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2026-10-28 20:10:11 UTC

Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
Link: https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276998

2026-10-28 19:00:10 UTC

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Link: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940

2026-10-28 18:40:10 UTC

CNC Stone Carving
Link: https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409

2026-10-28 18:05:11 UTC

Emacs Turns 50
Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273171

2026-10-28 18:00:11 UTC

Gemini 4 Carbon
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792

2026-10-28 17:25:12 UTC

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
Link: https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060

2026-10-28 17:20:13 UTC

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Link: https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-using-ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273396

2026-10-28 16:55:10 UTC

Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265393

2026-10-28 14:25:11 UTC

Start Doing Graph Theory
Link: https://vertex.degree/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208960

2026-10-28 14:20:11 UTC

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272749

2026-10-28 13:25:10 UTC

Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Link: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640

2026-10-28 12:45:12 UTC

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265609

2026-10-28 11:15:10 UTC

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796

2026-10-28 09:20:20 UTC

Git for the US Code
Link: https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380

2026-10-28 06:00:11 UTC

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Link: https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857

2026-10-28 05:05:12 UTC

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Link: https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853

2026-10-28 01:55:11 UTC

Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Link: https://discord.com/blog/making-content-from-discoverable-servers-easier-to-discover
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263854

2026-10-28 01:25:11 UTC

Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Link: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-division-failure-nova
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261589

2026-10-27 23:25:11 UTC

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Link: https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261352

2026-10-27 20:50:12 UTC

New iMac with M6
Link: https://www.apple.com/imac/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538

2026-10-27 19:55:12 UTC

Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Link: https://gizmodo.com/police-are-using-ai-to-pull-over-drivers-for-suspicious-behavior-2000831220
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261819

2026-10-27 19:50:11 UTC

Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Link: https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260814

2026-10-27 19:00:11 UTC

Ghostty 1.4.0
Link: https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261998

2026-10-27 18:50:10 UTC

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Link: https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548

2026-10-27 17:40:12 UTC

Genie 4
Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261319

2026-10-27 16:25:10 UTC

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326

2026-10-27 16:20:11 UTC

The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604

2026-10-27 16:15:11 UTC

Python's experimental JIT to be removed
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419

2026-10-27 14:50:10 UTC

New iPad mini
Link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243061

2026-10-27 14:15:10 UTC

AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Link: https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257325

2026-10-27 13:35:10 UTC

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Link: https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256985

2026-10-27 13:10:09 UTC

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Link: https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255298

2026-10-27 12:35:11 UTC

Type Server Protocol
Link: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371

2026-10-27 07:25:10 UTC

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385

2026-10-27 05:50:12 UTC

Pharo 14
Link: https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241925

2026-10-27 02:25:11 UTC

The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive
Link: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/epa-online-archive-deletion-zeldin-camp-lejeune-trump-clean-power/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249275

2026-10-27 01:20:10 UTC

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
Link: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

2026-10-27 00:35:11 UTC

Websites Should Be Printable
Link: https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664

2026-10-27 00:10:11 UTC

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
Link: https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055

2026-10-27 00:10:11 UTC

Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding
Link: https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344

2026-10-26 23:30:11 UTC

In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
Link: https://www.404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248005

2026-10-26 22:55:11 UTC

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
Link: https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152

2026-10-26 19:50:11 UTC

GPT-6.1 Terra
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248124

2026-10-26 19:40:12 UTC

CSS-Tricks has a new owner
Link: https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831

2026-10-26 17:50:12 UTC

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Link: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138

2026-10-26 17:25:11 UTC

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Link: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245524

2026-10-26 17:20:13 UTC

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard
Link: https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228115

2026-10-26 14:55:11 UTC

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-decline
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215997

2026-10-26 14:25:14 UTC

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
Link: https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185534

2026-10-26 13:40:11 UTC

Anthropic S-1
Link: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939

2026-10-26 13:00:12 UTC

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
Link: https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922

2026-10-26 11:50:10 UTC

Why I Am a Programmer
Link: https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017

2026-10-26 10:55:11 UTC

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
Link: https://titleart.dvy.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708

2026-10-26 10:00:11 UTC

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
Link: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088

2026-10-26 07:55:11 UTC

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
Link: https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108

2026-10-26 07:00:12 UTC

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Link: https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102

2026-10-26 05:15:17 UTC

Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Link: https://www.reuters.com/live/brazil-election-live-lula-bolsonaro-face-off-presidential-runoff-2026-10-25/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485

2026-10-25 22:05:11 UTC

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Link: https://imaginationlibrary.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234474

2026-10-25 21:25:12 UTC

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Link: https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232

2026-10-25 20:35:11 UTC

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Link: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929

2026-10-25 20:20:10 UTC

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Link: https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779

2026-10-25 16:25:11 UTC

Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
Link: https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230181

2026-10-25 14:55:10 UTC

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Link: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227356

2026-10-25 12:05:11 UTC

Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Link: https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian-court-order
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229587

2026-10-25 10:15:10 UTC

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards
Link: https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219700

2026-10-25 07:50:10 UTC

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents
Link: https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171379

2026-10-25 04:50:11 UTC

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
Link: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419

2026-10-25 03:45:12 UTC

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Link: https://danluu.com/ambitious/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695

2026-10-25 02:25:10 UTC

The Goose Programming Language
Link: https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100

2026-10-25 01:55:13 UTC

FreeDNS
Link: https://freedns.afraid.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

2026-10-25 00:45:11 UTC

How close can pure functional programming get to C?
Link: https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218195

2026-10-25 00:45:11 UTC

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Link: https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622

2026-10-24 22:40:11 UTC

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Link: https://stealmybitcoin.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

2026-10-24 22:25:11 UTC

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
Link: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

2026-10-24 21:25:11 UTC

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
Link: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463