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  • 0 5

    Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 1 12

    Third US aircraft carrier, 10k troops head to Middle East (www.iranintl.com)
  • 6 25

    Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
  • 31 23

    Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide (www.oregonjournalismproject.org)
  • 3 26

    Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster (engineering.fb.com)
  • 18 58

    On AI writing (www.bolkunov.com)
  • 0 12

    Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch (github.com)
  • 4 15

    Show HN: Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces (rouler.io)
  • 30 58

    Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins (www.anthropic.com)
  • 1 45

    Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2 (jepsen.io)
  • 38 100

    SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful (github.com)
  • 183 347

    SimCity, but with Permits (permit.petercai.com)
  • 0 8

    Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026 (research.poh.org)
  • 65 116

    Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery (e360.yale.edu)
  • 58 42

    Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages (openai.com)
  • 19 84

    Archive of Our Own (archiveofourown.org)
  • 240 156

    What shall I teach my son? (stevekrouse.com)
  • 1 3

    Go Conventions That Clicked Too Late for an AI Engineer (towardsdev.com)
  • 181 152

    Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest (www.ign.com)
  • 33 113

    IKEA – 3D Guide (sael.net)
  • 12 73

    JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission (www.science.org)
  • 48 204

    Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs (github.com)
  • 121 442

    Voxtral 3 (mistral.ai)
  • 7 32

    Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
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  • 3 12

    OpenDE: Play Deus Ex 1999 demo in the browser (opende.netlify.app)
  • 1 16

    Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook (handwritten.danieljanus.pl)
  • 1 8

    In-memory privacy shield to prevent context leaks in MCP tools (github.com)
  • 2 20

    UI-Te-Rangiora (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 47 54

    Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? (jevcards.com)
  • 67 22

    Getting Banned from r/java (sjhannah.com)
  • 4 45

    Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher (github.com)
  • 3 7

    Show HN: Run Claude Code unattended inside a fence, under a dollar budget (github.com)
  • 0 7

    Building full-firm knowledge graphs to dramatically speed up agents (lexifina.com)
  • 2 9

    Show HN: Another Blog Search Engine (outerweb.org)
  • 124 77

    Why do we have so many meetings? (www.nber.org)
  • 1 7

    How to Link Real-Time Live Streaming to Video-on-Demand (www.red5.net)
  • 339 386

    Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month (mastodon.gamedev.place)
  • 14 34

    Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
  • 181 277

    Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case (prestonbyrne.com)
  • 13 124

    Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph (github.com)
  • 10 16

    FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) (uk.pcmag.com)
  • 56 138

    2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) (yoyo-code.com)
  • 7 43

    One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991 (matthorn.io)
  • 272 495

    EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise (emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)
  • 39 142

    My Friend Bob Cringely (tyma.com)
  • 0 8

    The Byzantine Generals Problem: A visual explanation (gravitypersists.github.io)
  • 68 277

    How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed (kaba.cx)
  • 140 299

    Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 9 20

    Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects (petapixel.com)
  • 172 300

    Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs (peec.ai)
  • 100 156

    NixOS is making me less afraid (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 235 430

    Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads (teddysvoronos.com)
  • 12 33

    Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot (mbuffett.com)
  • 125 64

    Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark (www.science.org)
  • Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 28 66

    There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made. (www.nytimes.com)
  • 145 283

    Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe (www.neowin.net)
  • 47 78

    'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs (flatwaterfreepress.org)
  • 84 93

    Revolut down as users report app not working (www.bbc.com)
  • 521 363

    AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right (www.heistberlin.com)
  • 800 2041

    DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models (github.com)
  • 56 68

    UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules (foxandlion.pub)
  • 62 88

    There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository (github.com)
  • 5 50

    Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast? (jbarrow.ai)
  • 7 9

    Fizzpoker – No-login Online Poker with friends (www.fizzpoker.com)
  • 61 37

    Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman (www.economist.com)
  • 77 359

    MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space (github.com)
  • 30 153

    Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick (k.sosnierz.me)
  • 20 23

    Vite+ an excellent toolchain for AI agent development (janmichalek.com)
  • 4 108

    Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025) (www.nature.com)
  • 0 14

    ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22 (www.os2museum.com)
  • 147 528

    Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers (github.com)
  • 61 89

    Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs (deathplanswitch.com)
  • 82 40

    Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 104 63

    U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor (www.staradvertiser.com)
  • 66 86

    Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 490 546

    DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order (www.reuters.com)
  • 1 21

    Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  • 77 134

    Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs (github.com)
  • 153 459

    OpenBSD 8.0 (www.openbsd.org)
  • 13 71

    How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 2 27

    OpenBSD 8.0: released Oct 20, 2026 (marc.info)
  • 77 66

    Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD (trial.medpath.com)
  • 50 52

    Developing Taste (emilkowal.ski)
  • 33 48

    Porting video games to VHS (gardinerbryant.com)
  • 205 705

    WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator (redact.dev)
  • 162 375

    An ad-free Android TV (cretezy.com)
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  • 178 288

    Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference' (efe.com)
  • 13 69

    The ovary doesn't retire after menopause (news.northwestern.edu)
  • 215 233

    France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months (ipinfo.io)
  • 130 223

    How abliterated models can get you pwned (projectdiscovery.io)
  • 48 44

    Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus (openrouter.ai)
  • 1 15

    GridFTP: A Brief History of Fast File Transfer (2024) (www.globus.org)
  • 23 294

