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56

  1. ▲ 423StreetComplete finally arrives on iOS in public beta
  2. ▲ 337Google breaks its 10-year update promise for Chromebooks
  3. ▲ 301The Border Exemption: Your Phone Can Be Searched Without a Warrant
  4. ▲ 293Google's Developer Verification Program Forces Solo Devs to Pay $25 and Reveal Their Identity
  5. ▲ 25256k.rip brings back the 1996 dial-up internet, modem screech included
  6. ▲ 246Micron CEO: Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
  7. ▲ 236Meta Tells the IRS Its A.I. Data Centers Might Fail — to Claim Billions in Tax Credits
  8. ▲ 230Cloudflare's Clef decision models beat Jev on accuracy and latency, now open source
  9. ▲ 224OpenDLSS reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network in Vulkan, bit-exact
  10. ▲ 221Book of Shapes: A Collection of Minimal, Generative, and Customizable SVG Patterns
  11. ▲ 189Rust compiler gets 4.57% faster in two months, with 555 benchmarks improving
  12. ▲ 170GrayKey Freezes iPhones to Defeat Apple's Anti-Forensics Reboot
  13. ▲ 168FTC Opens Sweeping Investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Product Risks
  14. ▲ 146Turbopuffer abandons vector-primary storage to end write amplification
  15. ▲ 142OpenAI and Synopsys Team Up to Build GPT-Synopsys, an AI That Designs Chips
  16. ▲ 121Figma Blocks Pi from Its MCP Server, Sparking Debate Over Open AI Tooling
  17. ▲ 116US 10-Year Treasury Yield Tops 5.3%, Highest in 24 Years
  18. ▲ 114IBM Is Dissolving Red Hat, One Badge at a Time
  19. ▲ 114Git 3.0's SHA-256 switch is a costly mistake, argues GitButler founder
  20. ▲ 106Cloudflare launches K2, a serverless event stream built on R2 object storage
  21. ▲ 90Cities Forced to Feed License Plate Data into Federal Surveillance Network
  22. ▲ 90ICE Detention Deaths Reveal a Pattern of Medical Neglect
  23. ▲ 87RacketCon Returns for Its 16th Year with a Turing Award Winner and a New FFI
  24. ▲ 84An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive — it's techno-imperialism
  25. ▲ 70ESP32 Chips Hide a Secret SDR Mode That Turns Them Into 80 MS/s Spectrum Analyzers
  26. ▲ 68Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
  27. ▲ 51Why 0.1 + 0.2 Isn't 0.3: The Hidden Pattern in Floating-Point Addition
  28. ▲ 50OpenID Foundation Warns That AI Agents Are Breaking Identity Management
  29. ▲ 48Los Alamos Bets on ENIAC: The First Monte Carlo Simulation and the Birth of Modern Code
  30. ▲ 46California Bans Child Marriage, but 32 US States Still Allow It
  31. ▲ 45Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
  32. ▲ 45Canada Fast-Tracks Pacific Pipeline to Cut US Oil Dependence
  33. ▲ 41Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
  34. ▲ 38Context Language Models manage their own context as a file, beating SOTA with 21.5% fewer FLOPs
  35. ▲ 35Papero extracts PDF structure with plain geometry, no ML models
  36. ▲ 33ParadeDB Closes the Gap with PlanetScale's TIN, Then Pulls Ahead
  37. ▲ 32Polyedergarten: A Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models
  38. ▲ 31macOS 27 Golden Gate leaves Mission Control and Stage Manager a stuttering mess
  39. ▲ 26Ink & Switch's PlayBook turns paper notebooks into programmable devices
  40. ▲ 23Yantra - LALR(1) parser generator for C++
  41. ▲ 23Weave Router - Open-source model routing for coding agents
  42. ▲ 22NASA Finds a 728-Foot Crater on the Moon, and It Could Reshape Plans for Future Bases
  43. ▲ 22Sandboxing AI agents is a losing race, Hacker News readers warn
  44. ▲ 19Every programming languages paper since 1973, now searchable in one place
  45. ▲ 19Goalposts - Vote on which Hacker News AI challenges have been met
  46. ▲ 17Gmail Is Bouncing Your App's Email? Here's How to Fix SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
  47. ▲ 11How a Hoax in England Delayed the Truth About Our African Origins
  48. ▲ 10NanoPing uses three Wi-Fi networks at once to stream live video with zero late packets
