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  • 0 3

    In Praise of John Cale, the Superior Velvet (thequietus.com)
  • 1 5

    AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back (baromae.blogspot.com)
  • 0 4

    Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
  • 0 6

    Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
  • 20 45

    Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (www.avclub.com)
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  • 2 15

    Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 3 38

    Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (www.markround.com)
  • 79 62

    AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (www.anthropic.com)
  • 45 94

    'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (www.linkedin.com)
  • 32 164

    OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)
  • 55 73

    Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
  • 204 357

    Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)
  • 16 32

    French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.rnz.co.nz)
  • 77 121

    Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (www.wired.com)
  • 138 146

    Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
  • 7 56

    My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 0 17

    Show HN: I rewrote my website in Swift (sindresorhus.com)
  • 40 39

    Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts (www.mana.space)
  • 211 253

    AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
  • 219 169

    Thinking will become a hobby (www.spinellis.gr)
  • 24 72

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com)
  • 50 68

    Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
  • 26 101

    Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
  • 233 446

    Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)
  • 3 47

    Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses (www.reuters.com)
  • 126 307

    A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
  • 7 18

    French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.afp.com)
  • 54 207

    Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)
  • 193 359

    GLM-Legal (z.ai)
  • 3 143

    Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 153

    French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
  • 48 22

    Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software (vibealternatives.com)
  • 4 24

    Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (azure.microsoft.com)
  • 79 162

    I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)
  • 52 82

    Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (blog.julik.nl)
  • 13 74

    (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
  • 8 55

    An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  • 316 299

    Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
  • 62 65

    Solar panels that plug into your wall (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  • 61 53

    "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (justismills.substack.com)
  • 136 149

    Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 73 65

    AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (www.theguardian.com)
  • 40 50

    Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com)
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  • 528 304

    Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 257 226

    Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.com)
  • 74 198

    The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)
  • 386 352

    QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com)
  • 166 207

    Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 193 575

    Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (www.bbc.com)
  • 71 79

    Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims (crypto.news)
  • 3 13

    Hetzner: The New GPU Server GEX63 for Professional AI Workloads (www.hetzner.com)
  • 11 65

    Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)
  • 347 217

    Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)
  • 13 12

    Loop Engineering: Optimizing Code Generation and Verification (bradleygibbs.dev)
  • 131 246

    Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)
  • 51 177

    Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)
  • 19 85

    Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com)
  • 205 235

    Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 179 166

    Postgres isn't slow, your storage is (clickhouse.com)
  • 5 39

    Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com)
  • 4 14

    AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware (torrentfreak.com)
  • 178 126

    Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (www.shokunin.studio)
  • 5 19

    Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses (pings.utwente.io)
  • 22 28

    Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac (crestbrowser.com)
  • 58 30

    Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 307 253

    Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (amosbbatto.wordpress.com)
  • 112 219

    Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 80 225

    Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
  • 0 4

    Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun (blog.boxlite.ai)
  • 58 76

    X Is Bad, Though (lexontech.org)
  • 76 57

    No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
  • 41 39

    Sorry we made you grind LeetCode (www.hackerrank.com)
  • 49 249

    Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
  • 97 98

    An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com)
  • 72 198

    Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)
  • 2 64

    Tattoos you can turn on and off (www.livescience.com)
  • 6 12

    Yes I Understand How LLMs Work (kemendo.com)
  • 5 61

    Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 6 14

    Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM (github.com)
  • 2 34

    Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab (github.com)
  • 16 84

    HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com)
  • 57 82

    Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (www.cell.com)
  • 4 41

    A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused (www.opencampus.org)
  • 48 117

    Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
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  • 3 45

    ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com)
  • 3 15

    Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes (github.com)
  • 16 96

    Illustration Beyond Proof (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  • 116 101

    Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (www.economist.com)
  • 21 22

    Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries (pydantic.dev)
  • 133 129

    Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
  • 106 165

    Whatever became of holography? (2011) (www.americanscientist.org)
  • 1 5

    JulianFlux: Electrodynamic vector retrieval and causal routing for AI (github.com)
  • 332 691

    Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)
  • 165 442

    Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns (www.theguardian.com)
  • 74 88

    Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)
  • 79 134

    Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (pub.sakana.ai)
  • 12 26

    SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released (www.sqlalchemy.org)
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  • 525 996

    Passkeys are a trap (nonfunctional.substack.com)
  • 4 63

    Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside (shnatsel.github.io)
  • 1 8

    Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig) (bschaatsbergen.com)
  • 185 267

    A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (www.inc.com)
  • 975 671

    The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com)
  • 24 49

    FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
  • 104 64

    Artificial Insanity (richwhitehouse.com)
  • 63 313

    Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
  • 5 56

    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS (blog.kammel.dev)
  • 18 32

    Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? (mdelcaro.substack.com)
  • 166 133

    I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
  • 61 369

    So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)
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  • 47 141

    Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (www.ways-of-seeing.com)
  • 0 19

    The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 27

    Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists (news.mit.edu)
  • 30 25

    Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (dair-community.social)
  • 20 71

    Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things (www.playgrnd.tools)
  • 249 662

    Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
  • 313 578

    NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (www.nyc.gov)
  • 24 71

    We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris (www.sciencefocus.com)
  • 31 84

    YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 40 68

    Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs (medium.com)
  • 0 14

    Why we're watching these climate tech companies (www.technologyreview.com)
  • 28 85

    apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com)
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  • 164 154

    How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)
  • 34 43

    Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him? (www.sfchronicle.com)
  • 181 428

    I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)
  • 89 72

    The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less (0xff.nu)
  • 40 83

    A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
  • 36 96

    Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute (www.latimes.com)
  • 41 128

    How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
  • 87 41

    Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait (a16z.com)
  • 1 14

    The Wild West of polyglot docs sites (technicalwriting.dev)
  • 15 26

    Rolling the Root Key (blog.apnic.net)
  • 219 402

    Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil (insideclimatenews.org)
  • 123 204

    Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
  • 88 76

    Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 508 518

    Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
  • 3 57

    Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R (adolfoalvarez.cl)
  • 6 13

    How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go (github.com)
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  • 4 8

    Compression and Concatenation on the Web (theconsensus.dev)
  • 97 172

    Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
  • 174 247

    The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
  • 110 85

    Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
  • 68 56

    What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel (copilot.travel)
  • Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
  • 200 413

    I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
  • 4 23

    When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64 (joelsiks.com)
  • 117 72

    AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people (www.bbc.com)
  • 256 644

    Bot traffic from Yandex (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 136 163

    Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
  • 245 470

    Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
  • 4 68

    Rat's Register Allocator (hexrat.cc)
  • 69 53

    "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot (robotgirlgang.com)
  • 346 405

    IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
  • 2 20

    Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall (www.economist.com)
  • 102 145

    European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
  • 2 11

    The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American Art (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 63 83

    I wish you the best in the Offline (daverupert.com)
  • 180 447

    LineageOS 24 (lineageos.org)
  • 761 618

    3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (status.yandex.cloud)
  • 3 5

    Thorium 229 based nuclear clocks (www.jerrycards.com)
  • 314 291

    The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4 (www.theverge.com)
  • 34 88

    How big is a Git commit? (ratfactor.com)
  • 50 48

    AI agents in a stand-up call (atoll92.github.io)
  • 0 9

    tiny-audio, nanoGPT for speech-to-text (github.com)
  • 17 18

    Vegetables are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 43 147

    GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 20 29

    Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine (www.drvinayprasad.com)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: GSD Task Manager – an MCP server that gives your AI agent a task list (github.com)
  • 27 47

    A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 78 42

    Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised' (www.theverge.com)
  • 53 81

    CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation (worldfacts.app)
  • 5 35

    Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld (celld.dev)
  • 20 90

    Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)
  • 149 207

    500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)
  • 23 107

    Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (www.nature.com)
  • 14 131

    PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com)
  • 58 38

    Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions (www.dpreview.com)
  • 12 48

    Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System (github.com)
  • 52 54

    Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude (www.theregister.com)
  • 123 281

    Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
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  • 138 52

    Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
  • 12 71

    Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com)
  • 146 69

    Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects (rews.cc)