Archive
Oct 2025
- John Carmack on mutable variables
- Ground stop at JFK due to staffing
- ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
- Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
- A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down
- Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
- Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
- Apple reports fourth quarter results
- Taking money off the table
- Some people can't see mental images
- How the cochlea computes (2024)
- Moderna has unraveled
- Signs of introspection in large language models
- Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
- Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
- SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
- Affinity Studio now free
- Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans
- PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
- Free software scares normal people
- Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files
- US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
- The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology
- RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization
- Jujutsu at Google [video]
- Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
- Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
- Introducing architecture variants
- Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years
- Language models are injective and hence invertible
- Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality
- One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on
- NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
- Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles
- Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
- Responses from LLMs are not facts
- Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
- Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware
- OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO
- Developers are choosing older AI models
- ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship
- AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
- Tailscale Peer Relays
- Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
- Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
- Tell HN: Azure outage
- The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry
- Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
- Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
- Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
- From VS Code to Helix
- Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
- Zig's New Async I/O
- Show HN: Learn German with Games
- AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
- Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
- YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
- Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
- Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
- Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
- Keep Android Open
- Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK
- uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
- Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
- Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
- Boring is what we wanted
- Why do some radio towers blink?
- Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
- Grokipedia and the coup against reality
- Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
- Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better
- HTTPS by default
- What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
- 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
- Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
- I've been loving Claude Code on the web
- Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
- The human only public license
- Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims
- The decline of deviance
- Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
- Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia
- EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
- Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology
- The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
- Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX
- Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
- Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
- Ubiquiti SFP Wizard
- China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
- Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels
- Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
- The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
- Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
- We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
- Poker Tournament for LLMs
- I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
- Tough truths about climate
- GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
- AI can code, but it can't build software
- OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
- Grokipedia by xAI
- Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization
- Creating an all-weather driver
- Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say
- Why Nigeria accepted GMOs
- The new calculus of AI-based coding
- Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
- JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
- Claude for Excel
- It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
- PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
- Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions
- 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
- Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
- Canada Set to Side with China on EVs
- You are how you act
- Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings
- How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
- Tags to make HTML work like you expect
- Rust cross-platform GPUI components
- The last European train that travels by sea
- What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
- This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
- Recall for Linux
- Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent
- ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
- How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
- Poison, Poison Everywhere
- We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
- Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes
- A definition of AGI
- Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality
- Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World
- 987654321 / 123456789
- YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
- Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App
- How ancient people saw themselves
- Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
- Feed the bots
- My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before
- You already have a Git server
- Asbestosis
- What if tariffs?
- Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
- A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
- I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
- Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking
- Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy
- California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
- The Journey Before main()
- How AI gave me my voice back – an artist's review of Suno Studio
- Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales
- TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
- Result is all I need
- The Great SaaS Gaslight
- React vs. Backbone in 2025
- ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
- Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
- It's the “hardware”, stupid
- Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
- Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
- Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
- Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update
- Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)
- Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
- What is intelligence? (2024)
- Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients
- TextEdit and the relief of simple software
- The Swift SDK for Android
- Harnessing America's heat pump moment
- WebDAV isn't dead yet
- FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."
- Disable AI in Firefox
- Why I code as a CTO
- "ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy
- Code like a surgeon
- Automatically Translating C to Rust
- Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
- First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself
- Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
- A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec
- Typst 0.14
- Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
- Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
- Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change
- Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
- Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28
- Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage
- 'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers
- Roc Camera
- Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
- Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
- Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
- How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go
- /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
- When is it better to think without words?
- FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
- Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
- What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
- Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
- Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
- OpenAI acquires Sky.app
- Claude Memory
- Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models
- Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
- US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic
- US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
- Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
- I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D
- US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety
- We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments
- The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices
- Corrosion
- SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers
- Rouille – Rust Programming, in French
- Be Careful with Obsidian
- VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
- Programming with Less Than Nothing
- Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
- Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
- An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)
- Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
- Why SSA?
- Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
- Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
- ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with
- Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
- Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
- Rivian's TM-B electric bike
- JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
- I see a future in jj
- HP SitePrint
- Look, Another AI Browser
- Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
- Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
- Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
- Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware
- Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
- Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
- Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers
- AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
- Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions
- Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
- Living Dangerously with Claude
- Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss
- Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
- Starcloud
- Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died
- Element: setHTML() method
- Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab
- Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
- MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
- French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
- OpenBSD 7.8
- Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
- Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
- Doomsday scoreboard
- Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
- Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
- ChatGPT Atlas
- Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
- The Programmer Identity Crisis
- Public trust demands open-source voting systems
- Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
- Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware
- Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
- AI is making us work more
- LLMs can get "brain rot"
- UA 1093
- NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
- Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
- Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
- Just Use Curl
- Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
- People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
- Most expensive laptops
- 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
- Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
- Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried
- Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
- iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
- J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
- Claude Code on the web
- Peanut allergies have plummeted in children
- AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say
- Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States
- Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died
- What do we do if SETI is successful?
