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  • 0 8

    Andrej Karpathy breaks down the capability gap (twitter.com)
  • 3 6

    FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
  • 22 35

    Artificial Insanity (richwhitehouse.com)
  • 6 64

    Cartographers of North Korea (cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
  • 0 19

    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS (blog.kammel.dev)
  • 6 15

    Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? (mdelcaro.substack.com)
  • 32 43

    I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
  • 8 132

    Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues? (mailchi.mp)
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  • 7 50

    Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger (www.ways-of-seeing.com)
  • 0 15

    The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach (www.nytimes.com)
  • 0 19

    Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists (news.mit.edu)
  • 27 21

    Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (dair-community.social)
  • 8 41

    Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things (www.playgrnd.tools)
  • 93 225

    Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
  • 94 228

    NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (www.nyc.gov)
  • 15 55

    We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris (www.sciencefocus.com)
  • 27 72

    YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 28 44

    Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs (medium.com)
  • 0 8

    Why we're watching these climate tech companies (www.technologyreview.com)
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  • 12 42

    apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com)
  • 92 89

    How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)
  • 28 34

    Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him? (www.sfchronicle.com)
  • 104 266

    I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)
  • 84 56

    The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less (0xff.nu)
  • 21 49

    A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
  • 22 74

    Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute (www.latimes.com)
  • 25 70

    How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
  • 65 30

    Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait (a16z.com)
  • 1 13

    The Wild West of polyglot docs sites (technicalwriting.dev)
  • 11 22

    Rolling the Root Key (blog.apnic.net)
  • 200 372

    Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil (insideclimatenews.org)
  • 76 123

    Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
  • 67 54

    Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 312 255

    Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
  • 3 51

    Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R (adolfoalvarez.cl)
  • 5 12

    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)
  • 71 118

    Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
  • 124 189

    The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
  • 70 45

    Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
  • 58 45

    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)
  • 179 347

    I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
  • 3 20

    When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64 (joelsiks.com)
  • 107 69

    AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people (www.bbc.com)
  • 228 577

    Bot traffic from Yandex (radar.cloudflare.com)
  • 71 60

    Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
  • 202 404

    Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
  • 3 56

    Rat's Register Allocator (hexrat.cc)
  • 49 38

    "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot (robotgirlgang.com)
  • 259 299

    IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
  • 2 19

    Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall (www.economist.com)
  • 97 127

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

    The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American Art (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 55 79

    I wish you the best in the Offline (daverupert.com)
  • 162 380

    LineageOS 24.0 (lineageos.org)
  • 629 522

    3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (status.yandex.cloud)
  • 3 4

    Thorium 229 based nuclear clocks (www.jerrycards.com)
  • 263 256

    The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4 (www.theverge.com)
  • 33 80

    How big is a Git commit? (ratfactor.com)
  • 48 47

    AI agents in a stand-up call (atoll92.github.io)
  • 0 8

    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)
  • 42 138

    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)
  • 24 46

    A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease (www.sciencedaily.com)
  • 50 52

    CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation (worldfacts.app)
  • 73 42

    Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised' (www.theverge.com)
  • 3 32

    Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld (celld.dev)
  • 16 87

    Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)
  • 94 126

    500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
  • 22 103

    Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (www.nature.com)
  • 55 38

    Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions (www.dpreview.com)
  • 13 130

    PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com)
  • 12 47

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

    Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude (www.theregister.com)
  • 117 267

    Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
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  • 135 52

    Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
  • 12 66

    Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com)
  • 140 67

    Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects (rews.cc)
  • 16 92

    Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
  • 93 73

    MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform' (www.barchart.com)
  • 102 448

    Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
  • 102 211

    Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (www.cockroachlabs.com)
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  • 4 20

    A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th (www.nature.com)
  • 173 523

    A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (housing.over.pizza)
  • 8 32

    Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 3 18

    A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics (arstechnica.com)
  • 26 46

    50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (www.makeuseof.com)
  • 4 4

    Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal (github.com)
  • 93 570

    The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
  • 11 33

    Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: 'I'm Not an AI-Friendly Actor' (variety.com)
  • 62 231

    Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
  • 38 113

    Takeshi's Castle (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 9 15

    Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal (github.com)
  • 66 209

    Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
  • 112 175

    Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (www.ft.com)
  • 79 102

    Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
  • 115 603

    2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
  • 35 41

    Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents (www.reuters.com)
  • 96 191

    Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
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  • 140 171

    OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
  • 406 482

    Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
  • 49 47

    AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic (metedata.substack.com)
  • 52 135

    Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
  • 106 201

    FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 40 28

    The Disease called Politics (1962) (www.panarchy.org)
  • 30 139

    PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (chronicles.popvax.com)
  • 78 218

    Knuth reward check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
  • 180 82

    How Protein Took over the World (www.ft.com)
  • 7 65

    Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
  • 36 96

    Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
  • 67 62

    My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 299 394

    Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
  • 66 221

    Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
  • 5 40

    Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web (projecttimestamper.org)
  • 668 271

    I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
  • 281 506

    Lobbying is corruption (carette.xyz)
  • 97 40

    There's little that's "inevitable" about AI (deadsimpletech.com)
  • 240 289

    Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (www.opengroup.org)
  • 193 171

    C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
  • 149 320

    Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com)
  • 34 59

    Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text (www.datocms.com)
  • 211 402

    `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
  • 230 233

    WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload (tonym.us)
  • 10 54

    Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator (typeincube.com)
  • 45 41

    I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)
  • 147 182

    Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (news.vt.edu)
  • 184 206

    Computers Cannot Make Decisions (wiki.cateat.fish)
  • 1 24

    Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025) (www.sciencebase.com)
  • 22 16

    Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent (ilia.page)
  • 59 65

    How to head into VR without wearing a headset (www.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
  • 100 33

    If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves (www.groundlevel-ai.com)
  • 14 53

    Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 68 186

    Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
  • 3 20

    Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond (shrub.industries)
  • 37 31

    Next.js 16.4 (nextjs.org)
  • 9 32

    Put a price on breakthroughs (alexwang.ai)
  • 309 458

    Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
  • 8 34

    Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (www.nytimes.com)
  • 47 174

    Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (www.broadinstitute.org)
  • 0 14

    The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677) (publicdomainreview.org)
  • 83 335

    Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  • 26 53

    How strong is the strong interaction? (cerncourier.com)
  • 2 10

    Smart contracts: Ship the parachute in v1 (medium.com)
  • 6 22

    The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf] (jdb19937.github.io)
  • 53 27

    Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived? (phenomenalworld.org)
  • 56 185

    Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (blog.janestreet.com)
  • 68 52

    Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025 (www.nber.org)
  • 8 9

    My static site was serving my internal docs (tminuslabs.space)
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  • 324 761

    REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
  • 3 13

    Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads (yeahnah.lol)
  • 155 212

    Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
  • 39 140

    Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
  • 92 89

    Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
  • 27 69

    Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
  • 5 4

    HostMath – Airbnb profit calculator with break-even occupancy and payback (hosttmath.ctonew.app)
  • 40 88

    11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People (linuxstans.com)
  • 20 64

    Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust (www.primeintellect.ai)