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  • 5 26

    Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy (daringfireball.net)
  • 3 5

    Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage (chatgpt.com)
  • 0 5

    Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch (www.neuroai.science)
  • 0 3

    Dear User, email is here to stay (github.com)
  • 5 14

    Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 2 6

    Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (www.tokyodev.com)
  • 1 16

    CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
  • 1 9

    Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 15 34

    Gitea 28.0 (blog.gitea.com)
  • 4 19

    Dear Software Makers (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  • 22 29

    Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (www.cmu.edu)
  • 33 85

    America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)
  • 1 11

    Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
  • 2 7

    CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (www.chompiclub.com)
  • 354 572

    Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)
  • 5 31

    Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 26 64

    Claude Says (ohhfishal.net)
  • 32 79

    EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
  • 14 67

    Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 24 67

    5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (www.netlify.com)
  • 4 24

    The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 4 10

    Energy Timelines Photovoltaic (www.eia.gov)
  • 7 15

    Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
  • 43 97

    Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com)
  • 57 99

    Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)
  • 8 23

    Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
  • 70 56

    Let's Ditch Google (Verb) (adam.farkas.pro)
  • 99 81

    Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics (ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)
  • 8 6

    Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes (setecastronomyinc.com)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 38 71

    Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)
  • 25 109

    What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)
  • 13 70

    SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)
  • 9 10

    Why copyright makes no sense (www.youtube.com)
  • 31 51

    Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  • 23 61

    Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) (github.com)
  • 398 360

    The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
  • 74 185

    A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 29 30

    I can't tell who's teaching who anymore (blog.murphytrueman.com)
  • 97 219

    I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records (blog.faav.net)
  • 16 63

    Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course (thisismypersonalblog.com)
  • 47 115

    SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)
  • 97 74

    Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)
  • 7 10

    Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You (www.iflscience.com)
  • 338 144

    The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr)
  • 0 12

    Wavelets in 3D Graphics (comonad.com)
  • 22 111

    Mathematical Origami (mathigon.org)
  • 186 197

    Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)
  • 28 120

    Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (projecthub.arduino.cc)
  • 96 78

    GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 7 39

    Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt (avherald.com)
  • 323 558

    You said no MCP (earendil.com)
  • 60 112

    Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy (dental-scope.com)
  • 9 56

    Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (www.bigmessowires.com)
  • 213 237

    Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)
  • 362 480

    September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)
  • 3 20

    Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) (retromash.com)
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  • 93 246

    Solving Factorio Quality (exyr.org)
  • 20 73

    Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com)
  • 197 147

    Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)
  • 6 85

    Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet (www.mattkeeter.com)
  • 138 124

    LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  • 26 85

    Ballmer Peak (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 58 55

    Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics (agmai.org)
  • 41 120

    RSS Feeds for Last.fm (lfm.xiffy.nl)
  • 0 4

    Synthetic Sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  • 110 111

    NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (www.gevernova.com)
  • 37 85

    PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com)
  • 31 54

    Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
  • 1 12

    Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor (www.newyorker.com)
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  • 361 305

    NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart (aviationweek.com)
  • 4 19

    Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts (github.com)
  • 111 199

    We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (www.theguardian.com)
  • 150 153

    When oil prices spike, where does the money go? (theconversation.com)
  • 34 92

    Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
  • 10 197

    Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  • 272 370

    Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (www.bbc.com)
  • 67 144

    Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  • 51 67

    Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 104 295

    Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (www.backblaze.com)
  • 74 128

    How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)
  • 370 862

    Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com)
  • 7 68

    Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  • 7 10

    'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms (www.politico.com)
  • 18 17

    UnoDOS (github.com)
  • 34 60

    McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac (www.cnbc.com)
  • 4 20

