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C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)

37 points by thatxliner 3 hours ago on hackernews | 4 comments

An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth (nytimes.com)

123 points by AlexandrTheTolerable 5 hours ago on reddit | 0 comments

How you (yes you) can fight dark money in the US elections (theguardian.com)

51 points by bananaslingrider 4 hours ago on reddit | 2 comments

Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com (pavursec.com)

19 points by wezm 4 hours ago on lobsters | 0 comments

Incan children were given hallucinogens before they were sacrificed to the gods (scientificamerican.com)

326 points by scientificamerican 12 hours ago on reddit | 47 comments

There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)

44 points by lukasschwab 13 hours ago on hackernews | 10 comments

Announcing NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)

20 points by FedericoSchonborn 6 hours ago on lobsters | 1 comment

Curiosity Traps (autodidacts.io)

57 points by surprisetalk a day ago on hackernews | 6 comments

‘I was abused by my therapist’: how treatment turned to betrayal (observer.co.uk)

33 points by TheObserverUK 17 hours ago on reddit | 2 comments

US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (asia.nikkei.com)

310 points by angry_impala 7 hours ago on hackernews | 133 comments

Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com)

73 points by ayanb9440 7 hours ago on hackernews | 12 comments

kitty 0.50.0 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

26 points by fuzzypixelz 10 hours ago on lobsters | 0 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)

178 points by ibobev 6 hours ago on hackernews | 11 comments

AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI (theguardian.com)

157 points by kiyomoris 6 hours ago on reddit | 19 comments

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)

270 points by ibobev 6 hours ago on hackernews | 47 comments

The CIA has offered Putin a helping hand – just when he needs it (inews.co.uk)

42 points by theipaper 17 hours ago on reddit | 1 comment

Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)

141 points by zdw a day ago on hackernews | 19 comments

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)

343 points by paddingtone 6 hours ago on hackernews | 197 comments

macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes (wadetregaskis.com)

124 points by colejohnson66 9 hours ago on hackernews | 73 comments

Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels (theguardian.com)

180 points by lebron7 9 hours ago on reddit | 1 comment

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)

237 points by dsalzman a day ago on hackernews | 49 comments

I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)

142 points by speckx 7 hours ago on hackernews | 80 comments

Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)

192 points by user_7832 8 hours ago on hackernews | 77 comments

A crisis in Canadian goat cheese, and what it says about the U.S. midterms (thestar.com)

46 points by toronto_star 10 hours ago on reddit | 4 comments

How I use AI (Oct 2026) (ben.stolovitz.com)

109 points by citelao 10 hours ago on hackernews | 98 comments

Has Sam Harris Made His Case Against Free Will? (reddit.com)

0 points by The_Determinists 10 hours ago on reddit | 26 comments

Wall Street is bracing for a fresh wave of tariff hikes, Iran action (and potentially a government shutdown) after the midterms (fortune.com)

1557 points by DINO_BLU 10 hours ago on reddit | 80 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)

36 points by fanf 12 hours ago on lobsters | 7 comments

USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance (arxiv.org)

47 points by 1equalsequals1 11 hours ago on hackernews | 8 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)

454 points by nharada 11 hours ago on hackernews | 160 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)

529 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago on hackernews | 161 comments

The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo (utcc.utoronto.ca)

55 points by twp 13 hours ago on lobsters | 29 comments

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)

1116 points by sidgarimella 11 hours ago on hackernews | 350 comments

Gitbook Breached (news.ycombinator.com)

148 points by punchmesan 11 hours ago on hackernews | 35 comments

Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)

64 points by AlexeyBrin 13 hours ago on hackernews | 19 comments

Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel (hissingkitty.com)

68 points by drewlem 12 hours ago on hackernews | 24 comments

Underwater data centers may be coming to the U.S.—smack in the middle of endangered whale habitat (scientificamerican.com)

577 points by scientificamerican 12 hours ago on reddit | 35 comments

Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE (nbcnews.com)

