Hacker News: Top 70

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 Pico CSS is no longer maintained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. Get Ready for Touch on Mac

developer.apple.com — 33 points, 75 comments

68. Decompiling Games with AI: Virtueel Zoetermeer

bou.ke — 33 points, 8 comments

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

npr.org — 33 points, 3 comments

70. 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

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

aclu.org — 38 points, 10 comments

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

lemire.me — 38 points, 5 comments

66. 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!

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

science.org — 38 points, 1 comment

68. Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls

kevinreuning.com — 37 points, 61 comments

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

bbc.com — 37 points, 4 comments

70. An architectural comparison of Obsidian Canvas and Heptabase

fluxlinks.com — 35 points, 15 comments

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

gregoryalexander.com — 49 points, 39 comments

54. AI is ruining haunted houses

plagiarismtoday.com — 48 points, 111 comments

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

blog.ericgoldman.org — 47 points, 51 comments

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

unusualwhales.com — 47 points, 9 comments

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

apnews.com — 46 points, 8 comments

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

cnn.com — 44 points, 62 comments

59. Python on My Wrist

tildeweb.nl — 44 points, 7 comments

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

gadgetreview.com — 43 points, 3 comments

61. KibernetykMono – A Geometric Monospace Typeface

pavlokilko.github.io — 43 points, 3 comments

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

tomshardware.com — 41 points, 23 comments

63. New Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System

rubinobservatory.org — 41 points, 5 comments

64. Historical Scientific Instruments

nealstephenson.substack.com — 41 points, 3 comments

65. In China, the AI bubble has burst

reuters.com — 41 points, 2 comments

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

phys.org — 40 points, 8 comments

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

blog.invisiblethings.org — 40 points, 4 comments

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

soranews24.com — 40 points, 2 comments

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

independent.co.uk — 39 points, 14 comments

70. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0

artificialanalysis.ai — 39 points, 5 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

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

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

symby.com — 55 points, 28 comments

53. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates

captnemo.in — 55 points, 22 comments

54. Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

categorica.io — 55 points, 16 comments

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

quantum5.ca — 55 points, 12 comments

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

newrepublic.com — 54 points, 1 comment

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

twitter.com — 53 points, 22 comments

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

showbiz411.com — 53 points, 18 comments

59. Reforming English Spelling

blog.oup.com — 52 points, 124 comments

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

terrytao.wordpress.com — 52 points, 43 comments

61. No Source Code? No Problem

queue.acm.org — 52 points, 41 comments

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

bloomberg.com — 52 points, 14 comments

63. Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker

blog.simone.computer — 50 points, 5 comments

64. An incremental approach to JIT construction

dl.acm.org — 49 points, 10 comments

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

johnhendersontravel.com — 48 points, 15 comments

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

science.org — 48 points, 10 comments

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

coveringclimatenow.org — 47 points, 11 comments

68. FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered

codeberg.org — 47 points, 10 comments

69. The first broken iPhone Duos are here

theverge.com — 46 points, 22 comments

70. I Do Understand Relativity

southampton.ac.uk — 45 points, 6 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

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

economist.com — 54 points, 63 comments

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

cnn.com — 54 points, 31 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. Four Years with Decker

beyondloom.com — 63 points, 17 comments

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

nytimes.com — 63 points, 2 comments

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

brianroemmele.substack.com — 63 points, 1 comment

64. Pillowfort Is Closing

pillowfort.social — 61 points, 39 comments

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

idiallo.com — 60 points, 52 comments

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

telegraph.co.uk — 59 points, 116 comments

67. Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2

jepsen.io — 59 points, 3 comments

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

e360.yale.edu — 57 points, 15 comments

69. After automation: Solo founding will be the default

every.to — 56 points, 63 comments

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

404media.co — 56 points, 10 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

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

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. OpenPrinter

crowdsupply.com — 38 points, 8 comments

64. 800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living

cbc.ca — 37 points, 61 comments

65. CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks

forbes.com — 34 points, 26 comments

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

axios.com — 34 points, 8 comments

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

reddit.com — 33 points, 2 comments

68. Integer to String Conversion (2014)

tia.mat.br — 32 points, 0 comments

69. Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM

vllm.ai — 31 points, 0 comments

70. Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation

samyeyo.github.io — 30 points, 21 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. Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities

nltimes.nl — 50 points, 3 comments

58. TikTok bans Musk documentary account

theverge.com — 48 points, 3 comments

59. Gnome OS Preview

lwn.net — 47 points, 21 comments

60. Developing for Debugging (2025)

davepacheco.net — 47 points, 0 comments

61. 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…

62. Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity

eli.thegreenplace.net — 45 points, 10 comments

63. "Traditional, but Puzzling"

