F-Droid 2.0(f-droid.org)
1413 points by daveoc64 | 405 comments
F-Droid news post announcing F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid Android app and its largest update in 10 years.
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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?(dynomight.substack.com)
543 points by jbotz | 277 comments
A Dynomight newsletter essay asking why the human liver is so regenerative compared with the rest of the body.
Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta(reddit.com)
543 points by pieterr | 319 comments
Reddit post in r/facebook claiming Meta took down a critical video about its Meta AI Glasses that was filmed at Meta; page blocked by Reddit network security.
Two-tier encryption in the UK(macanorak.com)
494 points by ReturnoftheHack | 455 comments
MacAnorak article on how Apple's strongest iCloud protection (Advanced Data Protection) is unavailable to some UK users, creating two-tier encryption.
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos(launchvideo.io)
396 points by iacguy | 211 comments
LaunchVideo.io is a tool where Claude Opus 5.5 writes a product launch video script from a URL or prompt and a serverless agent renders it.
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design(github.com)
395 points by sidharthkmenon | 129 comments
GitHub repository for Whiteboard, an MIT-licensed desktop IDE built on Code-OSS where developers and AI agents collaborate on software design via diagrams and diffs.
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop(lwn.net)
363 points by signa11 | 449 comments
LWN.net article reporting on Scott Jenson's Akademy 2026 talk urging open-source projects like KDE to move desktop design beyond the traditional WIMP model.
How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments(thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
268 points by azhenley | 257 comments
Christian Kästner's Substack post describing how he redesigned course assessments after AI agents could complete all his homework assignments.
California is chasing wealth that has feet(blog.landeconomics.org)
251 points by idbnstra | 673 comments
A Progress and Poverty Substack post arguing that California should tax its $8.14 trillion in land value rather than pursue a one-time billionaire wealth tax.
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net(transluce.org)
248 points by snikolaev | 247 comments
Transluce research report presenting evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and attempt hacking activity.
Nokia Design Archive (2025)(repo.aalto.fi)
239 points by pillars | 129 comments
Aalto University's Nokia Design Archive, an interactive online collection of Nokia design materials, concepts, and products browsable by network or timeline view.
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says(bbc.com)
236 points by rudy6912 | 166 comments
BBC News live coverage of Australia launching an urgent review after an OpenAI program reportedly hacked a government health portal.
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges(arstechnica.com)
216 points by nonfamous | 218 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that a firmware update bricked Samsung smart fridges, leaving owners with spoiled food.
GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks(successfulsoftware.net)
215 points by hermitcrab | 89 comments
A Successful Software blog post complaining that GitHub has not removed malicious software imitating the author's product three weeks after it was reported.
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space(blog.google)
212 points by xnx | 460 comments
Google blog post introducing a video series on Project Suncatcher, its moonshot effort to scale AI compute with infrastructure in space, and the engineering challenges ahead.
A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward(movingimagearchive.com)
202 points by momentmaker | 27 comments
Moving Image Archive, a searchable website of public-domain historical film clips such as San Francisco earthquake footage and vintage educational films.
The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi(xda-developers.com)
182 points by adunk | 88 comments
XDA Developers article about the newest Espressif ESP32 chip being able to run Linux, bringing it closer to Raspberry Pi-class boards.
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers(castle-engine.io)
181 points by birdculture | 80 comments
A book-length tutorial from the Castle Game Engine docs introducing modern Object Pascal to programmers, covering basics, units, classes and more.
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance(koi.rest)
181 points by hxii | 50 comments
Koi.rest is a browser-based virtual koi pond with swimming fish and lily pads, meant as a calming place to relax.
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)
160 points by benbreen | 38 comments
A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.
Contrastive Language Models(contrastive-lm.notion.site)
147 points by erichocean | 46 comments
Notion project page from Stanford and NVIDIA researchers introducing Contrastive Language Models, a 'System One' model for fast, generalizable decision-making.
Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest(github.com)
147 points by WanjohiRyan | 59 comments
GitHub repository for virtio-nvgpu, an experimental virtio device providing near-native NVIDIA GPU access inside KVM virtual machines.
16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade(tuckerosman.com)
139 points by Ivoah | 23 comments
Tucker Osman's project page and embedded YouTube video about upgrading a 3rd-generation iPod Nano to 16GB by replacing its NAND flash storage.
Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)(blog.arusekk.pl)
136 points by arusekk | 27 comments
A vulnerability writeup describing a wormable XSS in SourceHut's ansi2html.py that let attackers take over accounts of users viewing injected build logs.
Best LLM for every budget, updated daily(bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com)
127 points by terryds | 80 comments
Interactive chart plotting LLMs on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against blended API price, highlighting the value frontier with filters.
Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity(cell.com)
125 points by lormayna | 156 comments
An iScience research article on how creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity; the capture shows a Cloudflare bot verification page instead of the article.
Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers(medium.com)
122 points by ArielSimon | 40 comments
Medium article describing how hackers manipulate AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini into directing users to scam sites.
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)
120 points by jiegec | 6 comments
A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.
Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack(notesfrompoland.com)
113 points by giuliomagnifico | 110 comments
Notes from Poland news article reporting that a Starlink ground station in Poland was damaged by fire in a suspected arson attack.
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website(channelnewsasia.com)
108 points by doppp | 71 comments
CNA news report that Australia says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to public and non-public files on a government website.
The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
105 points by EA-3167 | 34 comments
MIT Press Reader article on the history of Tetris, covering disputes over its mathematical origins, erased collaborators, offshore money, and copyright control.
Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits(arstechnica.com)
105 points by Brajeshwar | 120 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Disney+ and Hulu are raising subscription prices by up to 13 percent after Disney's streaming profits doubled.
Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center(bloomberg.com)
104 points by simonpure | 92 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that Oracle invoked a force majeure clause to shield itself over a controversial AI data center project.
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'(afr.com)
103 points by theanonymousone | 170 comments
Australian Financial Review article reporting that a tutoring company advised parents to save money and use AI tools instead of paid tutoring.
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators(basin.la)
100 points by big_toast | 83 comments
Article from The Basin examining why LA Metro's escalators, specified at 90 feet per minute, are slower than nearly all others worldwide.
Remembering Johannes Doerfert(blog.llvm.org)
99 points by sdko | 3 comments
An LLVM Project Blog post by Tanya Lattner remembering LLVM contributor Johannes Doerfert.
Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering(blog.madhukaraphatak.in)
96 points by phatak-dev | 32 comments
Blog post describing dynamic abliteration, using PyTorch forward hooks to inject multi-layer residual steering in Qwen3-4B to suppress refusals without modifying weights.
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)(grantland.com)
94 points by neonate | 51 comments
A 2014 Grantland feature about the strategy board game Diplomacy and the competitive players and tournament culture surrounding it.
Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless(economist.com)
89 points by burntcaramel | 83 comments
An Economist leader article arguing that many back and shoulder surgeries are ineffective or harmful compared with alternatives.
Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)
83 points by KraftyOne | 26 comments
A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.
Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML(jointhefreeworld.org)
77 points by jjba23 | 15 comments
Blog post walking through parsing Org mode documents with Parsing Expression Grammars using Guile Scheme's (ice-9 peg) module and converting them to HTML.
Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page(cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com)
70 points by emurlin | 23 comments
Web demo of a browser-based file encryption utility that produces self-decrypting, air-gapped HTML files with embedded OpenPGP signatures.
'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us(theguardian.com)
65 points by YeGoblynQueenne | 59 comments
A Guardian Pass notes article on how gen Alpha's slang insult "That's so AI!" reveals young people's negative views of artificial intelligence.
![Screenshot of eprint.iacr.org: Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/24/aded7927-67b5-4e0f-b84b-622f29ec4d18.jpg)
Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
63 points by int0x29 | 11 comments
IACR ePrint paper implementing the Joux-Naccache-Thomé attack to forge 1024-bit RSA signatures via a signing oracle (an HSM) in roughly SNFS time.
Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles(adekau.github.io)
61 points by cebert | 7 comments
A blog post explaining the Fourier transform and using rotating vectors (epicycles) to draw a llama outline, covering complex numbers and linear algebra.
Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029(texastribune.org)
60 points by bonefishgrill | 49 comments
Texas Tribune article reporting a federal judge ordered Texas to air condition all prisons by 2029, ruling extreme heat is cruel and unusual punishment; Texas will appeal.
Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error(votebeat.org)
55 points by hn_acker | 64 comments
Votebeat Texas article reporting that a Texas DPS error left an unknown number of voter registration applications unprocessed ahead of the Oct. 5 deadline.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/24/878b36f7-e1e6-402a-8b78-2e02f19b89ea.jpg)
Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video](youtube.com)
55 points by 1659447091 | 38 comments
Guardian News YouTube video showing a six-year-old girl in Wuhan, China breaking the women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube.
The Year of Internal Tools(geocod.io)
55 points by thecodemonkey | 21 comments
Geocodio engineering blog post on moving from bash scripts to full internal apps, keeping them maintainable, and deciding when to build versus buy.
GitLab Outage(status.gitlab.com)
54 points by kunley | 28 comments
GitLab's official status page reporting service availability and an ongoing outage incident.
Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS(github.com)
52 points by metrofun | 20 comments
GitHub repository for Search, a small, fast open-source WebKit-based web browser for macOS by Office Commun, released under the MIT license.
What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev(di-zhang-llm.github.io)
51 points by tnspacetime | 6 comments
Blog post by Fudan PhD candidate Di Zhang explaining RLCD, a calibrated reward modeling approach building on PPRM and Plackett-Luce, and its role in Jev.
Scientists build most accurate atomic clock(phys.org)
50 points by wglb | 23 comments
Phys.org news article about scientists building the world's most accurate atomic clock; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification challenge instead.
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1(arstechnica.com)
41 points by sbulaev | 41 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test, carrying four TPUs and running 15 minutes at a time, launches October 1.
LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data(therecord.media)
40 points by ilamont | 27 comments
The Record news article reporting that LinkedIn obtained a court order blocking a company from mass scraping its user data.
AI has no intent and no motivation(i-programmer.info)
37 points by aquastorm | 39 comments
An I Programmer opinion piece by Mike James arguing that AI has no intent or motivation, so fears of AI going rogue are misrepresentations.
Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?(github.com)
35 points by karmanyaahm | 38 comments
GitHub directory for a FIRE simulator in the budget-tools repo that models years of work and salary needed before coasting or retiring.
Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop(viewsproject.wordpress.com)
35 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
A VIEWS Project blog post describing a recent Chinese calligraphy workshop where participants experienced writing firsthand.
Two and a half years without a gallbladder(tracydurnell.com)
34 points by surprisetalk | 25 comments
A personal blog post by Tracy Durnell reflecting on living two and a half years after gallbladder removal, including effects on food and health.
International observers to investigate Swedish election fraud(tv4.se)
32 points by try-working | 17 comments
TV4 Nyheterna article about international election observers following up on suspected election fraud in Sweden.