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  • 0 3

    What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  • 5 16

    Stockfish 19 (stockfishchess.org)
  • 1 4

    Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts (botbin.io)
  • 8 17

    I think I hate the internet (strategictree.bearblog.dev)
  • 2 8

    Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres (solidobjects.dev)
  • 3 16

    Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators (www.thelec.net)
  • 137 321

    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com)
  • 28 56

    Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 21 57

    OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out (mastodon.social)
  • 119 165

    All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 57 84

    Version control second coming (psantosl.github.io)
  • 28 93

    ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol (geo-tp.github.io)
  • 106 220

    OpenAI might have stolen another major proof (twitter.com)
  • 10 49

    Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (gizmodo.com)
  • 13 73

    Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 (hugovergnes.github.io)
  • 16 26

    Be Using Rootless Containers (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
  • 44 75

    A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming (slimemoldtimemold.com)
  • 138 312

    Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)
  • 29 86

    Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)
  • 0 13

    Seismic Isolation (www.ligo.caltech.edu)
  • 191 270

    Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence (techcrunch.com)
  • 102 75

    I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus (blog.genesmindsmachines.com)
  • 34 42

    The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor (taoofmac.com)
  • 6 179

    Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent (www.engadget.com)
  • 0 13

    Scanned, segmented, and animated my keyboard. Now you can type on my keyboard (chyuang.com)
  • 11 96

    Factoring RSA 260 (cognition.com)
  • 4 19

    Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014) (labguysworld.com)
  • 76 190

    Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (www.latimes.com)
  • 27 119

    South Park creators rename show 'South America' (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 8 44

    Use Vsock with Libzmq (blog.remijouan.net)
  • 1 177

    Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' (www.404media.co)
  • 57 131

    Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks (arstechnica.com)
  • 3 8

    What Linux does when you malloc()? (medium.com)
  • 32 60

    Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling (arstechnica.com)
  • 0 8

    iPhone 18 Pro (www.apple.com)
  • 140 93

    Apple Watch Ultra 4 (www.apple.com)
  • 15 38

    The Invention of the MMO (www.worksinprogress.news)
  • 11 52

    Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales (www.bbc.com)
  • 50 54

    I Don't Want to Interact with Stochastic Parrots (ploum.net)
  • 5 60

    Apple Watch Ultra 4 (www.apple.com)
  • 4 7

    AirPods 5 (www.apple.com)
  • 6 322

    iPhone Duo (www.apple.com)
  • 2115 1203

    iPhone Duo (www.apple.com)
  • 6 48

    Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo' (www.macrumors.com)
  • 12 45

    Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments (github.com)
  • 15 55

    Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
  • 67 45

    San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art (www.sfgate.com)
  • 66 30

    My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8 (rough-ideas.bearblog.dev)
  • 318 253

    Apple Watch Series 12 (www.apple.com)
  • 393 361

    iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (www.apple.com)
  • 380 451

    AirPods 5 (www.apple.com)
  • 303 522

    What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks (tautology.town)
  • 6 41

    Generating the P3 Tiling (k-monk.org)
  • 83 212

    Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills (gist.github.com)
  • 20 54

    Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up (www.jamescherti.com)
  • 57 69

    I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months (www.sudomoin.com)
  • 2 24

    Every Millisecond Counts (jordivillar.com)
  • 604 338

    Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 193 95

    The UN challenges five centuries of cartography (www.not-ship.com)
  • 92 45

    Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool (www.the-independent.com)
  • 0 17

    Magic Move for Code Snippets from first principles (rahulrav.com)
  • 4 8

    I rank the open-source AI agents that launched in the last 30 days (www.theagenticleaderboard.com)
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  • 17 23

    Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list (rdltr.app)
  • 8 18

    Show HN: Give your AI agent on-screen guides that show users where to click
  • 59 188

    Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs (about.readthedocs.com)
  • 48 60

    Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis" (jeffs.blog)
  • 92 78

    Rivian's gambit for full autonomy (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 25 38

    Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed (www.dw.com)
  • 10 64

    Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against Luanti (blog.luanti.org)
  • 165 292

    Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists (prospect.org)
  • 41 162

    Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please (blog.hofstede.it)
  • 13 14

    Authentication Is Largely Solved. Authorization Isn't (www.technometria.com)
  • 5 28

    Rails 8 Guide: Features, Requirements and Upgrade Path (2026) (blog.appsignal.com)
  • 27 204

    GNU Radio in the browser (gnuradioworld.com)
  • 0 13

    Bomb Sense (2021) (danboland.net)
  • 6 81

    We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory (bnext.bio)
  • 141 428

    GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  • 397 382

    No Man's Sky Cosmos (www.nomanssky.com)
  • 31 178

    Planet Labs' open satellite feed (tech.marksblogg.com)
  • 23 41

    Better AI code comment detector (entropicthoughts.com)
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  • 143 95

    Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care (www.nber.org)
  • 0 11

    Google: Attackers are using prompt injection against coding agents (cloud.google.com)
  • 0 6

    Show HN: PhotoToPattern – Turn photos into printable cross-stitch patterns (phototopattern.com)
  • 101 45

    Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 15 64

    YC created Flock 10 years ago
  • 21 45

    Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch (github.com)
  • 4 12

    Surplus Agriculture Equipment (svdisposition.com)
  • 10 40

    The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years (www.openculture.com)
  • 401 210

    What will our economic future look like? (www.anthropic.com)
  • 20 60

    Playing whack-a-mole is losing (dadrian.io)
  • 79 33

    Do people prefer stories written by AI? (www.cambridge.org)
  • 90 63

    Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?
  • 33 72

    One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner (www.theguardian.com)
  • 393 1029

    Shopify acquires Tailwind (tailwindcss.com)
  • 5 54

    Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language (eighty-twenty.org)
  • 433 1114

    Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue (opusfived.dev)
  • 73 42

    Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time (finance.yahoo.com)
  • 29 78

    Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes (github.com)
  • Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 246 406

    How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads (xlii.space)
  • 14 14

    Are women better than men at endurance running? (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 96 445

    Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (desertant.com)
  • 214 406

    DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
  • 34 81

    Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch (mbugert.de)
  • 533 559

    Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit (www.newyorker.com)
  • 99 45

    Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 92 185

    Coyote v. Acme (1990) (www.newyorker.com)
  • 228 218

    How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy (www.science.org)
  • 117 166

    Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
  • 68 27

    Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine (www.wsj.com)
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  • 2 10

    Interactive demo of MINIX1-like O/S on emulated CPU (swtos.softwarewrighter.com)
  • 101 81

    Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety (www.politico.eu)
  • 4 31

    Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme (codeberg.org)
  • 0 5

    Look, Mom, I pressed a button (galoisrepresentations.org)
  • 8 23

    Sam Altman's statement on the Navier-Stokes dispute (twitter.com)
  • 107 146

    How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments (openai.com)
  • 127 221

    “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  • 64 104

    On Really Trying (2009) (gwern.net)
  • 314 304

    Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
  • 34 68

    AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
  • 234 225

    The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
  • 2 3

    Science of the Gaps (2025) (lukesmith.xyz)
  • 63 50

    The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing? (dearheadofmine.substack.com)
  • 20 99

    A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
  • 30 81

    Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 3 43

    Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (dl.acm.org)
  • 4 40

    The origins of Partner’s computer case (www.racunalniski-muzej.si)
  • 42 153

    Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
  • 13 36

    Iran says it captured US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz (www.reuters.com)
  • 22 89

    AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic (twitter.com)
  • 79 122

    Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance (current.fas.harvard.edu)
  • 6 19

    Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests (spader.zone)
  • 35 119

    27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
  • 39 80

    An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
  • 45 72

    US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29 (www.reuters.com)
  • 982 701

    I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com)
  • 41 34

    Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?