unsung.aresluna.org — 45 points, 7 comments

64. Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator

purplesyringa.moe — 44 points, 13 comments

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

sciencefocus.com — 43 points, 129 comments

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

economist.com — 43 points, 7 comments

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

techpowerup.com — 42 points, 9 comments

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

theguardian.com — 41 points, 21 comments

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

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

70. Self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS

dataswamp.org — 40 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. Fun Extending the C Preprocessor

davidpriver.com — 55 points, 41 comments

65. The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

words.filippo.io — 53 points, 9 comments

66. GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

github.com — 52 points, 27 comments

67. Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

telegraph.co.uk — 52 points, 21 comments

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

blog.bityard.net — 52 points, 13 comments

69. "In every study that considered the question"

unsung.aresluna.org — 50 points, 29 comments

70. 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

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. One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is

hannahritchie.substack.com — 70 points, 69 comments

56. Tesla makes cars that fly? [video]

youtube.com — 69 points, 2 comments

57. Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

404media.co — 68 points, 103 comments

58. Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans

reuters.com — 68 points, 21 comments

59. Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

va3ndf.com — 68 points, 15 comments

60. X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

theregister.com — 67 points, 106 comments

61. I let an AI run my startup for a week

daily.tinyprojects.dev — 67 points, 73 comments

62. Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition (2025)

courk.cc — 66 points, 18 comments

63. Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter

sklar.rocks — 65 points, 73 comments

64. Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo

nltimes.nl — 65 points, 22 comments

65. 16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

youtube.com — 65 points, 20 comments

66. Custom server to revive neato bots

github.com — 65 points, 3 comments

67. Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

6abc.com — 64 points, 65 comments

68. Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

theguardian.com — 63 points, 17 comments

69. Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military

nbcnews.com — 59 points, 29 comments

70. Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python

stario.dev — 58 points, 24 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

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. The Haunted Toys R Us

retroist.com — 70 points, 43 comments

66. The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

robotsinplainenglish.com — 70 points, 21 comments

67. Where is all the new, good software?

natemeyvis.com — 68 points, 141 comments

68. BB(10) > Graham's Number

github.com — 68 points, 75 comments

69. An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

animationobsessive.substack.com — 67 points, 9 comments

70. Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster

hudsonrivertrading.com — 64 points, 5 comments

Issue #13

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

tomshardware.com — 918 points, 1,007 comments

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

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

youtube.com — 877 points, 259 comments

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

yyhh.org — 808 points, 608 comments

4. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

bleepingcomputer.com — 796 points, 515 comments

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

5. A Modern Web App in C

prophitt.me — 716 points, 329 comments

6. GLM-Legal

z.ai — 676 points, 371 comments

7. Muse Wonder

research.meta.ai — 672 points, 385 comments

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

bbc.com — 625 points, 205 comments

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

github.com — 610 points, 294 comments

10. 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

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

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. How strong is the strong interaction?

cerncourier.com — 53 points, 26 comments

41. Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025

nber.org — 52 points, 72 comments

42. Software developers are not okay

baldurbjarnason.com — 52 points, 42 comments

43. I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here

rachelbythebay.com — 52 points, 38 comments

44. FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

tommyb3ll.github.io — 51 points, 25 comments

45. Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System

github.com — 51 points, 12 comments

46. Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties

pressaudit.org — 50 points, 61 comments

47. A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease

sciencedaily.com — 50 points, 28 comments

48. AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic

metedata.substack.com — 48 points, 56 comments

49. AI agents in a stand-up call

atoll92.github.io — 48 points, 52 comments

50. 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC

makeuseof.com — 48 points, 27 comments

51. Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me

twitter.com — 46 points, 2 comments

52. Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal

github.com — 43 points, 25 comments

53. Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

theverge.com — 42 points, 80 comments

54. There's little that's "inevitable" about AI

deadsimpletech.com — 41 points, 99 comments

55. Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

reuters.com — 41 points, 35 comments

56. Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems

bbc.com — 39 points, 45 comments

57. Netflix plans to cut 5% of its workforce

reuters.com — 39 points, 7 comments

58. Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions

dpreview.com — 38 points, 57 comments

59. Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld

celld.dev — 37 points, 5 comments

60. South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

france24.com — 36 points, 12 comments

61. A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

righto.com — 36 points, 10 comments

62. Put a price on breakthroughs

alexwang.ai — 36 points, 10 comments

63. If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

groundlevel-ai.com — 35 points, 107 comments

64. open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI

codeberg.org — 35 points, 18 comments

65. Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

nytimes.com — 35 points, 8 comments

66. Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor'

variety.com — 33 points, 11 comments

67. Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]

