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  1. Residential proxies detected on White House network (layer3intel.com)
    ×3.96 | 734 points by Rasbora 6 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Images 2.6 (openai.com)
    ×2.14 1 | 152 points by davidbarker 3 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)
    ×3.06 1 | 175 points by dangelosaurus 3 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity (spacex.com)
    ×2.82 | 109 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (ieee.org)
    ×4.23 | 1109 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 643 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (ricursive.com)
    ×1.64 2 | 240 points by Philpax 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs (cowboystatedaily.com)
    ×2.65 2 | 40 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
    ×3.47 4 | 409 points by abrarthought 11 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Insects don't swarm at LED lights (birdsoutsidemywindow.org)
    ×1.35 1 | 178 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
    ×1.74 3 | 249 points by olexsmir 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements (icode4.coffee)
    ×1.10 5 | 71 points by muricula 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Conductor is joining Meta (conductor.build)
    ×1.73 11 | 134 points by kenrose 9 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s (qualcomm.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 111 points by peter_d_sherman 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
    ×0.63 35 | 73 points by lukeigel 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)
    ×1.22 5 | 185 points by ltononro 10 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io)
    ×1.50 8 | 121 points by daniel_rh 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
    ×1.66 2 | 275 points by zenincognito 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. 11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams (wiredream.com)
    ×1.15 71 | 4 points by ColinWright 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (openai.com)
    ×1.96 9 | 205 points by itunpredictable 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.80 13 | 83 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. PageScribe: Handwriting and offline dictionary audio for KOReader (kiranadimatyam.com)
    ×0.67 17 | 15 points by seshakiran 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    ×3.01 19 | 152 points by eggbrain 12 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tencent Hy4 (tencent.ai)
    ×2.10 11 | 200 points by Philpax 13 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines (cnn.com)
    ×1.18 32 | 53 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports (squid-protocol.github.io)
    ×0.67 37 | 28 points by joe-esquibel 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Is Curiosity Good for Us? (lrb.co.uk)
    ×0.70 22 | 24 points by NaOH 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.94 21 | 491 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: What cryptography book do you recommend for reading with 10 year olds?
    ×1.00 12 | 54 points by mike_richards 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street? (theguardian.com)
    ×2.50 37 | 73 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (github.com/gauge-sh)
    ×0.65 25 | 22 points by 0x63_Problems 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×1.45 12 | 258 points by kevcampb 17 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.46 17 | 632 points by jameslk 17 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (theregister.com)
    ×4.11 26 | 583 points by smalltech 13 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.56 40 | 69 points by karakoram 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)
    ×2.66 14 | 592 points by novaRom 18 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Have I befriended a murderer? (longreads.com)
    ×1.62 10 | 116 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late (x86.cx)
    ×2.83 17 | 29 points by microcode 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)
    ×0.89 20 | 95 points by adlep 11 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language (evergreenlang.net)
    ×0.98 11 | 102 points by jordan_bonecut 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region (cornell.edu)
    ×0.91 39 | 37 points by gmays 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Death Comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)
    ×2.20 11 | 60 points by colejohnson66 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers (404media.co)
    ×3.38 20 | 22 points by latexr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Don't Call It a Decision Model (typesafe.ai)
    ×1.12 59 | 12 points by emschwartz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. 512GB Mac Studio (apple.com)
    ×2.20 57 | 28 points by immutlex 9 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents (orchidfiles.com)
    ×2.41 31 | 41 points by theorchid 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Kitty 0.50 (kovidgoyal.net)
    ×2.03 11 | 363 points by porridgeraisin 18 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The SBND collaboration releases first neutrino results (fnal.gov)
    ×0.66 83 | 6 points by titusblair 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Juju: Modern Codeforge (juju.bi)
    ×1.06 78 | 10 points by handfuloflight 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Bruno: The Git-native API client (usebruno.com)
    ×0.94 69 | 10 points by blue_green_maps 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email (mony.lol)
    ×1.08 53 | 11 points by FinalDestiny 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (cosmos-institute.org)
    ×1.20 2 | 229 points by ersinesen 18 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's benchmarking and benchstat workflow to Rust (bwplotka.dev)
    ×0.59 39 | 29 points by witcher 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Successful People (2013) (samaltman.com)
    ×1.00 2 | 18 points by epestr 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Kernel.sh Hacked (kernel.sh)
    ×1.05 68 | 10 points by pranshuchittora 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)
    ×0.81 60 | 124 points by gmays 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)
    ×0.35 55 | 32 points by isalexlog 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Vi Turns 50: The True History of vi (lunduke.substack.com)
    ×1.70 5 | 14 points by so-cal-schemer 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
    ×2.20 12 | 446 points by memalign 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The lost malloc() (nekoweb.org)
    ×1.14 25 | 153 points by matt_d 19 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb (aroundprague.cz)
    ×2.80 67 | 46 points by teleforce 16 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. If you're on Replit Pro, you have until November 8 to opt out of arbitration (readthediff.substack.com)
    ×1.73 22 | 47 points by MiguelSosa 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Nvidia store pulls RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal, prices rise to 2.2X MSRP (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.88 15 | 19 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    ×0.87 46 | 123 points by passkey1510 23 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
    ×3.45 4 | 812 points by nharada 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (nns.ee)
    ×3.53 8 | 932 points by xx_ns 1 day ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×2.39 21 | 207 points by snvzz 16 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online with Little Rules, Oversight (eff.org)
    ×3.67 23 | 16 points by hn_acker 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs (ashbyhq.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) (debian.org)
    ×1.68 27 | 137 points by SG- 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com/Vapmuz)
    ×0.44 62 | 29 points by kimi 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. We're training a Figma-fluent editing model (figma.com)
    ×0.98 65 | 148 points by gmays 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)
    ×0.98 62 | 119 points by lukasschwab 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet (getgrist.com)
    ×0.52 24 | 44 points by reedciccio 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Everything is an AI scam now (davidralphlewis.co.uk)
    ×3.95 63 | 130 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
    ×0.66 62 | 79 points by firstbase 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
    ×2.69 5 | 500 points by paddingtone 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
    ×4.38 16 | 1026 points by syllogism 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong? (vox.com)
    ×1.97 5 | 11 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)
    ×1.68 3 | 367 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. This Month in Ladybird – October 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.59 49 | 114 points by BitPirate 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. In Praise of Japan's Failure to Keep Up (noemamag.com)
    ×2.42 12 | 27 points by littlexsparkee 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.24 12 | 527 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. AI triggers PCB shortage for PC makers as order books full until 2030, costs 12x (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.14 11 | 14 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Mac at any scale (namespace.so)
    ×2.17 14 | 412 points by anner_ 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Nintendo's biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.61 20 | 8 points by jnord 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
    ×0.81 61 | 143 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)
    ×1.32 66 | 49 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
    ×2.31 10 | 462 points by dsalzman 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Curiosity Traps (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.99 54 | 111 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
    ×2.37 20 | 405 points by thatxliner 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???