude

sverigesradio.se — 324 points, 125 comments

16. Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

twitter.com — 313 points, 208 comments

17. How close can pure functional programming get to C?

rtfeldman.com — 282 points, 102 comments

18. CVE Tracker

cve.0xosprey.com — 231 points, 78 comments

19. eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media

bugzilla.mozilla.org — 213 points, 163 comments

20. Is this the new cyber normal?

drew.silcock.dev — 212 points, 221 comments

21. Growing Trees

brashandplucky.com — 202 points, 28 comments

22. Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)

github.com — 197 points, 166 comments

23. Apple Security Research Device

security.apple.com — 191 points, 162 comments

24. OpenSSL 4.1.0

github.com — 188 points, 68 comments

25. Job loss and cortisone mania

tilschuenemann.de — 186 points, 140 comments

26. Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more

nitter.click — 186 points, 95 comments

27. UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

alexsci.com — 184 points, 168 comments

28. Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

jefftk.com — 178 points, 174 comments

29. How is music possible

henrikkarlsson.xyz — 174 points, 118 comments

30. Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

bitdefender.com — 170 points, 126 comments

31. We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev — 162 points, 149 comments

32. No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 161 points, 181 comments

33. Diamond Transistor

df.com — 161 points, 102 comments

34. Shitter – A Nitter Fork

codeberg.org — 157 points, 159 comments

35. Colorfigures

april-zhu.com — 153 points, 23 comments

36. The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden

berget.ai — 144 points, 157 comments

37. Securing our frontier model training environment

openai.com — 141 points, 128 comments

38. Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

corgi.computer — 141 points, 47 comments

Hey everyone, Inspired by Herdr, I've built an agent multiplexer that I've been using as my daily driver for a few weeks now. I think I improved on the concept in a few ways, focusing on the ergonomics I always wished I had: I show you what the agents are up to, along with a…

39. Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

sciencedaily.com — 141 points, 26 comments

40. Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border

cnn.com — 136 points, 149 comments

41. Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

david.lequin.dev — 134 points, 80 comments

42. Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

bottlecapai.com — 127 points, 34 comments

43. How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

ayoships.com — 122 points, 54 comments

44. Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

artificialanalysis.ai — 121 points, 46 comments

45. Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

gizmodo.com — 106 points, 29 comments

46. Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

magnopus.com — 106 points, 24 comments

47. The rise and fall of Jev hype

blog.alexewerlof.com — 93 points, 66 comments

48. Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]

youtube.com — 87 points, 16 comments

49. Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats

cyberinsider.com — 86 points, 0 comments

50. Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

techpowerup.com — 80 points, 97 comments

51. Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

nbcnews.com — 80 points, 55 comments

52. Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

swurf.org — 78 points, 38 comments

Hello HN, Swurf allows you to swipe through the real web one page after another. It learns what you like and doesn’t show you the same page twice. The idea came naturally: there’s a seemingly infinite amount of high quality blog posts, random topic rabbit holes, and trending or…

53. German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'

courthousenews.com — 72 points, 52 comments

54. Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax

nytimes.com — 71 points, 115 comments

55. Animations for System Builders

brooker.co.za — 71 points, 4 comments

56. Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited

thisandthat.chat — 70 points, 57 comments

57. I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

twitter.com — 70 points, 38 comments

58. Jared Kushner's Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations

vanityfair.com — 70 points, 9 comments

59. New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

gizmodo.com — 67 points, 60 comments

60. Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

getty.edu — 66 points, 2 comments

61. Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

rune.build — 64 points, 26 comments

62. The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

isaacmarovitz.com — 64 points, 20 comments

63. France needs to read my paper

wilsoniumite.com — 63 points, 119 comments

64. One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

youtube.com — 61 points, 5 comments

65. Kimi K3.1 Pro

kimi.ai — 61 points, 2 comments

66. DNS: A Replacement for Finger

altchan.org — 60 points, 36 comments

67. Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part

a16z.news — 59 points, 47 comments

68. Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera

petapixel.com — 58 points, 89 comments

69. Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more

computerworld.com — 56 points, 30 comments

70. Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog

tabletopwhale.com — 56 points, 6 comments

71. Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company

symby.com — 55 points, 28 comments

72. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates

captnemo.in — 55 points, 22 comments

73. Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

categorica.io — 55 points, 16 comments

74. A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)

quantum5.ca — 55 points, 12 comments

75. White House Directly Intervened to Shut Down Epstein Files Probe

newrepublic.com — 54 points, 1 comment

76. Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there

twitter.com — 53 points, 22 comments

77. Reforming English Spelling

blog.oup.com — 52 points, 124 comments

78. No Source Code? No Problem

queue.acm.org — 52 points, 41 comments

79. Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker

blog.simone.computer — 50 points, 5 comments

80. Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a culture (2024)

johnhendersontravel.com — 48 points, 15 comments

81. When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough

coveringclimatenow.org — 47 points, 11 comments

82. Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know

rentes.github.io — 44 points, 12 comments

83. World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection

militaryaviationmuseum.org — 43 points, 14 comments

84. The Colors of a Soap Film

aseemrb.me — 43 points, 7 comments

85. ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

arstechnica.com — 43 points, 7 comments

86. Two Million Hornets

dark-mountain.net — 43 points, 6 comments

87. Time Nuts (2005)

leapsecond.com — 42 points, 38 comments

88. Dutch intelligence service spied on phone of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner

nltimes.nl — 41 points, 13 comments

89. eMudhra Login Bypass

mastodon.catgirl.cloud — 38 points, 1 comment

https://archive.ph/q1JTI

90. Brotli vulnerability affects curl and Git

github.com — 37 points, 14 comments

91. Capitalists Don't Take on "Risk," Workers Do

currentaffairs.org — 36 points, 12 comments

92. Preliminary Report Oct 21st Security Incident

blog.railway.com — 36 points, 8 comments

93. Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween

qwac.com — 32 points, 41 comments

94. HumanLayer is now Open Source

hlyr.dev — 31 points, 5 comments

95. Trump Says He Has 'Right' to Run for Third Term: 'They Cheated Us'

newsweek.com — 30 points, 50 comments

96. In Context [video]

youtube.com — 30 points, 2 comments

97. AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley, California

verysane.ai — 29 points, 5 comments

98. Palmer Luckey Is Launching a Genetically Engineered War Dog Startup

motherjones.com — 29 points, 0 comments

99. The lifelong orgasm gap: exploring age's impact on orgasm rates

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov — 28 points, 12 comments

100. Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

arstechnica.com — 27 points, 2 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. Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

vanityfair.com — 556 points, 230 comments

11. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

github.com — 536 points, 194 comments

https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en

12. Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

eff.org — 514 points, 308 comments

13. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

github.com — 508 points, 218 comments

14. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

anthropic.com — 473 points, 312 comments

15. Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

charliegerard.dev — 404 points, 142 comments

16. Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

arstechnica.com — 398 points, 354 comments

17. The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

cs.utexas.edu — 390 points, 277 comments

18. What’s getting pwned right now

pwn.watch — 381 points, 174 comments

19. Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

taler.net — 364 points, 183 comments

20. CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

nvd.nist.gov — 336 points, 123 comments

21. Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

techspot.com — 331 points, 245 comments

22. Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)

humantransit.org — 307 points, 168 comments

23. A farewell to Arc browser

arc.net — 287 points, 256 comments

24. Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure

aws.amazon.com — 270 points, 99 comments

25. MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

cbc.ca — 265 points, 137 comments

26. Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

phoronix.com — 253 points, 90 comments

27. Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

github.com — 241 points, 48 comments

28. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

github.com — 236 points, 94 comments

Hi all I was pretty terrible at singing, now I’d say I’m bad but not terrible. This is because I’ve been using a singing app (won’t name it here) that scores me on my pitch and timing throughout the song so that I can improve. Lately however, the app I’ve been using has flooded…

29. Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

globus.software — 231 points, 40 comments

30. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

lesswrong.com — 219 points, 74 comments

31. The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

arxiv.org — 213 points, 88 comments

32. How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

kottke.org — 204 points, 53 comments

33. Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

jank-lang.org — 196 points, 50 comments

34. A Printer Printing onto Paper

twitter.com — 192 points, 49 comments

35. The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

funcarena.com — 191 points, 25 comments

36. A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

mastodon.catgirl.cloud — 190 points, 68 comments

https://archive.ph/q1JTI

37. Crystal 1.22

crystal-lang.org — 180 points, 107 comments

38. Move Slow and Fix Things (2024)

endler.dev — 176 points, 35 comments

39. This I Believe (1952)

awakin.org — 163 points, 91 comments

40. Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

archaeologymag.com — 144 points, 63 comments

41. Railpass

train.samismith.com — 144 points, 41 comments

42. AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

arxiv.org — 142 points, 81 comments

43. Semantic search across major museums

lastmuseum.com — 130 points, 36 comments

44. The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

developer.chrome.com — 123 points, 63 comments

45. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

github.com — 112 points, 81 comments

A recent (unwanted) webOS update that got installed on TV prompted me to start going down the rabbit hole of writing new TV software. After a couple of weekends and massive help from 4 different models, finally managed to get v1 working. My daughter enjoys navigating TV through…

46. eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business;

105 points, 2 comments

Press Release titled “eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; Will Sharpen Focus on Core Enterprise Solutions and trust services other than SSL/TLS”
https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/82503e00-335c-49dc-b022-f4633a08b642.pdf

47. How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

larstofus.com — 103 points, 29 comments

48. The U.S. Power Grid

nomagicpill.site — 96 points, 28 comments

49. TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

infoq.com — 95 points, 23 comments

50. Most Americans Say AI Is Bad for Society, Oppose More Data Centers

abcnews.com — 93 points, 71 comments

51. AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

biograph.com — 91 points, 47 comments

52. Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases in Middle East

meidasnews.com — 90 points, 17 comments

53. Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y

89 points, 34 comments

The "product graveyard" of SaaSHub has been tracking the status (and lifespan) of hundreds of thousands of products. It's been hovering around 4y for quite some time. However, there's a sharp decline in 2026 leading to about 1.5y these days…

54. Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

impossiblemachines.xyz — 82 points, 22 comments

Hey all — Sharing a thought experiment I put together. The premise: what might declarative programming feel like for the physical world? We’re already familiar with this paradigm in software land (eg SQL etc where we declare what we want and the execution engine figures out…

55. New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients

sciencealert.com — 80 points, 70 comments

56. Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI

typeui.sh — 80 points, 46 comments

57. Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

scabshack.lol — 79 points, 34 comments

58. A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics

sciencealert.com — 76 points, 53 comments

59. LISP Comes of Age (1980)

microship.com — 75 points, 20 comments

60. I Did This Without Your Knowledge

lesswrong.com — 73 points, 48 comments

61. Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai

polygonjs.com — 70 points, 60 comments

62. Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

rec98.nmlgc.net — 70 points, 53 comments

63. Award-winning AI literature

jamesyu.org — 66 points, 76 comments

64. A Markdown File Should Just Open

joshuamorris.info — 64 points, 84 comments

65. Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

raspberrypi.com — 60 points, 9 comments

66. We have traits at home

axelmagn.com — 57 points, 19 comments

67. AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market

economist.com — 54 points, 63 comments

68. UN says breaching 1.5C warming limit is 'imminent and unavoidable'

cnn.com — 54 points, 31 comments

69. Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

bbc.co.uk — 49 points, 48 comments

70. Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM

fleetingswallow.com — 48 points, 31 comments

71. It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk

paulkrugman.substack.com — 47 points, 28 comments

72. Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues

pushsquare.com — 47 points, 15 comments

73. 'Pure arrogance': anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250k trees

theguardian.com — 47 points, 6 comments

74. Iceye and Nokia partner with Ukraine to develop satcom capability

iceye.com — 46 points, 5 comments

75. Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023)

thestatedtruth.com — 44 points, 98 comments

76. Picasa Photo Viewer Rebuilt for Linux, Project Named Licasa

github.com — 44 points, 28 comments

77. Mapping the Northern Sky

maps.com — 44 points, 14 comments

78. United Airlines CEO Calls for National Wealth Tax

firstformoney.com — 42 points, 26 comments

79. SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home

fly.io — 41 points, 29 comments

80. I own a relatively new (2025) Samsung TV. I kept getting weirdly targeted ads

twitter.com — 41 points, 9 comments

81. Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to protect him from California wealth tax

theguardian.com — 40 points, 36 comments

82. In Rainbows

hitogata.neocities.org — 39 points, 10 comments

83. Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille key step towards biohybrid computing

frontiersin.org — 38 points, 54 comments

84. Important updates to AI use on Etsy

etsy.com — 37 points, 1 comment

85. Canadian Officers Don't Want to Serve in the U.S. Anymore

theatlantic.com — 36 points, 18 comments

86. Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2

apalrd.net — 34 points, 48 comments

87. Meta approves Class C structure, strikes deal to retain Zuckerberg in California

seekingalpha.com — 31 points, 17 comments

88. Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal

wsj.com — 30 points, 40 comments

89. Arc is being sunset on December 22, 2026

resources.arc.net — 29 points, 2 comments

90. Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window

github.com — 28 points, 12 comments

91. The Chalk and the Airplane

unintendedconsequenc.es — 27 points, 12 comments

92. Overview of the German AfD email leak

erik.gdn — 27 points, 9 comments

93. Portal Texas Used to 'Rubber Stamp' Data Centers Down After 404 Media Reporting

404media.co — 27 points, 1 comment

94. Oracle Security Alert Advisory – CVE-2026-91403 (eMudhra cert revocation)

oracle.com — 26 points, 3 comments

95. Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees

github.com — 25 points, 17 comments

96. Railway Major Outage

status.railway.com — 25 points, 7 comments

97. Offline FairPlay DRM Decryption

github.com — 25 points, 2 comments

98. What the PHP2Shell rumors got wrong, from inside the PHP security team

daubois.dev — 25 points, 2 comments

99. Rule 30: one black cell

wolframcollatzmahler.com — 24 points, 6 comments

100. 9/10 research papers disputing ultraprocessed food definition have industry ties

theexamination.org — 24 points, 4 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

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

safedep.io — 596 points, 201 comments

12. Claude Duet

claude.com — 568 points, 537 comments

13. The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck

techdirt.com — 539 points, 535 comments

14. DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

duckdb.org — 463 points, 63 comments

15. PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP

wiz.io — 455 points, 185 comments

https://www.php2shell.com/

16. GitLab critical patch release

docs.gitlab.com — 406 points, 94 comments

17. Rust Style Guide

google.github.io — 393 points, 256 comments

18. Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

scientificamerican.com — 351 points, 103 comments

19. Mistral Large 4

mistral.ai — 327 points, 105 comments

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

20. OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

openai.com — 326 points, 152 comments

21. The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

web.maths.unsw.edu.au — 315 points, 313 comments

22. Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

oligarchwatch.substack.com — 279 points, 440 comments

23. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out

php.net — 279 points, 2 comments

24. Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP

ncsc.nl — 275 points, 95 comments

25. Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

openai.com — 266 points, 185 comments

https://patchtheplanet.org/

26. Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash

theverge.com — 263 points, 235 comments

27. OpenAI CLI

github.com — 244 points, 111 comments

28. Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona

hirundo.io — 243 points, 118 comments

29. Meta hit with $25B penalty for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

nmdoj.gov — 207 points, 2 comments

30. Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes

practical.engineering — 204 points, 164 comments

31. Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

apnews.com — 203 points, 98 comments

32. Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc

judgments.fedcourt.gov.au — 193 points, 140 comments

33. Plex laid off the whole player team

forums.plex.tv — 169 points, 117 comments

34. Canary Tokens

canarytokens.org — 165 points, 23 comments

https://docs.canarytokens.org/guide/

35. The compiler was supposed to end programming too

hrih.si — 161 points, 207 comments

36. Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

openai.com — 160 points, 106 comments

37. Most advice is right for the person giving it

coached.com — 150 points, 148 comments

38. Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

blog.cloudflare.com — 134 points, 24 comments

39. New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic

oist.jp — 132 points, 66 comments

40. Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

bbc.com — 128 points, 26 comments

41. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals

uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev — 126 points, 39 comments

I've worked for a long time in the storage field during my career and ZFS is the piece of engineering I admire most in that space. I wanted a way to pay homage to it and to explore and better understand its internals. So I built Uberblok: a museum of ZFS. A deep dive into…

42. PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

aws.amazon.com — 118 points, 26 comments

43. Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

github.com — 114 points, 35 comments

Hey all, Kartik from Omnara ( https://omnara.com ) here. We're building an open-source API for running durable agents. You create an agent with an API call, and Omnara runs the agent loop, gives the agent sandboxes to run commands in, and handles secrets, permissions, and RBAC…

44. Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework

github.com — 105 points, 31 comments

45. Claude Duet

claude.com — 93 points, 13 comments

46. Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

claude.com — 91 points, 15 comments

47. Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

arstechnica.com — 87 points, 57 comments

48. What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose

wvez.org — 85 points, 54 comments

49. I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it

buford.bg — 81 points, 54 comments

Hi there. I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon. It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it…

50. I reverse engineered a board game

wuemeli.com — 81 points, 34 comments

51. I can't believe PowerShell is good

spacebar.news — 76 points, 92 comments

52. Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era

rustoffrails.org — 76 points, 76 comments

53. Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

1000awesomethings.com — 76 points, 52 comments

54. LayerFS: A filesystem for AI coding agents

layerfs.ai — 76 points, 48 comments

55. Potential third critical PHP CVE

elk.zone — 72 points, 17 comments

56. A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

aresluna.org — 72 points, 11 comments

57. Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

alterauth.com — 69 points, 60 comments

Hi HN! We’re Srikar and Kevan, founders of Alter – https://alterauth.com/ . We’re building access control for agents that can take actions on behalf of multiple users. If you’ve built an internal agent people use through Slack, you may have experienced this scenario: everyone…

58. Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

danielmangum.com — 69 points, 28 comments

59. The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

github.blog — 69 points, 20 comments

60. Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns

catlikecoding.com — 64 points, 2 comments

61. CDC Ignored Request from States to Validate a New Measles Test

nytimes.com — 63 points, 2 comments

62. How the CIA Gave Steve Jobs Top Secret Clearance and Helped Him Return to Apple

brianroemmele.substack.com — 63 points, 1 comment

63. 'I've applied for 300 jobs. My 25 years' experience is worthless'

telegraph.co.uk — 59 points, 116 comments

64. A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

e360.yale.edu — 57 points, 15 comments

65. After automation: Solo founding will be the default

every.to — 56 points, 63 comments

66. Someone Opened a CashApp in Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison

404media.co — 56 points, 10 comments

67. Texas data center boom could erase decades of progress on air quality

texastribune.org — 55 points, 30 comments

68. Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries

githubstatus.com — 55 points, 12 comments

69. Texas Continued Data Center Permitting After the Governor's Pause

fractracker.org — 54 points, 6 comments

70. AI agent fixed the bug, but what else did it change?

blog.trailofbits.com — 54 points, 6 comments

71. The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

arstechnica.com — 53 points, 12 comments

72. Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy

bbc.com — 53 points, 2 comments

73. Zac-OS-9: The classic Platinum desktop, reborn for modern PCs

sourceforge.net — 50 points, 37 comments

74. Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter

anthropic.com — 49 points, 63 comments

75. Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages

ardentperf.com — 45 points, 6 comments

76. Corporate Linux

lpar.ath0.com — 44 points, 25 comments

77. The iPhone Duo

daringfireball.net — 43 points, 8 comments

78. When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be?

graphsaboutreligion.com — 39 points, 62 comments

79. Chip Builder is a puzzle and strategy game that teaches you chip design

chipbuilder.org — 39 points, 14 comments

80. Israeli military conducts operation near Iran's border

axios.com — 39 points, 6 comments

81. Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)

en.wikipedia.org — 37 points, 2 comments

82. Κ = 0.003 for integer multiplication crossed

github.com — 36 points, 22 comments

83. The era of speedball capitalism

economist.com — 35 points, 18 comments

84. Hetzner object storage degraded for >1month

status.hetzner.com — 35 points, 4 comments

85. Recursive Introduces Flint Model

recursive.com — 33 points, 6 comments

86. Patch the Planet

patchtheplanet.org — 32 points, 6 comments

87. 25years of CrimeStoppers Tips to Police Leaked

cbc.ca — 32 points, 6 comments

88. Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer's source code during training

xingjianbai.com — 32 points, 3 comments

89. PHP2Shell

php2shell.com — 32 points, 2 comments

90. LLM agents play Pokemon showdown

olivergrabner.com — 31 points, 17 comments

91. Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare

bloomberg.com — 31 points, 6 comments

92. Pragtical v3.14 Lua-based text editor adds menus, floating views, and sessions

pragtical.dev — 31 points, 5 comments

93. Finland Buying a Million Landmines

yle.fi — 30 points, 46 comments

94. Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed

bloffy.co — 30 points, 26 comments

Hello. I built a blogging platform on my own over two years. I like running my blog, but I couldn't find a blogging platform I really liked. First. I thought a blog had to be really lightweight. Fortunately, after a lot of effort, I was able to achieve satisfactory results. (99…

95. Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

theverge.com — 30 points, 1 comment

96. gocryptfs: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

github.com — 30 points, 0 comments

97. Qpack amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers

foxio.io — 29 points, 3 comments

98. We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers

blog.sentry.io — 29 points, 0 comments

99. Getting Banned from r/java

sjhannah.com — 28 points, 86 comments

100. CleanFrame: A quieter home screen for Samsung The Frame

github.com — 28 points, 7 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. Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

mastodon.gamedev.place — 474 points, 409 comments

10. Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

blog.cloudflare.com — 435 points, 213 comments

11. PingCap TiDB Leaks

fulcrumsec.vg — 433 points, 74 comments

12. MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

github.com — 431 points, 132 comments

13. Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

prestonbyrne.com — 424 points, 455 comments

14. Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

arstechnica.com — 409 points, 180 comments

15. Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

neowin.net — 407 points, 209 comments

16. How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

kaba.cx — 407 points, 105 comments

17. AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

heistberlin.com — 390 points, 569 comments

18. Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

github.com — 380 points, 93 comments

19. The Real Kevin Bacon

pudding.cool — 377 points, 96 comments

20. Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

peec.ai — 371 points, 209 comments

21. Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

e360.yale.edu — 330 points, 199 comments

22. Bringing uv and ty together

astral.sh — 315 points, 127 comments

23. The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

thebeliever.net — 304 points, 258 comments

https://web.archive.org/web/20261020230542/https://www.thebe...
https://archive.ph/Tb1SZ

