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  • 2 27

    Moment of Ruby: An Argument for Nothing (www.aha.io)
  • 10 25

    Awesome repositories are no longer awesome (erikgahner.github.io)
  • 6 10

    Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 8 14

    Replacing homepage demo media with looping HTML and CSS (stepshots.com)
  • 11 39

    OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability (hachyderm.io)
  • 4 26

    Being a kid making games in the early 2000s (jaytholen.net)
  • 33 57

    Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base (ernie.baidu.com)
  • 7 29

    TextEdit vs. Pages (leancrew.com)
  • 1 26

    Chip Art (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 66

    Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 0 10

    NASA's 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit (www.reuters.com)
  • 31 60

    Partial Operator Precedence (ziglang.org)
  • 15 54

    Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS (lists.trustedfirmware.org)
  • 13 40

    Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio (www.altera.com)
  • 48 224

    Lemmings CSS Animation (markblah.github.io)
  • 74 98

    So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (www.karthihegde.dev)
  • 19 124

    Spreading Liquid with Three.js (mofu-dev.com)
  • 5 29

    11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams (wiredream.com)
  • 95 77

    Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs (cowboystatedaily.com)
  • 2 21

    PageScribe: Handwriting and offline dictionary audio for KOReader (aspireai.kiranadimatyam.com)
  • 69 50

    You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents (orchidfiles.com)
  • 161 230

    Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity (www.spacex.com)
  • 11 18

    Bf16 might be freezing your weight updates (lacuna.tiptreesystems.com)
  • 192 322

    Images 2.6 (openai.com)
  • 273 377

    A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)
  • 3 6

    AI poisoning: are we using AI, or is AI using us? (blog.sparkcan.com)
  • 22 31

    Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email (mony.lol)
  • 28 47

    Is Curiosity Good for Us? (www.lrb.co.uk)
  • 59 71

    Death Comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)
  • 4 34

    Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (github.com)
  • 68 47

    Less Popular Than Coal (www.argmin.net)
  • 7 32

    Don't Call It a Decision Model (typesafe.ai)
  • 18 21

    Successful People (2013) (blog.samaltman.com)
  • 42 51

    Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?
  • 29 47

    Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports (squid-protocol.github.io)
  • 12 121

    Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements (icode4.coffee)
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  • 7 52

    If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of arbitration (readthediff.substack.com)
  • 71 75

    Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
  • 53 142

    Everything is an AI scam now (www.davidralphlewis.co.uk)
  • 8 11

    AR guitar with just a laptop and scissors (www.arguitar.com)
  • 360 1106

    Residential proxies detected on White House network (layer3intel.com)
  • 7 41

    From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region (news.cornell.edu)
  • 30 206

    Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io)
  • 60 159

    Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s (www.qualcomm.com)
  • 284 144

    Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders (arstechnica.com)
  • 133 274

    Insects don't swarm at LED lights (www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org)
  • 201 184

    Conductor is joining Meta (www.conductor.build)
  • 109 305

    Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (www.ricursive.com)
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  • 70 123

    Have I befriended a murderer? (longreads.com)
  • 82 125

    Education shouldn't be held for ransom (blog.kagi.com)
  • 2 51

    Conductor is joining Meta (www.conductor.build)
  • 7 30

    Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust (www.bwplotka.dev)
  • 164 331

    A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
  • 128 130

    BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 39 115

    This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 (ladybird.org)
  • 34 90

    Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
  • 90 257

    Tencent Hy4 (hy.tencent.ai)
  • 114 227

    Progress on provable inference for large language models (www.anthropic.com)
  • 41 37

    An end to buggy web apps (replay.io)
  • 4 37

    Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick (www.livescience.com)
  • 13 14

    Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery (www.theguardian.com)
  • 155 551

    Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
  • 332 134

    'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street? (www.theguardian.com)
  • 73 106

    Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)
  • 136 87

    YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (techcrunch.com)
  • 201 551

    AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 21 42

    Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com)
  • 87 109

    Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language (evergreenlang.net)
  • 6 34

    Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)
  • 132 113

    A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines (www.cnn.com)
  • 1 31

    Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com)
  • 28 44

    Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet (www.getgrist.com)
  • 76 248

    OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (openai.com)
  • 413 363

    Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
  • 243 313

    Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
  • 30 144

    Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) (lists.debian.org)
  • 702 334

    US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures (www.semafor.com)
  • 375 612

    North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (www.theregister.com)
  • 11 43

    Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media (www.youtube.com)
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  • 13 13

    Disaster is still better than AI (jasonpolak.substack.com)
  • 1 3

    The engineering around post-quantum cryptography is as important (github.com)
  • 80 99

    Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution (lists.debian.org)
  • 33 79

    A map of 5000+ midterm ads (admap.org)
  • 93 81

    Hackers hit French national blood bank (www.telegraph.co.uk)
  • 98 220

    Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (www.phoronix.com)
  • 706 1207

    AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 81 62

    RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb (aroundprague.cz)
  • 32 46

    Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random (github.com)
  • 174 673

    Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
  • 303 309

    Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (www.theguardian.com)
  • 19 24

    Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh (osewa.dev)
  • 131 263

    Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 84 82

    Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman (milkman.dev)
  • 280 602

    Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (www.mindstudio.ai)
  • 132 234

    Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (blog.cosmos-institute.org)
  • 234 376

    Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
  • 77 54

    AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks (www.cnbc.com)
  • 75 156

    The lost malloc() (napcakes.nekoweb.org)
  • 56 90

    Democrats Rout GOP (www.nytimes.com)
  • 5 14

    Democrats Capture Congress Majority (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 36

    US midterm elections 2026: live results from Senate, House and governor races (www.theguardian.com)
  • 48 140

    US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (www.theguardian.com)
  • 0 9

    Runs Scored in World Baseball Classic (entropicthoughts.com)
  • 3 15

    Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI (apnews.com)
  • 117 458

    Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
  • 59 128

    Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (www.dana-farber.org)
  • 139 271

    Democrats win control of the House of Representatives (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 7 82

    Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
  • 67 127

    Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
  • 0 6

    The Pnyx and the Agora (2016) (www.readingdesign.org)
  • 32 53

    Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 351 408

    C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
  • 40 144

    Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (lamont.columbia.edu)
  • 5 13

    Running 17 Claude Code bots in a real company for $100/month (botsinproduction.com)
  • 251 106

    Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
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    Prompting Is Programming (www.brethorsting.com)