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  • 1 6

    C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game (gamesexplained.com)
  • 7 17

    Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)
  • 1 13

    Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com)
  • 0 6

    Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
  • 160 54

    Ask HN: What are you reading?
  • 34 68

    U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
  • 1 18

    Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
  • 6 8

    How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear (www.wsj.com)
  • 34 59

    Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market (gamersnexus.net)
  • 79 105

    GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
  • 66 98

    Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 188 156

    AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom (www.thenationalnews.com)
  • 6 8

    Electrification efficiency: The world will need less energy after the transition (hannahritchie.substack.com)
  • 12 7

    What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me (epure.sh)
  • 5 25

    What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
  • 89 69

    The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging (prospect.org)
  • 32 71

    NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
  • 86 163

    PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com)
  • 35 77

    DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
  • 15 16

    Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn't it causing a scandal in the US? (english.elpais.com)
  • 163 157

    ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)
  • 62 192

    Tcl/Tk 9.1 (www.tcl-lang.org)
  • 299 385

    Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
  • 572 639

    GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
  • 30 125

    A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
  • 331 474

    DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers (www.eff.org)
  • 18 56

    Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 60

    Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
  • 24 66

    Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 17 22

    Netanyahu claims ability to hack any iPhone and plant false evidence (twitter.com)
  • 103 129

    America.gov (america.gov)
  • 57 36

    Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 293 415

    macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (www.squareorbits.com)
  • 5 24

    Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) (longcreek.me)
  • 25 55

    Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"? (www.noahpinion.blog)
  • 3 12

    Claude Is "At Capacity"
  • 142 168

    Claude partial outage (status.claude.com)
  • 123 167

    Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (www.theregister.com)
  • 38 148

    Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions (appleinsider.com)
  • 55 44

    What makes software development engineering (parksb.github.io)
  • 8 59

    Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
  • 15 51

    Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 134 72

    The new Firefox design is here (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 68 53

    Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second (4hiroshimas.info)
  • 64 122

    Without the Hot Air (www.withouthotair.com)
  • 120 213

    1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (www.cbc.ca)
  • 23 21

    The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines (phys.org)
  • 224 394

    How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 46 53

    Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com)
  • 345 355

    US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 13 28

    Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)
  • 9 29

    Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World (evan-doorbell.com)
  • 272 454

    500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (www.theguardian.com)
  • 607 667

    You are no longer invited to dinner (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 85 212

    Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945) (albert.ias.edu)
  • 26 45

    Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (www.startup-nights.ch)
  • 16 52

    New Cyber-OSINT model released (twitter.com)
  • 126 397

    A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
  • 10 43

    Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
  • 7 91

    Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
  • 52 150

    Using any C++ library in Godot (blog.conan.io)
  • 71 131

    Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning (twitter.com)
  • 12 37

    Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark (github.com)
  • 94 176

    Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (www.computerworld.com)
  • 88 73

    OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription (twitter.com)
  • 113 74

    US Forces Exit Iraq (www.reuters.com)
  • 76 144

    The systems that no one will test (blog.christianperone.com)
  • 12 30

    Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
  • 5 61

    Simulating Airband AM Radios (bitbashing.io)
  • 41 243

    Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  • 50 77

    Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
  • 30 57

    Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? (www.wired.com)
  • 11 36

    Profit Margins of the Largest Companies (www.visualcapitalist.com)
  • 217 176

    U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
  • 6 8

    Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator (game.wedgworth.com)
  • 3 17

    Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra (bluegraph.io)
  • 2 8

    We found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent (github.blog)
  • 11 53

    The art forger who became a national hero (priceonomics.com)
  • 45 177

    Tank Body Problem (www.jimsitu.com)
  • 6 7

    AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies (maroun-baydoun.com)
  • 46 124

    1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
  • 6 4

    Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System (tryhumanos.com)
  • 11 80

    How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)
  • 101 60

    OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns (www.nytimes.com)
  • 136 130

    Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs (www.reuters.com)
  • 22 22

    Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny (jonworth.eu)
  • 26 41

    What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance (journals.sagepub.com)
  • 31 147

    ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com)
  • 9 26

    3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (www.science.org)
  • 92 37

    Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? (blog.greenpants.net)
  • 86 134

