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  • 1 3

    Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust (nordstjernen.org)
  • 2 24

    Pull the Plug on Technofascism Before It Reboots (www.techpolicy.press)
  • 1 11

    An intuition for how neural nets can understand text (info.zairai.ai)
  • 11 19

    US Democrats Win Enough Seats Nationwide to End Presidential Electoral College (newrepublic.com)
  • 7 40

    September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more (servo.org)
  • 54 59

    Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies (kottke.org)
  • 5 93

    Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass (alpinelinux.org)
  • 3 22

    'There Is One Fight': American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy (www.404media.co)
  • 1 5

    From 25M instructions to one faulty skip: fault analysis of a secure boot (www.eshard.com)
  • 31 65

    Download your favourite YouTube videos (criminallyvulgar.dev)
  • 35 54

    I wish tech companies knew more about me (rakhim.exotext.com)
  • 1 53

    Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64 (phoboslab.org)
  • 42 95

    MCP Explained (mcp-explained.com)
  • 39 34

    Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad (vivaldi.com)
  • 126 157

    Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (www.theverge.com)
  • 1 6

    A Clock Made of Branches (fzakaria.com)
  • 43 116

    GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research (alignment.openai.com)
  • 5 118

    OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM (www.openssh.org)
  • 5 18

    TScert: A Sound Core for TypeScript (github.com)
  • 289 1037

    Sshole (sshhole.com)
  • 13 66

    Moment of Ruby: An Argument for Nothing (www.aha.io)
  • 90 172

    Awesome repositories are no longer awesome (erikgahner.github.io)
  • 23 17

    Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 10 19

    Replacing homepage demo media with looping HTML and CSS (stepshots.com)
  • 66 147

    OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability (hachyderm.io)
  • 37 87

    Being a kid making games in the early 2000s (jaytholen.net)
  • 73 128

    Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base (ernie.baidu.com)
  • 31 51

    TextEdit vs. Pages (leancrew.com)
  • 1 27

    Chip Art (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 67

    Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 0 13

    NASA's 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit (www.reuters.com)
  • 50 84

    Partial Operator Precedence (ziglang.org)
  • 19 65

    Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS (lists.trustedfirmware.org)
  • 16 48

    Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio (www.altera.com)
  • 64 319

    Lemmings CSS Animation (markblah.github.io)
  • 94 120

    So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (www.karthihegde.dev)
  • 26 191

    Spreading Liquid with Three.js (mofu-dev.com)
  • 5 32

    11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams (wiredream.com)
  • 98 78

    Frustrated ranchers want people to quit 'rescuing' their working guardian dogs (cowboystatedaily.com)
  • 2 21

    PageScribe: Handwriting and offline dictionary audio for KOReader (aspireai.kiranadimatyam.com)
  • 76 56

    You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents (orchidfiles.com)
  • 184 238

    Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity (www.spacex.com)
  • 11 19

    Bf16 might be freezing your weight updates (lacuna.tiptreesystems.com)
  • 218 364

    Images 2.6 (openai.com)
  • 327 445

    A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)
  • 3 6

    AI poisoning: are we using AI, or is AI using us? (blog.sparkcan.com)
  • 24 32

    Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email (mony.lol)
  • 32 49

    Is Curiosity Good for Us? (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 62 74

    Death Comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)
  • 5 38

    Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (github.com)
  • 68 47

    Less Popular Than Coal (www.argmin.net)
  • 10 42

    Don't Call It a Decision Model (typesafe.ai)
  • 18 22

    Successful People (2013) (blog.samaltman.com)
  • 42 51

    Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?
  • 29 50

    Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports (squid-protocol.github.io)
  • 12 134

    Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements (icode4.coffee)
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  • 8 53

    If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of arbitration (readthediff.substack.com)
  • 74 81

    Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
  • 57 145

    Everything is an AI scam now (www.davidralphlewis.co.uk)
  • 8 11

    AR guitar with just a laptop and scissors (www.arguitar.com)
  • 402 1210

    Residential proxies detected on White House network (layer3intel.com)
  • 7 41

    From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region (news.cornell.edu)
  • 32 236

    Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io)
  • 62 167

    Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s (www.qualcomm.com)
  • 310 159

    Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders (arstechnica.com)
  • 152 299

    Insects don't swarm at LED lights (www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org)
  • 211 203

    Conductor is joining Meta (www.conductor.build)
  • 116 323

    Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (www.ricursive.com)
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  • 70 124

    Have I befriended a murderer? (longreads.com)
  • 83 126

    Education shouldn't be held for ransom (blog.kagi.com)
  • 2 51

    Conductor is joining Meta (www.conductor.build)
  • 7 30

    Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust (www.bwplotka.dev)
  • 189 367

    A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
  • 133 130

    BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 39 116

    This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 (ladybird.org)
  • 34 93

    Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
  • 96 261

    Tencent Hy4 (hy.tencent.ai)
  • 121 234

    Progress on provable inference for large language models (www.anthropic.com)
  • 41 37

    An end to buggy web apps (replay.io)
  • 5 37

    Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick (www.livescience.com)
  • 13 14

    Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery (www.theguardian.com)
  • 172 600

    Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
  • 380 148

    'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 78 112

    Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)
  • 154 99

    YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (techcrunch.com)
  • 207 565

    AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 22 43

    Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com)
  • 88 111

    Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language (evergreenlang.net)
  • 6 34

    Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)
  • 147 128

    A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines (www.cnn.com)
  • 1 31

    Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com)
  • 31 45

    Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet (www.getgrist.com)
  • 87 259

    OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (openai.com)
  • 558 459

    Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
  • 254 327

    Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
  • 30 145

    Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) (lists.debian.org)
  • 719 341

    US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures (www.semafor.com)
  • 380 621

    North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (www.theregister.com)
  • 11 43

    Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media (www.youtube.com)
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  • 13 13

    Disaster is still better than AI (jasonpolak.substack.com)
  • 1 3

    The engineering around post-quantum cryptography is as important (github.com)
  • 80 100

    Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution (lists.debian.org)
  • 34 81

    A map of 5000+ midterm ads (admap.org)
  • 94 82

    Hackers hit French national blood bank (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 101 222

    Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (www.phoronix.com)
  • 721 1233

    AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 82 67

    RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb (aroundprague.cz)
  • 33 46

    Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random (github.com)
  • 180 686

    Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
  • 309 315

    Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (www.theguardian.com)
  • 19 25

    Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh (osewa.dev)
  • 131 263

    Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 84 82

    Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman (milkman.dev)
  • 284 607

    Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (www.mindstudio.ai)
  • 136 238

    Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (blog.cosmos-institute.org)
  • 241 381

    Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
  • 78 54

    AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks (www.cnbc.com)
  • 76 158

    The lost malloc() (napcakes.nekoweb.org)
  • 57 90

    Democrats Rout GOP (www.nytimes.com)
  • 5 14

    Democrats Capture Congress Majority (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 36

    US midterm elections 2026: live results from Senate, House and governor races (www.theguardian.com)
  • 48 140

    US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 9

    Runs Scored in World Baseball Classic (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 3 15

    Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI (apnews.com)
  • 118 460

    Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
  • 60 132

    Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (www.dana-farber.org)
  • 142 272

    Democrats win control of the House of Representatives (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 7 82

    Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
  • 69 127

    Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
  • 0 6

    The Pnyx and the Agora (2016) (www.readingdesign.org)
  • 33 53

    Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 352 409

    C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
  • 41 145

    Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (lamont.columbia.edu)
  • 5 13

    Running 17 Claude Code bots in a real company for $100/month (botsinproduction.com)
  • 251 106

    Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
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    Prompting Is Programming (www.brethorsting.com)