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Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM Link: ...

2026-10-13T11:45:07Z

Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

Link: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-thieves-sell-hardware-wallets-with-secret-eSIM-11485188.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068508

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades ...

2026-10-13T11:30:06Z

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069329

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker Link: ...

2026-10-13T11:10:07Z

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey Link: ...

2026-10-13T10:45:07Z

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

Link: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067414

DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher? Link: ...

2026-10-13T10:30:07Z

DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?

Link: https://github.com/composo-ai/DishwasherBench
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068437

Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? Link: ...

2026-10-13T09:55:07Z

Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?

Link: https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068946

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With ...

2026-10-13T08:15:06Z

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

Link: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840

Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school ...

2026-10-13T08:15:05Z

Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

Link: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/10/denmark-set-to-allow-the-return-of-physical-force-to-maintain-order-in-schools_6758443_4.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067570

Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP ...

2026-10-13T07:55:07Z

Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP

Link: https://github.com/andrewfader/blokkily
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064438

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, ...

2026-10-13T07:15:07Z

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067356

Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n Link: ...

2026-10-13T07:15:07Z

Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n

Link: https://app.getsupers.com/auto-research
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047664

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 Link: ...

2026-10-13T06:35:08Z

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27

Link: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065713

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the ...

2026-10-13T06:10:12Z

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

Link: https://brickbrag.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063042

AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities Link: ...

2026-10-13T05:15:07Z

AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065692

A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster ...

2026-10-13T04:35:06Z

A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms

Link: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in ...

2026-10-13T03:40:10Z

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024

Link: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065805

Leaving Tech Link: https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech ...

2026-10-13T03:00:09Z

Leaving Tech

Link: https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065892

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD ...

2026-10-13T03:00:09Z

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

Link: https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063717

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) Link: ...

2026-10-13T02:25:06Z

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

Link: https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041866

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X Link: ...

2026-10-13T01:25:06Z

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365

GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle Link: ...

2026-10-13T00:45:09Z

GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle

Link: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318

Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with ...

2026-10-13T00:40:06Z

Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20

Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70751
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064536

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch Link: https://phreak.ing/ ...

2026-10-13T00:20:06Z

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

Link: https://phreak.ing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063417

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox Link: ...

2026-10-12T23:35:07Z

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

Link: https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 Link: ...

2026-10-12T23:25:07Z

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831

Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that ...

2026-10-12T23:15:06Z

Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

Link: https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049588

Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? Link: ...

2026-10-12T23:15:06Z

Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?

Link: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063138

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum Link: ...

2026-10-12T22:55:09Z

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

Link: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061859

AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. Link: ...

2026-10-12T22:15:06Z

AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.

Link: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done ...

2026-10-12T21:55:07Z

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

Link: https://www.avclub.com/epic-games-disney-ai-delay
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062237

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping Link: ...

2026-10-12T21:10:06Z

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

Link: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers Link: ...

2026-10-12T20:25:08Z

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

Link: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060674

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to ...

2026-10-12T20:25:08Z

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

Link: https://github.com/morluto/rea
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey Link: ...

2026-10-12T20:25:08Z

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

Link: https://gist.github.com/svieira/619d60dea942a8d4498cba3bb6b11c02
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060269

Introducing OpenFatigue Link: https://openfatigue.ai/ Discussion: ...

2026-10-12T19:55:06Z

Introducing OpenFatigue

Link: https://openfatigue.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061278

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for ...

2026-10-12T19:30:06Z

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059096

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don ...

2026-10-12T19:25:07Z

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon's Producer

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/feds-got-warrants-to-use-fake-cell-towers-to-hunt-down-don-lemons-producer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059446

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers Link: ...

2026-10-12T19:25:07Z

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

Link: https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055409

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon ...

2026-10-12T19:00:07Z

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

Link: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694

Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic Link: ...

2026-10-12T18:45:07Z

Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

Link: https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later Link: ...

2026-10-12T18:40:12Z

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

Link: https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057668

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki Link: ...

2026-10-12T18:35:07Z

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

Link: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-film-shaped-hayao-miyazaki
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057030

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Link: ...

2026-10-12T18:20:07Z

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523

Thinking will become a hobby Link: ...

2026-10-12T18:15:08Z

Thinking will become a hobby

Link: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059204

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio ...

2026-10-12T17:30:08Z

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

Link: https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055593

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack Link: ...

2026-10-12T17:30:08Z

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057551

A Modern Web App in C Link: ...

2026-10-12T17:20:10Z

A Modern Web App in C

Link: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528

Muse Wonder Link: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder ...

2026-10-12T17:20:10Z

Muse Wonder

Link: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby Link: ...

2026-10-12T17:00:06Z

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

Link: https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054474

French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after ...

2026-10-12T16:35:06Z

French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

Link: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057956

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence Link: ...

2026-10-12T16:35:06Z

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

Link: https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google ...

2026-10-12T16:30:07Z

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

Link: https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052638

Bag of Decisions Reranker Link: ...

2026-10-12T15:55:06Z

Bag of Decisions Reranker

Link: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10/08/bag-of-decisions.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034950

Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall Link: ...

