nytimes.com — 2,959 points, 625 comments

https://archive.ph/y4Egm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart

2. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

mistral.ai — 1,460 points, 393 comments

3. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

arkm.com — 1,321 points, 808 comments

4. LLM Voice

martinfowler.com — 474 points, 250 comments

5. DoorDash to acquire Instacart

about.doordash.com — 465 points, 629 comments

6. H.264 Is Magic (2016)

sidbala.com — 429 points, 149 comments

7. ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

nytimes.com — 424 points, 397 comments

https://archive.ph/Ykfga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter

8. Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

kadoa.com — 414 points, 344 comments

9. Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

artificialanalysis.ai — 336 points, 242 comments

10. Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

nypost.com — 325 points, 224 comments

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-..., https://archive.ph/K7bih

11. Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

smsofdeath.com — 321 points, 183 comments

12. Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

dreamgroup.com — 314 points, 154 comments

13. I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

washingtonpost.com — 303 points, 352 comments

https://archive.ph/sGqBh

14. If IPv4 were land

iptrust.co — 282 points, 397 comments

15. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

labs.ycombinator.com — 279 points, 98 comments

16. The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

electrek.co — 274 points, 199 comments

17. Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

text.npr.org — 266 points, 75 comments

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

blog.orange.tw — 241 points, 38 comments

19. 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)

20. How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

publicpolicy.googleblog.com — 232 points, 184 comments

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

wired.com — 243 points, 172 comments

20. Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

cfsg.axiommath.ai — 241 points, 77 comments

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. Type Server Protocol

github.com — 268 points, 176 comments

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

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

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. CVE Tracker

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

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

bugzilla.mozilla.org — 213 points, 163 comments

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. Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

techspot.com — 331 points, 245 comments

16. Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude

sverigesradio.se — 324 points, 125 comments

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

twitter.com — 313 points, 208 comments

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

humantransit.org — 307 points, 168 comments

19. A farewell to Arc browser

arc.net — 287 points, 256 comments

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

rtfeldman.com — 282 points, 102 comments

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

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

e360.yale.edu — 330 points, 199 comments

20. Mistral Large 4

mistral.ai — 327 points, 105 comments

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

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

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

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. I Became a Citizen of Japan

derekwessman.com — 234 points, 182 comments

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

niemanlab.org — 232 points, 65 comments

15. 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…

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

github.com — 222 points, 18 comments

17. 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…

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

finance.yahoo.com — 208 points, 203 comments

19. Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

getlazarus.org — 208 points, 54 comments

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

hoaspy.com — 203 points, 407 comments

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: 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. 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.

18. I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

github.com — 251 points, 236 comments

19. RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

youtube.com — 250 points, 83 comments

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

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

ritchietorres.house.gov — 242 points, 141 comments

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. Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

github.com — 275 points, 76 comments

17. BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

bipm.org — 272 points, 141 comments

18. Why We're Banning AI

currentaffairs.org — 261 points, 203 comments

19. Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

blogs.gnome.org — 258 points, 257 comments

20. 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)

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…

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

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. AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

arxiv.org — 282 points, 145 comments

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

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

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. Nix wrote half of my debugger

fzakaria.com — 241 points, 76 comments

14. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

blogs.windows.com — 228 points, 69 comments

15. Knuth reward check

thomas-huehn.com — 225 points, 88 comments

16. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

motherduck.com — 223 points, 71 comments

17. Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

cockroachlabs.com — 219 points, 119 comments

18. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

momo5502.com — 218 points, 153 comments

19. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

theguardian.com — 217 points, 109 comments

20. Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say

nbcphiladelphia.com — 215 points, 157 comments

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

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. God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

github.com — 251 points, 113 comments

17. WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

tonym.us — 241 points, 238 comments

18. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

readingchronicle.co.uk — 241 points, 218 comments

19. Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

quake-srp.pages.dev — 241 points, 181 comments

20. DuckDB Ducklake

github.com — 240 points, 40 comments

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

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

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

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. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

cambridge.org — 237 points, 272 comments

12. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com — 233 points, 209 comments

13. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu — 224 points, 155 comments

14. FTL: A new operating system for clouds

ftl-os.org — 210 points, 78 comments

https://github.com/nuta/ftl

15. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

vincent.bernat.ch — 206 points, 44 comments

16. The cost of lies: A Mineserver story

jeremyreimer.com — 188 points, 91 comments

17. Infidel goes wild

blog.zarfhome.com — 185 points, 42 comments

18. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

github.com — 184 points, 74 comments

19. ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

getartcraft.com — 180 points, 246 comments

20. In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults

energytransition.org — 179 points, 208 comments

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. On social reality in China

lesswrong.com — 267 points, 269 comments

17. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

ben.stolovitz.com — 255 points, 122 comments

18. Muse Gadgets

gadgets.muse.ai — 254 points, 112 comments

19. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

claude.dev — 252 points, 162 comments

20. Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared

smarthomescene.com — 246 points, 129 comments

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. Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

youtube.com — 346 points, 128 comments

7. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

developer.apple.com — 319 points, 221 comments

8. The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

gwern.net — 317 points, 187 comments

9. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

inrng.com — 315 points, 84 comments

10. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

blog.cloudflare.com — 297 points, 112 comments

11. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

404media.co — 294 points, 228 comments

12. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

rtl-sdr.com — 294 points, 67 comments

13. 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

14. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

nnethercote.github.io — 284 points, 174 comments

15. Zig v0.17.0

ziglang.org — 279 points, 208 comments

16. 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…

17. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

whec.com — 277 points, 67 comments

18. The Tao of Backup

taobackup.com — 276 points, 118 comments

19. The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

yuka.dev — 273 points, 207 comments

20. Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu — 270 points, 237 comments

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. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

spectrum.ieee.org — 397 points, 171 comments

17. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

stillwet.art — 392 points, 114 comments

18. 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

19. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

osnews.com — 359 points, 156 comments

20. Sites in ChatGPT

chatgpt.com — 354 points, 343 comments

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