24. Tell HN: 2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming

304 points, 63 comments

A reliable source has indicated an announcement is scheduled for 22 October 2026 at 18:00 CEST regarding 2x PHP RCEs with a CVSS score of 10.0. I have no evidence beyond "source: trust me, bro", but if you're running PHP in production, be ready to update as a priority. These…

25. A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

danielball.com — 286 points, 94 comments

26. Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

krebsonsecurity.com — 270 points, 150 comments

27. Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

bbc.com — 270 points, 62 comments

28. Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

blogs.lse.ac.uk — 234 points, 158 comments

29. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

rumple.github.io — 227 points, 107 comments

30. My Friend Bob Cringely

tyma.com — 217 points, 56 comments

31. Good type against all odds

unsung.aresluna.org — 215 points, 24 comments

32. IKEA – 3D Guide

sael.net — 210 points, 68 comments

33. NixOS is making me less afraid

entropicthoughts.com — 202 points, 139 comments

34. 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

yoyo-code.com — 196 points, 121 comments

35. Anthropic logged net loss of over $80B in first half of 2026

reuters.com — 193 points, 102 comments

36. Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph

github.com — 188 points, 13 comments

Hi HN! Im Katriel, and im a Security Researcher/Enthusiast and in the wave of AI, i wanted to build that next gen of security tooling that surpasses the current tools, and even the paid industries with an open source engine. I built MailAccess as well, which is going to be the…

37. PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

jackalsyn.com — 187 points, 62 comments

38. Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest

ign.com — 185 points, 231 comments

39. C# now beats Rust on WASM size

github.com — 161 points, 109 comments

40. In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible

quantamagazine.org — 149 points, 84 comments

41. Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code

anthropic.com — 137 points, 91 comments

42. Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release

php.net — 137 points, 1 comment

43. Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

jamanetwork.com — 134 points, 121 comments

44. C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

martinfinkel.com — 134 points, 53 comments

45. I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

rootkitlabs.com — 131 points, 20 comments

46. Musk ordered Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine

wsj.com — 128 points, 55 comments

https://archive.ph/zwSeu

47. Why do we have so many meetings?

nber.org — 122 points, 174 comments

48. Color Names

names.color.pizza — 119 points, 34 comments

49. Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

anthropic.com — 117 points, 74 comments

50. Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe

electrek.co — 112 points, 67 comments

51. Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages

openai.com — 110 points, 104 comments

52. The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere

blog.coredump.cx — 102 points, 23 comments

53. Revolut down as users report app not working

bbc.com — 96 points, 89 comments

54. On AI writing

bolkunov.com — 96 points, 62 comments

55. Beyond the &

lwn.net — 96 points, 13 comments

56. Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

nmattia.com — 95 points, 49 comments

57. There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository

github.com — 92 points, 65 comments

58. Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

cambridge.org — 82 points, 48 comments

59. Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia

github.com — 82 points, 23 comments

60. Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

cam.ac.uk — 77 points, 16 comments

61. Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting

torrentfreak.com — 74 points, 18 comments

62. Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful

eff.org — 73 points, 25 comments

63. Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?

jevcards.com — 72 points, 54 comments

I built a quiz game around TypeSafe's new Jev model, which has vision capabilities. Jev looks at a picture and a question and picks an answer (or taps a place) in about a quarter of a second. I've always loved quiz games and thought this would be a fun way to see what it can do…

64. SCOTUS couldn't take up a copyright case because four justices have book deals

news.bloomberglaw.com — 71 points, 8 comments

65. UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules

foxandlion.pub — 68 points, 57 comments

66. Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark

science.org — 67 points, 149 comments

67. Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher

github.com — 66 points, 9 comments

68. How Corruption Got This Bad

theatlantic.com — 65 points, 25 comments

69. Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog

lukaswerner.com — 65 points, 16 comments

70. People sick of being spied on by their smart TV

theguardian.com — 64 points, 14 comments

71. Four Years with Decker

beyondloom.com — 63 points, 17 comments

72. Pillowfort Is Closing

pillowfort.social — 61 points, 39 comments

73. Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it

idiallo.com — 60 points, 52 comments

74. Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2

jepsen.io — 59 points, 3 comments

75. Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

53 points, 24 comments

Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan ( https://www.respan.ai ). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different providers, protocols (MCP, voice), modalities (images, videos), and gateway features (fallbacks…

76. Washing machines took decades to catch on

daily.jstor.org — 51 points, 73 comments

77. Why Is Israel Running TV Ads in Iowa Ahead of the Midterms?

zeteo.com — 51 points, 11 comments

78. How to Design Flowers

asimov.press — 51 points, 3 comments

79. The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

arstechnica.com — 51 points, 1 comment

80. Google's servers can scan what you copy in Chrome for unsafe content

neowin.net — 50 points, 7 comments

81. The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

engelsbergideas.com — 50 points, 6 comments

82. The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]

youtube.com — 49 points, 45 comments

83. DHS Claimed It Searched GrapheneOS Phone Wiper for Child Abuse Material. It Lied

404media.co — 49 points, 10 comments

84. Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026

research.poh.org — 49 points, 8 comments

85. Learning to live with Waymos

newyorker.com — 47 points, 85 comments

https://web.archive.org/web/20261015123002/https://www.newyo..., https://archive.li/fj7oR

86. Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net

chenglou.me — 45 points, 12 comments

87. Some Final Words on Foursquare

teendrama.substack.com — 45 points, 8 comments

88. Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made

newyorker.com — 44 points, 3 comments

89. New Skydance Worth Less Than Half of Warner Brothers, Paramount Combined

techdirt.com — 43 points, 11 comments

90. Anthropic recorded a staggering $80B net loss in the first half of 2026

twitter.com — 42 points, 19 comments

91. Show HN: AI-built browser games, collected in one place

playgroundarcade.com — 41 points, 5 comments

Hello, HN friends. I spent many happy IT lessons messing around on Newgrounds when I was a kid. And, to further age me - Rotten and Maddox! From that, I built my first site at about 12/13 with a friend - essentially, a cheat code site-turned emulator and ROMs mirror link…

92. Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser

github.com — 40 points, 29 comments

93. Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman

economist.com — 37 points, 61 comments

94. Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO's Bank Data in Public Slack

techdirt.com — 36 points, 15 comments

95. The phenomena that brighten dawn and dusk (2016)

colorado.edu — 36 points, 3 comments

96. Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide

oregonjournalismproject.org — 33 points, 54 comments

97. StreetComplete v64.0

github.com — 33 points, 6 comments

98. Data center stocks slide as Korea IPO plunges 30%, pressuring tech sentiment

cnbc.com — 32 points, 2 comments

99. GCP Europe-West2 Outage

31 points, 12 comments

Anyone else experiencing issues in europe-west2.
https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/europe#status-table

100. A Place Among the Fiddlers

longreads.com — 30 points, 4 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

11. OpenBSD 8.0

openbsd.org — 493 points, 159 comments

12. No more icons in every menu by default

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

13. What Is Gridifcation

musicalform.substack.com — 463 points, 222 comments

14. An ad-free Android TV

cretezy.com — 444 points, 199 comments

15. Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

nbcnews.com — 420 points, 341 comments

16. CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership

home.cern — 362 points, 61 comments

17. Android apps running native on macOS

github.com — 348 points, 195 comments

18. Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

spectrum.ieee.org — 346 points, 113 comments

19. Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

efe.com — 292 points, 198 comments

20. Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

josie.lol — 286 points, 142 comments

21. Code is clay now

albertodenia.com — 268 points, 175 comments

22. Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation

community.letsencrypt.org — 267 points, 104 comments

23. Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

inceptionlabs.ai — 257 points, 92 comments

24. How abliterated models can get you pwned

projectdiscovery.io — 256 points, 143 comments

25. France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

ipinfo.io — 244 points, 222 comments

Related: Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 - Oct 2026 (1007 comments)

26. The reverts will continue until morale improves

peter.eisentraut.org — 235 points, 48 comments

27. Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro

pagetable.com — 233 points, 100 comments

28. Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

politico.com — 229 points, 132 comments

29. Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked

hexane.cc — 226 points, 120 comments

30. Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

boredhackerblog.info — 221 points, 117 comments

31. The Decoherence Trap

maevyn.codes — 201 points, 93 comments

32. Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it

windowslatest.com — 190 points, 143 comments

33. OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

bsd.network — 182 points, 45 comments

34. Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share

reuters.com — 167 points, 171 comments

35. Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

githubstatus.com — 158 points, 134 comments

36. Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

100toolkit.com — 158 points, 113 comments

37. The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

wsj.com — 153 points, 147 comments

38. Dungeon generation in the Gnomish mines of NetHack

boristhebrave.com — 153 points, 20 comments

39. One Hash Bloom Filters

calabro.io — 152 points, 16 comments

40. Chain of Thought for Humans

boristhebrave.com — 144 points, 75 comments

41. Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

github.com — 139 points, 80 comments

42. Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

heymaxwell.ai — 136 points, 70 comments

Hi HN, I'm Gal from doubleAI. We've built Maxwell, a new kind of frontier model we call a Code Execution Model. It sits between your code and the hardware. No humans in the loop! Maxwell makes the code run faster as it runs, without ever changing a single line. Maxwell sees…

43. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

arstechnica.com — 136 points, 67 comments

44. Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body

github.com — 132 points, 66 comments

45. Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix

netflixtechblog.com — 131 points, 32 comments

46. Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

dri.es — 130 points, 129 comments

47. Agentic Monitoring

benjamincongdon.me — 122 points, 25 comments

48. Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier

dailymail.com — 122 points, 2 comments

49. Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

deathplanswitch.com — 111 points, 66 comments

Hi HN, I'm Peter Bishop and I've been working in graphics and web tech for over 25yrs. I've recently launched Death Plan Switch to solve a major problem in my succession plan. What if I go missing or die? The right people are told and my business can continue to operate for my…

50. Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster

engineering.fb.com — 91 points, 39 comments

51. What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?

nsidc.org — 89 points, 39 comments

52. Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing

github.com — 81 points, 19 comments

53. Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity

theatlantic.com — 75 points, 46 comments

54. The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

thedial.world — 75 points, 14 comments

55. Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models

blog.cloudflare.com — 75 points, 7 comments

56. Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?

tech.dirkjonker.nl — 74 points, 83 comments

57. ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike

spectrum.ieee.org — 73 points, 11 comments

58. A robot I didn't expect to build

spectrum.ieee.org — 72 points, 59 comments

59. Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight

eigenmoon.vercel.app — 71 points, 16 comments

60. C++ futures part 1: The mental model

devblogs.microsoft.com — 71 points, 16 comments

61. Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD

trial.medpath.com — 69 points, 82 comments

62. Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache

github.com — 69 points, 45 comments

Hi all, So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with Dragonfly…

63. Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

yle.fi — 69 points, 10 comments

64. U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor

staradvertiser.com — 68 points, 110 comments

65. The US orders every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it

madrobot.blog — 66 points, 2 comments

66. Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks

3anddoneapp.com — 61 points, 55 comments

I'm a software engineer from the east coast (who has lived in Boston, NY, the bay area, UK, France), and I built a task system called 3 & Done. It's the place you trust to store everything you need to do. It accepts voice input for rapid entry, as well as text (it stores the…

67. The End of Rationing

sanketsaurav.com — 60 points, 71 comments

68. A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

theverge.com — 60 points, 3 comments

69. Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces

59 points, 35 comments

Hi HN, we’re Robert and Din from Laminar ( https://laminar.sh ). We’ve been building open-source observability for AI agents since 2024. Recently, we released flow-1, a model trained with RL to find errors in agent traces. On our benchmark ( https://laminar.sh/blog/flow-1 ), it…

70. 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

washingtonpost.com — 52 points, 66 comments

71. Developing Taste

emilkowal.ski — 52 points, 51 comments

72. Speeding up code review with `small-change`

lethain.com — 50 points, 32 comments

73. Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast?

jbarrow.ai — 50 points, 5 comments

74. The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen

construction-physics.com — 49 points, 32 comments

75. One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991

matthorn.io — 49 points, 7 comments

76. AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

quantamagazine.org — 48 points, 14 comments

77. Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus

openrouter.ai — 45 points, 54 comments

78. Borrow Checking Zero-Cost Cyclic Mutability

antelang.org — 43 points, 4 comments

79. Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars

theatlantic.com — 42 points, 89 comments

80. America Is Now an Ally of Russia

theatlantic.com — 42 points, 21 comments

81. ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22

os2museum.com — 42 points, 10 comments

82. Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca

science.org — 41 points, 6 comments

83. People are using AI to make smart TVs, dumb TVs

techcrunch.com — 39 points, 3 comments

84. Diablo 2 Survivors

d2survivors.lol — 38 points, 20 comments

85. Show HN: RoadRash ported to Three.js to run in the browser

roadrash.pages.dev — 37 points, 13 comments

Road Rash was one of my favourite PC games growing up. I wanted to play it again, but the browser emulators I tried felt sluggish, so I decided to build a browser version using Three.js. This started mostly out of nostalgia. I wanted to be able to open a link and get back to…

86. AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots

tomshardware.com — 34 points, 79 comments

87. Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot

mbuffett.com — 34 points, 14 comments

88. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)

33 points, 14 comments

The 2020 thread does a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966 It shows 100 solutions in light of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Intense opinions and discussion. It teaches about alligator energy and how they can live without food for up to two years. It teaches that…

89. Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?

dovepass.com — 33 points, 10 comments

Dovepass answers one question for drone operators: given two points, can a drone legally fly between the two points? I build route planning for delivery drivers and wanted to check what it would look like if the vehicle flies. Drone navigation is different from land-based…

90. Writing is no longer proof of work

seangoedecke.com — 33 points, 9 comments

91. Raw Chicken, Malnutrition and Fear: Pregnancy in ICE Detention Camps

themarshallproject.org — 33 points, 7 comments

92. Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

norforge.com — 31 points, 9 comments

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used...
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/...

93. Japanese TV Station Interviews Americans About Their Love for Kei Trucks

thedrive.com — 30 points, 0 comments

94. Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Agency to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It

propublica.org — 29 points, 5 comments

95. Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages

jhiblog.org — 28 points, 8 comments

96. Show HN: Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces

rouler.io — 28 points, 7 comments

Hi HN, Rouler is "rules for your routes". It allows you to steer network traffic across multiple network interfaces on Windows. For example: - Run Tailscale, Mullvad and OpenVPN official clients simultaneously. - Use Rouler to send Slack via the OpenVPN connection, Chrome + an…

97. Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks)

stealthium.io — 28 points, 7 comments

98. What Russia's doing to Ukraine is 'fine,' Trump says

kyivindependent.com — 27 points, 9 comments

99. Federal judge rules Flock violated the fourth amendment

twitter.com — 27 points, 7 comments

100. My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle

lastwordonnothing.com — 27 points, 5 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. Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

funwithcomputervision.com — 308 points, 23 comments

9. If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

jrdsgl.com — 303 points, 220 comments

10. macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

developer.apple.com — 293 points, 334 comments

11. William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

colo.to — 288 points, 125 comments

12. Parser Combinators

t3.at — 257 points, 89 comments

13. Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

niemanlab.org — 232 points, 65 comments

14. Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

legendofhyrule.com — 231 points, 130 comments

I made this ahead of the Ocarina of Time remake which comes out in 17 days. I remember the feeling of playing it as a kid but I hadn’t kept up with the story so I built a timeline to catch up before the Door of Time reopens. Nintendo’s own timeline is the authority here (Hyrule…

15. Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

github.com — 222 points, 18 comments

16. Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

getlazarus.org — 208 points, 54 comments

17. Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

hoaspy.com — 203 points, 407 comments

18. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)

artificialanalysis.ai — 190 points, 96 comments

19. Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

neilmadden.blog — 189 points, 151 comments

20. Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling

crystl.dev — 174 points, 128 comments

21. Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

tomshardware.com — 172 points, 167 comments

22. How employment is changing at Anthropic

anthropic.com — 164 points, 258 comments

23. Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

theverge.com — 159 points, 149 comments

24. PalmOS Lemmings

github.com — 159 points, 36 comments

25. Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

github.com — 157 points, 85 comments

I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on. I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare and with my personal WhatsApp account, so I built this…

26. Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

contextfirst.blog — 157 points, 79 comments

27. Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

terrytao.wordpress.com — 150 points, 171 comments

28. How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

csis.org — 143 points, 256 comments

29. Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional

404media.co — 136 points, 81 comments

30. A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

verdagon.dev — 132 points, 20 comments

31. JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

science.org — 131 points, 32 comments

32. ZX Spectrum Next Laptop

dorchester3d.com — 131 points, 29 comments

33. Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

simpleflying.com — 128 points, 108 comments

34. The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

righto.com — 128 points, 35 comments

35. Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

thedrive.com — 121 points, 148 comments

36. Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)

nature.com — 120 points, 4 comments

37. Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action

hbsslaw.com — 114 points, 71 comments

38. How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

vals.ai — 108 points, 126 comments

39. Personal software factories are a waste of time

peterp.me — 108 points, 99 comments

40. 'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

flatwaterfreepress.org — 105 points, 65 comments

41. Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm

theatlantic.com — 105 points, 43 comments

42. The Brain Sandwich

terriblesoftware.org — 100 points, 63 comments

43. US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions

ft.com — 96 points, 146 comments

https://archive.is/9GrWd

44. British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

liveandletsfly.com — 95 points, 164 comments

45. A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one

wsj.com — 95 points, 93 comments

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/labor-market-freeze-ph...

46. Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam

store.steampowered.com — 88 points, 10 comments

47. Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]

youtube.com — 87 points, 12 comments

48. The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)

vt100.net — 84 points, 6 comments

49. What the heck is /pkg?

anderegg.ca — 80 points, 18 comments

50. The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return

sparcopen.org — 76 points, 32 comments

51. Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

mitos.computer — 75 points, 66 comments

52. Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents

vice.com — 74 points, 115 comments

53. To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models

pncnmnp.github.io — 74 points, 3 comments

54. Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023)

oro.gay — 69 points, 63 comments

55. Investing in the public benefit

anthropic.com — 58 points, 47 comments

56. OpenCode has a security breach last that impacted 1.4% of console users

twitter.com — 55 points, 28 comments

57. VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver

github.com — 54 points, 13 comments

58. Composite objects and C++26 the std:polymorphic type

mariusbancila.ro — 48 points, 33 comments

59. Are we sleepwalking into World War III?

ft.com — 47 points, 67 comments

60. Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

ranet3.com — 40 points, 14 comments

btw this is already running on all my machines (including a macbook), and i've configured all of them to have routable public ip addresses ;) especially for the mac, my ISP is SFR (over coaxial connection) with only dynamic ipv4, i can use this to get stable v4/v6 addresses very…

61. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve

technologyreview.com — 38 points, 90 comments

62. The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)

thing.net — 38 points, 10 comments

63. CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks

forbes.com — 34 points, 26 comments

64. US Global Entry revoked for importing $12 of ESP32 boards

reddit.com — 33 points, 2 comments

65. Integer to String Conversion (2014)

tia.mat.br — 32 points, 0 comments

66. Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM

vllm.ai — 31 points, 0 comments

67. Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation

samyeyo.github.io — 30 points, 21 comments

68. How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill

thebignewsletter.com — 30 points, 14 comments

69. Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion

github.com — 26 points, 8 comments

70. Russia and US are discussing joint deals including on data centres

reuters.com — 26 points, 2 comments

71. America's $10T AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray

ft.com — 24 points, 3 comments

72. Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally

github.com — 23 points, 14 comments

73. Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994

sanitys-edge.shouden.us — 23 points, 1 comment

74. US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"

arstechnica.com — 20 points, 7 comments

75. UI-Te-Rangiora

en.wikipedia.org — 20 points, 2 comments

76. It's time to talk about TEEs

alinush.github.io — 19 points, 6 comments

77. Men in tech #YesAllMen – EMF 2026 [video]

youtube.com — 19 points, 3 comments

78. A page looks innocent: the algorithms behind a typeset page

news.speedata.de — 19 points, 2 comments

79. Campus deplatformings hit record high

expression.fire.org — 18 points, 59 comments

80. Data Centers Are Turning Trump Voters into Democrats

economist.com — 18 points, 13 comments

81. World Bank says 'small AI' could transform developing countries

theguardian.com — 18 points, 2 comments

82. A 'ludicrously ugly' bridge is Exhibit A that Britain has lost its mojo

wsj.com — 17 points, 26 comments

83. Netflix Lays Off About 6% of Staff in Biggest Job Cuts Since 2022

wsj.com — 17 points, 4 comments

84. Torvalds use Claude for bottleneck fix, but race discovered

thenewstack.io — 17 points, 1 comment

85. Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?

contextetech.com — 16 points, 18 comments

86. Agent-Skills.market

agent-skills.market — 16 points, 10 comments

87. How RC2's π table was made

khalidhamadeh.com — 16 points, 2 comments

88. The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants ("What's your phone number?")

theatlantic.com — 15 points, 24 comments

89. Show HN: CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time

github.com — 15 points, 11 comments

Anyone else get a lot of dumb scam calls? These days I mostly get them on my mobile. I used to just ignore them, but then I got fed up and built a bot that answers my calls and wastes their time. It runs on OpenAI Live 1. Jev classifies each call as spam, scam or genuine and…

90. 'I'm on a War Footing': Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math

nytimes.com — 15 points, 6 comments

https://archive.ph/bid95

91. Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux

github.com — 15 points, 5 comments

92. France's Appetite for 'Magic Money' Has Turned into a Debt Bomb

wsj.com — 15 points, 4 comments

93. Dutch cloud services concerned after U.S. request leads to Amsterdam server seiz

nltimes.nl — 15 points, 2 comments

94. Astronomers discover the first ever green star

space.com — 15 points, 2 comments

95. Letter to Anthropic Re: Planned Initial Public Offering

comptroller.nyc.gov — 15 points, 1 comment

96. Texas Has Been Considering Selling a Beloved State Park to Elon Musk's SpaceX

texasmonthly.com — 15 points, 0 comments

97. Trump waives Russia-related sanctions before they even kick in

cnn.com — 15 points, 0 comments

98. Constructors Shouldn't Throw

t3.at — 14 points, 28 comments

99. Letter to Anthropic Re: Planned Initial Public Offering

comptroller.nyc.gov — 14 points, 1 comment

100. One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

quentinkaiser.be — 14 points, 0 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

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

readtheprofile.com — 412 points, 597 comments

12. Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com — 353 points, 87 comments

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

sciencealert.com — 348 points, 221 comments

14. MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

engadget.com — 338 points, 50 comments

15. I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

blog.picheta.me — 284 points, 218 comments

16. Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app — 253 points, 89 comments

FOSS, Basically it plugs into your existing coding agent workflow and every time you push to prod it'll throw up a questionnaire that checks if you understand how the code you're pushing works.

17. RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

youtube.com — 250 points, 83 comments

Related: https://github.com/LostCityRS/Server

18. I Became a Citizen of Japan

derekwessman.com — 234 points, 182 comments

19. Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

github.com — 212 points, 50 comments

Hi HN, I’ve been working on esp32sim, an open-source ESP32 emulator that runs in the browser. The fun part of the demo is that there is no ESP32 involved — the firmware is executing in the emulator. The goal is to make ESP32 software easier to experiment with, test and simulate…

20. US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion

finance.yahoo.com — 208 points, 203 comments

21. GLP-1 may slow biological aging

universityofcalifornia.edu — 187 points, 194 comments

22. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

celphase.github.io — 180 points, 48 comments

23. Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

github.com — 176 points, 89 comments

24. Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses

opendemocracy.net — 173 points, 61 comments

25. Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

k.sosnierz.me — 171 points, 33 comments

26. The fire retardant in the seafood chain

insideclimatenews.org — 154 points, 51 comments

27. Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor

lemonde.fr — 154 points, 21 comments

28. Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death

phys.org — 142 points, 142 comments

29. Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

lwn.net — 141 points, 116 comments

30. JDK 28

openjdk.org — 136 points, 91 comments

31. Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)

webmasters.stackexchange.com — 133 points, 105 comments

32. A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)

propublica.org — 132 points, 29 comments

33. OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents

fortune.com — 131 points, 163 comments

34. Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not

doctor-seo.net — 122 points, 162 comments

35. Microsoft Teams is a red flag

blog.raed.dev — 110 points, 76 comments

36. Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't

quantamagazine.org — 105 points, 94 comments

37. Super Intelligence

si.gov — 104 points, 185 comments

38. Why Math Dumped OpenAI

raymyers.org — 92 points, 14 comments

39. Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

cs.uaf.edu — 90 points, 17 comments

40. The future of programming (1982)

dl.acm.org — 82 points, 18 comments

41. Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser

lpviz.net — 77 points, 12 comments

42. Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]

youtube.com — 76 points, 6 comments

43. Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5

tkgally.github.io — 75 points, 32 comments

Lately I've been testing frontier models by having them create self-contained web pages that display clocks--sort of my personal version of Simon Willison’s pelican-on-a-bicycle metric. I have been particularly impressed by the variety, interest, and quality of the clocks…

44. The ovary doesn't retire after menopause

news.northwestern.edu — 75 points, 13 comments

45. Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

phillyvoice.com — 74 points, 145 comments

46. How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

quantamagazine.org — 74 points, 13 comments

47. Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers

cs.cmu.edu — 73 points, 92 comments

48. Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank

ft.com — 72 points, 14 comments

49. A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

theguardian.com — 69 points, 27 comments

50. "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands

nos.nl — 57 points, 106 comments

51. Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

pluralistic.net — 56 points, 11 comments

52. The math that OpenAI keeps for itself

newsletter.danielpaleka.com — 54 points, 19 comments

53. Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning

blog.scottstevenson.net — 53 points, 39 comments

54. Porting video games to VHS

gardinerbryant.com — 52 points, 35 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcgEQVsysYM

55. Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript

github.com — 50 points, 53 comments

56. When No ID Means No Internet

eff.org — 50 points, 22 comments

57. TikTok bans Musk documentary account

theverge.com — 48 points, 3 comments

58. Developing for Debugging (2025)

davepacheco.net — 47 points, 0 comments

59. Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity

eli.thegreenplace.net — 45 points, 10 comments

60. Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving

economist.com — 43 points, 7 comments

61. The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

knowledge.edge-online.com — 40 points, 83 comments

62. OpenPrinter

crowdsupply.com — 38 points, 8 comments

63. 800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living

cbc.ca — 37 points, 61 comments

64. Zelensky says Musk-owned satellite system still restricted in Ukraine

axios.com — 34 points, 8 comments

65. Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)

twitter.com — 30 points, 12 comments

66. TikTok "Permanently Suspends" the 'Musk' Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears

hollywoodreporter.com — 29 points, 3 comments

67. August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more

servo.org — 29 points, 0 comments

68. AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?

mihaisplace.com — 28 points, 77 comments

69. Israel makes propaganda video featuring AI generated IAMDDB without her consent

twitter.com — 28 points, 2 comments

70. Tesla Roadster: It Flies, Flips, and Hits 0-60 in 0.81s

notateslaapp.com — 26 points, 1 comment

71. US annual budget gap hits nearly $2T, largest in 5 years

reuters.com — 25 points, 25 comments

72. I'm Fucking Done with Slop

m0yng.uk — 24 points, 27 comments

73. JetBrains Junie Local: An agent you own, not one you rent

junie.jetbrains.com — 24 points, 12 comments

74. University of Leicester to make redundant all pure math professors (2021)

reddit.com — 24 points, 2 comments

75. Brutal, the framework behind RimWorld's Waylith engine, releases its source code

gamingonlinux.com — 24 points, 1 comment

76. Tesla Roadster

x.com — 23 points, 29 comments

77. Beyond the Glass

longreads.com — 23 points, 3 comments

78. Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84% After Strikes on Yandex Data Centers

cpd.gov.ua — 23 points, 0 comments

79. Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?

22 points, 18 comments

So, my boss goes on a rampage. You can clearly see the joy and at the same time the rage and impatience. AI is the tool he always wanted. We are too slow. Process is out of the window. No need for sprints anymore. No planning, just doing. All people downstream must somehow…

80. Abolish AI Manifesto

abolish-ai.net — 21 points, 13 comments

81. AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs to train AI robots

tomshardware.com — 21 points, 12 comments

82. Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing

nytimes.com — 21 points, 4 comments

83. Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

oldvcr.blogspot.com — 21 points, 1 comment

84. Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects

petapixel.com — 20 points, 10 comments

85. TikTok bans Musk film account

avclub.com — 20 points, 2 comments

86. Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia from Sanctions Law

nytimes.com — 20 points, 0 comments

87. Espresso machine can run Doom

gamespot.com — 19 points, 7 comments

88. Will MOOCs Destroy Academia? (2012)

cacm.acm.org — 19 points, 7 comments

89. Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia from Sanctions Law

nytimes.com — 19 points, 3 comments

90. Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

wired.com — 19 points, 3 comments

91. Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

huggingface.co — 19 points, 2 comments

92. The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, via the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her

nytimes.com — 19 points, 1 comment

https://archive.is/aKGff

93. German police launch investigation after robot allegedly gropes teenage girl

cnn.com — 19 points, 1 comment

94. 'The Odyssey' Was Shot on Real Film. This Is the Only Place Left Making It.

nytimes.com — 19 points, 1 comment

95. Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine

bsky.app — 18 points, 7 comments

96. Trump Bought $5M in SpaceX Debt Two Days Before Space Transport Executive Order

techdirt.com — 18 points, 2 comments

97. The Decoherence Trap: When AI drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise

maevyn.codes — 18 points, 2 comments

98. Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop

github.com — 17 points, 26 comments

btop is beautiful. But on my M-series Mac it can't tell me the one thing I actually want to know: what is the chip doing? No watts, no GPU, no per-core clocks. So I built siltop: btop's calm, with eyes on the silicon. Real power, clocks and temps straight from the SMC and…

99. Are we sleepwalking into World War III?

ft.com — 17 points, 19 comments

100. FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005)

uk.pcmag.com — 17 points, 10 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. I love software rendering

jamesfmackenzie.com — 386 points, 236 comments

7. Butlerian Jihad

dune.fandom.com — 380 points, 275 comments

8. Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

github.com — 375 points, 89 comments

9. Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

machinelearning.apple.com — 365 points, 213 comments

10. Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

smithsonianmag.com — 357 points, 92 comments

11. JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

jakearchibald.com — 332 points, 216 comments

12. Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

llmspeed.dev — 331 points, 86 comments

13. Waymo in Toronto

waymo.com — 330 points, 450 comments

14. Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

ft.com — 302 points, 89 comments

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-s...

15. eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

arrl.org — 281 points, 265 comments

16. Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

starskirmish.com — 254 points, 111 comments

I've refreshed StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft BW by writing code, with results from the flagship models of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Muse

17. I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

github.com — 251 points, 236 comments

18. US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

ritchietorres.house.gov — 242 points, 141 comments

19. Source code of the Estonian online voting system

github.com — 234 points, 230 comments

20. "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

nytimes.com — 230 points, 541 comments

https://archive.ph/bid95

21. Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

theregister.com — 227 points, 93 comments

22. FLUX 3 Image Klein

bfl.ai — 213 points, 59 comments

23. Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low

news.gallup.com — 206 points, 217 comments

24. Lean now ships with verified kernels

leodemoura.github.io — 204 points, 81 comments

25. Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

calif.io — 196 points, 69 comments

26. /dev/null: social network for developers

dev-null.sh — 186 points, 170 comments

27. Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

teal-language.org — 184 points, 73 comments

28. Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

anthropic.com — 174 points, 39 comments

29. What on Earth Is Dekton?

worksinprogress.news — 172 points, 60 comments

30. Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

frozenfractal.com — 162 points, 20 comments

31. Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank

theguardian.com — 161 points, 54 comments

32. My old job feels distant now

pinecoder.dev — 152 points, 130 comments

33. A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)

blog.davidv.dev — 146 points, 84 comments

34. Archive of Our Own

archiveofourown.org — 135 points, 30 comments

35. The DNS Museum

dns.museum — 135 points, 19 comments

36. Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination

equator.org — 131 points, 130 comments

37. What was a Token Ring network?

dfarq.homeip.net — 130 points, 99 comments

38. Nine-Inch Snails

theatlantic.com — 125 points, 69 comments

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-sn...
https://archive.ph/5a0TV

39. Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland

engelsbergideas.com — 123 points, 38 comments

40. RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

anuragbhatia.com — 118 points, 85 comments

41. C++26: The New Debugging Header

sandordargo.com — 114 points, 28 comments

42. One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

quentinkaiser.be — 103 points, 30 comments

43. Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program

readergrev.com — 100 points, 62 comments

44. How to Formalize All of Mathematics

xenaproject.wordpress.com — 98 points, 87 comments

45. Regex visualized as 3D marble run

regexmarblerun.com — 97 points, 38 comments

46. A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

adepts.of0x.cc — 95 points, 7 comments

47. Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug

91 points, 36 comments

I am a LegalTech Attorney leading a developer team from Costa Rica. While trying to load credits onto my Anthropic API account (claude.com), I experienced a critical internationalization (i18n) and UX failure that has placed an unfair financial burden on me due to a severe…

48. GifCities

gifcities.org — 88 points, 15 comments

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/21111409457059637...

49. Credit where credit is due

thefloatingcontinent.com — 86 points, 60 comments

50. Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election

reuters.com — 80 points, 15 comments

51. The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

softpanorama.org — 78 points, 29 comments

52. Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang

github.com — 76 points, 19 comments

53. There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

nytimes.com — 74 points, 27 comments

54. Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

foxbusiness.com — 70 points, 6 comments

55. The insider trading you're allowed to do

coached.com — 69 points, 62 comments

56. Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated

mashable.com — 69 points, 12 comments

57. Tesla unveils 'flying' Roadster with SpaceX thrusters [video]

youtube.com — 63 points, 2 comments

58. The Fatal Flaw of 911

themarshallproject.org — 62 points, 88 comments

59. Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

rstation.ai — 60 points, 19 comments

60. Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency

neuralwatt.com — 58 points, 27 comments

61. How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com — 58 points, 27 comments

62. Show HN: Things to Do API

thingstodoapi.com — 57 points, 32 comments

I built an api/mcp for local events: pop-ups, one-off events, concerts, etc. currently covering the SF bay area. I've been building a bunch of consumer apps lately around personalization and recommendation and have had a hard time finding this data in one spot. agents can find…

63. Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

wired.com — 56 points, 0 comments

64. The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

words.filippo.io — 53 points, 9 comments

65. Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

telegraph.co.uk — 52 points, 21 comments

66. Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens

blog.bityard.net — 52 points, 13 comments

67. "In every study that considered the question"

unsung.aresluna.org — 50 points, 29 comments

68. The First Candid

newyorker.com — 50 points, 13 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...
https://web.archive.org/web/20261012120105/https://www.newyo..., https://archive.is/GC1u4

69. Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities

nltimes.nl — 50 points, 3 comments

70. Gnome OS Preview

lwn.net — 47 points, 21 comments

71. Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist

fakeipedia.org — 46 points, 25 comments

Hi HN! Fakeipedia is an automatic world-building platform which takes an imagined world and makes a whole wiki that you can endlessly explore by clicking red links. I came up with this idea a few months ago after playing around with worldbuilding in Gemini, but I didn't want to…

72. "Traditional, but Puzzling"

unsung.aresluna.org — 45 points, 7 comments

73. Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator

purplesyringa.moe — 44 points, 13 comments

74. Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

sciencefocus.com — 43 points, 129 comments

75. Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2

techpowerup.com — 42 points, 9 comments

76. Geoffrey Hinton: 'We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to choose humans'

theguardian.com — 41 points, 21 comments

77. Self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS

dataswamp.org — 40 points, 10 comments

78. Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support by default

firefox.com — 40 points, 3 comments

79. Fruits and Vegetables 50% Less Nutritious Than in the 1960s

independent.co.uk — 39 points, 18 comments

80. The plight of the public potty

thebaffler.com — 38 points, 110 comments

81. iPhone Duo sells out now backordered until next year

9to5mac.com — 37 points, 21 comments

82. $137M in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms

nytimes.com — 36 points, 3 comments

83. Here's What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like

404media.co — 36 points, 1 comment

84. I sold all my SP500 yesterday morning

twitter.com — 35 points, 44 comments

85. Why I Still Shun Passkeys

lapcatsoftware.com — 35 points, 3 comments

86. Show HN: Stoke Money – Personal finance app built around a cash flow forecast

stoke.money — 33 points, 24 comments

Hi HN, I've been through many finance tracking apps, starting with Personal Capital, then Monarch, and most recently Copilot. None of them have worked perfectly for my needs. All of these apps tend to model “cash flow” as the net sum of your transactions during a month, yet…

87. Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic

simonwillison.net — 31 points, 41 comments

88. Signal says minister's changes to bill will not persuade it to stay in Canada

theglobeandmail.com — 30 points, 0 comments

89. Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS

onedeploy.co — 29 points, 12 comments

90. Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015)

themarysue.com — 29 points, 11 comments

91. Brax Wink. The most private mobile phone. Modular. Open source

braxtech.net — 28 points, 22 comments

92. Accenture Tells Employees to Spend Only $29 on Claude per Month

404media.co — 28 points, 13 comments

93. We don't want decentralized systems, we want small ones

en.andros.dev — 28 points, 12 comments

94. Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM

theverge.com — 27 points, 31 comments

95. What changes when your search index lives on S3?

infino.ai — 27 points, 13 comments

96. Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say

reuters.com — 27 points, 3 comments

97. Mark Zuckerberg versus the Pint of Guinness

wsj.com — 27 points, 1 comment

98. The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

cr.yp.to — 27 points, 0 comments

99. It Ain't AGI Until H100s Go for $30 an Hour

corbt.com — 26 points, 8 comments

100. Dexcom forces ToS\Privacy Policy acceptance to see glucose levels

reddit.com — 26 points, 4 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. 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...

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

niemanlab.org — 469 points, 170 comments

10. Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

thereallo.dev — 428 points, 212 comments

11. Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

furifont.antfu.me — 409 points, 83 comments

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

support.withings.com — 406 points, 293 comments

13. I know why the mathematicians weep

derekthompson.org — 400 points, 676 comments

14. Ultramarine 1 Flash

paperinstruments.com — 382 points, 110 comments

https://www.paperinstruments.com/blog/ultramarine
https://twitter.com/bertgodel/status/2110400987622265232

15. Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

krea.ai — 353 points, 108 comments

Hello HN, This is Diego from Krea. Today we are announcing the open beta of Krea 3, our newest foundational image model. In a nutshell, it’s a frontier image model in terms of quality, but at a fraction of the speed and a fraction of the price. We will be releasing a more…

16. Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

respawnfirst.com — 350 points, 361 comments

17. Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

unfenced.land — 319 points, 201 comments

18. Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

fortran-lang.org — 314 points, 164 comments

19. Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

libreboot.org — 313 points, 201 comments

20. SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

github.com — 309 points, 122 comments

Quick update here since a lot of folks asked about what slopcodebench is / where it fits in Slop code bench is unique among benchmarks in that it makes a model work against a progressively disclosed list of features (checkpoints) that it doesn’t know it advance, inheriting the…

21. Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

github.com — 275 points, 76 comments

22. BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

bipm.org — 272 points, 141 comments

23. Why We're Banning AI

currentaffairs.org — 261 points, 203 comments

24. Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

blogs.gnome.org — 258 points, 257 comments

25. More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

sunshowers.io — 257 points, 91 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 (996 comments)
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 (149 comments)

26. I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

snoutcover.com — 253 points, 124 comments

27. An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads

theverge.com — 250 points, 13 comments

28. Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

simonsfoundation.org — 249 points, 201 comments

29. The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

github.com — 238 points, 33 comments

30. RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

ipinfo.io — 231 points, 112 comments

31. The Folders Programming Language

danieltemkin.com — 218 points, 38 comments

32. Why are we even doing all this?

terrytao.wordpress.com — 206 points, 164 comments

33. Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

maddox.pro — 204 points, 110 comments

34. E Ink Kaleido 4

eink.com — 190 points, 124 comments

https://web.archive.org/web/20261015180401/https://www.eink....

35. C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

cppstories.com — 151 points, 188 comments

36. How to Train Your Robot

construction-physics.com — 141 points, 47 comments

37. Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

lf-lang.org — 134 points, 42 comments

38. Siri is so bad at everything

reddit.com — 132 points, 107 comments

39. Thank You, Deno

vlt.io — 131 points, 33 comments

40. AI was great until it was not

thetheorygirlie.substack.com — 124 points, 78 comments

41. Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

proa.so — 107 points, 36 comments

Video: https://youtu.be/-CfCyvIKYyo?si=hCLuStkXxanCUJD1
Video on multi-target rendering: https://youtu.be/pJx84jdBDKU?si=HRRd6dgUWXiqeWhq
Benchmarks: https://github.com/Proa-Labs/proa-benchmarks

42. Israeli Firms Placed Spyware at Al Jazeera via Ads, Report Says

bloomberg.com — 103 points, 3 comments

43. Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

signalscorps.com — 96 points, 17 comments

44. BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox

github.com — 94 points, 34 comments

45. Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

lwn.net — 93 points, 32 comments

46. Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

youtube.com — 90 points, 53 comments

47. We are entering a period of overlapping crises

hamishcampbell.com — 89 points, 103 comments

48. Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

lwn.net — 89 points, 80 comments

49. How gyroscopes got so small [video]

youtube.com — 87 points, 42 comments

50. Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom

reuters.com — 75 points, 92 comments

51. ICE's Lies About a Man Officer Ran over Undone by Footage from CCTV Camera

techdirt.com — 75 points, 11 comments

52. We still use paper

humanpro.co — 73 points, 81 comments

53. Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

lists.ubuntu.com — 72 points, 113 comments

54. Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date

research.meta.ai — 72 points, 1 comment

55. Tesla makes cars that fly? [video]

youtube.com — 69 points, 2 comments

56. Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans

reuters.com — 68 points, 21 comments

57. X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

theregister.com — 67 points, 106 comments

58. Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition (2025)

courk.cc — 66 points, 18 comments

59. Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

nltimes.nl — 65 points, 22 comments

60. Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

6abc.com — 64 points, 65 comments

61. Fun Extending the C Preprocessor

davidpriver.com — 55 points, 41 comments

62. GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

github.com — 52 points, 27 comments

63. Microplastics in water aren't inert and make damaging chemicals on their own

arstechnica.com — 49 points, 1 comment

64. The cost of getting a job today

weli.dev — 48 points, 66 comments

65. Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

sygal.app — 46 points, 16 comments

66. Frontier Pre-Training at Microsoft AI

microsoft.ai — 46 points, 5 comments

67. Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project

docs.openrewrite.org — 43 points, 18 comments

68. ChatGPT Targets Ads to You Based on Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email

404media.co — 42 points, 7 comments

69. Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI

boldagents.co — 39 points, 54 comments

70. Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM

domstol.fe1.tangora.com — 38 points, 68 comments

71. Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster

nytimes.com — 38 points, 20 comments

72. BBC licence fee to be extended with 'YouTube tax' to force more to pay

independent.co.uk — 37 points, 48 comments

73. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

brooker.co.za — 37 points, 1 comment

74. Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)

apple.com — 36 points, 73 comments

75. I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn't Notice

openstation.blog — 35 points, 17 comments

76. SpaceX activated 100mph speed-limit restriction on Starlink terminals in Ukraine

bsky.app — 35 points, 16 comments

77. NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

theregister.com — 34 points, 13 comments

78. Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle

semafor.com — 33 points, 24 comments

79. Anthropic revenue jumps to $16.8B in third quarter

ft.com — 33 points, 22 comments

80. Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize and deport congresswoman

washingtonexaminer.com — 33 points, 12 comments

81. Paying the Price for Trusting the USA

phillipspobrien.substack.com — 33 points, 8 comments

82. Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

ibiblio.org — 33 points, 8 comments

83. Meta is meddling with Brazilian democracy

paydayreport.com — 33 points, 6 comments

84. Show HN: Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript

book.humanexperiences.io — 33 points, 3 comments

I wanted to understand transformers at a level where nothing is magic, so I'm building a ChatGPT-style model from first principles in TypeScript. Why not Python? I've found that reimplementing concepts in a different language forces me to grasp the nuance of the implementation…