2026-10-12T15:50:06Z

Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall

Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50056822

Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? Link: ...

2026-10-12T15:00:11Z

Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

Link: https://mortoray.com/why-arent-ai-companies-being-charged-for-hacking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057278

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues Link: ...

2026-10-12T14:40:06Z

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

Link: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055375

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad Link: ...

2026-10-12T14:05:07Z

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

Link: https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041573

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age Link: ...

2026-10-12T13:40:06Z

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview ...

2026-10-12T13:35:09Z

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

Link: https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036287

Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European ...

2026-10-12T13:00:07Z

Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges

Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search Link: ...

2026-10-12T13:00:06Z

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037711

Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft ...

2026-10-12T12:00:09Z

Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims

Link: https://crypto.news/ledger-confirms-hidden-chip-in-crypto-wallet-amid-92m/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054092

QGIS bans AI assisted contributions Link: ...

2026-10-12T11:55:06Z

QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

Link: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054751

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly Link: ...

2026-10-12T11:25:06Z

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

Link: https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052251

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's ...

2026-10-12T11:10:06Z

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054207

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in ...

2026-10-12T09:50:06Z

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

Link: https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034001

Fable Took My Job Link: ...

2026-10-12T09:35:07Z

Fable Took My Job

Link: https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-10-11-fable-took-my-jorb.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053216

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for ...

2026-10-12T09:15:06Z

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

Link: https://www.cell.com/matter-light/fulltext/S3117-5848(26)00119-5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041252

Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test ...

2026-10-12T09:05:07Z

Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-will-be-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-year-analyst-says.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051583

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? ...

2026-10-12T08:50:07Z

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039291

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is Link: ...

2026-10-12T08:45:07Z

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

Link: https://clickhouse.com/blog/posette-talk-recap-postgres-isnt-slow-your-storage-is
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052163

Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? Link: ...

2026-10-12T08:35:08Z

Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?

Link: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/commit/d821685ea6732436fcdf786a81d076958471e467
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052814

Google Data Centers around the world Link: ...

2026-10-12T08:20:08Z

Google Data Centers around the world

Link: https://datacenters.google/locations/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048768

Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones Link: ...

2026-10-12T07:25:07Z

Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

Link: https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052156

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig Link: ...

2026-10-12T06:55:06Z

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

Link: https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051573

Tattoos you can turn on and off Link: ...

2026-10-12T06:50:06Z

Tattoos you can turn on and off

Link: https://www.livescience.com/technology/cool-chemistry-trick-allows-new-tattoos-to-turn-on-and-off
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047802

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS ...

2026-10-12T06:45:10Z

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

Link: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051530

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack Link: ...

2026-10-12T05:40:07Z

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

Link: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d#bot-traffic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051532

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage Link: ...

2026-10-12T05:35:07Z

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

Link: https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049508

Doory – Open-Source Canva Link: ...

2026-10-12T05:15:07Z

Doory – Open-Source Canva

Link: https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049872

Calculus with Julia Link: ...

2026-10-12T05:00:07Z

Calculus with Julia

Link: https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034206

Illustration Beyond Proof Link: ...

2026-10-12T04:55:07Z

Illustration Beyond Proof

Link: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049133

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside Link: ...

2026-10-12T04:25:07Z

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

Link: https://shnatsel.github.io/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033601

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo Link: ...

2026-10-12T03:30:08Z

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

Link: https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049498

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in ...

2026-10-12T02:55:08Z

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

Link: https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050370

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis Link: ...

2026-10-12T01:35:09Z

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

Link: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/10/08/governments-are-mishandling-the-affordability-crisis
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049302

Whatever became of holography? (2011) Link: ...

2026-10-12T01:25:07Z

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

Link: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049411

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence Link: ...

2026-10-12T01:15:07Z

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

Link: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048522

Fingerprints Are the New Cookies Link: ...

2026-10-12T01:05:08Z

Fingerprints Are the New Cookies

Link: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers Link: ...

2026-10-12T00:15:11Z

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper Link: ...

2026-10-11T23:25:07Z

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

Link: https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045273

I guess I'm using WebP now? Link: ...

2026-10-11T22:45:09Z

I guess I'm using WebP now?

Link: https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021989

Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them Link: ...

2026-10-11T22:40:07Z

Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them

Link: https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs Link: ...

2026-10-11T22:25:07Z

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

Link: https://medium.com/@timventura/akhetonics-photonic-computing-1-000x-faster-cpus-b9e91c470079
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008566

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer ...

2026-10-11T22:10:09Z

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

Link: https://www.inc.com/chloe-rosenberg/a-remote-employee-refused-160-webcam-photos-a-day-her-employer-fired-her/91415963
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047825

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer ...

2026-10-11T22:05:09Z

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests

Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scandinavia-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-population.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042370

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening ...

2026-10-11T22:00:07Z

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Link: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac ...

2026-10-11T21:40:09Z

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/a-cray-1-supercomputer-replica-from-30-obsolete-mac-minis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028264

Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger Link: ...

2026-10-11T21:20:10Z

Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Link: https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046241

Cartographers of North Korea Link: ...

2026-10-11T21:10:09Z

Cartographers of North Korea

Link: https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047091