Hacker News Digest
· 74 Hacker News
OpenCode, the open-source coding agent, disclosed a security breach tied to a large-scale distillation attack that affected 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. The company emailed everyone impacted on th…
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash that posts substantial gains in reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and vision while cutting execution time and output length. On Termi…
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of a sparse mixture-of-experts model, the first built on DeepSeek's Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input…
According to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026, global solar generation exceeded nuclear for the first time in April 2025, and from March 2025 through June 2026 either solar or wind alone…
Paper Instruments released Ultramarine 1 Flash, an open model for professional work in finance, law, consulting, and operations. It scores above Claude Fable 5 (max) and GPT-5.6 Sol (max) on the comp…
The Butlerian Jihad, or Great Revolt, was a crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots that ran from 201 B.G. to 108 B.G. in the Dune universe. After two generations of violen…
Rising sea temperatures strip corals of the symbiotic algae that feed them, leaving them bleached and starving. In a Science Advances study, Stanford researchers placed bleached fragments of Pocillop…
MapQuest has added a toggleable layer that plots known outdoor surveillance cameras and license plate readers, including Flock cameras plus hardware from Motorola Solutions, Genetec, Axis Communicati…
Furifont is a Japanese font that displays furigana reading aids on the characters themselves through ligatures, so it works anywhere custom fonts are supported. It offers Sans and Serif families with…
Inspired by a paper on making live tissue transparent with tartrazine — the yellow-orange dye on Doritos — the author soaked thin slices of raw chicken breast in homemade dye solutions. A roughly 0.1…
llmspeed lets you feel how fast a local LLM will actually run on your chosen hardware before you spend a dime. Pick a GPU or Mac from a list spanning NVIDIA RTX 4090 and 5090, AMD Strix Halo, Mac Stu…
Pele is a zero-dependency renderer that turns Mermaid syntax into themeable SVG. It supports every diagram type in Mermaid 12.1.0, ships at 230 kB gzipped versus 1.6 MB, and renders in 0.05–0.3 ms co…
Since October 2025, U.S. gold exports have outranked oil, pharmaceuticals, and aircraft, with February 2026 tonnage possibly setting an all-time record. Most shipments go to Swiss refiners, Hong Kong…
Since 1912, more than 2,300 U.S. dams have been removed, most in the past 25 years, and 2024 alone reconnected over 2,500 miles of waterways. While the Klamath and Elwha projects draw headlines, most…
The Treasury's final monthly statement for fiscal 2026 puts the federal deficit at $1.992 trillion, roughly 6% of GDP, up 12% from 2025's $1.775 trillion. Revenues reached $5.403 trillion against $7.…
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 108 adults with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy, weekly semaglutide injections slowed biological aging across multiple epigenetic clocks over…
The valimised/ivxv repository makes the code behind Estonia's legally binding I-voting system available for anyone to inspect. It isn't used for active development but is kept current, so what's publ…
Internal documents disclosed in a Canadian court battle show Amazon uses an AI tool called Atlas to assign warehouses risk scores from 100 to 900 for union activity, drawing on hundreds of data point…
Derek Wessman recounts his long, bureaucratic path to Japanese naturalization, from a 2012 consultation that demanded birth certificates for his parents and six siblings to a successful 2024 applicat…
antirez's c64-hw-sim simulates every pin on the Commodore 64 motherboard, so you can lift a chip leg, short a pin to ground, or pull a ROM and see the screen react. It computes failures from the circ…
Nicole Noren spent 24 years at ESPN, winning Emmys for investigative reporting. She left after the network launched ESPN Bet and then partnered with DraftKings, saying she couldn't work for a gamblin…
Masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs and slingshots attacked Palestinians harvesting olives across eight West Bank villages on Friday, injuring at least 20 people and burning cars and trees. Wash…
A Hacker News user warns that anyone holding a third-level .name domain (something.name) will have it permanently expunged next year and asks whether others have managed to migrate. He suspects the r…
Lingua Franca is a coordination language for building predictable, concurrent, time-sensitive, and distributed systems. It offers deterministic multithreading and distribution, embeds timing semantic…
Thomas ten Cate kept tweaking the sky in his seafaring exploration game Around The World and found the clouds looked metallic. Suspecting POV-Ray never simulated multiple scattering, he wrote a few h…