85. Netflix is laying off roughly 6% of its workforce

cnbc.com — 32 points, 9 comments

86. Porsche Mission S

porsche.com — 31 points, 59 comments

87. Why are chip companies allergic to open source?

zeroasic.com — 31 points, 12 comments

88. How Postgres DELETE can actually scale

dbos.dev — 30 points, 34 comments

89. Why are all these data companies buying internal data?

apnews.com — 30 points, 15 comments

90. How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models

felixrieseberg.com — 30 points, 6 comments

91. Shit Flow Diagram

en.wikipedia.org — 30 points, 5 comments

92. Greece drafts law requiring data centers source 60% of power from renewables

datacenterdynamics.com — 30 points, 4 comments

93. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

brooker.co.za — 30 points, 2 comments

94. Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents

github.com — 29 points, 22 comments

95. Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play

simonwillison.net — 29 points, 16 comments

96. Microsoft Defender now supports Linux desktops

neowin.net — 29 points, 16 comments

97. OpenAI claims employee sent secret device information to Apple

ft.com — 29 points, 13 comments

98. 2026 State of the Climate Report

eos.org — 29 points, 10 comments

99. Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing

blog.google — 29 points, 9 comments

100. A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]

math.pku.edu.cn — 29 points, 5 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

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

androidauthority.com — 529 points, 151 comments

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

github.com — 510 points, 255 comments

13. Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

sunshowers.io — 431 points, 162 comments

14. Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

alexwennerberg.com — 427 points, 478 comments

15. Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

dpa-international.com — 391 points, 311 comments

16. Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

startupfortune.com — 386 points, 277 comments

17. We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

typesafe.ai — 335 points, 122 comments

18. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

go.dev — 304 points, 47 comments

19. Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

blog.cloudflare.com — 290 points, 118 comments

20. LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

liquid.ai — 288 points, 81 comments

21. Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors

admin.ch — 242 points, 147 comments

22. Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

petal.live — 228 points, 41 comments

Hi HN! I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open source pair programming tool inspired by…

23. Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

github.com — 213 points, 53 comments

24. I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

eddieabbondanz.io — 196 points, 66 comments

25. America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it

lawfaremedia.org — 194 points, 123 comments

26. Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

philzimmermann.com — 189 points, 74 comments

27. Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request

nrc.nl — 181 points, 207 comments

28. Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones

defence24.com — 180 points, 184 comments

29. Submarine cable resilience

blog.apnic.net — 175 points, 80 comments

30. ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

reuters.com — 174 points, 173 comments

31. How the Military Will Hack the Election

kenklippenstein.com — 169 points, 83 comments

32. The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

michelecoscia.com — 167 points, 42 comments

33. Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain

166 points, 118 comments

If you have a third.level.name domain, it'll get permanently expunged next year. Have you successfully taken steps to migrate away? Did you move to a standard .com domain, or are you taking your chances with another .tld? Personally, I'm stuck in Microsoft hell because Azure…

34. Why do LLM pelicans look like this?

arcfu.com — 165 points, 143 comments

35. An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling

cjr.org — 160 points, 128 comments

36. TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

swedenherald.com — 156 points, 88 comments

37. Fancy Curl Sites

nytpu.com — 152 points, 31 comments

38. Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack

oxide.computer — 149 points, 17 comments

39. Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

github.com — 148 points, 73 comments

This is a project that spun from my frustrations of using LocalSend and DashBeam to transfer stuff between devices, and with the extra goal of being fast, trying out the Slint framework and, most importantly, establishing a communication channel with trusted external people that…

40. AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

github.com — 147 points, 54 comments

41. Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI

mastodon.social — 146 points, 175 comments

42. Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

extremetech.com — 146 points, 117 comments

43. An Apology

elevationlab.com — 139 points, 152 comments

44. Has AI tells

theconsensus.dev — 137 points, 123 comments

45. SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

iwm.org.uk — 137 points, 50 comments

46. The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

theautopian.com — 136 points, 64 comments

47. Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive

morewrong.lol — 131 points, 31 comments

48. Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

zetter-zeroday.com — 130 points, 159 comments

49. Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)

sive.rs — 129 points, 161 comments

50. Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

lwn.net — 125 points, 112 comments

51. Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

thunk.blog — 116 points, 88 comments

52. Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

clova.email — 115 points, 102 comments

Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account…

53. Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart

hub.jhu.edu — 115 points, 18 comments

54. AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary

popcar.bearblog.dev — 109 points, 170 comments

55. I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4

leangineer.com — 99 points, 19 comments

56. Gaming on Linux without cheating

onlineservices.epicgames.com — 95 points, 101 comments

57. The Double Headed Stack Allocator

blog.demofox.org — 95 points, 36 comments

58. Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

qawolf.com — 94 points, 32 comments

59. Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks

cnbc.com — 91 points, 114 comments

60. Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

museumofages.org — 90 points, 41 comments

Hello HN, I am the founder of a small nonprofit which built Museum of Ages. We opened its first wing last week, a digital Leonardo da Vinci museum. It is a virtual tour with 17 stops, his works and then his last house in Amboise. The entrance is free. At the different stops you…

61. Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff

mediaite.com — 87 points, 48 comments

62. RIP Eric Binnion

ma.tt — 87 points, 34 comments

63. Hatching (Heraldry)

en.wikipedia.org — 83 points, 27 comments

64. Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

dfarq.homeip.net — 80 points, 50 comments

65. Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society

uk.news.yahoo.com — 78 points, 182 comments

66. Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent

github.com — 78 points, 59 comments

67. Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010

vintagecassettes.com — 77 points, 12 comments

68. Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

blog.lorenzano.eu — 76 points, 17 comments

69. Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua

uji.sh — 74 points, 15 comments

My friend and I are huge Neovim nerds. We like to rice our terminals and our editors. We just wanted a harness that we can do the same with, rice it till our hearts' desire. So, we started looking out for harnesses. Pi was great, Pi was good. But in the end, it was JavaScript. I…

70. What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)

smallcultfollowing.com — 73 points, 59 comments

71. One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is

hannahritchie.substack.com — 70 points, 69 comments

72. Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

404media.co — 68 points, 103 comments

73. Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

va3ndf.com — 68 points, 15 comments

74. I let an AI run my startup for a week

daily.tinyprojects.dev — 67 points, 73 comments

75. Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter

sklar.rocks — 65 points, 73 comments

76. 16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

youtube.com — 65 points, 20 comments

77. Custom server to revive neato bots

github.com — 65 points, 3 comments

78. Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

theguardian.com — 63 points, 17 comments

79. Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military

nbcnews.com — 59 points, 29 comments

80. Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python

stario.dev — 58 points, 24 comments

81. Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"

aviaduct.com — 56 points, 66 comments

82. Scientists are teaching birds to sing lost songs

e360.yale.edu — 56 points, 7 comments

83. CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY)

bls.gov — 52 points, 83 comments

84. 0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

jedrzej.maczan.pl — 52 points, 7 comments

85. California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway

sfchronicle.com — 51 points, 61 comments

86. US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams

theguardian.com — 49 points, 60 comments

87. The Aaronson Oracle

aaronsonoracle.com — 48 points, 36 comments

88. Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents

github.com — 48 points, 15 comments

89. Starlink restricted in Ukraine with no notice

malcontentnews.substack.com — 48 points, 7 comments

90. Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)

sijbrandijfoundation.org — 48 points, 1 comment

91. The Death of Amazon's Writing Culture

alifeengineered.substack.com — 47 points, 5 comments

92. Show HN: My Terminal Themes Web App

46 points, 18 comments

Well, after 15 years of saying "Someday I'll turn this into a web app," I finally did it! I've been maintaining a popular repo of terminal themes at https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes , and it was finally time to build the app with all the features I wanted! So…

93. Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?

45 points, 83 comments

Been recently thinking about this more and more: When the need for a human in the design loop ceases? Given that LLMs are RL'd to the max with everything that can be given a wrong/right answer (code/maths), what currently is stopping Anthropic, OpenAI et al. from internally…

94. Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy

neowin.net — 43 points, 49 comments

95. Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?

42 points, 74 comments

It's just something I've been wondering about. Everyone says, “I built it,” but really we should say, “Claude built it for me,” or maybe, “I asked Claude to build this.”

96. Each step of decoding a PNG (2022)

iter.ca — 42 points, 7 comments

97. GitHub Actions has added lock files

github.blog — 41 points, 2 comments

98. Bank of America hired 1000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Mythos

cnbc.com — 38 points, 14 comments

99. Zuckerberg's new toy is a parasite. Please don't fall for it

sfgate.com — 37 points, 7 comments

100. Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases

futhark-lang.org — 37 points, 2 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

11. The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

ourworldindata.org — 416 points, 764 comments

12. Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

thehistoryblog.com — 386 points, 100 comments

13. Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

blog.dfb.sh — 370 points, 191 comments

Author here. Does anyone know what to do with the rest of the drivers? I found at least 13 in-tree drivers with the same bug class. The nasty part is they work fine on x86 and silently corrupt data on arm and other non-coherent archs, and I don't have the hardware to test them…

14. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

sammystraus.com — 352 points, 188 comments

15. New Apple TV 4K

apple.com — 348 points, 665 comments

16. Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

blog.character.ai — 337 points, 296 comments

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/... https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/just-5-years-in-interactiv... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-files-b... https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-bids-on-character-a...

17. Recreational Programming

cphiri.dev — 317 points, 162 comments

18. Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

9to5mac.com — 294 points, 553 comments

https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/

19. Felix Rieseberg Homepage

felixrieseberg.com — 285 points, 108 comments

20. Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses

blog.ikaes.de — 270 points, 106 comments

21. Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

anitab.org — 267 points, 266 comments

22. A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

machinelearning.apple.com — 248 points, 101 comments

23. Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

seriouseats.com — 247 points, 200 comments

24. Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

developers.googleblog.com — 235 points, 59 comments

Main thread: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879

25. Show HN: How random are you?

lab.specr.net — 217 points, 120 comments

26. '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

polygon.com — 199 points, 176 comments

27. Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

pcmag.com — 197 points, 170 comments

28. It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

kennedn.com — 190 points, 50 comments

29. Monte-Carlo Simulations

eli.thegreenplace.net — 181 points, 40 comments

30. How to engineer an AI harness for game development

kylekukshtel.com — 177 points, 90 comments

31. Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

pdftomp3.com — 175 points, 91 comments

32. Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany

ua.news — 168 points, 134 comments

33. The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

newyorker.com — 166 points, 63 comments

34. Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

cbsnews.com — 145 points, 103 comments

35. Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

theverge.com — 145 points, 24 comments

36. Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

orlp.net — 142 points, 30 comments

37. Your C is not standard C

sebsite.pw — 135 points, 121 comments

38. New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete

sciencealert.com — 134 points, 105 comments

39. A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

photonlines.substack.com — 132 points, 74 comments

40. AWS Lambda Web Functions

aws.amazon.com — 128 points, 122 comments

41. Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?

ptrbrynt.com — 125 points, 233 comments

42. Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

wonderhop.io — 124 points, 98 comments

Hello HN! Wonderhop is a small browser game with no account needed to play, everyday there are 4 rounds of 7 quesitons like "Name a food that a lot of people hate" The goal depends on the mode: Either gives the answer most people would give, the one no one would give, the oldest…

43. Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine

pulseos.finance — 122 points, 71 comments

Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine, and the app sends no analytics or crash…

44. Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change

blumify.io — 119 points, 76 comments

45. Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord

strafe.chat — 118 points, 90 comments

46. Major ICQ security hole (1998)

opennet.ru — 116 points, 68 comments

47. Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

heise.de — 111 points, 2 comments

48. Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source

zdnet.com — 107 points, 18 comments

49. Worlds more habitable than Earth?

nytimes.com — 100 points, 223 comments

https://archive.is/yIYpb

50. AlphaNIST

alpha-nist.github.io — 99 points, 38 comments

51. The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain

sfgate.com — 94 points, 59 comments

52. Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

wowhaus.co.uk — 92 points, 50 comments

53. Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits

github.com — 92 points, 19 comments

About 11 months ago i revived the amazing but unfortunately unmaintained spotify-tui. Since then I have been working on it almost non stop, finding a lot of problems on the way. One of the main issues I ran into were the Spotify web API rate limits. Third party clients like…

54. A plea not to use uv-build

blogs.gentoo.org — 90 points, 165 comments

55. DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?

github.com — 89 points, 54 comments

56. The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians

newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org — 89 points, 50 comments

https://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender

57. Show HN: XY Music Notation

music.xy.dev — 87 points, 85 comments

I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it. The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y). I used codex to build a…

58. Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?

quantamagazine.org — 86 points, 97 comments

59. OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices

twitter.com — 85 points, 2 comments

60. Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

lemonde.fr — 80 points, 69 comments

61. Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled

anitab.org — 78 points, 51 comments

62. Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add

parsimony.lasu.dev — 77 points, 19 comments

Existing benchmarks measure solve rate and token output/cost, but don't punish excess code, which makes a codebase harder to work with in the long term. I wanted to measure this since it matters most for long-term projects. Method: it takes the patches that benchmarks already…

63. Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

theregister.com — 74 points, 91 comments

64. Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware

arstechnica.com — 72 points, 6 comments

65. Where is all the new, good software?

natemeyvis.com — 68 points, 141 comments

66. BB(10) > Graham's Number

github.com — 68 points, 75 comments

67. Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster

hudsonrivertrading.com — 64 points, 5 comments

68. Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?

brookslybrand.com — 63 points, 54 comments

69. Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals

marcpaul.io — 63 points, 9 comments

70. Creating a Garmin "MCP"

jackantico.io — 61 points, 74 comments

71. Marshall Islands Stick Chart

en.wikipedia.org — 61 points, 11 comments

72. New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot

cnn.com — 60 points, 94 comments

73. Ukraine Is Successfully Bombing the Heart of Russia's Disinformation Machine

cmarmitage.substack.com — 57 points, 34 comments

74. A Book That Will Never Be Read

forbetterscience.com — 56 points, 23 comments

75. The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)

nhm.ac.uk — 55 points, 7 comments

76. Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot

pi.website — 53 points, 4 comments

77. A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)

historytoday.com — 52 points, 3 comments

78. High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom

arstechnica.com — 50 points, 21 comments

79. Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths

news.gallup.com — 49 points, 44 comments

80. Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas?

scientificamerican.com — 49 points, 26 comments

81. The Feeling of Power

hex.ooo — 49 points, 1 comment

82. Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

unsiloed.ai — 48 points, 7 comments

83. US hits Bank of America with $1.2B fine

apnews.com — 45 points, 17 comments

84. How many shots are in the average movie today?

stephenfollows.com — 45 points, 16 comments

85. MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)

blogs.windows.com — 44 points, 52 comments

86. Show HN: Opensidian

opensidian.org — 42 points, 41 comments

87. AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers

reuters.com — 41 points, 57 comments

88. Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain

xbow.com — 40 points, 11 comments

89. Moirélephant

weird.vivien.garden — 40 points, 2 comments

90. Indra OCR: a 1M-parameter OCR model that reads 49 pages per second on CPU

datalab.to — 39 points, 0 comments

91. Now that information is free, what's a college campus for?

commonedge.org — 38 points, 82 comments

92. Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?

38 points, 27 comments

I sometimes read Show HN, and there is literally no creativity at all: note-taker app after note-taker clone. Everyone is essentially looking at what’s already there, and they say, “Why can’t I create the exact same product, but worse, and add an AI suffix?” There is nothing…

93. OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says

reuters.com — 37 points, 11 comments

94. Tanstack Start 1.0 is stable

tanstack.com — 37 points, 5 comments

95. Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

36 points, 22 comments

Hey Hacker News! I'm Eric, the founder of Consus. We route all AI requests to ITAR restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) compliant infrastructure. Consus itself satisfies ITAR restrictions, and we recently completed our FedRAMP equivalency audit against the…

96. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

blog.plover.com — 36 points, 8 comments

97. 10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition

cloud.google.com — 36 points, 6 comments

98. Webster’s Dictionary: The pleasure of finding things out (2014)

jsomers.net — 35 points, 4 comments

99. Trezor Wallets Also Compromised with Implants

zetter-zeroday.com — 35 points, 3 comments

100. Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

github.com — 32 points, 8 comments

Catches unsafe types, duplicate code, and low-value tests.

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. Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

github.com — 425 points, 126 comments

11. Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

bbc.com — 418 points, 480 comments

12. Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

catchabird.com — 395 points, 112 comments

13. QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions

github.com — 393 points, 413 comments

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-Septem...

14. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

arstechnica.com — 365 points, 314 comments

15. Thinking will become a hobby

spinellis.gr — 349 points, 491 comments

16. Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

mortoray.com — 336 points, 372 comments

17. 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

linkedin.com — 318 points, 193 comments

https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b1...

18. Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

github.com — 316 points, 159 comments

19. Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

intel.com — 308 points, 179 comments

20. Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

lunarwatcher.codeberg.page — 287 points, 136 comments

21. AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

arxiv.org — 282 points, 145 comments

22. MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

news.mit.edu — 274 points, 68 comments

23. 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

openculture.com — 269 points, 47 comments

24. Solar panels that plug into your wall

nationalgeographic.com — 264 points, 280 comments

https://archive.ph/NEPz3

25. Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

purplesyringa.moe — 254 points, 25 comments

26. A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

argmin.net — 249 points, 170 comments

27. OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed

openfatigue.ai — 242 points, 51 comments

28. I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

simonkoeck.com — 240 points, 123 comments

29. Fable Took My Job

cendyne.dev — 226 points, 372 comments

30. Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

github.com — 221 points, 95 comments

31. Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

taylor.town — 220 points, 88 comments

32. RJ Mitte has died

news.sky.com — 213 points, 74 comments

33. The Origin Story of Kid Pix

red-green-blue.com — 204 points, 49 comments

34. Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer

wired.com — 196 points, 108 comments

35. Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?

github.com — 183 points, 52 comments

36. Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

clickhouse.com — 180 points, 187 comments

37. Leaving Tech

ryanbigg.com — 178 points, 196 comments

38. Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

markround.com — 176 points, 43 comments

39. Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20

doi.org — 174 points, 131 comments

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13634082/

40. Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

micahflee.com — 171 points, 171 comments

41. China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp — 163 points, 163 comments

42. Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

163 points, 136 comments

Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 ( https://agent37.com ). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox. You can view a video walkthrough of the product here…

43. Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

githubstatus.com — 157 points, 143 comments

44. French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

uk.finance.yahoo.com — 155 points, 2 comments

45. Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

jacobin.com — 152 points, 94 comments

46. Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

phreak.ing — 152 points, 34 comments

47. I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra

nirajrajgor.com — 147 points, 104 comments

48. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

github.com — 146 points, 52 comments

49. Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

bbc.com — 146 points, 3 comments

50. Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

shokunin.studio — 134 points, 194 comments

51. Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold

phloem.stemdeck.app — 130 points, 26 comments

52. Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

129 points, 128 comments

I’m a hobbyist woodworker. I manually design simple things in Shapr3d with a lot of patience when I build things. I wonder in the time of LLMs if there is an effective way to accelerate the 3D model design using AI.. Anybody tried using AI to model wood projects? Any tools to…

53. Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

indigene.app — 120 points, 52 comments

Back when I lived in Central Florida, it took me years to learn what native plants could benefit wildlife and the local ecosystem as I slowly replaced parts of my yard to make it more resilient to drought. After moving to Seattle a few years ago, I had to start all of that from…

54. AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

anthropic.com — 118 points, 116 comments

55. Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

theguardian.com — 116 points, 128 comments

56. My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

blog.ericgoldman.org — 114 points, 27 comments

57. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

words.filippo.io — 111 points, 32 comments

58. Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

bbc.com — 110 points, 42 comments

59. LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

frankforce.com — 109 points, 50 comments

60. The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 107 points, 76 comments

61. Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

phys.org — 107 points, 63 comments

62. RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine

ludeon.com — 101 points, 56 comments

63. Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

github.com — 101 points, 39 comments

64. Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

blog.julik.nl — 99 points, 57 comments

65. NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

theguardian.com — 97 points, 26 comments

66. Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

avclub.com — 85 points, 80 comments

67. Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP

github.com — 84 points, 41 comments

68. Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

kristaps.bsd.lv — 82 points, 41 comments

69. Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

brickbrag.com — 82 points, 40 comments

70. AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

theguardian.com — 72 points, 85 comments

71. The Haunted Toys R Us

retroist.com — 70 points, 43 comments

72. The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

robotsinplainenglish.com — 70 points, 21 comments

73. An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

animationobsessive.substack.com — 67 points, 9 comments

74. David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

itsnicethat.com — 61 points, 43 comments

75. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

blog.plover.com — 61 points, 15 comments

76. "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill

justismills.substack.com — 57 points, 69 comments

77. Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

patreon.com — 57 points, 39 comments

78. A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone

gq-magazine.co.uk — 52 points, 15 comments

79. Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks

anthropic.com — 49 points, 95 comments

80. Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses

reuters.com — 48 points, 3 comments

81. "Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team "

twitter.com — 45 points, 24 comments

82. Casio F-91W using Statecharts

github.com — 42 points, 9 comments

83. Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts

mana.space — 40 points, 44 comments

I think a chasm has been crossed. Opus 5.5 few shotted a fully working Figma for me. In the past year I have been trying to benchmark vibe coded apps and see how good they get and this week it did it with very very little guidance from me. I basically just told it reach feature…

84. Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276M donations

cnn.com — 40 points, 4 comments

85. Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks

acollectedman.com — 38 points, 8 comments

86. KeePassXC is 10 years old today

fosstodon.org — 37 points, 4 comments

87. Ricky Mondello responds to "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them."

hachyderm.io — 36 points, 17 comments

88. People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media

the-independent.com — 36 points, 14 comments

89. French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack

rnz.co.nz — 35 points, 17 comments

90. The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI

wolfstreet.com — 35 points, 8 comments

91. Who Taught the Machines Mathematics?

nisheethvishnoi.com — 32 points, 35 comments

92. Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video]

youtube.com — 31 points, 8 comments

93. EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch – not some new software

theregister.com — 31 points, 5 comments

94. Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI

seangoedecke.com — 30 points, 27 comments

95. Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video]

youtube.com — 30 points, 5 comments

96. The Genealogy of Eliza

elizagen.org — 28 points, 4 comments

97. Empty shelves likely at Nederlands Albert Heijn due to "Cyber incident"

nltimes.nl — 27 points, 5 comments

98. Tesla Factory Plan Increase of Toxic Heavy Metal Emissions Near School

anonymous94538.substack.com — 27 points, 1 comment

99. French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown

france24.com — 26 points, 7 comments

100. Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

azure.microsoft.com — 26 points, 4 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

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

theguardian.com — 467 points, 182 comments

12. LineageOS 24

lineageos.org — 458 points, 188 comments

13. I'm sorry, but you still have to think

itsallaboutthebit.com — 449 points, 185 comments

14. I paid people to try and follow my README

shkspr.mobi — 431 points, 206 comments

15. The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

jsomers.net — 420 points, 144 comments

16. IRCv3

ircv3.net — 415 points, 360 comments

17. Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil

insideclimatenews.org — 410 points, 222 comments

18. So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?

theonion.com — 380 points, 65 comments

19. Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so — 317 points, 70 comments

20. A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

inc.com — 288 points, 195 comments

21. Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

amosbbatto.wordpress.com — 274 points, 358 comments

22. Sound (2022)

ciechanow.ski — 273 points, 32 comments

23. The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

disconnect3d.pl — 254 points, 183 comments

24. Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

lalinsky.com — 253 points, 101 comments

25. Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'

cnbc.com — 244 points, 217 comments

26. Doory – Open-Source Canva

github.com — 230 points, 80 comments

27. Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

radar.cloudflare.com — 222 points, 113 comments

28. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

betterwispr.com — 220 points, 128 comments

29. Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

vcresearch.berkeley.edu — 194 points, 150 comments

30. Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

verdagon.dev — 184 points, 100 comments

31. Whatever became of holography? (2011)

americanscientist.org — 173 points, 112 comments

32. How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

asheradeniyi.com — 160 points, 167 comments

33. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

ways-of-seeing.com — 153 points, 47 comments

34. Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

pub.sakana.ai — 138 points, 82 comments

35. How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

epestr.com — 134 points, 44 comments

36. Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

tedhaley.ca — 127 points, 52 comments

37. Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

github.com — 117 points, 30 comments

Hi HN! I'm Saarth. I'm in 9th grade, and I built Atticus. Atticus is a fast and cheap Mac assistant that can do tasks for you. You hold down Control-Option-Space, speak or type your task, be it complex or a simple browser search, and Atticus will get on it. The interesting part…

38. Illustration Beyond Proof

terrytao.wordpress.com — 108 points, 19 comments

39. Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

economist.com — 105 points, 123 comments

40. An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

github.com — 101 points, 119 comments

41. Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute

latimes.com — 101 points, 36 comments

42. Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

github.com — 101 points, 19 comments

43. Google Data Centers around the world

datacenters.google — 100 points, 81 comments

44. Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests

phys.org — 96 points, 113 comments

45. apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

github.com — 89 points, 33 comments

46. Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

cell.com — 88 points, 65 comments

47. Arena Allocators in C

eliasebner.com — 86 points, 38 comments

48. HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

github.com — 86 points, 16 comments

49. I wish you the best in the Offline

daverupert.com — 85 points, 67 comments

50. British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote

bbc.com — 85 points, 18 comments

51. YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit

tomshardware.com — 84 points, 31 comments

52. Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n

app.getsupers.com — 83 points, 52 comments

53. Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications

tomshardware.com — 78 points, 89 comments

54. X Is Bad, Though

lexontech.org — 78 points, 69 comments

55. Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things

playgrnd.tools — 77 points, 21 comments

56. AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people

bbc.com — 74 points, 122 comments

57. The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

0xff.nu — 74 points, 91 comments

58. We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris

sciencefocus.com — 73 points, 26 comments

59. Artificial Insanity

richwhitehouse.com — 64 points, 110 comments

60. Tattoos you can turn on and off

livescience.com — 64 points, 3 comments

61. What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel

copilot.travel — 58 points, 69 comments

62. "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

robotgirlgang.com — 57 points, 71 comments

63. The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl

ei3lh.eu — 57 points, 20 comments

64. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS

blog.kammel.dev — 56 points, 5 comments

65. A Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused

chicago.suntimes.com — 54 points, 9 comments

66. Choreographic Programming in Rust

github.com — 52 points, 44 comments

67. ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol

github.com — 48 points, 3 comments

68. Sorry we made you grind LeetCode

hackerrank.com — 44 points, 47 comments

69. Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him?

sfchronicle.com — 44 points, 34 comments

70. Linux on iPhone 11

patreon.com — 44 points, 6 comments

71. Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait

a16z.com — 42 points, 90 comments

72. A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused

opencampus.org — 41 points, 4 comments

73. Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?

mdelcaro.substack.com — 35 points, 18 comments

74. Neuroscience can make decluttering easier

nytimes.com — 35 points, 12 comments

75. Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab

github.com — 35 points, 3 comments

In August, I posted here about TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs completely in the browser, with no need for an account or server. (I didn't excpect it to get that much feedback, bug reports and help from here!) This is the same idea for the other half of my studies, the…

76. Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac

crestbrowser.com — 34 points, 24 comments

77. Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia's Lukoil Refinery 1,700 Km Away

united24media.com — 34 points, 20 comments

78. We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation

marcobambini.substack.com — 33 points, 1 comment

79. Linus Torvalds Working on a Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement with Claude Code

phoronix.com — 32 points, 2 comments

80. Pizza in North Korea

en.wikipedia.org — 31 points, 0 comments

81. Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries

pydantic.dev — 29 points, 30 comments

82. SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released

sqlalchemy.org — 29 points, 12 comments

83. Elon Musk's PAC is spreading inaccurate voting info, election officials say

cnn.com — 29 points, 4 comments

84. Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude

dair-community.social — 27 points, 31 comments

85. "The proposed filings are clearly not the work of an organic mind" [pdf]

storage.courtlistener.com — 27 points, 2 comments

86. How tabasco became the hot sauce

weareravenous.com — 26 points, 63 comments

87. Open-source version of Adobe Creative Suite, built with Rust, using AI

petapixel.com — 26 points, 15 comments

88. How I manage persistent Claude Code loops: Spool

github.com — 25 points, 9 comments

89. Things that don't bother me as your manager

twitter.com — 25 points, 3 comments

90. Show HN: Timur's Chess – A 14th century chess variant with giraffes

timurschess.com — 23 points, 7 comments

My weekend vibecoding project was to attempt to resurrect a 14th century chess variant favored by the Central Asian warlord Timur (Tamerlane). There are giraffes, elephants, citadels, and you can promote up to 2 additional kings! theres a working AI chess engine and relatively…

91. What's Wrong with GitHub

gnu.org — 21 points, 5 comments

92. Karpathy on Learning

twitter.com — 19 points, 8 comments

93. A college tried to cancel its Flock Safety contract and it refused

theverge.com — 19 points, 1 comment

94. The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach

nytimes.com — 19 points, 0 comments

95. Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?

18 points, 26 comments

Feeling lost, figured I'd ask.

96. X Once Again Marks the Spot

daringfireball.net — 18 points, 15 comments

97. Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

patreon.com — 18 points, 0 comments

98. Multi-agent harnesses need separate message channels

harshalgajjar.com — 17 points, 6 comments

99. Lotus Improv on the NeXT

stonetools.ghost.io — 16 points, 4 comments

100. Show HN: Mira, AI Walking Tours

mira.tours — 16 points, 4 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. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

cphpost.dk — 413 points, 229 comments

5. Bitwarden Dual License Model

community.bitwarden.com — 408 points, 311 comments

6. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

github.com — 331 points, 155 comments

7. Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

opengroup.org — 301 points, 247 comments

8. Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

wallhop.io — 289 points, 133 comments

Hi HN, I'm Josh. WallHop is a free paywall bypass: paste an article URL (or prefix any URL with wallhop.io/) and you get the readable article without the paywall popup, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. I built it after 12ft.io went away. The News Media Alliance took it…

9. The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

pixelatron.com — 280 points, 106 comments

10. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall

conversableeconomist.com — 278 points, 707 comments

11. Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

sciencealert.com — 276 points, 190 comments

12. Calculus with Julia

jverzani.github.io — 265 points, 55 comments

13. Knuth reward check

thomas-huehn.com — 225 points, 88 comments

14. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

motherduck.com — 223 points, 71 comments

15. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

momo5502.com — 218 points, 153 comments

16. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

theguardian.com — 217 points, 109 comments

17. Unikernels were hard. key word: were

ghuntley.com — 199 points, 105 comments

18. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

ft.com — 180 points, 116 comments

19. Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

162 points, 151 comments

I sometimes run across comments where someone says they want an open-source router. I wonder if this is a viable idea for someone to start as a small company. What makes me hesitant is that, first, it looks like this already exists in several wireless and non-wireless routers…

20. European Alternatives

buy-european.net — 152 points, 110 comments

21. GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

youtube.com — 151 points, 44 comments

22. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial

chronicles.popvax.com — 143 points, 32 comments

23. Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

wsj.com — 136 points, 53 comments

24. PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

github.com — 135 points, 14 comments

25. Takeshi's Castle

en.wikipedia.org — 116 points, 40 comments

26. Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well

kotaku.com — 105 points, 80 comments

27. CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation

worldfacts.app — 90 points, 55 comments

28. How Protein Took over the World

ft.com — 87 points, 198 comments

https://archive.is/CbkfI

29. No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

sebsite.pw — 80 points, 113 comments

30. Bag of Decisions Reranker

softwaredoug.com — 75 points, 14 comments

31. MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'

barchart.com — 74 points, 99 comments

32. Rat's Register Allocator

hexrat.cc — 70 points, 4 comments

33. Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects

rews.cc — 69 points, 147 comments

34. Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

shnatsel.github.io — 69 points, 4 comments

35. Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

purplesyringa.moe — 67 points, 5 comments

36. My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

businessinsider.com — 64 points, 70 comments

37. Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?

58 points, 155 comments

I've read lots of articles about how Americans hate their tipping culture. But tipping is optional so why don't they just stop? If you don't tip you both help society improve and you save money. Win-win.

38. AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks

warren.senate.gov — 58 points, 13 comments

39. Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

theregister.com — 57 points, 54 comments

40. Software developers are not okay

baldurbjarnason.com — 52 points, 42 comments

41. FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

tommyb3ll.github.io — 51 points, 25 comments

42. Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System

github.com — 51 points, 12 comments

43. A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease

sciencedaily.com — 50 points, 28 comments

44. AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic

metedata.substack.com — 48 points, 56 comments

45. AI agents in a stand-up call

atoll92.github.io — 48 points, 52 comments

46. 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC

makeuseof.com — 48 points, 27 comments

47. Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal

github.com — 43 points, 25 comments

48. Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

theverge.com — 42 points, 80 comments

49. There's little that's "inevitable" about AI

deadsimpletech.com — 41 points, 99 comments

50. Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

reuters.com — 41 points, 35 comments

51. Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions

dpreview.com — 38 points, 57 comments

52. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

righto.com — 36 points, 10 comments

53. Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor'

variety.com — 33 points, 11 comments

54. Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]

youtube.com — 32 points, 66 comments

55. Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

bleepingcomputer.com — 32 points, 8 comments

56. Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine

drvinayprasad.com — 31 points, 27 comments

57. The state of systemd: 2026 edition

lwn.net — 30 points, 6 comments

58. The Disease called Politics (1962)

panarchy.org — 29 points, 40 comments

59. Trump: Ukraine should get a new president, blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

apnews.com — 29 points, 12 comments

60. Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?

28 points, 44 comments

Board books, normal children's books, STEM, non-STEM. I'm interested in them all.

61. Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists

news.mit.edu — 28 points, 0 comments

62. When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64

joelsiks.com — 25 points, 4 comments

63. Policing sex in public toilets in 1930s London

nationalarchives.gov.uk — 23 points, 1 comment

64. Trump calls for stop to attacks on Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy replacement

politico.com — 21 points, 28 comments

65. Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses

pings.utwente.io — 21 points, 5 comments

66. Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall

economist.com — 21 points, 2 comments

67. A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics

arstechnica.com — 20 points, 4 comments

68. Vegetables are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s

telegraph.co.uk — 18 points, 17 comments

69. In Memory of Deno

orgsoft.org — 18 points, 1 comment

70. Brain does not process information and it is not a computer (2016)

aeon.co — 17 points, 6 comments

71. Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser

oldroll.io — 17 points, 5 comments

OldRoll Web brings vintage camera effects and film-inspired filters to your browser. Give everyday photos a nostalgic look without installing an app, with all creative assets free to use.

72. Ask HN: What if no AIpocalypse, no AI bubble, what if it just keeps advancing?

16 points, 33 comments

The two mainstream arguments are the extremes, because that's how our modern society rolls. It's either that there is an AI bubble that will crash, or that a rogue ASI will kill us all. What about the third possibility? What if GPT 3.5 -> Sonnet 3.5 -> Opus 4.5 -> Astra / Opus…

73. Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent

ilia.page — 16 points, 22 comments

74. Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser

bottleship.pages.dev — 16 points, 4 comments

75. A Stark Warning from a Former AI Doomer

podcasts.apple.com — 16 points, 2 comments

76. Supreme Court: 401(k) case over private funds and underperformance

cnbc.com — 16 points, 1 comment

77. Anthropic's AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

theverge.com — 16 points, 1 comment

78. Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32

github.com — 15 points, 9 comments

I have been playing with a lot of $20 devices with no keyboards or screens. I wanted to use speech to interact with them, but without it having to run through a cloud service or use a fixed command vocabulary. I worked with Claude to implement high performance 4bit int kernels…

79. Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

bbc.co.uk — 15 points, 7 comments

80. The Wild West of polyglot docs sites

technicalwriting.dev — 15 points, 1 comment

81. Show HN: Littleguys – Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents in your menu bar

littleguys.hervalicio.us — 15 points, 0 comments

82. Ur-Fascism

en.wikipedia.org — 14 points, 7 comments

83. Software's centaur age may last decades

seangoedecke.com — 14 points, 6 comments

84. Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads

yeahnah.lol — 14 points, 3 comments

85. Ubuntu now has official desktop images for RISC-V

omgubuntu.co.uk — 14 points, 2 comments

86. Ukraine strikes Yandex data centres

ft.com — 14 points, 1 comment

87. US Justice Department investigates TV networks for boycotting Trump press pool

bbc.com — 14 points, 0 comments

88. Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired

13 points, 9 comments

Aaron Swartz's personal site now shows an expired-domain page. WHOIS says it expired Sept 29 (registered via Hover/Tucows). It's probably still in the grace period, so his family or estate can still renew it. If anyone is connected to them, please inform them. I read his blogs…

89. Don't Make Me Use Your Harness

jrdsgl.com — 13 points, 5 comments

90. Before Computer Science Became a Boys' Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

nytimes.com — 13 points, 2 comments

91. Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules

bbc.com — 13 points, 1 comment

92. Ask HN: Are you a subscribed LLM or a locally deployed open-source model?

12 points, 19 comments

Could you briefly introduce the reason or what it's used for?

93. Trump says anyone who does not refer to AI as super intelligence is 'THE ENEMY'

politico.com — 12 points, 16 comments

94. Wilmund

wilmund.com — 12 points, 7 comments

95. Mass Driver: Solar system routing mini-game

mass-driver.scottyah.com — 12 points, 3 comments

96. Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia

reuters.com — 12 points, 1 comment

97. Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem

androidauthority.com — 11 points, 22 comments

98. Software developers are not okay

baldurbjarnason.com — 11 points, 2 comments

99. Show HN: A functioning Celery Man computer

celeryman.fun — 11 points, 1 comment

Hi HN! It dawned on me that the latest AI models (Minimax H3 Max / Audio, GPT-6 Luna) can finally recreate the computer from the classic Tim & Eric Celery Man sketch. I spent a few days creating it: it has 100% parity with the original script, plus anything you ask for (doggy…

100. US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condems as 'assault on rule of law'

bbc.com — 11 points, 1 comment

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

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

typesafe.ai — 446 points, 357 comments

12. 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…

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

github.com — 421 points, 194 comments

14. 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-...

15. No Man Is an Island

borretti.me — 333 points, 210 comments

16. Python 3.15

python.org — 318 points, 114 comments

17. 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

animationobsessive.substack.com — 308 points, 48 comments

18. The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

theverge.com — 297 points, 324 comments

19. Programming Isn't Special

blog.glyph.im — 282 points, 268 comments

20. Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

united24media.com — 251 points, 349 comments

21. Nix wrote half of my debugger

fzakaria.com — 241 points, 76 comments

22. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

blogs.windows.com — 228 points, 69 comments

23. Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

cockroachlabs.com — 219 points, 119 comments

24. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say

nbcphiladelphia.com — 215 points, 157 comments

25. Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

euronews.com — 215 points, 118 comments

26. Computers Cannot Make Decisions

wiki.cateat.fish — 213 points, 189 comments

27. What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI

terrytao.wordpress.com — 210 points, 58 comments

28. Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

commandline.microsoft.com — 201 points, 66 comments

29. Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

washingtonpost.com — 196 points, 173 comments

https://archive.is/EFOhL

30. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

news.vt.edu — 194 points, 170 comments

31. Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

twitter.com — 193 points, 226 comments

32. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

readrare.com — 191 points, 67 comments

33. Lobbying

geohot.github.io — 190 points, 68 comments

34. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

jessewaites.com — 187 points, 93 comments

35. Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

blog.janestreet.com — 186 points, 57 comments

36. Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

state.gov — 182 points, 238 comments

37. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants

broadinstitute.org — 177 points, 50 comments

38. M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

earthquake.usgs.gov — 164 points, 39 comments

39. A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

blog.torproject.org — 156 points, 371 comments

40. I guess I'm using WebP now?

anderegg.ca — 148 points, 173 comments

41. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

lwn.net — 142 points, 39 comments

42. Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

experimental-history.com — 138 points, 73 comments

43. The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview

hetzner.com — 117 points, 30 comments

44. 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

proofsandprompts.com — 106 points, 104 comments

45. Why are coding agents so dumb?

mtlynch.io — 105 points, 103 comments

46. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

ndstudio.gov — 103 points, 38 comments

47. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

werwolv.net — 100 points, 16 comments

48. Once: Cache CLI commands

github.com — 98 points, 43 comments

49. The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI

bsky.app — 95 points, 86 comments

50. Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

epoch.ai — 93 points, 97 comments

51. How big is a Git commit?

ratfactor.com — 93 points, 35 comments

52. A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

arstechnica.com — 91 points, 42 comments

53. 11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People

linuxstans.com — 89 points, 40 comments

54. US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work

nature.com — 84 points, 122 comments

55. You might want to try being less creative

blog.bawolf.com — 80 points, 39 comments

56. In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology

newyorker.com — 79 points, 46 comments

57. Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates

nejm.org — 78 points, 44 comments

58. Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim

nbcnews.com — 73 points, 74 comments

59. Atari Falcon

atarimuseum.nl — 70 points, 28 comments

60. Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private

github.com — 66 points, 3 comments

Hey everyone! Last year, Mozilla released Orbit, an AI-powered browser summarizer hosted on a GCP server. After people started digging into the extension, they discovered things like backend endpoints such as store_result. Eventually, Mozilla discontinued the project. For the…

61. Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots

theverifiedpost.com — 65 points, 7 comments

62. Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen

japaninsides.com — 64 points, 40 comments

63. Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust

primeintellect.ai — 64 points, 20 comments

64. OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

opentelemetry.io — 63 points, 10 comments

65. Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil

cnbc.com — 62 points, 79 comments

66. Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

techdirt.com — 60 points, 54 comments

67. Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

adolfoalvarez.cl — 59 points, 3 comments

68. OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

newscientist.com — 57 points, 5 comments

69. Data Center Darling Firmus's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours

bloomberg.com — 55 points, 16 comments

70. Tesla Rebrands Full Self-Driving as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe

qz.com — 53 points, 40 comments

71. How strong is the strong interaction?

cerncourier.com — 53 points, 26 comments

72. Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025

nber.org — 52 points, 72 comments

73. I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here

rachelbythebay.com — 52 points, 38 comments

74. Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties

pressaudit.org — 50 points, 61 comments

75. Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me

twitter.com — 46 points, 2 comments

76. Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems

bbc.com — 39 points, 45 comments

77. Netflix plans to cut 5% of its workforce

reuters.com — 39 points, 7 comments

78. Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld

celld.dev — 37 points, 5 comments

79. South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

france24.com — 36 points, 12 comments

80. Put a price on breakthroughs

alexwang.ai — 36 points, 10 comments

81. If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

groundlevel-ai.com — 35 points, 107 comments

82. open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI

codeberg.org — 35 points, 18 comments

83. Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

nytimes.com — 35 points, 8 comments

84. Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB

techpowerup.com — 32 points, 13 comments

85. Meadows – a small language for stock-and-flow diagrams that run

lorezzed.github.io — 32 points, 4 comments

86. Next.js 16.4

nextjs.org — 31 points, 37 comments

87. Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel

politico.com — 30 points, 15 comments

88. 'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics reels after new OpenAI release

nytimes.com — 29 points, 26 comments

https://archive.ph/ANnky

89. Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?

phenomenalworld.org — 27 points, 56 comments

90. Rolling the Root Key

blog.apnic.net — 26 points, 16 comments

91. Trump announces deal with Putin to release Russian diesel

bbc.com — 26 points, 11 comments

92. If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

24 points, 50 comments

Imagine this. Twenty years from now, if AI is capable of handling all work, how will your kids make ends meet? If you want to prevent that future, what should you be doing today?