    What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (this.os.isfine.org)
  • 96 199

    Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline (theintercept.com)
  • 91 82

    Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 89 117

    Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden (www.arctictoday.com)
  • 39 64

    Best of British Design (best-of-british-design.vercel.app)
  • 258 590

    It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
  • 55 124

    Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
  • 217 561

    Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com)
  • 115 302

    World Labs is Joining AMD (www.worldlabs.ai)
  • 49 165

    12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)
  • 903 367

    California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (www.kqed.org)
  • 36 85

    Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) (slashdot.org)
  • 12 43

    SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data (www.getprivisy.com)
  • 25 56

    First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (blog.plcred.org)
  • 113 274

    MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
  • 57 86

    GrapheneOS – When an app is slow (blog.wirelessmoves.com)
  • 108 260

    So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)
  • 23 49

    Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 37 163

    Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (destroy.spritefusion.com)
  • 64 84

    Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents (www.newyorker.com)
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  • 597 866

    Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  • 171 517

    Windows 11½ (definitelynotwindows.com)
  • 24 29

    I made a visual workspace for AI Automations (www.biom.dev)
  • 17 35

    Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (www.vespper.com)
  • 111 107

    OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity (techcrunch.com)
  • 40 76

    Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't (www.techdirt.com)
  • 97 207

    Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
  • 3 22

    How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work (www.pewresearch.org)
  • 82 164

    Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 9 24

    Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
  • 77 86

    13 Months Sober (2025) (www.bobbytables.io)
  • 81 46

    What makes Lisp difficult to read? (paultm.nl)
  • 808 871

    Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com)
  • 238 379

    The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (www.ssp.sh)
  • 91 287

    Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)
  • 359 683

    Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
  • 288 220

    Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (www.cnbc.com)
  • 79 168

    What would a serious AI product look like? (blog.glyph.im)
  • 253 467

    Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (www.thisamericanlife.org)
  • 229 123

    I switched to Brave (kevquirk.com)
  • 25 83

    What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators (benovermyer.com)
  • 296 357

    MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (www.reuters.com)
  • 81 72

    Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' (www.cnbc.com)
  • 41 125

    Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (www.nytimes.com)
  • 325 148

    Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? (theeducatorsroom.com)
  • 50 131

    Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
  • 531 544

    Coding is not solved (blog.alexewerlof.com)
  • 373 281

    Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (www.petervijeh.com)
  • 62 145

    Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com)
  • 65 111

    Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com)
  • 3 14

    Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step (www.engadget.com)
  • 69 54

    The smart home graveyard is getting crowded (www.theverge.com)
  • 7 14

    Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 392 436

    AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)
  • 25 19

    Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network (nine.ch)
  • 190 323

    Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (git.mills.io)
  • 97 74

    Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots (markmanson.substack.com)
  • 32 175

    37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (www.habibicode.org)
  • 362 303

    SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (www.space.com)
  • 103 66

    Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK (www.carbonbrief.org)
  • 61 61

    Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account (www.threads.com)
  • 110 166

    Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
  • 221 205

    Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 (platform.claude.com)
  • 25 72

    Made by Mechanical Means (felixrieseberg.com)
  • 33 11

    An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
  • 16 40

    Packing Binary Is Fun (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  • 11 65

    Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 25 35

    Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered (jakegoldsborough.com)
  • 62 78

    Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? (www.historyofinformation.com)
  • 6 87

    Deterministic Concurrency [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 78 175

    Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
  • 12 23

    TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14 (efraingaray.com)
  • 8 19

    Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily (github.com)
  • 161 192

    Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • 418 162

    Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (www.nissan-global.com)
  • 45 78

    Behold the pawpaw (www.cbc.ca)
  • 2 55

    Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops (www.windowscentral.com)
  • 453 1081

    Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
  • 74 158

    Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 162 148

    As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (www.nytimes.com)
  • 54 8

    Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)
  • 28 94

    Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer (www.theguardian.com)
  • 38 30

    Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built (www.wsj.com)
  • 5 64

    Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
  • 82 162

    Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com)
  • 63 41

    The great crime decline is happening all across the country (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 63 72

    Have an LLC (zachholman.com)
  • 1 9

    Coltrane's Shadow (www.tabletmag.com)
  • 20 36

    Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers (www.utilitydive.com)