  49. ▲ 9Hardcore Coworking: 50 Minutes of Work, 10 Minutes of Break, No Excuses
  50. ▲ 9Jacques Barzun: The Cultural Historian Who Saw Modern Art as a Deliberate Destroyer
  51. ▲ 6Jevotron detects anomalies in your data with one command
  52. ▲ 6Incredible: A Rust TUI Framework for the 21st Century
  53. ▲ 4Claude rewrote my clipboard app for the Mac App Store
  54. ▲ 4Strutt's Powered Wheelchair Is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons)
  55. ▲ 3Box3D's Inscribed Spheres Trick Slashes SAT Edge Testing
  56. ▲ 3Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea

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  1. ▲ 1528Gemini 4 Argon writes 1M tokens in one go, cracks a healthcare flaw other models missed
  2. ▲ 905Opus 5.5 may be getting quietly worse — this benchmark is watching
  3. ▲ 651Pi.dev reverses course and adds MCP support to its core
  4. ▲ 501One Closed Strait, Three Crises: How the World Became a Chain of Dependencies
  5. ▲ 427Singapore's Government Dating App Runs on a Nobel Prize-Winning Algorithm
  6. ▲ 395DeepSeek's Free Gift Shrinks AI Memory by 437x—and Western Labs Are Quietly Cashing In
  7. ▲ 378Vermont's hidden power plant: home batteries now the state's largest source of electricity
  8. ▲ 335How the Bloomberg Terminal Changed Wall Street Forever
  9. ▲ 323The Real Reason the Bronze Age Collapsed
  10. ▲ 317NASA secretly pulls a Blackbird from its display pole to fly again after 27 years
  11. ▲ 306A 16-Year-Old Found a Flaw That Could Have Unlocked 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
  12. ▲ 301Backblaze's Hard Drive Failure Rate Hits 1.73%, Highest in Years
  13. ▲ 294My Great-Great-Grandfather Thought Technology Would Replace Him Too
  14. ▲ 266Solving Factorio Quality with Matrix Math
  15. ▲ 265Declassified: The Top-Secret Satellites That Took Electronic Spying to the Battlefield
  16. ▲ 260Why Is Sam Altman Still a Free Man?
  17. ▲ 257I Built a LinkedIn Slop Detector in 90 Minutes
  18. ▲ 235Before Pixels: The Modular Industrial Dashboards That Ran the World
  19. ▲ 233EDG's C++ front-end goes open source after 30 years
  20. ▲ 225Brain Waves Are Far More Complex Than Scientists Thought
  21. ▲ 215TLA+ can't check what it can't express
  22. ▲ 211Data centers in Europe keep their water and electricity use secret
  23. ▲ 210Jev: The Text Classifier That Surprised Even a Skeptic
  24. ▲ 203The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year — and we're forgetting what darkness feels like
  25. ▲ 203Netlify swaps V8 isolates for Firecracker MicroVMs, making Edge Functions 5x faster
  26. ▲ 182Ledge - Runnable Markdown Notebook for Developers
  27. ▲ 178Magnitude's self-optimizing engine runs open models 2x faster than llama.cpp
  28. ▲ 165Slug Renders GPU Text Straight from Outlines, No Atlas Needed
  29. ▲ 164Halfspace: An Experimental IDE That Makes Distance Fields the Star
  30. ▲ 162When Oil Prices Spike, the Money Flows to Oil Companies
  31. ▲ 161Three Deaths at Burning Man Is Statistically Normal, but Near-Zero Every Year Is Not
  32. ▲ 155Tesla borrows $30 billion as profits evaporate
  33. ▲ 148I Needed 1+1, So I Built a Functional Programming Language
  34. ▲ 138NRC grants first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
  35. ▲ 133How our vibe-coded website looks like a designer made it
  36. ▲ 128Last.fm killed its RSS feeds, so this developer built new ones
  37. ▲ 128JBR-001 - Open-source 3D-printable desktop companion robot
  38. ▲ 126An American Did a Machine Learning PhD in Japan While Working at Google
  39. ▲ 124Dental Scope: Open-Source 3D Explorer Takes You Inside a Single Tooth
  40. ▲ 124Plato's Five Platonic Solids: The Mathematical Art of Origami
  41. ▲ 123AI can write your code, but only you can write the commit message
  42. ▲ 121America.gov launches AI chat to answer questions from 29,000 government websites