youtube.com — 32 points, 66 comments

68. Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB

techpowerup.com — 32 points, 13 comments

69. Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

bleepingcomputer.com — 32 points, 8 comments

70. Meadows – a small language for stock-and-flow diagrams that run

lorezzed.github.io — 32 points, 4 comments

Issue #10

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Triple-A Minesweeper

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

2. Cloudflare acquires Deno

deno.com — 1,391 points, 728 comments

3. Sorry, I'm in a meeting

iminafleeting.com — 1,056 points, 289 comments

4. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

rea.tools — 814 points, 340 comments

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

gizmodo.com — 709 points, 364 comments

6. Our $445M Series D

oxide.computer — 705 points, 342 comments

7. The Lightbulb Computer

lightbulbcomputer.com — 619 points, 99 comments

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

reuters.com — 523 points, 528 comments

9. Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

nobelprize.org — 493 points, 254 comments

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

beaksec.github.io — 473 points, 329 comments

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

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. The Mathocalypse

scottaaronson.blog — 50 points, 1 comment

57. AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

ahmath.org — 49 points, 48 comments

58. One of America's Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

gadgetreview.com — 49 points, 14 comments

59. Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says

sci.news — 47 points, 115 comments

60. Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI

github.com — 47 points, 67 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. Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

videogameschronicle.com — 45 points, 12 comments

66. Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing

news.flinders.edu.au — 45 points, 11 comments

67. Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools

svg-spark.vercel.app — 44 points, 7 comments

68. Calling a function in C without naming it

wiro.world — 43 points, 15 comments

69. I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again

baty.net — 42 points, 47 comments

70. ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains

icann.org — 41 points, 55 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. Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure

andreklein.net — 65 points, 123 comments

53. Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

datocms.com — 65 points, 34 comments

54. Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

kagan.in — 65 points, 21 comments

55. ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

bbc.co.uk — 64 points, 44 comments

56. Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

github.com — 64 points, 27 comments

57. Berthd

berthd.app — 63 points, 81 comments

58. Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector

github.com — 63 points, 26 comments

59. A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

dbushell.com — 59 points, 127 comments

60. It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

economist.com — 58 points, 101 comments

61. Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

sciencedaily.com — 58 points, 14 comments

62. 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.

63. Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage

dw.com — 56 points, 19 comments

64. Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

linum.ai — 55 points, 19 comments

65. 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…

66. Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt

techdirt.com — 53 points, 3 comments

67. I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does

xda-developers.com — 52 points, 22 comments

68. Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round)

creolened.com — 52 points, 20 comments

69. 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...

70. Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl

mastodon.social — 52 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

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

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. An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

science.org — 50 points, 80 comments

40. 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…

41. Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers

tomshardware.com — 48 points, 18 comments

42. "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

404media.co — 47 points, 105 comments

43. Hacker News addiction and taking simple mundane breaks in life

smileplease.mataroa.blog — 47 points, 11 comments

44. U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok

thedailybeast.com — 47 points, 8 comments

45. We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You

youtube.com — 46 points, 16 comments

46. Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

ephemeral.cx — 44 points, 15 comments

47. Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search

blog.jetbrains.com — 41 points, 12 comments

48. I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster

reddit.com — 39 points, 2 comments

49. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

stelabouras.com — 37 points, 6 comments

50. Emails to and from Elon Musk that have been made public

elonemails.com — 34 points, 2 comments

51. The Legend of the Paper Crane

mazdastories.com — 33 points, 12 comments

52. Protest against housing crisis in Spain

theguardian.com — 32 points, 60 comments

53. OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils

news.lavx.hu — 32 points, 46 comments

54. I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around

island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev — 32 points, 31 comments