93. US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech

apnews.com — 24 points, 1 comment

94. Clef-Omni: full multimodality, a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash

blog.cloudflare.com — 24 points, 0 comments

95. The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf]

jdb19937.github.io — 22 points, 6 comments

96. Kotlin keeps up with Rust in DHH's Campfire rewrite

wecodefire.com — 22 points, 3 comments

97. Data centre company's much-hyped Australian stock market listing imploded

theguardian.com — 22 points, 0 comments

98. An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police

techcrunch.com — 20 points, 2 comments

99. Hucked and Shucked: The hidden costs of turning America's corn crop into fuel

worldsensorium.com — 19 points, 5 comments

100. Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes By Default Coming Feb 2027

letsencrypt.org — 18 points, 10 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. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

cnbc.com — 434 points, 301 comments

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

quesma.com — 418 points, 199 comments

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

frontiersin.org — 409 points, 271 comments

9. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

twitter.com — 382 points, 612 comments

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md

10. Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

unsung.aresluna.org — 349 points, 295 comments

11. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

github.com — 342 points, 3 comments

12. Beauty in DVD Menus

vale.rocks — 338 points, 186 comments

13. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

reddit.com — 302 points, 132 comments

14. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe

solarpowerworldonline.com — 262 points, 164 comments

15. Bevy 0.20

bevy.org — 257 points, 76 comments

16. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

quake-srp.pages.dev — 241 points, 181 comments

17. The value of not getting to the point (2015)

ken.arneson.name — 237 points, 81 comments

18. Orkut.com

orkut.com — 235 points, 167 comments

19. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

scottbezek.blogspot.com — 222 points, 37 comments

20. The people holding up the internet

sheets.works — 218 points, 73 comments

21. OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

karagila.org — 213 points, 314 comments

22. MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

github.com — 196 points, 85 comments

23. Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

theguardian.com — 194 points, 49 comments

24. C for Rust programmers

bd103.dev — 174 points, 217 comments

25. What should we tell our students?

terrytao.wordpress.com — 162 points, 252 comments

26. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

treylorswift.github.io — 155 points, 151 comments

27. AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

biohub.org — 151 points, 20 comments

28. Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

openrouter.ai — 150 points, 39 comments

29. New gTLD Application for .lan

newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org — 148 points, 162 comments

30. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

lwn.net — 130 points, 165 comments

31. OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

techspot.com — 130 points, 108 comments

32. Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

oss.lsantos.dev — 122 points, 46 comments

Hello everyone, I wanted to share this small project that I have. It's born out of a necessity that I had, because Proton doesn't ship a Linux version of the drive yet (it's apparently coming out later this year but who knows?) and all the current solutions are hacky and wonky…

33. US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program

reuters.com — 119 points, 2 comments

34. Telnet BBS Guide

telnetbbsguide.com — 107 points, 37 comments

35. Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed

bbc.com — 106 points, 55 comments

36. Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

hangul.ink — 92 points, 20 comments

37. Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude

theverge.com — 91 points, 234 comments

38. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization

github.com — 90 points, 26 comments

39. Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man

opper.ai — 82 points, 23 comments

Openai just launched their decisions endpoint, cloudflare launched clef the other week, and many more jev alternatives are out there. We wanted to put the popular ones to the test and thought Pac-Man is a good benchmark for simple and fast decision making. So we let jev 1.13…

40. Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support

github.com — 76 points, 12 comments

41. Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

themirror.com — 72 points, 80 comments

42. Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

medium.com — 72 points, 42 comments

43. Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)

github.com — 69 points, 56 comments

44. Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances

cointelegraph.com — 68 points, 65 comments

45. LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video

youtube.com — 68 points, 16 comments

46. I think we might lose public key cryptography

twitter.com — 67 points, 37 comments

47. Serverless Horrors $10,811.41

serverlesshorrors.com — 65 points, 32 comments

48. Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France

torrentfreak.com — 63 points, 6 comments

49. New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

tomshardware.com — 61 points, 25 comments

https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2424/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM

50. Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027

letsencrypt.org — 59 points, 28 comments

51. Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols

dat-ecosystem.org — 59 points, 25 comments

52. Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy"

breakingthenews.net — 55 points, 69 comments

53. 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

interop-rank.fxdx.dev — 55 points, 25 comments

54. Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator

typeincube.com — 54 points, 11 comments

55. Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

blog.janestreet.com — 52 points, 3 comments

56. AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

ahmath.org — 49 points, 48 comments

57. Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI

github.com — 47 points, 67 comments

58. Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

videogameschronicle.com — 45 points, 12 comments

59. Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing

news.flinders.edu.au — 45 points, 11 comments

60. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools

svg-spark.vercel.app — 44 points, 7 comments

61. Calling a function in C without naming it

wiro.world — 43 points, 15 comments

62. The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail

blog.pentlander.com — 41 points, 35 comments

63. License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics

davidrevoy.com — 41 points, 25 comments

64. Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

github.com — 41 points, 17 comments

65. Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web

projecttimestamper.org — 40 points, 6 comments

66. Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1

loc.gov — 39 points, 16 comments

67. Iran's drones hit America's Achilles heel

politico.com — 37 points, 24 comments

68. What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe

tedium.co — 36 points, 71 comments

69. Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps

getartcraft.com — 36 points, 31 comments

70. Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII

newrepublic.com — 36 points, 18 comments

71. Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110

github.com — 33 points, 17 comments

I was using this mobile to reduce my screentime. Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it. Started with installing android, but failed as it has only 48MB RAM. Then reverse-engineered for few days and finally able use AI Agent in this and automated few actions.
Thanks

72. Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked

pocketty.app — 32 points, 21 comments

Hello~! pocketty is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. herdr keeps your agent panes alive on your computer and knows the state of each one: working, needs you, or done. I made this in anger/desperation for the latter half of my recent paternity leave. Nap traps…

73. .md File is not a specification: Using formal analysis to find requirements gaps

blog.fizzbee.ai — 29 points, 12 comments

74. Why people don't want to have children any more

ft.com — 28 points, 59 comments

75. Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos

wordminos.com — 24 points, 12 comments

I built a daily word game in 12 days.
The base mechanic only took an hour. Getting it to the finish line took the rest.
The work was in iteration: design, polish, juice, character. Taste, for now, is still relevant.
Enjoy!

76. Show HN: AI SRE Arena, an Open Benchmark for AI SRE Agents on Kubernetes

github.com — 24 points, 10 comments

77. 'Neither war nor peace': Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease despair

theguardian.com — 24 points, 2 comments

78. Bootstrap 6 Alpha

blog.getbootstrap.com — 24 points, 1 comment

79. Drones hit Yandex site in first major attack on Russian data hub

reuters.com — 24 points, 1 comment

80. Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025)

sciencebase.com — 24 points, 1 comment

81. Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives

a.l3x.in — 23 points, 17 comments

82. OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own [pdf]

mikitabalesni.com — 23 points, 8 comments

83. Google Is Pushing Scam Videos on Elderly and Cognitively Impaired People

currentaffairs.org — 23 points, 4 comments

84. AI Crawler Index

mojodojo.io — 23 points, 1 comment

85. Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase

spinal.sh — 22 points, 12 comments

86. It's Probably Time to Start Worrying About the 4G LTE Shutdown Bricking Cars

thedrive.com — 22 points, 2 comments

87. ICE detainees used facility's video calling software to expose conditions inside

theverge.com — 22 points, 1 comment

88. FYI: You are now an enemy of the US if you call it AI instead of SI

forbes.com — 21 points, 7 comments

89. Ukrainian drones swarmed Moscow last night

twitter.com — 21 points, 0 comments

90. Will AI kill us all

virev.ai — 20 points, 55 comments

91. A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th

nature.com — 20 points, 4 comments

92. Normal Tools – Useful online tools, no nonsense

normaltools.com — 20 points, 3 comments

93. Frontier AI models outperform analysts on earnings prediction

samaya.ai — 20 points, 2 comments

94. AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

terrytao.wordpress.com — 19 points, 17 comments

95. Fort Hood Shooter's Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says

nytimes.com — 19 points, 15 comments

96. How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing

build2.org — 19 points, 7 comments

97. Amazon's 'About You' section guesses oddly specific details about shoppers

theverge.com — 19 points, 7 comments

98. Thank You Indonesia for the Clean Air

thankyouindoforthecleanair.web.app — 19 points, 2 comments

99. No new Ghostty updates since March

github.com — 18 points, 17 comments

100. I gave four coding agents $100 budget to build a PDF editor

blog.nielstron.de — 18 points, 9 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

11. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

ascii.rest — 474 points, 76 comments

12. The Mathocalypse

scottaaronson.blog — 409 points, 426 comments

13. A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

github.com — 408 points, 68 comments

14. Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

rswebsols.com — 378 points, 388 comments

15. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

arxiv.org — 361 points, 240 comments

16. Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

usenix.org — 348 points, 84 comments

17. Anti-patterns in software blogging

refactoringenglish.com — 344 points, 149 comments

18. Docker Agent

github.com — 306 points, 144 comments

19. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

nobelprize.org — 304 points, 57 comments

20. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

404media.co — 281 points, 164 comments

https://archive.ph/jHHYp

21. God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

github.com — 251 points, 113 comments

22. WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

tonym.us — 241 points, 238 comments

23. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

readingchronicle.co.uk — 241 points, 218 comments

24. DuckDB Ducklake

github.com — 240 points, 40 comments

25. Why were Victorian elites so effective?

worksinprogress.co — 235 points, 430 comments

26. Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved

githubstatus.com — 227 points, 181 comments

27. ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

naturalsystems.io — 223 points, 143 comments

28. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

thequietus.com — 209 points, 303 comments

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-sent...

29. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

debasishg.github.io — 197 points, 91 comments

30. Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks

nytimes.com — 187 points, 51 comments

https://archive.ph/1PBHj
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11084-4

31. Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy

pewresearch.org — 175 points, 127 comments

32. Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

artmuseum.artfrompixels.com — 174 points, 68 comments

From Li Cheng to Banksy

33. Google Playground: Create and play custom games

blog.google — 168 points, 233 comments

https://labs.google/playground

34. Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

smithsonianmag.com — 157 points, 58 comments

35. A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

nature.com — 157 points, 16 comments

36. SynthID Detector

synthid.com — 132 points, 98 comments

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...

37. PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

pushsquare.com — 125 points, 151 comments

38. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM

github.com — 119 points, 224 comments

39. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

github.com — 119 points, 55 comments

40. Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew

github.com — 116 points, 95 comments

41. Google Playground

labs.google — 115 points, 2 comments

42. Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

nature.com — 111 points, 24 comments

43. Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

fiveminutesforward.com — 98 points, 58 comments

44. Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

bloomberg.com — 97 points, 41 comments

45. Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51

link.springer.com — 87 points, 2 comments

Related: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-fra...

46. Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you

tech.criteo.com — 85 points, 59 comments

47. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

theconversation.com — 85 points, 50 comments

48. Reasons to Dislike AI Coding

sicpers.info — 83 points, 114 comments

49. ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

krebsonsecurity.com — 80 points, 18 comments

50. Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

github.com — 75 points, 50 comments

51. Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools

agent.reviews — 73 points, 52 comments

Hi HN! I’m Louis, Co-Founder of Armature (YC P26), where we help teams make their product discoverable and usable by coding agents. We already measured 50k+ agent sessions and realized that over and over agents would encounter the exact same limitations on different tasks using…

52. Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

kagan.in — 65 points, 21 comments

53. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector

github.com — 63 points, 26 comments

54. It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

economist.com — 58 points, 101 comments

55. Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt

techdirt.com — 53 points, 3 comments

56. I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does

xda-developers.com — 52 points, 22 comments

57. Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round)

creolened.com — 52 points, 20 comments

58. The Mathocalypse

scottaaronson.blog — 50 points, 1 comment

59. One of America's Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

gadgetreview.com — 49 points, 14 comments

60. Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says

sci.news — 47 points, 115 comments

61. $2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

microsoft.com — 46 points, 49 comments

62. All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

aws.amazon.com — 46 points, 39 comments

63. Mozilla met with Microsoft to discuss their harmful design practices

reddit.com — 46 points, 7 comments

64. The world has nearly burned through its oil stockpile buffer

reuters.com — 45 points, 14 comments

65. I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again

baty.net — 42 points, 47 comments

66. ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains

icann.org — 41 points, 55 comments

67. Tell HN: HN has lost the joy for me

41 points, 32 comments

There was a time I would come to HN to get some respite from the depressing state of reality. Ukraine war or climate crisis would drive me to despair, and I'd try to get a little endorphin rush by dodging those same topics here and reading about neat things people build or cool…

68. Clojure in the age of language models

yogthos.net — 41 points, 23 comments

69. Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins

spotifast.rocks — 41 points, 8 comments

70. Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs

gtlds.fyi — 40 points, 59 comments

71. Book recommendations from Hacker News?

bookofjoe2.blogspot.com — 40 points, 8 comments

72. AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots

humxn.io — 38 points, 68 comments

73. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS

bsky.app — 37 points, 31 comments

74. Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous

37 points, 27 comments

I feel like there's not enough outrage over Apple not removing their Apple Intelligence models on macOS 27 even after disabling Siri. I have a 512 GB Mac mini but because I have so much data, I also have a 2 TB monthly iCloud subscription. I have Siri AI turned off. Yet, my…

75. 100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge

blog.mozilla.org — 34 points, 6 comments

76. Bloody Cavemen

lrb.co.uk — 34 points, 3 comments

77. Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble

medium.com — 32 points, 25 comments

78. Developer Survey 2026

survey.stackoverflow.co — 32 points, 11 comments

79. Southern Olive Oil

ambrook.com — 31 points, 32 comments

80. LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus

medium.com — 31 points, 25 comments

81. Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter

cbc.ca — 30 points, 43 comments

82. AI Model Groupthink

magicnumbers.io — 29 points, 9 comments

83. I'm in love with a German film star

heatherburns.tech — 29 points, 1 comment

84. Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents

jotbus.com — 28 points, 17 comments

85. Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil

github.com — 28 points, 9 comments

86. Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres

bbc.com — 28 points, 5 comments

87. Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks

blog.google — 28 points, 2 comments

88. Autolith: A self-modifiable general purpose Lisp AI agent

github.com — 28 points, 0 comments

89. Clean room implementation of Adobe products

github.com — 27 points, 32 comments

90. Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders?

theglobeandmail.com — 27 points, 15 comments

91. Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review

github.com — 27 points, 10 comments

92. EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry

emdashcms.com — 27 points, 10 comments

93. Raspberry Pi Desktop Now Available for PC and Mac

raspberrypi.com — 27 points, 5 comments

94. Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler

github.com — 25 points, 18 comments

I struggle with the way Claude speaks to me when I do work. So much text, every, single, time. When I ask a question, I get an essay back, and with so many weird constructs: slogans, metaphors, recaps, strange choice of nouns, "it's not X, it's Y". Claude's own "concise" mode…

95. Zed Editor, Docker Agent, ACP, but in a sandbox: running the agent with sbx

k33g.org — 25 points, 0 comments

96. SpaceX credit risk jumps on worries over its borrowing spree

ft.com — 24 points, 2 comments

97. Anduril lands $2.9B Navy submarine shipyard contract

cnbc.com — 23 points, 11 comments

98. Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond

shrub.industries — 22 points, 3 comments

99. Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts

minut.com — 21 points, 52 comments

100. Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown

orazioscicolone.it — 21 points, 12 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

11. Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

435 points, 675 comments

DHH's "AI shed" idea got me thinking about getting a small $5–10/month VPS. I'm a Linux guy and have on many points of my life have a personal server. So I like the idea of having something always on, but I’m not sure the maintenance is worth it when most things can just run on…

12. Decisions API is in public beta

developers.openai.com — 393 points, 233 comments

13. Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

techdirt.com — 392 points, 290 comments

14. AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

github.com — 375 points, 326 comments

15. Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

phys.org — 355 points, 181 comments

16. OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

github.com — 348 points, 408 comments

17. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

gleam.run — 318 points, 140 comments

18. What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

signoregalilei.com — 306 points, 233 comments

19. The Slow Formation of Durable Software

newsletter.dancohen.org — 299 points, 115 comments

20. Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

strandsagents.com — 286 points, 76 comments

21. Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

arstechnica.com — 274 points, 516 comments

22. Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

zohaib.cc — 270 points, 153 comments

23. Cleo (Mathematician)

en.wikipedia.org — 256 points, 58 comments

24. How machines learned precision

glinscott.github.io — 250 points, 71 comments

25. State of Devs 2026

2026.stateofdevs.com — 248 points, 170 comments

26. Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

penguin-mail.com — 242 points, 187 comments

27. Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

autodidacts.io — 197 points, 289 comments

28. ESP32-C3 Adblock

github.com — 195 points, 82 comments

29. A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

mitchellh.com — 188 points, 55 comments

30. I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

ajmoon.com — 183 points, 115 comments

31. OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

openscad.org — 181 points, 151 comments

32. Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

phys.org — 178 points, 76 comments

33. First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

techcrunch.com — 163 points, 89 comments

34. What is Codemode

lucumr.pocoo.org — 159 points, 78 comments

35. Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

citizenlab.ca — 159 points, 66 comments

36. California closed the Montana license plate loophole

thedrive.com — 156 points, 431 comments

37. The art of defusing a second world war bomb

theguardian.com — 155 points, 117 comments

38. Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald

cbc.ca — 144 points, 141 comments

39. Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust

github.com — 144 points, 91 comments

40. Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight

techspot.com — 141 points, 133 comments

41. Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

arstechnica.com — 141 points, 51 comments

42. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

mihai.dinculescu.dev — 134 points, 68 comments

43. Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

reuters.com — 130 points, 131 comments

44. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

worrydream.com — 127 points, 87 comments

45. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

nature.com — 127 points, 61 comments

46. We are going to kill "unalive"

anildash.com — 124 points, 151 comments

47. Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

erdosproblems.com — 122 points, 57 comments

48. Show HN: MailAccess – the true Email OSINT framework

mailaccess.pro — 122 points, 0 comments

Im a security engineer and i built mailaccess. When i started learning pentesting, i came across multiple lectures and notes of people listing out tools and websites, which gives the emails for a particular domain, and almost all of them mentioned that the tool might not stick…

49. OpenSSH 10.6

openssh.org — 119 points, 26 comments

50. Integer multiplication below n log n

github.com — 113 points, 83 comments

51. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

arxiv.org — 110 points, 50 comments

52. 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'

theguardian.com — 109 points, 68 comments

53. A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

carette.xyz — 109 points, 27 comments

54. Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

404media.co — 103 points, 45 comments

55. South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks

reuters.com — 100 points, 32 comments

56. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

parseable.com — 90 points, 25 comments

57. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

peterszentkiralyi.eu — 87 points, 39 comments

I am a film photographer and do some darkroom printing and always wanted one of the proper, advanced f-stop timers, but never really wanted to spend a couple hundred dollars on one. Eventually I figured my phone was already perfectly capable of doing the timing, it just needed a…

58. Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI

newsletter.semianalysis.com — 82 points, 94 comments

59. When random is not actually random enough

ersc.io — 82 points, 49 comments

60. Account bans on Reddit

orchidfiles.com — 80 points, 77 comments

61. How Fast is Python 3.15?

blog.miguelgrinberg.com — 79 points, 56 comments

62. Calling It Quits on ServerFault

sysadmin1138.net — 76 points, 53 comments

63. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

ebsco.com — 75 points, 46 comments

64. Brownian Motion

gregorygundersen.com — 74 points, 8 comments

65. System-level ad-blocking in Android

kevinboone.me — 72 points, 40 comments

66. La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

nanochess.org — 72 points, 23 comments

67. Mistral Large 4

twitter.com — 70 points, 4 comments

68. If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

devblogs.microsoft.com — 69 points, 36 comments

69. Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer

github.com — 68 points, 21 comments

70. How to head into VR without wearing a headset

kyushu-u.ac.jp — 67 points, 59 comments

71. Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure

andreklein.net — 65 points, 123 comments

72. Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

datocms.com — 65 points, 34 comments

73. ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

bbc.co.uk — 64 points, 44 comments

74. Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

github.com — 64 points, 27 comments

75. Berthd

berthd.app — 63 points, 81 comments

76. A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

dbushell.com — 59 points, 127 comments

77. Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

sciencedaily.com — 58 points, 14 comments

78. Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU

github.com — 57 points, 4 comments

rGPU runs GPU work on a remote NVIDIA machine while the application stays on the client.

79. Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage

dw.com — 56 points, 19 comments

80. Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

linum.ai — 55 points, 19 comments

81. Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute

github.com — 53 points, 25 comments

Hi HN, we're Thomas and Olivier from Terse ( https://www.useterse.ai/ ) We've built Durable Actors, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects. A Durable Object/Actor is a tiny server that handles one request at a time and has its own SQLite database. There's…

82. VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]

youtube.com — 52 points, 17 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
https://www.safas.com/?SAFAS-UVmc2-uno-spettrofotometro-UV-V...

83. Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl

mastodon.social — 52 points, 12 comments

84. Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed

sregym.com — 50 points, 27 comments

85. Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model

huggingface.co — 49 points, 8 comments

This is a model that I made for a historical game. I wanted to have a 1:1 scale model of Europe, but my problem was that 100m data was too low-res while 10m LIDAR data was patchy, took hundreds of GBs to store and was full of manmade objects like mines, buildings and so on. I…

86. Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)

github.com — 48 points, 10 comments

87. You Are an Expert Software Engineer [Krazam] [video]

youtube.com — 48 points, 3 comments

88. An Open Letter to Steven Pinker on AI

astralcodexten.com — 48 points, 3 comments

89. New repository settings for configuring pull request access

github.blog — 47 points, 23 comments

90. We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar

gizmodo.com — 46 points, 32 comments

91. Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python

dev.arie.bovenberg.net — 46 points, 29 comments

92. Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

45 points, 47 comments

I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom

93. Show HN: OpenChart – OSS TradingView alternative with your own AI agent

github.com — 45 points, 20 comments

Hi HN, I'm Weilun, cofounder of OpenChart. We built OpenChart because we wanted Claude and Codex to interface with the markets, like most of humans do, through charts rather than through CLIs. With your existing AI plans, your agent can work directly with your charts: annotate a…

94. Mathematical manuscripts and supporting proof artifacts produced by OpenAI

github.com — 45 points, 0 comments

95. OpenAI just dropped 700 preprints of mathematical proofs and counterexamples

github.com — 42 points, 2 comments

96. German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism

news.osna.fm — 39 points, 60 comments

97. Terraform Meets Proxmox: Lessons from a VMware Migration

goncharov.xyz — 39 points, 3 comments

98. Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

theverge.com — 38 points, 57 comments

99. Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5

dator.dev — 37 points, 32 comments

This is a clone of simcity 2000 I (using Opus 5.5) built over a few days. It started with a single prompt "create a typescript webgl low-poly version (full replica of game logic) of simcity 2000. the original is available here for inspection [...].zip". It then decompiled it…

100. Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know

humanprogress.org — 34 points, 51 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

11. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

dbushell.com — 323 points, 251 comments

12. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

flattensf.com — 314 points, 115 comments

13. OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

diff.wikimedia.org — 307 points, 201 comments

14. Apple and a hacker's future

stratechery.com — 300 points, 249 comments

15. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

vivienhenz.com — 295 points, 410 comments

16. How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

science.org — 294 points, 108 comments

Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7

17. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

qlabs.sh — 280 points, 82 comments

18. Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

github.com — 247 points, 197 comments

19. US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

theguardian.com — 227 points, 246 comments

20. Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

arstechnica.com — 216 points, 35 comments

21. Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have

deadparrotbbs.com — 211 points, 135 comments

22. Wood Tape (2004)

gamesbyemail.com — 208 points, 30 comments

23. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

bloomberg.com — 206 points, 128 comments

https://archive.ph/Axpbl
https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent...

24. Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

github.com — 193 points, 126 comments

25. High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

thedrive.com — 184 points, 192 comments

26. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

barrons.com — 180 points, 103 comments

27. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

floreal.tech — 176 points, 55 comments

28. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

nobelprize.org — 160 points, 49 comments

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-releas...

29. Benchmark in Milliseconds

matklad.github.io — 149 points, 53 comments

30. Picard 3.0

blog.metabrainz.org — 146 points, 49 comments

31. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

blog.lizzie.io — 146 points, 44 comments

32. The future of independence is interdependence

onlys.ky — 143 points, 111 comments

33. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

nobelprize.org — 135 points, 1 comment

34. The Future of Mathematics

terrytao.wordpress.com — 125 points, 91 comments

35. "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 118 points, 131 comments

36. Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing

blog.pipetogrep.org — 113 points, 40 comments

37. One person can now be a quorum at the SEC

ft.com — 112 points, 58 comments

38. Borland Turbo Basic

dosdays.co.uk — 108 points, 63 comments

39. Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

jross.me — 103 points, 64 comments

40. Incident with Actions

githubstatus.com — 103 points, 64 comments

41. Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

102 points, 60 comments

I recently discovered by accident that our website was being blocked by Orange's security filters. After a quick check, I found that our IP address is listed on UCEPROTECT Level 3. The listing is based on the reputation of the entire ASN 14061 (DigitalOcean, US) [1]. In other…

42. LLMs may have helped my RSI

vaughanhilts.me — 102 points, 59 comments

43. Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

transportenvironment.org — 85 points, 137 comments

44. Ephemeral Testing

lemire.me — 83 points, 31 comments

45. The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse

cbc.ca — 80 points, 126 comments

46. Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick's links to Epstein dies

thebanker.com — 79 points, 8 comments

47. 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines

news.mit.edu — 78 points, 50 comments

48. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

globalsolaratlas.info — 74 points, 68 comments

49. AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

edworkingpapers.com — 73 points, 70 comments

50. Our approach to EU text provenance rules

openai.com — 72 points, 60 comments

51. AI Companies Are Parasites

coryd.dev — 71 points, 37 comments

52. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

blogs.gnome.org — 70 points, 1 comment

53. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

ess-news.com — 68 points, 45 comments

54. Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

blog.pkh.me — 67 points, 20 comments

55. Mallet Head Angle (2011)

timberframe-tools.com — 66 points, 24 comments

56. Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

theguardian.com — 64 points, 123 comments

57. After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi

npr.org — 64 points, 66 comments

58. A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

tidesdb.com — 64 points, 34 comments

59. Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking"

techspot.com — 61 points, 91 comments

60. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

gwern.net — 60 points, 28 comments

61. Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget

wsj.com — 59 points, 87 comments

62. Gitframes

github.com — 58 points, 38 comments

63. People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

npr.org — 54 points, 84 comments

64. Worth Building

armstr.ng — 54 points, 51 comments

65. Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

almostimplemented.github.io — 52 points, 14 comments

66. Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

theverge.com — 50 points, 84 comments

67. DigitalOcean Ends Open Source Credits Program

itsfoss.com — 50 points, 6 comments

68. Questions for believers in AI consciousness

endsdontjustifythemeans.com — 48 points, 231 comments

69. The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear

restofworld.org — 46 points, 20 comments

70. WSL containers is now generally available

blogs.windows.com — 45 points, 16 comments

71. Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

pavel-krivanek.github.io — 44 points, 12 comments

72. Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI

politico.com — 42 points, 44 comments

73. Mosquitoes Are a Choice

worksinprogress.news — 42 points, 14 comments

74. Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust

github.com — 41 points, 32 comments

A successor project to my previous attempt at building a temporal graph database ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23455516 ). This one builds on its predecessor's concept, but drops the dependency on another database to provide the storage, transaction and query engines…

75. uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons

addons.mozilla.org — 41 points, 12 comments

76. Is mathematics over, or just graduating?

docs.google.com — 40 points, 58 comments

77. Another step towards Elm 1.0

elm-lang.org — 40 points, 7 comments

78. Iroh Global Content Discovery

iroh.computer — 39 points, 0 comments

79. CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

dropsitenews.com — 38 points, 55 comments

80. A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users

insufferable.dev — 37 points, 2 comments

81. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

nivdayan.github.io — 37 points, 0 comments

82. Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?

35 points, 18 comments

I've been having a hard time finding a solution. Is there really no commercialized model that I can feed in a reference sound and text instruction and get another sound out? Right now having a multimodal inputs to image or text output is a commodotized, solved problem. IE you…

83. Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]

youtube.com — 34 points, 65 comments

84. Graphical UI

graphicalui.com — 34 points, 3 comments

85. Evergreen Common Lisp (EGCL)

github.com — 34 points, 0 comments

86. Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world

pumpkins.sh — 33 points, 11 comments

What if....there was a near infinite pumpkin patch where anyone can claim and carve a pumpkin then show-case it to the world?
Here are 1 million pumpkins. Pick one. Make it your own.
Have a VR headset? Put it on and explore the patch.

87. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

arxiv.org — 33 points, 4 comments

88. Lunatik 5.0: scripting the Linux kernel with Lua, now with eBPF integration

luainkernel.github.io — 33 points, 0 comments

89. Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment

www2.lib.uchicago.edu — 32 points, 0 comments

90. Turkey's 20B ponzi scheme collapsed

reuters.com — 32 points, 0 comments

91. A third way of using Linux

hisvirusness.com — 31 points, 53 comments

92. An application in Lisp you grow by talking to it

ghuntley.com — 31 points, 0 comments

93. Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI

anthropic.com — 30 points, 64 comments

94. Jiti – Grow a running Lisp application by talking to it

github.com — 29 points, 0 comments

95. Google Accused of Felling 300 Hectares of Forest for a Finnish Data Centre

woodcentral.com.au — 24 points, 14 comments

96. A single license fee of £100k.00

dbushell.com — 24 points, 5 comments

97. OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One

zbruceli.org — 23 points, 10 comments

98. GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours

tomshardware.com — 22 points, 11 comments

https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/

99. Apple may soon track when Google promotes Chrome inside Safari

9to5mac.com — 20 points, 7 comments

100. Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism

theguardian.com — 20 points, 0 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. Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

themoscowtimes.com — 305 points, 338 comments

8. Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

motorsport.com — 292 points, 251 comments

9. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

worksinprogress.co — 282 points, 241 comments

10. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

filmstories.co.uk — 249 points, 34 comments

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

11. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu — 224 points, 155 comments

12. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

vincent.bernat.ch — 206 points, 44 comments

13. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

github.com — 184 points, 74 comments

14. ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

getartcraft.com — 180 points, 246 comments

15. In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

energytransition.org — 179 points, 208 comments

16. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

github.com — 157 points, 43 comments

17. Bill Draper has died

nytimes.com — 144 points, 48 comments

https://archive.ph/YRgDY

18. Blindsight (Watts Novel)

en.wikipedia.org — 135 points, 184 comments

19. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap

frn.sh — 117 points, 190 comments

20. All I wanted was a custom domain email

jacobg.co — 117 points, 147 comments

21. VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next

gamehistory.org — 114 points, 19 comments

22. Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales

blue-continuum.com — 112 points, 96 comments

23. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

smyck.net — 111 points, 143 comments

24. Time Travel in Braid (2015)

qntm.org — 110 points, 48 comments

25. How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

youtube.com — 106 points, 51 comments

26. Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com — 104 points, 67 comments

27. Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens

astrohelm.app — 100 points, 31 comments

Hello HN! As an amateur astronomer living in New York City, finding objects in the night sky has always been a huge challenge. I thought about using the smartphone's gyroscope and magnetometer, but the accuracy left a lot to be desired. Then I learned about plate solving: given…

28. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

github.com — 91 points, 12 comments

29. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear

github.com — 89 points, 28 comments

Here in the north of England clear nights are at a premium, and it's never guaranteed that you'll be able to see anything but cloud. That's why I developed Nightwatch, so that I could be notified when one of those precious few nights where I could see into the heavens was…

30. Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

github.com — 89 points, 15 comments

31. Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)

liquidbrain.net — 88 points, 32 comments

32. The evolution of effective altruism

economist.com — 81 points, 259 comments

https://archive.ph/3gSCc
Related: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/10/04/will-maca...

33. Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]

youtube.com — 81 points, 59 comments

Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc21-ousterhout.pdf
Related: https://lwn.net/Articles/1003059/, https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/01/stanford-pro...

34. The complement of true is true, except when it's false

dryperspective.github.io — 77 points, 28 comments

35. UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program

reclaimthenet.org — 75 points, 31 comments

36. What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI?

writings.stephenwolfram.com — 72 points, 54 comments

37. Incentives in Academic Research

msoos.org — 64 points, 77 comments

38. Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010)

igoro.com — 53 points, 5 comments

39. Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws

scimigo.com — 49 points, 20 comments

Hi HN, I built this because I watched my daughter struggle at learning Python. I made something that runs only in the browser with visuals rather than relying on CLI/terminal output. No need to worry about python installation, package versions, venv etc. The lab runs with…

40. Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers

tomshardware.com — 48 points, 18 comments

41. "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

404media.co — 47 points, 105 comments

42. Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life

smileplease.mataroa.blog — 47 points, 11 comments

43. Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search

blog.jetbrains.com — 41 points, 12 comments

44. The Legend of the Paper Crane

mazdastories.com — 33 points, 12 comments

45. Protest against housing crisis in Spain

theguardian.com — 32 points, 60 comments

46. OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils

news.lavx.hu — 32 points, 46 comments

47. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around

island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev — 32 points, 31 comments

48. Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes

jaymartin.substack.com — 32 points, 11 comments

49. Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill

cbc.ca — 29 points, 42 comments

50. RuneScape's Position on Gen AI

reddit.com — 28 points, 72 comments

51. Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering

newsletter.chainofthought.show — 28 points, 15 comments

52. Your Right to Privacy Doesn't Disappear When You're in Public

reason.com — 28 points, 1 comment

53. TurboPython – A Python-to-C++ Compiler

tpy-lang.org — 27 points, 14 comments

54. The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

nytimes.com — 26 points, 17 comments

55. The Auditor's Opinion

cringely.com — 26 points, 16 comments

56. GVisor is being donated to CNCF

gvisor.dev — 24 points, 12 comments

57. Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes

typst.app — 24 points, 3 comments

58. What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit

lesswrong.com — 22 points, 20 comments

59. Ncdu: An Updated Fork

github.com — 22 points, 15 comments

60. A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600

plicerin.github.io — 21 points, 11 comments

61. Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027)

phillipspobrien.substack.com — 21 points, 4 comments

62. AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

thebulletin.org — 19 points, 13 comments

63. Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD

blog.netbsd.org — 19 points, 11 comments

64. Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It

linuxiac.com — 18 points, 7 comments

65. 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections

livescience.com — 18 points, 4 comments

66. Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews

github.com — 17 points, 6 comments

67. Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region

kyivindependent.com — 17 points, 0 comments

68. Robert X Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 [video]

youtube.com — 17 points, 0 comments

69. French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video]

youtube.com — 16 points, 24 comments

70. Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed

fog-bank.org — 16 points, 10 comments

See also https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/archiving-the-worlds-oldest-...

71. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics

iopscience.iop.org — 16 points, 7 comments

72. Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop recreated in the browser

wieslawsoltes.github.io — 16 points, 4 comments

73. KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely

phoronix.com — 16 points, 4 comments

74. Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

themoscowtimes.com — 16 points, 0 comments

75. "No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product"

ferran.sh — 15 points, 21 comments

76. Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components

think-twice.me — 15 points, 21 comments

Here's a micro-game you can try out in your browser, sort of a puzzle game about trying to use unreliable components to sort out increasingly more reliable components.

77. Delta WiFi Survival Guide

dialta.adorellc.pro — 15 points, 12 comments

78. Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks

ft.com — 15 points, 8 comments

79. Does Costco Cause Cancer?

marginalrevolution.com — 15 points, 5 comments

80. Swedish travel agency caters specifically to introverts

fastcompany.com — 15 points, 5 comments

81. Changes to Gemini model access and limits

support.google.com — 15 points, 1 comment

82. AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley, CA [pdf]

ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com — 14 points, 4 comments

83. Study of 2.5M children finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism

psypost.org — 14 points, 2 comments

84. Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

reuters.com — 13 points, 8 comments

85. Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop

tomshardware.com — 13 points, 3 comments

86. Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group

europol.europa.eu — 13 points, 2 comments

87. Second Chances

nybooks.com — 13 points, 2 comments

https://archive.ph/3JYcH

88. That Thing with Pterodactyl and Blueprint

answeroverflow.com — 13 points, 1 comment

89. The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted

donmoynihan.substack.com — 13 points, 1 comment

90. Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

scrippsnews.com — 13 points, 0 comments

91. Aaron Sorkin Surprised Jesse Eisenberg Wouldn't Want to Play Mark Zuckerberg

variety.com — 13 points, 0 comments

92. Sergey Brin has spent $102M to fight California's proposed billionaire tax

fortune.com — 13 points, 0 comments

93. Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit

theguardian.com — 13 points, 0 comments

94. I stopped reviewing my agents' code. Here's what I do instead

alexeyindeev.substack.com — 12 points, 13 comments

95. Co-pilot on Flydubai flight was banned from flying by Oman for extremist views

france24.com — 12 points, 8 comments

96. How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound

wsj.com — 12 points, 7 comments

97. Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer

electrek.co — 12 points, 3 comments

98. Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

cnn.com — 12 points, 2 comments

99. Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021)

journals.sagepub.com — 12 points, 1 comment

100. U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

nytimes.com — 12 points, 1 comment

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.

2. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

aleph-alpha.com — 713 points, 336 comments

tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf
additional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri

3. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

simonwillison.net — 652 points, 313 comments

4. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

techcrunch.com — 503 points, 274 comments

5. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

phoronix.com — 501 points, 108 comments

6. I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

theatlantic.com — 497 points, 818 comments

https://archive.ph/5GQx8
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-sa...

7. Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

tej.as — 424 points, 12 comments

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...

8. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

fortune.com — 423 points, 850 comments

https://archive.ph/TyDPf

9. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

liao.gg — 392 points, 312 comments

10. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

notoriousbfg.com — 373 points, 96 comments

11. We ported the original Doom to SQL

cedardb.com — 339 points, 55 comments

12. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

cosmowenman.substack.com — 336 points, 213 comments

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

nolanlawson.com — 330 points, 370 comments

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

cses.fi — 326 points, 86 comments

15. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

theguardian.com — 268 points, 3 comments

16. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

ben.stolovitz.com — 255 points, 122 comments

17. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

claude.dev — 252 points, 162 comments

18. Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared

smarthomescene.com — 246 points, 129 comments

19. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

cambridge.org — 237 points, 272 comments

20. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com — 233 points, 209 comments

21. FTL: A new operating system for clouds

ftl-os.org — 210 points, 78 comments

https://github.com/nuta/ftl

22. The cost of lies: A Mineserver story

jeremyreimer.com — 188 points, 91 comments

23. Infidel goes wild

blog.zarfhome.com — 185 points, 42 comments

24. City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

radical-elements.com — 173 points, 160 comments

25. Religious scholars met with Anthropic

nytimes.com — 169 points, 446 comments

https://archive.is/y8FW0

26. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO

play.runescape.com — 168 points, 98 comments

27. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

sjg.io — 158 points, 92 comments

28. The Escalation of War in Ethiopia

africanistperspective.com — 156 points, 188 comments

29. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)

danielchasehooper.com — 155 points, 137 comments

30. What Meta got right with Muse

metedata.substack.com — 154 points, 222 comments

31. Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program

twz.com — 137 points, 98 comments

32. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

tdk.com — 136 points, 76 comments

33. Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

neowin.net — 122 points, 168 comments

34. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

shannadige.com — 120 points, 92 comments

35. Rust's derive often implies inline

yossarian.net — 120 points, 33 comments

36. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

blog.citp.princeton.edu — 110 points, 101 comments

37. Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

aleph-alpha.com — 110 points, 5 comments

38. Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

medium.com — 102 points, 19 comments

39. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

thoreaubasic.com — 96 points, 59 comments

Thoreau BASIC started as a joke. I wanted a BASIC where I could type something ridiculous like: DIM A%(12000000000) …and have it actually work. Then I kept adding things. The result is Thoreau BASIC, a free x64 BASIC interpreter inspired by GW-BASIC, running both as a normal…

40. 'Neanderthals Among Us' review

historytoday.com — 87 points, 96 comments

41. US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court

bbc.com — 80 points, 62 comments

42. Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers

gadgetreview.com — 80 points, 33 comments

43. Vx – One Language, Every Chip

vxlang.org — 79 points, 58 comments

44. Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

offrun.dev — 78 points, 68 comments

Run Claude Code, Codex, AGY, and Grok Build side by side. See who is working, who needs you, and what every account has left.

45. GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

github.blog — 76 points, 95 comments

46. RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

kevincox.ca — 74 points, 11 comments

47. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

blogs.gnome.org — 68 points, 108 comments

48. Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone?

theguardian.com — 67 points, 89 comments

49. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

github.com — 66 points, 10 comments

50. Our AI Midwife

astralcodexten.com — 65 points, 65 comments

51. Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

aviationa2z.com — 65 points, 34 comments

52. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

telegraph.co.uk — 62 points, 100 comments

53. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

computerhistory.org — 62 points, 44 comments

54. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente

sanders.senate.gov — 62 points, 9 comments

55. How to hack time, with C2PA

da.vidbuchanan.co.uk — 62 points, 7 comments

56. Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models

reddit.com — 61 points, 53 comments

57. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

dave.recoil.org — 52 points, 40 comments

58. Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

casp.ac — 50 points, 91 comments

59. An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

science.org — 50 points, 80 comments

60. U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok

thedailybeast.com — 47 points, 8 comments

61. We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You

youtube.com — 46 points, 16 comments

62. Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

ephemeral.cx — 44 points, 15 comments

63. I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster

reddit.com — 39 points, 2 comments

64. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

stelabouras.com — 37 points, 6 comments

65. Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs

gizmodo.com — 34 points, 14 comments

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

66. Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service

therun.gg — 34 points, 11 comments

67. On building a worm detector

bencology.bearblog.dev — 34 points, 10 comments

68. Where Is the Planet

whereistheplanet.com — 34 points, 3 comments

69. Emails to and from Elon Musk that have been made public

elonemails.com — 34 points, 2 comments

70. Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

support.soloist.ai — 31 points, 65 comments

71. Claude-Shaped Science

anthropic.com — 30 points, 12 comments

72. Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?