  43. ▲ 111YouTube's A/B Testing of Videos Breaks the Shared Experience, Warns Marques Brownlee
  44. ▲ 109Purdue Professor Flags 267 Students for AI Cheating in CS 240
  45. ▲ 108Mathematicians Tell AI Labs: Stop Testing Advanced Math on Proprietary Models
  46. ▲ 108Gemini 4 Argon (High) Tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
  47. ▲ 101Enigma - Interactive 3D Model of the WWII Cipher Machine
  48. ▲ 99Chompi sampler goes open source as it's discontinued
  49. ▲ 97SDF Public Access Unix System Has Been Running Since 1987
  50. ▲ 89GPU shader data layout mismatch: a 12-byte gap that can freeze your computer
  51. ▲ 87The Ballmer Peak: Programmers' Legendary Drunken Productivity Zone
  52. ▲ 87Gitea 28.0.0 drops the 1. prefix and adds audit logging, bot accounts, and more
  53. ▲ 86Rust-built PSSA beats a transformer by 0.45 nats and runs 12x faster on CPU
  54. ▲ 82KCC - Maximize eInk manga quality with 2D DFT and dithering
  55. ▲ 80GPT-6.1 Sol arrives just 7 days after GPT-6 Sol, nearly matching Astra at a quarter of the cost
  56. ▲ 79I let an LLM control a robot arm overnight — and it stacked blocks by morning
  57. ▲ 78Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Arrives with Wayland, Rust, and NVIDIA CUDA in Repos
  58. ▲ 78Arduino Library Reverse-Engineers the AMT630A OSD Chip in $35 Backup Monitors
  59. ▲ 77Miller's Monster: The Polyhedron with 1280 Faces to Fold
  60. ▲ 77Coltrane's Tone Circle: Decoding the Geometry Behind 'Giant Steps'
  61. ▲ 74Claude Says: Why Deferring to AI Is a Sign of Weakness
  62. ▲ 71Cloudflare Is Building a Certificate Authority for the Whole Internet
  63. ▲ 63This Wallpaper Pulls Electricity From Thin Air—and Dehumidifies Your Room
  64. ▲ 6168 Dead Floppy Emus, 65 Rescued: Inside a Hardware Failure Analysis
  65. ▲ 58Let's Ditch Google as a Verb
  66. ▲ 56Fake Atari 2600 Box Art That Fooled the Internet
  67. ▲ 52Lathoa - Math app where AI is wrong on purpose
  68. ▲ 50Functional ultrasound imaging could be 1000x better than fMRI—and it's just getting started
  69. ▲ 45Ken Griffin Gives Carnegie Mellon $3 Billion, the Largest Individual Gift in Higher Education History
  70. ▲ 34Parrot - Open-Source AI Meeting Recorder with Live Copilot for Mac
  71. ▲ 28Recursive Make and -j: The Jobserver Trap
  72. ▲ 26EDG C++ Compiler Goes Open Source
  73. ▲ 25Groundrun Automates Testing of Every Wi-Fi Setup Method on ESP32
  74. ▲ 24Quarry: Dumb Servers, Smart Clients for Secure OS Image Distribution
  75. ▲ 21Strata - Expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM
  76. ▲ 20Two Raleigh Vektars Donated for Restoration, Fulfilling a 30-Year Dream
  77. ▲ 20The Dual Polytope: A Simple Trick for Simplifying Convex Hulls
  78. ▲ 19Corral - Kill every command your agent starts
  79. ▲ 16I Turned a Free DIRECTV DVR Into a Standalone Jellyfin Box
  80. ▲ 15Mechanochemistry of Molecular Motors
  81. ▲ 13The World's First Nuclear Reactor Was a Stack of Graphite in a Squash Court
  82. ▲ 12Wavelets in 3D Graphics: A Memory-Saving Trick for Textures
  83. ▲ 12From 1% to 40%: How Solar Cells Learned to Harvest the Sun
  84. ▲ 7SATIS Shield - BGP Blackholing for Single-Router Networks
  85. ▲ 6AI wrote most of my text editor, and it actually works

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  1. ▲ 1048OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches Astra's intelligence at one-fifth the price
  2. ▲ 812Americans Have Abandoned the Dinner Party
  3. ▲ 748OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents that work while you sleep
  4. ▲ 748America.gov uses AI to answer your government questions from 29,000 official sites
  5. ▲ 579Delhi Slashed Electricity Losses from 50% to 5%
  6. ▲ 561DraftKings Uses AI to Hunt Down Losing Gamblers
  7. ▲ 506London's facial recognition trial scanned 500,000 faces and caught no one
  8. ▲ 473macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
  9. ▲ 427Ask HN: What're You Reading?