    Weball: Play Katamari on Websites (www.funwithcomputervision.com)
  • 18 8

    Honey, I shrunk the TV (cakehonolulu.github.io)
  • 22 116

    Agentic Monitoring (benjamincongdon.me)
  • 21 50

    Code is clay now (www.albertodenia.com)
  • 60 60

    The End of Rationing (sanketsaurav.com)
  • 5 25

    My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle (lastwordonnothing.com)
  • 3 4

    Most lookups are for things that don't exist (cristicretan.ro)
  • 14 144

    One Hash Bloom Filters (calabro.io)
  • 55 33

    Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation (dri.es)
  • 18 34

    Diablo 2 Survivors (d2survivors.lol)
  • 43 178

    OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18 (bsd.network)
  • 137 277

    Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account (josie.lol)
  • 7 70

    Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 102 199

    Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked (hexane.cc)
  • 4 27

    Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks) (stealthium.io)
  • 14 22

    Cloud of suspicion lifted from NIST curves (www.johndcook.com)
  • 313 400

    Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 0 29

    Integer to String Conversion (2014) (tia.mat.br)
  • 46 231

    The reverts will continue until morale improves (peter.eisentraut.org)
  • 5 25

    Towards Company World Models (www.beaconholdings.com)
  • 60 84

    Credit where credit is due (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  • 146 656

    I built a drone with only one motor [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 60 126

    Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware (heymaxwell.ai)
  • 687 581

    Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
  • 108 126

    Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas (simpleflying.com)
  • 5 81

    The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022) (vt100.net)
  • 50 153

    The fire retardant in the seafood chain (insideclimatenews.org)
  • 9 29

    Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations (norforge.com)
  • 1 7

    One hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into 100 sites (www.reuters.com)
  • 9 22

    Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help (github.com)
  • 2 122

    Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier (www.dailymail.com)
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  • 216 510

    MiniMax M3.1 Flash (www.minimax.io)
  • 141 148

    The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO (www.wsj.com)
  • 189 341

    Android apps running native on macOS (github.com)
  • 4 24

    Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] (yle.fi)
  • 80 240

    RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 167 163

    Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share (www.reuters.com)
  • 91 255

    Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale (www.inceptionlabs.ai)
  • Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers (evidence.dev)
  • 53 56

    Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks (3anddoneapp.com)
  • 495 503

    I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories (po-ru.com)
  • 17 90

    Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (www.cs.uaf.edu)
  • 107 213

    Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer (www.boredhackerblog.info)
  • 60 354

    CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership (home.cern)
  • 133 157

    Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 79 33

    AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 27 58

    Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces
  • 3 59

    A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents (www.theverge.com)
  • 29 126

    Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
  • 620 686

    It's still ok to enjoy programming (chriskiehl.com)
  • 7 9

    Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland (www.rte.ie)
  • 6 14

    WFP stops provision to half a million people in Gaza over lack of funding (www.middleeasteye.net)
  • 131 225

    Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All (www.politico.com)
  • 26 69

    A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z (www.theguardian.com)
  • 42 68

    Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache (github.com)
  • 208 607

    Wine ported to OpenBSD (marc.info)
  • 7 13

    Beyond These Stars (store.steampowered.com)
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  • 3 23

    Beyond the Glass (longreads.com)
  • 64 52

    8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution (www.washingtonpost.com)
  • 110 154

    Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out (100toolkit.com)
  • 1 10

    Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type (hedgehogreview.com)
  • 64 132

    Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body (github.com)
  • 110 342

    Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 11 70

    ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 18 77

    Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing (github.com)
  • 370 646

    Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system (www.wjcl.com)
  • 37 121

    Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland (engelsbergideas.com)
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  • 118 613

    Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models (mistral.ai)
  • 96 266

    Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation (community.letsencrypt.org)
  • 4 10

    HOL Light Tutorial (hol-light.github.io)
  • 3 23

    Lant – The Forgotten Resource (sites.udel.edu)
  • 295 627

    Linux 7.3 (lwn.net)
  • 45 137

    How to Train Your Robot (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 125 165

    Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling (crystl.dev)
  • 34 30

    How Postgres DELETE can actually scale (www.dbos.dev)
  • 62 69

    Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023) (oro.gay)
  • 10 16

    Agent-Skills.market (agent-skills.market)
  • 140 140

    Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death (phys.org)
  • 69 114

    Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action (www.hbsslaw.com)
  • 4 9

    Show HN: Yila – A Codex for Scientific Research (yila.ai)
  • 94 190

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 13 23

    Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally (github.com)
  • 25 19

    Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records (swaranga.dev)
  • 3 6

    Faster command recall with substring search (www.dantleech.com)
  • 70 152

    Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers (contextfirst.blog)
  • 187 560

    Starcraft: Ashfall (starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev)
  • 19 134

    The DNS Museum (dns.museum)
  • 246 142

    How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base? (www.csis.org)
  • 77 134

    Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional (www.404media.co)
  • 1 23

    Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994 (sanitys-edge.shouden.us)
  • 110 203

    Laptop Based on 6502 CPU (www.maddox.pro)
  • 15 51

    What the heck is /pkg? (anderegg.ca)
  • 213 299

    If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? (jrdsgl.com)
  • 2 16

    How RC2's π table was made (khalidhamadeh.com)
  • 125 286

    William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace (colo.to)