256 points by gmays 12 hours ago on hackernews | 216 comments

No brother of mine will play the flute (homosabiens.substack.com)

28 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago on hackernews | 59 comments

Notice How Old websites look better than new websites (yingster.net)

32 points by MINTYSTAR12 12 hours ago on hackernews | 26 comments

A lukewarm defense of LLMs (herbofmints.neocities.org)

19 points by Tygrak a day ago on tildes | 11 comments

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats (news.ycombinator.com)

449 points by user052919 13 hours ago on hackernews | 142 comments

Death comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)

69 points by nytpu 13 hours ago on lobsters | 62 comments

AI is destroying my CS degree (lordtoots.bearblog.dev)

121 points by speckx 12 hours ago on hackernews | 105 comments

Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) (mattkeeter.com)

113 points by pmkary a day ago on hackernews | 62 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (blog.nns.ee)

674 points by xx_ns a day ago on hackernews | 281 comments

Quili AI (quili.ai)

94 points by Shugyousha 12 hours ago on hackernews | 64 comments

Mac at any scale (namespace.so)

336 points by anner_ 13 hours ago on hackernews | 194 comments

Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (nytimes.com)

579 points by ceejayoz 13 hours ago on hackernews | 395 comments

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)

121 points by benbreen a day ago on hackernews | 16 comments

Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust (github.com)

53 points by donk8r 13 hours ago on hackernews | 34 comments

Fact Check: U.S. Midterm Election Is NOT On Wednesday -- Despite What FBI New Haven Post Said (leadstories.com)

234 points by D-R-AZ 14 hours ago on reddit | 10 comments

Just a little AI resistance, as a treat (shkspr.mobi)

172 points by mooreds 14 hours ago on hackernews | 92 comments

Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans (getbema.app)

24 points by ben_d 15 hours ago on hackernews | 20 comments

Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)

111 points by ibobev 15 hours ago on hackernews | 87 comments

Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? (asteriskmag.com)

129 points by shcallaway a day ago on hackernews | 117 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)

931 points by syllogism 16 hours ago on hackernews | 193 comments

[ Removed by moderator ] (old.reddit.com)

102 points by [Deleted] 18 hours ago on reddit | 92 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)

464 points by markusw 20 hours ago on hackernews | 226 comments

Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM (twitter.com)

187 points by pretext 18 hours ago on hackernews | 156 comments

No Vehicles in the Park (novehiclesinthepark.com)

65 points by n_plus_1_acc 19 hours ago on hackernews | 92 comments

Why did you choose the nix you nix? (lobste.rs)

40 points by quad a day ago on lobsters | 39 comments

Open-Source 5G Ran Platforms: A Dual Perspective on Performance and Capabilities (arxiv.org)

50 points by teleforce a day ago on hackernews | 5 comments

Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology (github.com)

266 points by campervans 21 hours ago on hackernews | 129 comments

Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights (rikiyat.github.io)

50 points by timschumi a day ago on lobsters | 15 comments

uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch (cornfieldlabs.github.io)

131 points by cornfieldlabs 20 hours ago on hackernews | 42 comments

European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)

199 points by ymz5 a day ago on hackernews | 126 comments

Net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S. (keepingup.com)

198 points by jpmulhausen a day ago on hackernews | 97 comments

Scaling Git at OpenAI (openai.com)

264 points by makeramen a day ago on hackernews | 178 comments

Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (hackertimes.ca)

451 points by polpenn a day ago on hackernews | 145 comments

DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com)

343 points by bpierre a day ago on hackernews | 72 comments

SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase (www6.slac.stanford.edu)

106 points by gmays a day ago on hackernews | 13 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club? (news.ycombinator.com)

163 points by stockresearcher a day ago on hackernews | 23 comments

My favourite laptop (blog.jsbarretto.com)

42 points by bahlo a day ago on lobsters | 35 comments

WorkOS reports security breach (news.ycombinator.com)

77 points by werrett a day ago on hackernews | 11 comments