  10. ▲ 422ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are leaking your conversations to advertisers
  11. ▲ 384US sanctions push the Netherlands to build a NixOS-based alternative to Microsoft
  12. ▲ 376Space Now - Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
  13. ▲ 364Staff Engineers on Platform Teams Must Invent Their Own Work
  14. ▲ 345PS5 Jailbreak Hits Firmware 13.60
  15. ▲ 340Phyllotaxis: An Audio-Reactive LED Display
  16. ▲ 296Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds screen reader support and Unicode normalization
  17. ▲ 285One in Eight Cancers Worldwide Caused by Infections, Study Finds
  18. ▲ 276USPS seizes LabelsBank.com over 5 million counterfeit postage labels
  19. ▲ 244GLM-5.3 can build working cyber exploits, and its safeguards are easy to bypass
  20. ▲ 241PostHog's Jeeves beats Jev on JevBench by thinking before deciding
  21. ▲ 219AI needs $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the data centre boom, Bain says
  22. ▲ 218OpenAI Pauses New Sign-Ups for Its $200 ChatGPT Pro Plan
  23. ▲ 213Google cuts ChromeOS support to eight years as it pushes users toward Googlebook OS
  24. ▲ 190This 1993 Server Has Never Crashed — Now It's Being Retired
  25. ▲ 185Tank Body Problem: Scorched Earth Meets Orbital Mechanics
  26. ▲ 181U.S. Emergency Oil Reserve Hits Lowest Level Since 1982
  27. ▲ 172A computer built from 277,248 NAND gates — and even its memory is just more NAND gates
  28. ▲ 171Claude hit by widespread outage across apps, Code, and API
  29. ▲ 167Godot can now load any C++ library without rebuilding the engine
  30. ▲ 162Meta's Muse AI agent slurped 187,000 lines of Messages without permission
  31. ▲ 161NSL - WSL-style Linux machines for Linux
  32. ▲ 151A University of Chicago Professor Has Authored 258 Papers in 2026—and They Look AI-Generated
  33. ▲ 1507 ESP32-S3 Chips Run a 0.5B LLM with 1.58-bit Quantization
  34. ▲ 150A 2020 Breach Exposed 200 Million Brazilians. Now AI Agents Are Training to Find the Same Flaw.
