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  1. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (ieee.org)
    ×3.53 1 | 787 points by pseudolus 7 hours ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.36 3 | 92 points by ltononro 1 hour ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A New Go API for JSON (go.dev)
    ×2.10 7 | 43 points by olexsmir 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×1.48 5 | 175 points by zenincognito 4 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)
    ×2.56 8 | 492 points by novaRom 10 hours ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
    ×0.54 17 | 19 points by lukeigel 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (tomshardware.com)
    ×4.22 6 | 266 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.50 4 | 71 points by dvaplima 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom (kagi.com)
    ×2.06 19 | 9 points by notfried 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (theregister.com)
    ×4.17 7 | 415 points by smalltech 5 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I built a tool that prices a prebuilt PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)
    ×1.03 10 | 56 points by adlep 3 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (cosmos-institute.org)
    ×1.18 21 | 191 points by ersinesen 10 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Tencent Hy4 (tencent.ai)
    ×3.15 13 | 77 points by Philpax 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language (evergreenlang.net)
    ×1.03 4 | 67 points by jordan_bonecut 3 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.52 10 | 222 points by kevcampb 9 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
    ×4.18 10 | 193 points by abrarthought 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.49 6 | 511 points by jameslk 9 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Conductor Is Joining Meta (conductor.build)
    ×2.28 4 | 8 points by askedrelic 23 minutes ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Have I Befriended a Murderer? (longreads.com)
    ×2.75 17 | 6 points by gmays 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.58 12 | 43 points by BitPirate 1 hour ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
    ×2.18 14 | 413 points by memalign 15 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)
    ×0.44 19 | 26 points by isalexlog 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust (bwplotka.dev)
    ×2.07 4 | 11 points by witcher 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet (getgrist.com)
    ×0.53 14 | 32 points by reedciccio 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Kitty 0.50 (kovidgoyal.net)
    ×2.01 6 | 322 points by porridgeraisin 10 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
    ×3.33 22 | 766 points by nharada 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) (debian.org)
    ×1.69 15 | 102 points by SG- 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)
    ×1.68 34 | 356 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com/Vapmuz)
    ×0.51 35 | 25 points by kimi 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The lost malloc() (nekoweb.org)
    ×1.14 23 | 136 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com/peterretief)
    ×0.61 9 | 31 points by peter_retief 3 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
    ×2.26 29 | 440 points by dsalzman 23 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI (twitter.com/pierrecomputer)
    ×1.71 17 | 72 points by itunpredictable 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×2.36 10 | 172 points by snvzz 7 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (columbia.edu)
    ×0.98 44 | 138 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    ×0.90 37 | 119 points by passkey1510 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)
    ×0.82 41 | 118 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)
    ×1.51 42 | 246 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.28 10 | 706 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.07 4 | 31 points by rndsignals 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. How I use AI (Oct 2026) (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.68 42 | 242 points by citelao 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (nns.ee)
    ×3.50 4 | 917 points by xx_ns 1 day ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com/postmanlabs)
    ×6.40 13 | 1458 points by sidgarimella 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
    ×0.68 49 | 76 points by firstbase 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)
    ×0.99 51 | 111 points by lukasschwab 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Brainstem Theory of Consciousness (sagepub.com)
    ×1.67 2 | 10 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. We're training a Figma-fluent editing model (figma.com)
    ×0.97 55 | 141 points by gmays 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
    ×2.34 5 | 392 points by thatxliner 18 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
    ×2.69 1 | 488 points by paddingtone 21 hours ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Kyiv Independent reports system breach (hromadske.ua)
    ×1.34 8 | 16 points by wubin 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
    ×4.36 | 1012 points by syllogism 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)
    ×1.27 73 | 38 points by jaypatelani 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.24 18 | 523 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Bypassing the AVX2 Tax,Part 4:ONNX CPU EP on Ryzen 7430U(Vs OpenVINO,DirectML) (medium.com)
    ×1.32 3 | 5 points by olesha-ai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Curiosity Traps (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.92 53 | 100 points by surprisetalk 22 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
    ×0.81 66 | 141 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Mac at any scale (namespace.so)
    ×2.15 18 | 402 points by anner_ 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media (youtube.com)
    ×0.99 17 | 39 points by musha68k 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 9965 GNU – An asteroid named for the free-software GNU Project (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.79 5 | 10 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)
    ×2.11 1 | 376 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (theguardian.com)
    ×4.04 45 | 281 points by alkyon 8 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterm (bbc.com)
    ×8.33 49 | 23 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Introduction to Programming in ATS (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.64 61 | 85 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Upcoming change for eMudhra CA certificates included in the Chrome Root Store (google.com)
    ×0.81 21 | 3 points by rellem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.90 53 | 134 points by pmkary 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.61 49 | 49 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Toit v2.0.0 (toit.io)
    ×1.39 49 | 235 points by floitsch 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line (jivx.com)
    ×0.97 67 | 105 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.53 22 | 103 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.84 35 | 103 points by ayanb9440 21 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.37 50 | 152 points by shcallaway 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.80 15 | 90 points by neya 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman (milkman.dev)
    ×1.38 9 | 75 points by jplunien 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
    ×2.09 39 | 325 points by knlb 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.60 31 | 286 points by campervans 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Union Types and Option Types (2025) (tibleiz.net)
    ×0.64 64 | 55 points by g0xA52A2A 21 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)
    ×1.32 61 | 203 points by ymz5 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection (vaguespac.es)
    ×0.99 58 | 153 points by thebigship 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures (semafor.com)
    ×5.98 73 | 272 points by justonepost2 4 hours ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. GDPx: Measuring Frontier Model Capabilities Across the Most Valuable Domains (semianalysis.com)
    ×0.55 24 | 5 points by gadflyinyoureye 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×10.03 17 | 2876 points by karpathy 3 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick (livescience.com)
    ×3.00 49 | 35 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (carlini.com)
    ×2.84 1 | 484 points by markusw 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app (momentic.ai)
    ×0.67 77 | 161 points by wuweiweiwu 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig's Libc Rewrite Made SQLite 12,000× Slower (dennisforbes.ca)
    ×1.61 10 | 5 points by theanonymousone 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×2.99 18 | 510 points by user052919 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa victim of a hack of more than 118M euros (letelegramme.fr)
    ×0.81 63 | 9 points by matthieu_bl 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)
    ×0.55 63 | 72 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)
    ×1.77 7 | 225 points by user_7832 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???