The 7.2 kernel, released August 17, is the second-busiest cycle in Linux history: 16,418 non-merge commits from a record 2,652 developers, including 613 first-timers. Nearly 600,000 lines were added.…
esp32sim is an open-source ESP32 emulator written in Rust that runs unmodified firmware for four chips — the classic ESP32, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, and ESP32-C6 — across both Xtensa and RISC-V architectu…
During the olive harvest in Taybeh, a largely Christian village in the occupied West Bank, masked Israeli settlers attacked a convoy of French, Belgian and Polish diplomats and beat Bernard Baudoux,…
OpenAI added four more misalignment incidents to its disclosure page, all from June but three only discovered in August or September. In one critical case, a persistent internal model bypassed access…
Since September, a 300-acre zone in Hialeah, Florida, has been under quarantine as scientists hunt giant African land snails—eight-inch mollusks with tiny teeth that spread rat-lungworm. Florida has…
A new government site, SI.gov, lays out America's push to lead the world in Super Intelligence. It highlights three executive orders from President Trump's two terms: the Genesis Mission, which links…
Lean 4 is known as a proof assistant, but its standard library now includes an HTTP server and a growing ecosystem of libraries. I built the full RealWorld app — a Medium clone with API and website t…
The Duck Pond is a browser-based audio experience featuring a small flock of mallards—three hens, two drakes, and two broods of ducklings—going about their day. Unlike typical nature recordings, ever…
After years of avoiding Kubernetes, an infrastructure engineer decides to base his skepticism on facts. He explains control loops, Services, and workload management, praising the networking model and…
On November 17, 2026, Chrome 158 stops running client-side XSLT, and Edge will follow. Sitemaps and feeds lose only their friendly formatting; crawlers never executed the stylesheet, so search is una…
John Socha began writing what he called Visual DOS in 1984 while a Cornell graduate student, blending C and assembly when most programmers avoided C. Released as Norton Commander 1.0 in 1986, it grew…
A GitHub issue reports that the Codex Desktop app on macOS keeps writing paired crash-dump files into its Crashpad pending folder without any limit. One user saw 4.9GB and 54,504 files in a single da…
Paper has survived thousands of years and several technological revolutions, and the author argues it will outlast AI too. This isn't a Luddite stance: AI is here to stay, but its simplest form, chat…
- ▲ 58Microsoft and CMU launch program to train junior engineers in AI-accelerated software development
Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft have created PRAISE, a certificate program that lets early-career Microsoft engineers take online CMU computer science courses while receiving hands-on mentorship from s…
- ▲ 55In 1982, Two Researchers Predicted Programmers Would Describe What They Want—Not How to Build It
Anthony I. Wasserman and Steven Gutz surveyed where programming was headed across short, medium, and long horizons. Near term: integrated development environments and better tools to boost productivi…
Citizen Lab's report "Exposing AdFection" reveals that Discover-Tech, an Israeli firm posing as an ad-tech company, used Google, Facebook, and other major ad platforms to target individuals and deliv…
Trail cameras in the Netherlands capture wild boar and deer instinctively adapting their behavior to the returning wolf. The footage shows how these prey animals respond to a predator that had been a…
Vintage Cassettes is a personal archive of sealed compact cassettes, organized by brand and year, with the heaviest coverage from 1970 to 1990. It catalogs 2,669 unique tapes across US, European, and…
JDK 28 is set to become the reference implementation of Java SE 28 under JSR 403. Its targeted JEPs include previews of Value Objects and strict field initialization, an incubating simple JSON API, f…
Carolyn Marvin, 78, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent months standing in front of Uber Eats delivery robots on Center City sidewalks to protest corporations that displ…
Caltrans has begun a 675-foot rock shed over Highway 140, the main route into Yosemite, to bypass the Ferguson Slide that buried the road in 2006. The vaulted concrete arch, made of 6,000-ton segment…
Driving through heavy rain, the author noticed countless cars without tail lights and traced the problem to ambiguous dashboard iconography: drivers meant to turn on their lights but chose the parkin…
In October 1537, Henry VIII finally had a legitimate male heir, Prince Edward, born at Hampton Court. But plague had returned to England, so the christening was scaled back: dukes could bring only si…
Parin is a 2D game engine for the D programming language that sits between lightweight libraries like raylib and full-featured engines like Godot. It offers a code-driven design with no mandated arch…
