Archive
Oct 2026
- Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
- Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?
- Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
- A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
- Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
- How Protein Took over the World
- Bitwarden Dual License Model
- I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
- Lobbying is corruption
- Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
- Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
- `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
- Computers Cannot Make Decisions
- Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
- If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves
- Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
- The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
- REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
- Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
- YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
- No Man Is an Island
- Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
- Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
- Triple-A Minesweeper
- A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
- Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
- Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
- Python 3.15
- US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Why are coding agents so dumb?
- Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
- Our $445M Series D
- Cloudflare acquires Deno
- Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
- US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
- Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
- Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
- OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
- Sorry, I'm in a meeting
- Programming Isn't Special
- Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
- Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
- What should we tell our students?
- Reducing undefined behavior in the C language
- OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
- ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
- Theranos.world
- Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude
- Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
- OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
- 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
- New gTLD Application for .lan
- Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
- Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
- Orkut.com
- Beauty in DVD Menus
- I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
- OLED burn-in test: 30-month update
- Yes, and
- I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
- OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
- Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser
- “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
- US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams
- Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
- Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
- Margaret Hamilton has died
- 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
- The Mathocalypse
- Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
- Claude Haiku 5.5
- GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
- Docker Agent
- Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
- Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
- Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
- Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
- Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved
- Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
- Why were Victorian elites so effective?
- Anti-patterns in software blogging
- House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
- Google Playground: Create and play custom games
- God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
- Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
- Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
- PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
- Reasons to Dislike AI Coding
- The art of defusing a second world war bomb
- Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald
- AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
- State of Devs 2026
- Sharing AI progress in mathematics
- Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
- Decisions API is in public beta
- Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
- Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
- A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
- Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
- Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
- Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight
- California closed the Montana license plate loophole
- Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
- OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
- Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
- Mistral Large 4
- Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
- What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
- Polars 2.0
- JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
- Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
- I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
- Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
- Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
- We are going to kill "unalive"
- Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
- Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
- High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
- Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
- ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
- Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
- Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
- Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
- The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
- Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
- Questions for believers in AI consciousness
- Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
- Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses
- OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
- US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
- The future of independence is interdependence
- "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
- The lamps in my house
- Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
- Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
- Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
- Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
- Web Search API
- Apple and a hacker's future
- Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
- Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
- Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
- Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
- Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
- Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
- A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
- ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
- Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
- Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
- A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
- The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
- All I wanted was a custom domain email
- Blindsight (Watts Novel)
- Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
- The evolution of effective altruism
- Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
- In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
- "Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
- Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
- Religious scholars met with Anthropic
- Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
- We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
- Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
- Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
- We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
- The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
- Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
- What Meta got right with Muse
- ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
- Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
- Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
- LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
- Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
- City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
- I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
- The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
- Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
- An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
- Extra Big Ass Intelligence
- Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
- Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
- Zig v0.17.0
- Barcodes are about to go extinct
- Everyone's Packing Up
- Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
- Make Tmux the OS
- Muse Gadgets
- Apple Pass Designer
- From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
- ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
- Supabase is acquiring Turso
- One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
- AI Makes Me Sad
- Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
- The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
- With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
- Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
- The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
- On social reality in China
- Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
- US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
- DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
- Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
- How Singapore's government-run dating service works
- Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
- Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
- Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
- Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
- Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
- Sites in ChatGPT
- The death of web development education
- Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
- SvelteKit 3
- Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
- Pi 1.0
- Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
- Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
- Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
- Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
- RIP, vector database
- Red Hat being phased out of existence?
- Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
- Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
- Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
- Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
- FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
- Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
- Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
- How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
- Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
- StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
- GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
- To grieve, or not to grieve?
- Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
- Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
- Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections
- California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
- 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years