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Today · length unknown
Hacker News – 18 Oct 2026
Table of Contents AI and Development Tools DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping Lean now ships with verified kernels Conservation and Environmental Science Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States Innovative Technologies Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results Cultural Insights and Unique Experiments Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Yesterday · length unknown
Hacker News – 17 Oct 2026
Table of Contents AI Advancements DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 Ultramarine 1 Flash Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 Wildlife and Ecology "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands Innovations in Tech Tesla Roadster Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio Programming Insights Intuitive concurrent programming in any language 0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch Cryptography and Security Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
Friday · length unknown
Hacker News – 16 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Tech and AI Innovations Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts Muse Spark Open RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes Neural networks are clean Gaming and Entertainment '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds The Folders Programming Language Consumer Tech and Trends New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad Societal and Ethical Discussions Jev meets the Trolley Problem BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC The insider trading you're allowed to do
Thursday · length unknown
Hacker News – 15 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Health Insights and Personal Journeys Things to know when you get cancer The cost of getting a job today Innovative Tech Overhauls OpenCode 2.0 Tiny Little Office Creative Projects and Unique Solutions Creating a Garmin "MCP" Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity AI and Social Dynamics AI was great until it was not Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years Nostalgic Technology and Unique Structures It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA
Wednesday · length unknown
Hacker News – 14 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Font Focus Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan) Felix Rieseberg Homepage Quantum Leap Gemini 4 Argon Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX Programming Paradigms What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa) Arena Allocators in C Security Concerns Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs Celebrating Creativity Recreational Programming Show HN: How random are you?
Tuesday · length unknown
Hacker News – 13 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Web Creativity and Retro Tech The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web A Modern Web App in C AI in Action GLM-Legal Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe Making big downloads resumable in Firefox Tech Innovations and Speculations Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
Monday · length unknown
Hacker News – 12 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Storage and Performance Insights Postgres isn't slow, your storage is Fingerprints are the new cookies Programming and Development Innovations Type-safe HTML templating in Zig Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage The AI Landscape Fable Took My Job Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibility' Gaming and Nostalgia Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly Security and User Autonomy Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? Passkeys are a trap
October 11 · length unknown
Hacker News – 11 Oct 2026
Table of Contents Tech Innovations LineageOS 24.0 PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier Explorations in Decision-Making & AI Build your own decision model Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes Industry Shifts & Economic Trends Decade-old RAM is making a comeback A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't European Alternatives Tech Community Reflections Knuth reward check I wish you the best in the Offline Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 Database Innovations Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team How big is a Git commit? 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
October 10 · 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
October 9 · 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?
October 8 · 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
October 7 · 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
October 6 · 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
October 5 · 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

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