- What I Self Host
- Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
- Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
- How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
- BERT is just a single text diffusion step
- Servo v0.0.1
- Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
- AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies
- Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights
- The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop
- Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
- Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
- AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
- DeepSeek OCR
- Space Elevator
- Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)
- Forth: The programming language that writes itself
- Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid
- Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%
- Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
- United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
- Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?
- Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
- Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
- Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum
- Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable
- The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years
- With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed
- Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom
- Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised
- Replacement.ai
- Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds
- I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
- Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road
- OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
- A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]
- How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
- Tinnitus Neuromodulator
- Attention is a luxury good
- Ripgrep 15.0
- AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
- 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
- A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
- Talent
- Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
- Claude Skills
- Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation
- Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA
- How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
- Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
- DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
- Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
- Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)
- Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
- Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
- Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault
- Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch
- Elixir 1.19
- Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules
- Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
- Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
- TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
- New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours
- Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
- Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next?
- Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
- Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership
- Cheap DIY solar fence design
- Getting syntax highlighting wrong
- US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
- Are hard drives getting better?
- Claude Haiku 4.5
- Zed is now available on Windows
- Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
- You are the scariest monster in the woods
- F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
- iPad Pro with M5 chip
- M5 MacBook Pro
- Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip
- Apple M5 chip
- I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
- Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS
- Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier
- Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
- Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
- Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
- Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
- The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain
- The scariest "user support" email I've received
- Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update
- Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
- I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
- Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
- FSF announces Librephone project
- GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels
- Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)
- Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
- Why Is SQLite Coded In C
- Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
- Why the open social web matters now
- How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface
- Your data model is your destiny
- America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
- What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
- Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
- Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
- ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
- How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
- How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
- Ruby Blocks
- GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
- DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
- Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures
- Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
- When if is just a function
- Let's Not Encrypt (2019)
- Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust
- KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
- Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
- Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?
- Why study programming languages (2022)
- New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
- Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
- South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates
- SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight
- DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
- Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy
- Thoughts on Omarchy
- Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]
- LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation
- Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?
- America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
- Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them
- $19B Wiped Out in Crypto's Biggest Liquidation
- Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
- NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
- America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
- Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act
- Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
- Smartphones and being present
- No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
- Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users
- California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month
- AI Is Too Big to Fail
- Why did containers happen?
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
- Matrices can be your friends (2002)
- Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
- American solar farms
- Modern Linux tools
- Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
- German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters
- Go subtleties
- Fastmail desktop app
- Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally
- For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)
- John Searle has died
- Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
- Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79
- Free software hasn't won
- MAML – A new configuration language
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
- After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
- Wireguard FPGA
- 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app
- A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
- In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical
- Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys
- No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
- Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
- Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
- Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores
- Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
- How to Enter a City Like a King
- KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
- Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients
- The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
- Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
- The App Store was always authoritarian
- Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
- A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI
- China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains
- Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
- LineageOS 23
- Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
- Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
- US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms
- Heroin addicts often seem normal
- Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
- Datastar response to misunderstandings
- How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?
- Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
- Rating 26 years of Java changes
- Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
- Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)
- People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
- GNU Health
- Microsoft Amplifier
- Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April
- Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
- Firefox is the best mobile browser
- The <output> Tag
- AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025
- Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
- Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
- Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
- AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
- Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
- How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
- Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
- TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok"
- Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
- I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
- Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
- Toyota aims to launch the ' first' all-solid-state EV batteries
- Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU
- The illegible nature of software development talent
- It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it
- Regarding the Compact
- Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
- "Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education
- Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
- Notes on switching to Helix from Vim
- Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs
- OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
- AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
- Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web
- Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
- I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
- A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions
- I switched from Htmx to Datastar
- I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
- Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems
- A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
- Examples are the best documentation
- The government ate my name
- Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
- Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
- LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
- Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much
- Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
- The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
- Why Self-Host?
- New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice
- Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
- Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai
- Show HN: I built a web framework in C
- The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'
- McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
- Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn
- Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
- N8n raises $180M
- Why is everything so scalable?
- California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
- Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
- The React Foundation
- OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
- Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence
- Kurt Got Got
- I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
- Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance
- A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
- WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
- Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law
- Ortega hypothesis
- Suspicionless ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law
- The RSS feed reader landscape
- Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI
- We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
- The email they shouldn't have read
- A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare
- One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
- Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
- Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025
- Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
- Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
- User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
- The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
- Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid
- How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)
- Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
- German government comes out against Chat Control
- ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
- Doing Rails Wrong
- Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad
- Seeing like a software company
- Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
- IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
- Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time
- Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
- Vibe engineering
- The day my smart vacuum turned against me
- Gifted children are special needs children
- 3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy
- America is now one big bet on AI
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