29 points, 48 comments

This is a genuine problem that I hear from senior engineers. I'm looking for a solution. -- The quality of ai-generated code is (claude, agy, copilot, codex a little better). It's exhausting to read. I used to love learning from my experienced colleagues and taking…

73. The characters of plastics (2024)

yarchive.net — 28 points, 4 comments

74. Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

blog.coredump.cx — 27 points, 22 comments

75. Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge

kapa.ai — 27 points, 3 comments

76. Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005?

dynomight.net — 26 points, 6 comments

77. LightPanda 1.0

lightpanda.io — 26 points, 6 comments

78. 100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections

blog.archive.org — 26 points, 4 comments

79. Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

allenai.org — 26 points, 3 comments

80. There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (2025)

jaredpalmer.com — 25 points, 43 comments

81. Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting

birdshistory.com — 25 points, 14 comments

82. There's a new sea spider in town

nautil.us — 25 points, 4 comments

83. AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul

twitter.com — 24 points, 21 comments

84. AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity

fortune.com — 24 points, 10 comments

85. EFF – Welcome to Opt Out October. Let's Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices

eff.org — 24 points, 0 comments

86. Writing code by hand is over, forever

eliocapella.com — 23 points, 61 comments

87. Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step

arxiv.org — 23 points, 3 comments

88. Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse

reuters.com — 22 points, 15 comments

89. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)

archive.techarp.com — 22 points, 3 comments

90. Debian Inference Portal

inference.debian.net — 21 points, 6 comments

91. Apple is tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' due to new risks from AI agents

techcrunch.com — 20 points, 8 comments

92. AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

courthousenews.com — 20 points, 3 comments

93. Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Issues, Devices Require Replacement

daringfireball.net — 20 points, 1 comment

94. We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI

derekthompson.org — 19 points, 38 comments

95. America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit

insideclimatenews.org — 19 points, 5 comments

96. CA tech executive arrested for allegedly smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips to CN

qz.com — 18 points, 8 comments

97. Show HN: Timeline of the Far Future

rivendell.dmitrybrant.com — 18 points, 6 comments

One of my favorite articles on Wikipedia is called "Timeline of the far future".[0] The only problem with this article is the presentation: it's a gigantic wall-of-text table that does very little justice to the profound, awe-inspiring insights contained in it. This article…

98. I've created an open source 100% Rust clean-room clone of 7 of Adobe's apps

reddit.com — 18 points, 2 comments

99. Taliban suspends fiber optic network maintenance and expansion

afintl.com — 17 points, 6 comments

100. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages

blog.plover.com — 17 points, 4 comments

Issue #3

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Apple Pass Designer

developer.apple.com — 574 points, 340 comments

2. Extra Big Ass Intelligence

extrabigassintelligence.com — 524 points, 128 comments

3. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

newgrounds.com — 468 points, 140 comments

4. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

bsky.app — 411 points, 84 comments

5. From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

dwarfstar.sh — 368 points, 107 comments

6. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

developer.apple.com — 319 points, 221 comments

7. The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

gwern.net — 317 points, 187 comments

8. With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

arstechnica.com — 289 points, 154 comments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312

9. Zig v0.17.0

ziglang.org — 279 points, 208 comments

10. The Tao of Backup

taobackup.com — 276 points, 118 comments

11. The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

yuka.dev — 273 points, 207 comments

12. On social reality in China

lesswrong.com — 267 points, 269 comments

13. Muse Gadgets

gadgets.muse.ai — 254 points, 112 comments

14. Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

niklasroy.com — 236 points, 48 comments

This is a functional 30-minute pendulum clock entirely from discarded materials—cardboard, zip ties, tape, a yardstick, and a paperclip escapement, built in the German Eldorado of precision watchmaking: Glashütte. It also acts as a reference clock for GTC, a new satirical…

15. One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

wagtail.org — 234 points, 180 comments

16. ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

npr.org — 234 points, 176 comments

17. Make Tmux the OS

matduggan.com — 234 points, 138 comments

18. Supabase is acquiring Turso

supabase.com — 222 points, 117 comments

19. Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

home-assistant.io — 214 points, 112 comments

20. Things that apparently cause cancer

breakthroughjournal.org — 212 points, 81 comments

21. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

blog.cloudflare.com — 207 points, 98 comments

22. A map of every lighthouse

mapped.earth — 201 points, 88 comments

23. AI Makes Me Sad

mondobe.com — 199 points, 248 comments

24. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

blog.kagi.com — 195 points, 118 comments

25. Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

bigthink.com — 174 points, 63 comments

26. Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

github.com — 170 points, 52 comments

Hi there :-) New on HN, first time posting. Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and Claude generate source code in LDraw language. This LDraw is literally an "assembly" language, a low-level programming language that describes how to assemble…

27. Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model

blog.sshh.io — 168 points, 111 comments

28. Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers

developers.redhat.com — 168 points, 75 comments

29. Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

github.com — 155 points, 47 comments

30. Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

darbiansphotography.com — 155 points, 30 comments

31. ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database

wired.com — 151 points, 44 comments

32. GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

discuss.grapheneos.org — 150 points, 107 comments

33. Everyone's Packing Up

widdershins.verja.net — 133 points, 119 comments

34. Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

pipod.dev — 121 points, 45 comments

pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of "agentic engineering" environments. Products by the labs…

35. The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

distantprovince.substack.com — 115 points, 89 comments

36. Dutch computer museums (2022)

aresluna.org — 111 points, 26 comments

37. Barcodes are about to go extinct

thehustle.co — 109 points, 157 comments

38. Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid

nber.org — 100 points, 37 comments

39. Results from the ASIC puzzle

blog.janestreet.com — 99 points, 55 comments

40. Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

againstallodds.games — 98 points, 37 comments

(Edit: original URL was https://againstallodds.games/ , but we've switched it to https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emul... in response to user requests for explanation.) We're a tiny indie studio, all with a background in the demoscene and for about 3 years…

41. The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's

onlineonly.christies.com — 95 points, 21 comments

42. Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

byzantine-systems.github.io — 95 points, 20 comments

43. F.02 Decommission

figure.ai — 90 points, 50 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQDPDM

44. Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

joshua.hu — 90 points, 45 comments

45. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

lenfestinstitute.org — 89 points, 30 comments

46. Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL

reddit.com — 88 points, 66 comments

47. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

blog.google — 85 points, 79 comments

48. New York City should carefully measure a new tree

blog.willmeye.rs — 83 points, 16 comments

49. Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors

reuters.com — 82 points, 93 comments

50. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit

behindthecode.ca — 82 points, 16 comments

https://archive.is/WCnLA

51. GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

agent-wow.sh — 78 points, 60 comments

52. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio

tuftesrazor.scienceux.org — 78 points, 48 comments

53. Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

devforum.play.date — 78 points, 14 comments

54. gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer

github.com — 78 points, 10 comments

55. Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

technologyreview.com — 77 points, 161 comments

56. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)

youtube.com — 76 points, 38 comments

57. Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

commondreams.org — 74 points, 32 comments

58. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

halide.cx — 73 points, 27 comments

https://github.com/halidecx/wpd

59. Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

theguardian.com — 70 points, 111 comments

60. Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble

gizmodo.com — 69 points, 78 comments

61. prevents me from logging into Vanguard

tanin.nanakorn.com — 67 points, 99 comments

62. European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance

rte.ie — 64 points, 93 comments

63. The Heilbronn Problem

math.tejstead.com — 64 points, 14 comments

64. Holes (1996-2025)

plato.stanford.edu — 62 points, 12 comments

65. How to save a life without knowing CPR

bookofjoe2.blogspot.com — 59 points, 54 comments

66. Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

alexalejandre.com — 57 points, 15 comments

67. Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent

theregister.com — 57 points, 6 comments

68. How accurately calibrated is Jev?

maximumeffort.substack.com — 55 points, 22 comments

69. Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional

404media.co — 55 points, 7 comments

70. Quantitative Finance with OCaml

qcaml.com — 54 points, 11 comments

71. Mystery Function

codeset.ai — 53 points, 11 comments

72. Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers

blog.cloudflare.com — 52 points, 11 comments

73. Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

theregister.com — 51 points, 23 comments

74. What if we stopped using GPUs? [video]

youtube.com — 51 points, 19 comments

75. Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude

reddit.com — 50 points, 74 comments

76. NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]

ntsb.gov — 48 points, 27 comments

77. A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

biometricupdate.com — 47 points, 29 comments

78. Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

arstechnica.com — 45 points, 66 comments

79. STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)

en.wikipedia.org — 45 points, 11 comments

Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing its flight path in real time in response to an engine failure during ascent). The overall mission continued, accomplished its other objectives, and was considered…

80. Qubes OS 4.3.2 has been released

qubes-os.org — 44 points, 5 comments

81. Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web

royapakzad.substack.com — 44 points, 1 comment

82. Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens

gizmodo.com — 43 points, 37 comments

83. Aweb – Communication for AI Agents

aweb.ai — 42 points, 28 comments

84. Fast Blur with Animated Radius

aras-p.info — 40 points, 6 comments

85. Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it

neow.in — 39 points, 51 comments

86. I am so tired of this bullshit

rmoff.net — 37 points, 29 comments

87. Be careful what you measure

lambdaland.org — 37 points, 16 comments

88. Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution

ideas.imbue.com — 37 points, 14 comments

89. The GPU Black Market That Washington Can't Shut Down

amcompute.com — 37 points, 11 comments

90. Gboard Conveyor Belt Version

github.com — 37 points, 5 comments

91. SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us

blog.trailofbits.com — 37 points, 0 comments

92. "The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)

greenend.org.uk — 36 points, 38 comments

93. Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5

raspberrypi.com — 36 points, 34 comments

94. A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo

seriot.ch — 36 points, 12 comments

ncurses terminfo can simulate a two-counter Minsky machine, making repeated parameter expansion computationally universal

95. Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use

residentnewsnetwork.com — 36 points, 11 comments

96. Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites

tomshardware.com — 36 points, 2 comments

97. Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

theapplepost.com — 35 points, 72 comments

98. The Beclowning of Scott Bessent

paulkrugman.substack.com — 35 points, 21 comments

99. Capcom RE:Dox, open source serialization/deserialization for game engines

github.com — 35 points, 7 comments

100. The OpenAI Decisions API needs a confidence you can trust

anth.us — 34 points, 17 comments

Issue #2

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Pi 1.0

earendil.com — 1,689 points, 610 comments

Related: Pi Durable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969

2. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

eff.org — 814 points, 418 comments

3. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

nytimes.com — 681 points, 177 comments

https://archive.ph/Kv6yS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/01/mike-tomlin-mi...

4. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

blog.cloudflare.com — 642 points, 218 comments

5. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

github.com — 634 points, 178 comments

6. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

frogandtoad.ai — 592 points, 136 comments

7. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

blog.gitbutler.com — 583 points, 536 comments

8. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

lwn.net — 583 points, 411 comments

9. Pi Durable

earendil.com — 515 points, 77 comments

Related: Pi 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069 - Oct 2026 (184 comments)

10. FLUX 3 Image

bfl.ai — 445 points, 96 comments

11. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

arstechnica.com — 417 points, 380 comments

12. DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

deepseek.com — 417 points, 228 comments

13. SvelteKit 3

svelte.dev — 415 points, 181 comments

14. RIP, vector database

turbopuffer.com — 405 points, 116 comments

15. Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

techpowerup.com — 400 points, 446 comments

16. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

stillwet.art — 392 points, 114 comments

17. Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

erictopol.substack.com — 375 points, 196 comments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10955-0
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00853-0

18. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

osnews.com — 359 points, 156 comments

19. Sites in ChatGPT

chatgpt.com — 354 points, 343 comments

20. Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

youtube.com — 346 points, 128 comments

21. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

inrng.com — 315 points, 84 comments

22. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

blog.cloudflare.com — 297 points, 112 comments

23. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

404media.co — 294 points, 228 comments

24. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

rtl-sdr.com — 294 points, 67 comments

25. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

nnethercote.github.io — 284 points, 174 comments

26. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

277 points, 391 comments

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per…

27. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

whec.com — 277 points, 67 comments

28. Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu — 270 points, 237 comments

29. How Singapore's government-run dating service works

singapore-samizdat.com — 260 points, 375 comments

30. Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

nytimes.com — 259 points, 249 comments

31. The death of web development education

molily.de — 241 points, 194 comments

32. Tiny Brutalism

placeholders.itch.io — 235 points, 35 comments

33. Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

resobscura.substack.com — 229 points, 80 comments

34. Turbo Haskell

comonad.com — 217 points, 67 comments

35. Red Hat being phased out of existence?

techrights.org — 215 points, 146 comments

36. FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

cnbc.com — 211 points, 162 comments

37. Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

stoppels.ch — 202 points, 273 comments

38. GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

news.synopsys.com — 190 points, 111 comments

39. Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

twitter.com — 189 points, 106 comments

40. To grieve, or not to grieve?

xenaproject.wordpress.com — 186 points, 157 comments

41. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

github.com — 179 points, 37 comments

42. Context Language Models

arxiv.org — 178 points, 52 comments

43. CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

cssbed.com — 167 points, 48 comments

44. RacketCon Is Saturday

con.racket-lang.org — 159 points, 56 comments

45. ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

blog.arxiv.org — 152 points, 76 comments

46. Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

science.org — 138 points, 120 comments

47. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

136 points, 699 comments

Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers…

48. Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers

agostbiro.net — 131 points, 78 comments

49. Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

tangled.org — 127 points, 50 comments

50. Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com — 126 points, 21 comments

51. SlutCon

thenewcritic.com — 123 points, 41 comments

52. Martian chaos terrain

en.wikipedia.org — 115 points, 29 comments

53. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

spectrum.ieee.org — 111 points, 83 comments

54. Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors

github.com — 107 points, 11 comments

Hi HN, I'm the creator of Pyxel, a free, MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python. I've been developing it since 2018, and it recently passed 18,000 stars on GitHub. Pyxel includes pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors, so you can create a game's visuals and audio as…

55. Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

github.com — 106 points, 17 comments

56. US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

reuters.com — 99 points, 154 comments

57. How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain

mailfully.com — 93 points, 31 comments

58. An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism

ft.com — 90 points, 65 comments

59. Effect 4.0

effect.website — 88 points, 70 comments

60. Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes

github.com — 88 points, 7 comments

61. Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

apnews.com — 84 points, 97 comments

62. Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

openid.net — 82 points, 28 comments

63. Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

essex.ac.uk — 81 points, 19 comments

64. Page Table Memory Consumption

frn.sh — 78 points, 13 comments

65. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

github.com — 78 points, 9 comments

66. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

daringfireball.net — 71 points, 33 comments

67. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com — 69 points, 38 comments

68. ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements

paradedb.com — 69 points, 11 comments

69. IANA's email about why example.com changed

oliverdunk.com — 65 points, 31 comments

70. Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly

rhun.app — 64 points, 51 comments

I found that I'm not using even 1/3 of vim/vscode features anymore. That's wht I'm building rhun - a small code editor for Linux, Windows and Apple silicon Macs. It obviously has Vim mode, a terminal, Git diffs and a panel for Claude Code or Codex sessions. The editor and pixel…

71. Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

cambridge.org — 64 points, 46 comments

72. Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping

sigh.dev — 63 points, 74 comments

73. Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com

arstechnica.com — 63 points, 29 comments

74. A fifth of Swiss Alpine ice has vanished in five years

swissinfo.ch — 61 points, 2 comments

75. Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models

polyedergarten.de — 60 points, 6 comments

76. Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites

articlesofinterest.substack.com — 60 points, 4 comments

77. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]

tomandmaria.com — 60 points, 2 comments

78. Let's Ditch Google (Verb)

adam.farkas.pro — 59 points, 77 comments

79. Beating the compiler (2024)

mattkeeter.com — 59 points, 45 comments

80. Now That's an Impurity Story

science.org — 59 points, 5 comments

81. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

liquidbrain.net — 57 points, 39 comments

82. Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

blog.cryptographyengineering.com — 56 points, 100 comments

83. Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family

aboutamazon.com — 55 points, 118 comments

84. Sudo – A dedicated music player designed around listening to music

sudo.music — 55 points, 81 comments

85. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose

lathoa.ai — 54 points, 51 comments

I made this for kids around 10 to 14. A robot called Errol solves a math problem step by step and one of the steps is wrong. The kid has to find it and say what's wrong with it. Sometimes nothing is wrong, so just saying "there's a mistake" every time doesn't work. The user…

86. OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology

oki.com — 54 points, 28 comments

87. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch

neuroai.science — 54 points, 11 comments

88. Billions of triangles redux

zeux.io — 54 points, 5 comments

89. Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

wired.com — 53 points, 91 comments

90. Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

databasearchitects.blogspot.com — 51 points, 9 comments

91. macOS 27 is so buggy

osxdaily.com — 50 points, 53 comments

92. Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI

innerloop.works — 49 points, 8 comments

Hi HN, I'm Justin. Breadcrumb records everything you do on your Mac (screen + meetings + AI transcripts + what you and your AI decided) and turns it into memory your AI can search. It's local and encrypted. You can also teach it rules by talking to it and it makes sure the right…

93. Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections

nbcnews.com — 48 points, 138 comments

94. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

cmu.edu — 48 points, 48 comments

95. Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt

avherald.com — 48 points, 7 comments

96. Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

techcrunch.com — 47 points, 32 comments

97. The Softmax function and its derivative

eli.thegreenplace.net — 46 points, 2 comments

98. Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

nature.com — 45 points, 4 comments

99. MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today

red5.net — 43 points, 11 comments

100. Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype

technologyreview.com — 42 points, 38 comments

Issue #1

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Gemini 4 Argon

blog.google — 1,705 points, 1,199 comments

See also: Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236

2. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

openai.com — 1,067 points, 955 comments

3. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

github.com — 926 points, 394 comments

4. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

derekthompson.org — 840 points, 741 comments

5. America.gov

america.gov — 780 points, 744 comments

6. Dots: Always-on agents

openai.com — 770 points, 647 comments

7. You said no MCP

earendil.com — 687 points, 363 comments

8. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

spectrum.ieee.org — 593 points, 340 comments

9. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

eff.org — 571 points, 432 comments

10. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

tomwojcik.com — 525 points, 391 comments

11. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

theguardian.com — 519 points, 306 comments

12. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

squareorbits.com — 492 points, 364 comments

13. So you think you could be an electrician?

asteriskmag.com — 483 points, 454 comments

14. Ask HN: What are you reading?

472 points, 884 comments

I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...

15. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

twitter.com — 468 points, 499 comments

Related: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqzjzr893yv4o

16. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

jorgegarciaherrero.com — 426 points, 139 comments

17. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed

worksinprogress.news — 418 points, 306 comments

18. What is going on with ceiling fans

mcmansionhell.com — 414 points, 382 comments

19. The AI Race Just Got Awkward

insufferable.dev — 413 points, 465 comments

20. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

space.bl2.net — 408 points, 109 comments

21. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

spectrum.ieee.org — 397 points, 171 comments

22. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

bbc.com — 393 points, 305 comments

See also https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/vermonts-largest-energy-sourc...

23. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

tomshardware.com — 388 points, 397 comments

24. PS5 Relapse Exploit

github.com — 353 points, 255 comments

25. The last time my family was replaced by technology

manuel.darcemont.fr — 340 points, 643 comments

26. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

twitter.com — 338 points, 141 comments

27. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

aviationweek.com — 328 points, 405 comments

28. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

hereticpleb.vercel.app — 322 points, 253 comments

29. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

thespacereview.com — 307 points, 163 comments

30. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

backblaze.com — 307 points, 113 comments

31. Tcl/Tk 9.1

tcl-lang.org — 305 points, 146 comments

32. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

unsung.aresluna.org — 305 points, 59 comments

33. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

cbc.ca — 297 points, 158 comments

34. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns

bookofshapes.com — 285 points, 25 comments

35. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

postalemployeenetwork.com — 281 points, 169 comments

36. OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network

github.com — 279 points, 126 comments

37. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

56k.rip — 278 points, 112 comments

38. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

prospect.org — 266 points, 241 comments

39. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

anthropic.com — 256 points, 241 comments

40. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

quantamagazine.org — 254 points, 99 comments

41. EDG C++ front-end goes public

edgcpp.org — 252 points, 131 comments

https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler

42. What TLA+ can and can't check

buttondown.com — 246 points, 51 comments

43. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

github.com — 242 points, 95 comments

44. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

theregister.com — 238 points, 149 comments

45. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

netlify.com — 230 points, 109 comments

46. AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

thenationalnews.com — 222 points, 335 comments

47. ChatGPT Pro 500

help.openai.com — 219 points, 269 comments

48. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

nltimes.nl — 216 points, 201 comments

49. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

magazine.sebastianraschka.com — 214 points, 9 comments

50. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like

theguardian.com — 212 points, 125 comments

51. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes

ledge.sh — 205 points, 88 comments

Hi HN, Ledge is a Markdown notebook that runs shell commands, code, SQL, etc from inside your own notes. I built Ledge because I spend much of my day copy/pasting commands from my notes into the terminal. I was inspired by how much cmux helped me organize my terminals - but…

52. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

github.com — 194 points, 96 comments

Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on your hardware. It works on Mac, Linux, and Windows on any hardware and is up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. We're both software engineers and…

53. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

mattkeeter.com — 193 points, 11 comments

54. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

alphapixeldev.com — 181 points, 72 comments

55. Claude partial outage

status.claude.com — 171 points, 152 comments

56. Using any C++ library in Godot

blog.conan.io — 169 points, 68 comments

57. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

frostyard.github.io — 167 points, 111 comments

One of the things that Windows really got right is WSL2. I drive an atomic Linux distro for daily use, but wanted a way to develop with multiple different distros with that same WSL UX. NSL is my answer. It is a faithful reproduction of the developer experience, powered by a…

58. Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

appleinsider.com — 164 points, 43 comments

59. Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

electrek.co — 161 points, 222 comments

60. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

gevernova.com — 152 points, 192 comments

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/climate/nuclear-reactor-t... (https://archive.ph/VmDVO)

61. Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu — 152 points, 110 comments

62. Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

withouthotair.com — 151 points, 92 comments

63. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

hereticpleb.vercel.app — 151 points, 80 comments

64. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

blog.haskell.org — 149 points, 39 comments

65. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan

tokyodev.com — 147 points, 46 comments

66. cp: -r or -R?

movq.de — 146 points, 123 comments

67. How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

railcode.dev — 138 points, 77 comments

68. Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning

twitter.com — 136 points, 72 comments

69. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

projecthub.arduino.cc — 133 points, 32 comments

We built a desktop companion robot that is powered by Arduino UNO Q. Project is open source: source code, 3D printable files and assembly instructions are available at Arduino Project Hub. Robot is equipped with camera, distance sensor, buzzer, moves head and arms with 3 servo…

70. Commit description as a thinking tool

yedhu.me — 131 points, 78 comments

71. RSS Feeds for Last.fm

lfm.xiffy.nl — 131 points, 50 comments

72. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

america.gov — 127 points, 51 comments

73. 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

wsj.com — 125 points, 194 comments

74. Mathematical Origami

mathigon.org — 125 points, 23 comments

75. Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

agmai.org — 123 points, 224 comments

76. Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance

123 points, 42 comments

A few months ago we started building a model router for coding agents because we thought we could outperform any single model with an ensemble approach. Recently we’ve achieved that milestone and I want to talk about how we did it. First of all, a quick explanation: the Weave…

77. Dear Software Makers

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 122 points, 91 comments

78. Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

gamersnexus.net — 121 points, 113 comments

79. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

turkeyland.net — 121 points, 104 comments

80. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

enigma.design — 118 points, 40 comments

I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of…