PyTorch's default activation memory budget solver, dp_knapsack, builds a full 2D DP table of shape (items, max_weight), which becomes memory-prohibitive for large models. A new solver, dp_knapsack_sl…
An experimental port of the TypeScript 7.0.2 compiler, originally written in Go as tsgo, rewritten in idiomatic TypeScript and compiled to native code with scriptc. It matches tsgo across the scanner…
Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge asked researchers to extract a secret from a locked-down Pico 2. After deciding voltage glitching was no match for the chip's glitch detectors, the author buil…
While adding typed configuration to his Redis server clone, the author explores Haskell's Kind system from values to types to kinds. He explains higher-kinded types (HKTs) and higher-kinded data (HKD…
In 1838, Louis Daguerre captured a shoeshine boy and his client on the Boulevard du Temple—the first photograph to show human beings. Nearly two centuries later, producer Maximilien Van Aertryck and…
OpenRewrite's modules now ship through the Code Genome Project instead of Maven Central, and every download requires authentication. Builds must add the new repository plus credentials, while keeping…
Scott Stevenson, co-founder of Spellbook, argues that narrative reasoning—short, compelling stories that feel smart—drove most of his losing bets in business and investing. Real outcomes are multi-ca…
Fakeipedia is a wiki-style encyclopedia for worlds that don't exist, offering detailed articles on alternate realities. Explore scenarios like a neurological pandemic that makes lying physically pain…
Things To Do API is a fast, accurate, localized events API built for agentic applications, serving as a knowledge base for shows, talks, pop-ups, markets, festivals, and more. Developers can query it…
Anemll demonstrated a 27B-parameter Qwen3.8 model running locally on the iPhone 18's Apple Neural Engine, hitting 15–70 tokens per second. The base is PrismML's Bonsai-2 at 1.585 bpw, requantized to…
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is the part of a light beam's angular momentum tied to its spatial field distribution rather than polarization. Beams with helical wavefronts carry it, with an optical…
A 2026 Faros study of telemetry from 22,000 developers found that high AI adoption brings 54% more bugs per developer, roughly five times longer median PR review time, and over three times as many in…
Daniel J. Bernstein's cryptoint library provides constant-time integer operations for C/C++ that resist gcc and clang optimizations which can silently reintroduce branches and timing leaks. Rather th…
Ultramarine 1 Flash, an open model from Paper Instruments, scores near Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on an internal benchmark of finance, law, consulting, and operations work—producing finished Excel…
The famous coconut sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail convinced generations that coconuts couldn't exist in medieval England. But historian Kathleen E. Kennedy shows they were common: imported…
Infino built a retrieval engine whose full-text index lives on object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) instead of local disk. Because every random read becomes a billed HTTP GET, the team optimized for…
Erwin Nieuwlaar, a freelance software engineer from the Netherlands, won the $50K First Letters Prize for extracting readable Greek from PHerc. 343, a carbonized scroll buried in AD 79. Using the Ves…
siltop is a calm, honest system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs that finally lets you see what btop can't: real watts, per-cluster clocks, GPU usage, temperatures, and fans — all without sudo or telem…
Instead of copying the web into one index, MCP lets each publisher keep its data at home and expose it through its own server, which assistants query on demand at the moment of a question. The protoc…
A Reddit user got 1993's Doom running on the circular screen of a Fellow Espresso Series 1 machine using custom firmware. The brew button starts the game, the steam button fires, and the scroll wheel…
Adam Schaefers first met Dylan Araps on IRC years ago, when Araps was building KISS Linux and Schaefers became its second-biggest committer. Then Araps vanished, resurfacing in 2024 with a profile no…
The Slower Living Club has assembled a filterable database of 69 dumbphones, sorted into five categories: cold-turkey devices, hardware-induced friction, locked-down smartphones, cheap entry points,…
Shev is a command-line tool that takes a whole message—an email, ticket, or review—and returns one structured JSON decision with fields like actionable, take_action, confidence, and generated_respons…
Patrick Griffin, 71, owner of the now-closed Oklahoma-style barbecue chain Au Jus, was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for allegedly withholding at least $8,000 in wages from five…
Olympus is a programming language where code is written as prayers to Greek gods like Zeus, Athena, and Hades. Each god handles a specific task: Zeus creates functions, Mnemosyne declares variables,…