55. Iran is going after America's debt it's targeting the $40T America owes

jaymartin.substack.com — 32 points, 11 comments

56. Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill

cbc.ca — 29 points, 42 comments

57. RuneScape's Position on Gen AI

reddit.com — 28 points, 72 comments

58. Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering

newsletter.chainofthought.show — 28 points, 15 comments

59. The characters of plastics (2024)

yarchive.net — 28 points, 4 comments

60. Your Right to Privacy Doesn't Disappear When You're in Public

reason.com — 28 points, 1 comment

61. TurboPython – A Python-to-C++ Compiler

tpy-lang.org — 27 points, 14 comments

62. The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

nytimes.com — 26 points, 17 comments

63. The Auditor's Opinion

cringely.com — 26 points, 16 comments

64. There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (2025)

jaredpalmer.com — 25 points, 43 comments

65. Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting

birdshistory.com — 25 points, 14 comments

66. AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul

twitter.com — 24 points, 21 comments

67. GVisor is being donated to CNCF

gvisor.dev — 24 points, 12 comments

68. Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes

typst.app — 24 points, 3 comments

69. Writing code by hand is over, forever

eliocapella.com — 23 points, 61 comments

70. What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit

lesswrong.com — 22 points, 20 comments

Issue #4

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

1. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

947 points, 222 comments

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

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. The Heilbronn Problem

math.tejstead.com — 64 points, 14 comments

53. Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

telegraph.co.uk — 62 points, 100 comments

54. Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

computerhistory.org — 62 points, 44 comments

55. Holes (1996-2025)

plato.stanford.edu — 62 points, 12 comments

56. Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente

sanders.senate.gov — 62 points, 9 comments

57. How to hack time, with C2PA

da.vidbuchanan.co.uk — 62 points, 7 comments

58. Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models

reddit.com — 61 points, 53 comments

59. How to save a life without knowing CPR

bookofjoe2.blogspot.com — 59 points, 54 comments

60. Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

alexalejandre.com — 57 points, 15 comments

61. Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent

theregister.com — 57 points, 6 comments

62. How accurately calibrated is Jev?

maximumeffort.substack.com — 55 points, 22 comments

63. Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional

404media.co — 55 points, 7 comments

64. Quantitative Finance with OCaml

qcaml.com — 54 points, 11 comments

65. Mystery Function

codeset.ai — 53 points, 11 comments

66. Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

dave.recoil.org — 52 points, 40 comments

67. Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers

blog.cloudflare.com — 52 points, 11 comments

68. Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

theregister.com — 51 points, 23 comments

69. What if we stopped using GPUs? [video]

youtube.com — 51 points, 19 comments

70. Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

casp.ac — 50 points, 91 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. An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism

ft.com — 90 points, 65 comments

44. F.02 Decommission

figure.ai — 90 points, 50 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQDPDM

45. Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

joshua.hu — 90 points, 45 comments

46. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

lenfestinstitute.org — 89 points, 30 comments

47. Effect 4.0

effect.website — 88 points, 70 comments

48. Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL

reddit.com — 88 points, 66 comments

49. Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes

github.com — 88 points, 7 comments

50. Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

blog.google — 85 points, 79 comments

51. Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

apnews.com — 84 points, 97 comments

52. New York City should carefully measure a new tree

blog.willmeye.rs — 83 points, 16 comments

53. Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors

reuters.com — 82 points, 93 comments

54. Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

openid.net — 82 points, 28 comments

55. The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit

behindthecode.ca — 82 points, 16 comments

https://archive.is/WCnLA

56. Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

essex.ac.uk — 81 points, 19 comments

57. GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

agent-wow.sh — 78 points, 60 comments

58. Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio

tuftesrazor.scienceux.org — 78 points, 48 comments

59. Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

devforum.play.date — 78 points, 14 comments

60. gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer

github.com — 78 points, 10 comments

61. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

github.com — 78 points, 9 comments

62. Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason

technologyreview.com — 77 points, 161 comments

63. Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)

youtube.com — 76 points, 38 comments

64. Alarm Grows over 'Clearly Illegal' US Election Meddling in Brazil

commondreams.org — 74 points, 32 comments

65. Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

halide.cx — 73 points, 27 comments

https://github.com/halidecx/wpd

66. Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

theguardian.com — 70 points, 111 comments

67. Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble

gizmodo.com — 69 points, 78 comments

68. ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements

paradedb.com — 69 points, 11 comments

69. prevents me from logging into Vanguard

tanin.nanakorn.com — 67 points, 99 comments

70. European payments groups join forces to challenge US dominance

rte.ie — 64 points, 93 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. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

america.gov — 127 points, 51 comments

50. Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

tangled.org — 127 points, 50 comments

51. Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com — 126 points, 21 comments

52. 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

wsj.com — 125 points, 194 comments

53. 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…

54. SlutCon

thenewcritic.com — 123 points, 41 comments

55. Dear Software Makers

blog.jim-nielsen.com — 122 points, 91 comments

56. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

turkeyland.net — 121 points, 104 comments

57. Martian chaos terrain

en.wikipedia.org — 115 points, 29 comments

58. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

artificialanalysis.ai — 113 points, 62 comments

See also: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571

59. Your body of work thinks back at you

photoni.st — 112 points, 21 comments

60. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

spectrum.ieee.org — 111 points, 83 comments

61. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)

chompiclub.com — 108 points, 35 comments

62. 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…

63. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

sdf.org — 106 points, 27 comments

64. Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

github.com — 106 points, 17 comments

65. US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

reuters.com — 99 points, 154 comments

66. Gitea 28.0

blog.gitea.com — 99 points, 47 comments

67. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report

prospect.org — 95 points, 16 comments

68. Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program

404media.co — 93 points, 38 comments

69. How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain

mailfully.com — 93 points, 31 comments

70. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes

devz.cl — 90 points, 196 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