    YC employee blocks Jews from hackathon (twitter.com)
  • 10 60

    Commodore 64: Mercenary (gamesexplained.com)
  • 102 375

    Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)
  • 10 53

    Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com)
  • 2 19

    Galaxy Game (icm.museum)
  • 820 414

    Ask HN: What are you reading?
  • 166 275

    U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
  • 9 61

    Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021) (cathsenker.co.uk)
  • 10 11

    How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear (www.wsj.com)
  • 100 118

    Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market (gamersnexus.net)
  • 229 242

    GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
  • 109 151

    Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  • 325 218

    AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom (www.thenationalnews.com)
  • 6 11

    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 45

    What if Jev spoke Arrow? (columnar.tech)
  • 121 94

    The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging (prospect.org)
  • 99 169

    NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates (somethingbig.ai)
  • 236 344

    PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com)
  • 48 94

    DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
  • 23 17

    Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn't it causing a scandal in the US? (english.elpais.com)
  • 258 217

    ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)
  • 139 293

    Tcl/Tk 9.1 (www.tcl-lang.org)
  • 627 744

    Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
  • 928 1041

    GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
  • 80 361

    A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work (sujithjay.com)
  • 422 561

    DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers (www.eff.org)
  • 38 98

    Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (www.nytimes.com)
  • 101 160

    Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
  • 26 85

    Walking Men (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
  • 17 30

    Netanyahu claims ability to hack any iPhone and plant false evidence (twitter.com)
  • 685 744

    America.gov (america.gov)
  • 61 41

    Why doesn't anyone want to fix one of America's scariest roads? (www.newyorker.com)
  • 346 472

    macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (www.squareorbits.com)
  • 5 25

    Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) (longcreek.me)
  • 32 58

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

    Claude Is "At Capacity"
  • 146 171

    Claude partial outage (status.claude.com)
  • 141 211

    Google ending ChromeOS support two years early (www.theregister.com)
  • 42 161

    Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions (appleinsider.com)
  • 15 64

    Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)
  • 61 45

    What makes software development engineering (parksb.github.io)
  • 23 66

    Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 150 99

    The new Firefox design is here (blog.mozilla.org)
  • 82 59

    Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second (4hiroshimas.info)
  • 91 148

    Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008) (www.withouthotair.com)
  • 149 284

    1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (www.cbc.ca)
  • 26 23

    The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines (phys.org)
  • 318 577

    How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 51 54

    Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI (github.com)
  • 390 383

    US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 13 30

    Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)
  • 9 34

    Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World (evan-doorbell.com)
  • 301 505

    500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (www.theguardian.com)
  • 720 810

    Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over (www.derekthompson.org)
  • 93 239

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

    Hermann Weyl – Frank Aydelotte memorandum (1945) (albert.ias.edu)
  • 26 48

    Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (www.startup-nights.ch)
  • 16 53

    New Cyber-OSINT model released (twitter.com)
  • 136 422

    A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)
  • 10 47

    Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote (countingfromzero.blog)
  • 9 106

    Software occlusion culling in Block Game (enikofox.com)
  • 66 167

    Using any C++ library in Godot (blog.conan.io)
  • 72 132

    Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning (twitter.com)
  • 12 37

    Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark (github.com)
  • 108 190

    Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) (www.computerworld.com)
  • 92 76

    OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription (twitter.com)
  • 137 77

    US Forces Exit Iraq (www.reuters.com)
  • 81 150

    Systems that no one will test (blog.christianperone.com)
  • 12 32

    Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)
  • 5 64

    Simulating Airband AM Radios (bitbashing.io)
  • 50 337

    Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  • 50 78

    Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? (jonclegg.github.io)
  • 31 57

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

    Profit Margins of the Largest Companies (www.visualcapitalist.com)
  • 232 181

    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 55

    The art forger who became a national hero (priceonomics.com)
  • 54 185

    Tank Body Problem (www.jimsitu.com)
  • 6 8

    AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies (maroun-baydoun.com)
  • 47 129

    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 81

    How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)
  • 100 62

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