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X Is Bad, Though (lexontech.org)

×9.62 21 | 77 points by ayaros 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Passkeys are a trap (nonfunctional.substack.com)

×6.83 21 #52 | 1008 points by laurex 1 day ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote (bbc.com)

×6.49 40 | 82 points by MilnerRoute 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)

×6.39 50 | 218 points by jllyhill 14 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)

×6.21 76 | 307 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)

×6.20 81 | 150 points by DeepLogin 5 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 (sky.com)

×5.52 9 #13 | 48 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (linkedin.com)

×5.43 12 #23 | 159 points by svieira 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns (theguardian.com)

×5.33 36 | 443 points by heyimada 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bot traffic from Yandex (cloudflare.com)

×5.18 20 | 645 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse Wonder (meta.ai)

×5.14 12 #15 | 489 points by meetpateltech 6 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (cloudflare.com)

×5.01 29 | 219 points by rooftopzen 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com/storytold)

×4.87 19 | 98 points by espeed 21 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back (baromae.blogspot.com)

×4.77 51 | 9 points by odilelof 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (shokunin.studio)

×4.72 19 | 126 points by riffraff 16 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (yahoo.com)

×4.61 69 | 154 points by thinkcontext 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)

×4.55 7 #78 | 619 points by defly 1 day ago | 766 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)

×4.46 10 | 432 points by drogus 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (bbc.com)

×4.44 55 #71 | 580 points by Betelbuddy 13 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)

×4.41 28 #33 | 188 points by ajcp 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team " (twitter.com/fedesimio)

×4.10 45 #72 | 35 points by tortilla 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil (insideclimatenews.org)

×3.94 3 | 402 points by gumby 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ricky Mondello responds to "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." (hachyderm.io)

×3.83 23 #67 | 23 points by latexr 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European Alternatives (buy-european.net)

×3.83 49 | 146 points by doener 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (cnbc.com)

×3.71 37 | 238 points by m463 18 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit (tomshardware.com)

×3.71 42 | 84 points by ljf 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com/karpathy)

×3.62 #47 | 675 points by albertzeyer 1 day ago | 983 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (nyc.gov)

×3.59 #61 | 582 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (avclub.com)

×3.57 35 #48 | 70 points by pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (tomshardware.com)

×3.54 13 #7 | 364 points by Zeekaas 11 hours ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute (latimes.com)

×3.42 46 | 96 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

×3.42 53 | 775 points by lukehandcool 4 days ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)

×3.34 1 | 470 points by ForHackernews 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)

×3.30 64 | 725 points by SpeakingOfBrad 5 days ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (inc.com)

×3.29 9 | 267 points by bhrlady 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)

×3.15 5 #3 | 60 points by pngmangi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Littleguys – Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents in your menu bar (hervalicio.us)

×3.14 91 | 15 points by herval 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla Factory Plan Increase of Toxic Heavy Metal Emissions Near School (anonymous94538.substack.com)

×3.03 53 #88 | 19 points by DeepLogin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)

×3.01 1 #37 | 699 points by royfish 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (wired.com)

×2.99 21 #39 | 134 points by rndsignals 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Doiter – Language where pointers and stack frames are Docker containers (github.com/simvux)

×2.97 81 | 8 points by simvux 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (berkeley.edu)

×2.97 60 #69 | 165 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apogee: Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private (github.com/darshi1337)

×2.88 89 | 66 points by zxdc7896 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com/openai)

×2.86 9 #11 | 404 points by whimblepop 4 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB (pivotlake.io)

×2.85 146 | 16 points by dkgs 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims (crypto.news)

×2.83 21 | 80 points by thm 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

×2.77 72 | 576 points by IvanK_net 6 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (youtube.com)

×2.72 45 | 147 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)

×2.62 14 #21 | 290 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)

×2.58 2 #53 | 662 points by jttnr 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (wordpress.com)

×2.55 36 #86 | 256 points by amosbatto 18 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. (yyhh.org)

×2.49 #1 | 146 points by layer8 1 hour ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wish you the best in the Offline (daverupert.com)

×2.46 57 | 83 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA may have proof life once existed on Mars (cnn.com)

×2.45 39 | 4 points by alcover 53 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)

×2.44 29 | 155 points by doppp 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)

×2.42 41 #35 | 520 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRCv3 (ircv3.net)

×2.40 24 #75 | 406 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thinking will become a hobby (spinellis.gr)

×2.40 8 #22 | 198 points by pranitha_m 6 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)

×2.35 6 #63 | 369 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com/qgis)

×2.32 9 #30 | 361 points by bwnkl 11 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LineageOS 24 (lineageos.org)

×2.30 21 #85 | 447 points by timschumi 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com/colinhacks)

×2.29 38 | 177 points by luggage_bazooka 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Reportedly Pushing Devs to Use AI, Delays Star Wars and Marvel Shooter (ign.com)

×2.27 16 | 4 points by password54321 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (bbc.com)

×2.27 65 | 143 points by cataflam 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)

×2.23 23 | 471 points by softwaredoug 2 days ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)

×2.21 37 | 281 points by TheWaffleHax 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)

×2.17 15 #8 | 47 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shpyrd – A new type of cloud for AI era (shpyrd.io)

×2.17 79 | 8 points by patricknegri 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications (tomshardware.com)

×2.13 50 | 76 points by mathgenius 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com/h0m3us3r)

×2.13 15 #10 | 233 points by djfergus 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)

×2.12 25 #31 | 178 points by soeckly 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)

×2.12 5 #87 | 414 points by edent 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)

×2.11 25 #18 | 84 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)

×2.10 5 #4 | 344 points by prophittcorey 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A functioning Celery Man computer (celeryman.fun)

×2.06 108 | 11 points by turtlesoup 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (economist.com)

×2.04 24 | 102 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)

×2.03 51 | 428 points by simplyalec 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox 158 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support by Default (phoronix.com)

×2.02 6 #54 | 10 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GeoRadios – Spin a globe, hear what's on the radio there (georadios.com)

×2.02 56 | 9 points by zalves 12 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path with Some Performance Gains (phoronix.com)

×2.01 19 #41 | 8 points by khalidkhair 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch – not some new software (theregister.com)

×2.00 2 #51 | 18 points by CrankyBear 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (bbc.com)

×1.98 16 #12 | 240 points by scrlk 11 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)

×1.94 69 | 239 points by ilreb 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

×1.92 65 | 423 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (intel.com)

×1.92 12 | 3 points by hurricanepootis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-Legal (z.ai)

×1.91 4 #2 | 387 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Enshittification of Mathematics [pdf] (springer.com)

×1.89 13 | 3 points by matteodelabre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic BSS Explained: AI-Native Model, Architecture and Use Cases [pdf] (framerusercontent.com)

×1.89 4 | 3 points by y2so 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug (raytriangle.com)

×1.88 149 | 6 points by pst723 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CIA World Factbook is dead – Here is an attempt at recreation (worldfacts.app)

×1.86 60 | 81 points by yegortk 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???