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  • Yesterday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 10 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Security Concerns Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection Game Development and Design Triple-A Minesweeper Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator Tech Innovations Cloudflare acquires Deno WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload AI and Research Breakthroughs Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants Complexity in Technology Computers Cannot Make Decisions How to head into VR without wearing a headset

  • Friday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 09 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents AI Innovations and Insights Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment Software Development and Tools MXC - a sandboxed code execution system DuckDB Ducklake A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) Creative Tech and Personal Projects I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard Beauty in DVD Menus Tech Culture and Commentary Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs The value of not getting to the point (2015) OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics Fun and Quirky Stories Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

  • Thursday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 08 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Mathematics and AI: A New Era “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically “The Mathocalypse” How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't Innovative Technologies Claude Haiku 5.5 Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome Docker Agent Nostalgia and Culture Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished Science and Innovation “Jonathan” is the oldest land animal on Earth In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser Community and Collaboration New repository settings for configuring pull request access Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign Dat-ecosystem: high-level applications built on top of P2P protocols

  • Wednesday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 07 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents AI and Ethics Reasons to Dislike AI Coding Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics Innovative Tools Strands Decider 2B: A Small, Open-Source, Decision Model The Decisions API is in Public Beta Nostalgic Technology A Font Recreated from Photographs of Classic Commodore 64 Keycaps La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (Session Replay) Emerging AI Models Mistral Large 4 EmbeddingGemma 2: An Open, Lightweight Multimodal Embedding Model Community Concerns Tell HN: GitHub Refuses to Remove Cracked Copies of My Software After a Month Claude Code’s Suggested Message Feature: I Think the Real Customer is the Model

  • Tuesday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 06 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents AI Innovations and Discoveries Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates Tech Tools and Resources Find the flattest route between any two points in SF Web Search API Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] Nostalgia and Culture Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons The lamps in my house Programming and Development Trends Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

  • Monday · length unknown

    Hacker News – 05 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Data Privacy and Security Concerns Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage Innovations in AI and Technology Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers Cultural and Historical Tech Preservation In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online The Tao of Backup Gaming and Software Development We ported the original Doom to SQL Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch Health Tech Breakthroughs First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

  • October 4 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 04 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Tributes and Milestones Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next Tech Innovations and Challenges The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux Why don't more developers “use the platform”? AI and Ethics LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents Religious scholars met with Anthropic Gaming and Creativity We're working on a new RuneScape MMO Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields Budgeting in Tech We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

  • October 3 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 03 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Nostalgia and Innovation in Gaming Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city Privacy and Legislation Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility Cloudflare OHTTP gateway Tech Developments and AI A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now Software and User Experience Apple Pass Designer FLUX 3 Image Societal Reflections Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone? Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

  • October 2 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 02 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents Innovations and Tools Pi 1.0 Pi Durable DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows SvelteKit 3 Security and Privacy Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake Cultural Touchpoints Shimano Bicycle Museum Review Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines Community Engagement Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor Research and Development Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Turbo Haskell CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

  • October 1 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 01 Oct 2026

    Table of Contents AI Innovations and Applications Gemini 4 Argon OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents Historical Perspectives Why the Bronze Age Collapsed The last time my family was replaced by technology The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) Creative and Technical Projects Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) Tech Infrastructure Updates 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs EDG C++ front-end goes public Niche Topics and Curiosities Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

  • September 30 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 30 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI Insights and Innovations Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price Tech and Energy Solutions Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent Nostalgic Projects and Innovations Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display Miscellaneous Tech Updates U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels America.gov

  • September 29 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 29 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents Game Development Innovations Using any C++ library in Godot Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display Software occlusion culling in Block Game AI and Machine Learning Highlights MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms Sonnet 5.5 Security Concerns Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark AI companies leak data to advertisers Nostalgia and Legacy Technology Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream Industry Trends and Challenges California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning

  • September 28 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 28 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents Stock Options and AI Models Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) Innovative Tech Developments Ember-1 Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) Software Pitfalls and Insights Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'" Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS?” Lunar Terminator Paradox Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time? Programming and Community Concerns The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

  • September 27 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 27 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI Ethics and Controversies OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election Innovative Technologies Flip Fluid on Flip Dots DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) Programming and Development Trends Go Concurrency Distilled Improving site performance by shipping more CSS Emerging Tools and Concepts Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

  • September 26 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 26 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI Exploits and Innovations Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models The Changing Face of Development We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians Plan mode is dead Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? Nostalgic Tech and New Tools 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris Scientific Breakthroughs and Legal Battles Scientists build most accurate atomic clock Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? Legacy Tech and Artistic Exploration Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it? Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

  • September 25 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 25 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents Open Source Innovations Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS F-Droid 2.0 AI and Human Interaction Tech Needs Humanists More Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters Gaming and Emulation Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini 2DWillNeverDie Software Development Trends Fearless SIMD v1.0 What About Rails?

  • September 24 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 24 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI and Cybersecurity Trends Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats AI has no intent and no motivation Open-Source Developments Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop Innovative Hardware and Software Solutions Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas Tech History and Cultural Insights RAM: the forgotten history (2024) The "Windows XP Box" (2003) Women Who Sold Books Door to Door Corporate Censorship and Media Responsibility Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta Meta VR Glasses

  • September 23 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 23 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI Innovations and Updates Jev in 25 Lines of Python GPT-6 Sol and Luna Claude Opus 5.5 OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 Tech Developments and Security Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school Transportation and Infrastructure Transit rewards What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals Industry Insights and Reflections Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

  • September 22 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 22 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents AI Innovations and Insights Can gzip be a language model? MiMo v2.6 MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? Shifts in Information Consumption Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences I said no and Apple said yes I don't want to read what you didn't write Emerging Privacy Concerns Spymarks, Not Watermarks Transformers Explained Visually Tech Industry Developments NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)

  • September 21 · length unknown

    Hacker News – 21 Sep 2026

    Table of Contents Classic Gaming and Nostalgia Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] What happened to the Snowden archive AI and Decision Models Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM Tech Advancements and Innovations AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM Cultural Reflections and Critiques I am often wrong The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024) Miscellaneous Innovations Jev-Leftpad Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

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