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  1. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (ieee.org)
    ×3.76 | 152 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)
    ×2.33 5 | 188 points by novaRom 4 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (cosmos-institute.org)
    ×1.24 6 | 88 points by ersinesen 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
    ×2.29 2 | 116 points by kevcampb 2 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A map of 5000+ midterm ads (admap.org)
    ×1.40 3 | 18 points by Eden09 38 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Kitty 0.50 (kovidgoyal.net)
    ×2.00 2 | 208 points by porridgeraisin 4 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    ×3.09 5 | 126 points by jameslk 2 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
    ×2.10 5 | 301 points by memalign 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hackers hit French national blood bank (telegraph.co.uk)
    ×3.79 6 | 39 points by blaze33 48 minutes ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (nns.ee)
    ×3.42 13 | 870 points by xx_ns 22 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The lost malloc() (nekoweb.org)
    ×1.20 6 | 75 points by matt_d 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
    ×3.13 14 | 650 points by nharada 20 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (theguardian.com)
    ×4.34 8 | 104 points by alkyon 2 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)
    ×1.65 17 | 307 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)
    ×0.81 24 | 88 points by gmays 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
    ×2.34 | 340 points by thatxliner 12 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    ×0.96 21 | 84 points by passkey1510 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
    ×2.21 14 | 363 points by dsalzman 17 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (columbia.edu)
    ×1.06 24 | 105 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.21 25 | 493 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution (debian.org)
    ×2.73 6 | 6 points by vesinisa 10 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)
    ×1.49 26 | 205 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (phoronix.com)
    ×3.28 13 | 30 points by snvzz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.27 2 | 659 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
    ×0.73 26 | 61 points by firstbase 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How I use AI (Oct 2026) (stolovitz.com)
    ×1.65 30 | 198 points by citelao 18 hours ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com/postmanlabs)
    ×6.21 15 | 1354 points by sidgarimella 19 hours ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
    ×2.75 9 | 457 points by paddingtone 15 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)
    ×1.01 36 | 88 points by lukasschwab 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. We're training a Figma-fluent editing model (figma.com)
    ×1.03 38 | 131 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)
    ×2.11 4 | 358 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman (milkman.dev)
    ×1.36 18 | 52 points by jplunien 3 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.65 40 | 43 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
    ×4.41 9 | 998 points by syllogism 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Curiosity Traps (autodidacts.io)
    ×0.93 39 | 88 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mac at any scale (namespace.so)
    ×2.21 8 | 395 points by anner_ 22 hours ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com/finic-ai)
    ×0.86 32 | 97 points by ayanb9440 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
    ×0.83 53 | 136 points by benbreen 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Union Types and Option Types (2025) (tibleiz.net)
    ×0.66 57 | 51 points by g0xA52A2A 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Introduction to Programming in ATS (sourceforge.net)
    ×0.65 44 | 80 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.60 11 | 90 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs (ashbyhq.com)
    19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. NetBSD 11.1 (netbsd.org)
    ×1.51 59 | 20 points by jaypatelani 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) (mattkeeter.com)
    ×0.91 44 | 129 points by pmkary 22 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line (jivx.com)
    ×1.00 56 | 100 points by momentmaker 22 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Toit v2.0.0 (toit.io)
    ×1.40 47 | 230 points by floitsch 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World? (asteriskmag.com)
    ×1.41 45 | 146 points by shcallaway 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Tell HN: Don't use Postman, they proxy your info without your permission
    ×1.76 13 | 54 points by neya 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.61 30 | 281 points by campervans 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection (vaguespac.es)
    ×0.99 55 | 149 points by thebigship 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)
    ×1.81 5 | 218 points by user_7832 17 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
    ×2.12 38 | 319 points by knlb 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)
    ×1.35 55 | 201 points by ymz5 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    ×3.03 19 | 493 points by user052919 22 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (nytimes.com)
    ×4.79 25 | 632 points by ceejayoz 21 hours ago | 436 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)
    ×0.57 61 | 71 points by AlexeyBrin 21 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (carlini.com)
    ×2.87 | 475 points by markusw 1 day ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance (arxiv.org)
    ×0.43 65 | 49 points by 1equalsequals1 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Killing what can't be handled – putting a spaghetti demon to eternal rest (themaister.net)
    ×0.42 55 | 40 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app (momentic.ai)
    ×0.68 85 | 161 points by wuweiweiwu 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Gitbook Breached
    ×1.24 9 | 161 points by punchmesan 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one (bear.app)
    ×1.41 23 | 117 points by psxuaw 21 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Pratt parsing is a black box (vinipsmaker.github.io)
    ×0.66 40 | 55 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (bearblog.dev)
    ×10.00 16 | 2867 points by karpathy 3 days ago | 635 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Renewable electricity – best buffer against gas price volatility (europa.eu)
    ×1.47 6 | 4 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Affinity for Linux is in active development (twitter.com/Affinity)
    ×2.04 8 | 23 points by koiueo 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Queen of the Bagel Business (thehustle.co)
    ×0.45 71 | 35 points by qi104104 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
    ×3.13 1 | 820 points by aarushyadav 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Handles are the better pointers (2018) (floooh.github.io)
    ×0.77 53 | 67 points by vinhnx 22 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)
    ×1.01 30 | 120 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat)
    ×1.86 11 | 353 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. If you love a website, back it up (mistys-internet.website)
    ×2.88 11 | 659 points by ingve 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. The cryptography behind e-voting (and why paper ballots are still essential) (trailofbits.com)
    ×1.19 75 | 43 points by acossta 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 open letter on Israel (wikimedia.org)
    ×2.78 41 | 5 points by olirex99 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
    ×6.50 1 | 1846 points by roansh 2 days ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.97 42 | 480 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (nikkei.com)
    ×6.68 49 | 369 points by angry_impala 15 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (rikiyat.github.io)
    ×10.43 49 | 2930 points by dbreunig 1 day ago | 882 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Shrinking NixOS RAM footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum (lowendspirit.com)
    ×1.19 54 | 121 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (hackertimes.ca)
    ×2.30 8 | 457 points by polpenn 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. US boy names that became girl names and vice versa (namedaisy.com)
    ×2.08 14 | 485 points by xoobdev 1 day ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Runs Scored in World Baseball Classic (entropicthoughts.com)
    ×0.10 75 | 5 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase (stanford.edu)
    ×0.93 67 | 111 points by gmays 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes (wadetregaskis.com)
    ×1.62 20 | 134 points by colejohnson66 17 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb (aroundprague.cz)
    ×3.23 74 | 33 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Pnyx and the Agora (2016) (readingdesign.org)
    ×0.11 82 | 5 points by apophatic 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights (seangoedecke.com)
    ×3.09 48 | 144 points by agrm 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network (edwardbenson.com)
    ×0.44 63 | 31 points by eob 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Optical Circuit Switch Technology Built on Low-Loss Silicon Photonics Platform (psiquantum.com)
    ×0.52 76 | 43 points by gmays 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    ×3.64 14 | 846 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | 513 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???