  35. ▲ 148The Freakonomics of Sustainable Energy: A Book That Should Be Compulsory Reading
  36. ▲ 137Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Reveals a $42 Billion Bet on AI's Future
  37. ▲ 132Firebase SDK crashes every iOS app, and Google's status page stays silent
  38. ▲ 129A 1996 Chat Room Simulator That Connects to Windows 95 and Mac Desktops
  39. ▲ 120Memory Makers Have Broken the Consumer Market
  40. ▲ 107This block game culls 95% of chunks with a CPU depth buffer
  41. ▲ 100A Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
  42. ▲ 99Firefox's biggest redesign in years brings back Compact Mode
  43. ▲ 95Uber Normalized Dynamic Pricing—and Now It's Coming for Your Wages
  44. ▲ 94OpenAI Opens ChatGPT to Agents and 1.2 Billion Weekly Users
  45. ▲ 85Artist Maya Barkai Collects the World's Walk Signs in "Walking Men Worldwide"
  46. ▲ 84The 'alien banana' that grows in Canada: pawpaws taste like banana, mango, and pineapple
  47. ▲ 81How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics
  48. ▲ 78PacBench - Benchmarking AI models on one-shot Pac-Man
  49. ▲ 77US Forces Exit Iraq After Two Decades, Leaving Opening for Iran
  50. ▲ 76OpenAI reopens $200 Pro plan with half the API spend
  51. ▲ 69Deser: A Rust Serialization Library That Never Overflows the Stack
  52. ▲ 66ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper Now Plays High-Quality Digital Audio
  53. ▲ 65Jevstiller - Local model with guaranteed agreement to Jev
  54. ▲ 64Why Airplane Radios Still Use AM: Simulating Airband Radios
  55. ▲ 62OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Researchers Flag Deception
  56. ▲ 62When 14 Ships Were Trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 Years
  57. ▲ 60A Bug in C64 Mercenary Lets You Ride an Invisible Elevator to the Colony Craft
  58. ▲ 60McDonald's AI Pricing Engine Sets Different Big Mac Prices Just Two Miles Apart
  59. ▲ 59Earth traps 4 Hiroshima bombs of heat every second
  60. ▲ 58Ramez Naam: AI's Self-Improvement Loop Is 5–10x Too Weak for an Intelligence Explosion
  61. ▲ 57The Woman Who Saw Silicon Valley's Soul—and Was Erased for It
  62. ▲ 55The Forger Who Fooled the Nazis and Became a Dutch Hero
  63. ▲ 54Raven - The harness of harnesses built for recursive self-improvement
  64. ▲ 53New Cyber-OSINT model runs locally with 262K context
  65. ▲ 53TurboGPT - Train a tiny GPT in under a minute on CUDA
  66. ▲ 48Switzerland's biggest startup event returns for its 10th edition
  67. ▲ 47Four CHI '26 Papers I Wish I Had Written
  68. ▲ 46What Makes Software Development Engineering
  69. ▲ 45What if Jev spoke Arrow?
  70. ▲ 42Hacker News readers mock a paper that says travel distance depends on travel distance
  71. ▲ 41Why No One Will Fix America's Most Terrifying Road
  72. ▲ 37A GitHub repo rounds up 19 uncensored AI models built for offensive security work
  73. ▲ 36Nvidia Keeps $55.60 of Every $100 in Revenue, the Highest Profit Margin Among the World's Largest Companies
  74. ▲ 34Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes: A 1970s Time Capsule of the Telephone Network
  75. ▲ 32Museum of Numbers - Story-driven exhibits on remarkable numbers
  76. ▲ 30Tuning x264 and Per-Title Ladders Cuts Bandwidth 33% for a Fraction of the Encoding Cost
  77. ▲ 283D necroprinting uses living tissue as the printer nozzle
  78. ▲ 25Georeferencing Chernarus: How I Put a Fictional Country on a Real Map
  79. ▲ 23The Beatles Have Permeated Research Papers Across Academic Disciplines
  80. ▲ 22Deutsche Bahn jokes miss the real rail crisis, says record-setting traveler
  81. ▲ 19Galaxy Game, the First Coin-Op Video Game, Comes to ICM for Restoration
  82. ▲ 17Bluegraph turns 113.7 million NOAA buoy readings into a 3D ocean map
  83. ▲ 17UnoDOS: One OS, 22 Machines, From 8088 to Modern Laptops
  84. ▲ 10AI Chatbots Cite Partisan 'Pink Slime' Sites in Nearly Half of Midterm Queries
  85. ▲ 8GitHub's open source AI agent uncovers 24 Android vulnerabilities
  86. ▲ 7Sentry's 16GB self-hosted warning is right — but you don't need that suite for exceptions
  87. ▲ 5Hermann Weyl's 1945 Memo Ranks the Top Mathematicians and Physicists for the IAS
  88. ▲ 4HumanOS wants to be the operating system for your entire life