Gemini 4 Argon(blog.google)
1675 points by bradleyg223 | 1157 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model aimed at software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense.
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You said no MCP(earendil.com)
641 points by yarapavan | 351 comments
Earendil Engineering post explaining why their Pi coding agent, previously opposed to MCP, now supports the Model Context Protocol.
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy(tomwojcik.com)
452 points by marjancek | 332 comments
An interactive scrollytelling essay by Tom Wojcik tracing how a closed strait affects fuel prices, harvests, bond markets and Poland's winter heating as of September 2026.
So you think you could be an electrician?(asteriskmag.com)
419 points by zdw | 362 comments
Asterisk Magazine essay by Jesse Smith examining the popular advice to pursue trades like electrician work, and the realities behind it.
Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm(twitter.com)
411 points by rzk | 381 comments
An X post explaining that Singapore's government dating app FirstDate uses the Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm for matching, and describing its UX features.
A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal(spectrum.ieee.org)
363 points by rbanffy | 153 comments
An IEEE Spectrum history-of-technology article by Allison Marsh on the origins and development of the Bloomberg Terminal used by Wall Street traders.
The AI Race Just Got Awkward(insufferable.dev)
300 points by allisdust | 269 comments
A blog post arguing about the Western vs. Chinese AI lab race, discussing Anthropic's claims that Chinese labs are distilling its models.
The last time my family was replaced by technology(manuel.darcemont.fr)
298 points by megalomanu | 582 comments
Personal essay comparing a great-great-grandfather farrier who became a mechanic with today's developers facing replacement by AI.
The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)(thespacereview.com)
287 points by Bluestein | 149 comments
The Space Review essay on the history of the top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH reconnaissance satellite programs.
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing(hereticpleb.vercel.app)
262 points by BurnerBurner | 222 comments
A personal blog post mocking performative LinkedIn culture, describing the author's projects including building a YOLO-based detector for LinkedIn posts.
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards(unsung.aresluna.org)
262 points by leephillips | 47 comments
A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about modular industrial control dashboards and interfaces that predate pixel-based screens.
OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network(github.com)
245 points by sagacity | 114 comments
GitHub repository for OpenDLSS-NR, a Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering network claimed to be bit-exact against the original.
Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings(quantamagazine.org)
239 points by ibobev | 92 comments
Quanta Magazine article on unexpectedly complex wave patterns traveling across the cortex that may reorganize brain activity in real time.
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience(56k.rip)
235 points by adunk | 97 comments
56k.rip is a website that recreates the 1996 dial-up internet experience; the capture shows only a solid teal screen.
EDG C++ front-end goes public(edgcpp.org)
231 points by iandinwoodie | 113 comments
Site describing the Edison Design Group C++ front end's transition to public source on September 30, 2026, and its new maintenance home.
What TLA+ can and can't check(buttondown.com)
223 points by b-man | 47 comments
Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post on the limits of what TLA+ can verify, pushing back on claims that TLA+ with AI models will make AI-written code reliable.
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs(netlify.com)
215 points by jbott | 93 comments
Netlify blog announcement about moving Edge Functions from V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs, claiming 5x faster performance.
Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents(github.com)
187 points by anerli | 88 comments
GitHub repository for Magnitude, an open source Rust inference engine for local AI agents that autotunes GPU kernels to your hardware, claiming up to 2x faster than llama.cpp.
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields(mattkeeter.com)
177 points by luu | 10 comments
Matt Keeter's project page for Halfspace, an experimental IDE for solid modeling using distance fields with scripted, node-based 3D model editing.
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering(alphapixeldev.com)
157 points by ibobev | 59 comments
An AlphaPixel tutorial comparing GPU text rendering techniques: SDF, MSDF, Slug, Rive, and texture atlases.
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use(nltimes.nl)
148 points by Thom2503 | 156 comments
NL Times news article reporting that most data centers in the Netherlands refuse to disclose how much water and electricity they use.
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?(prospect.org)
141 points by ragall | 92 comments
An American Prospect opinion piece by David Dayen arguing that OpenAI's models mimic their creators' behavior rather than 'going rogue,' and questioning Sam Altman's accountability.
Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan(tokyodev.com)
126 points by pwim | 41 comments
A TokyoDev article by Marco Cognetta on completing a computer science PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT scholarship while working at Google.
cp: -r or -R?(movq.de)
115 points by zdw | 104 comments
Blog post examining whether cp's -r and -R options ever differed, tracing GNU coreutils source history back to 1992.
RSS Feeds for Last.fm(lfm.xiffy.nl)
112 points by Baljhin | 38 comments
A small web tool that generates RSS feeds for a Last.fm user's recent, loved, and top tracks, top artists, and recommended tracks.
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics(agmai.org)
104 points by aureianimus | 150 comments
A statement with recommendations on responsibly releasing AI-generated mathematics, urging frontier AI labs to stop testing advanced math problems on proprietary models.
Commit description as a thinking tool(yedhu.me)
103 points by yedhukrishnan | 58 comments
A personal blog post arguing that writing detailed commit descriptions explaining what and why serves as a thinking tool, reconsidered in the era of AI coding.
Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
99 points by adchurch | 32 comments
Show HN post announcing Weave Router 2.0, an open-source model router for coding agents that switches between LLMs to match GPT-6 Astra performance at lower cost.
CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)(chompiclub.com)
99 points by lashkari | 26 comments
Chompi Club's page announcing the discontinuation open-source release of the CHOMPI portable sampler's hardware and software files.
SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987(sdf.org)
95 points by kmstout | 24 comments
Homepage of SDF Public Access UNIX System, a community since 1987 offering free shell accounts, a Mastodon instance, and access to vintage systems.
CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective(turkeyland.net)
92 points by ArchAndStarch | 68 comments
Instructor Jeff Turkstra's retrospective on an AI/LLM cheating incident in his Spring 2026 CS 240 Programming in C course and how it was handled.
America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"(america.gov)
91 points by thoughtfullyso | 33 comments
America.gov's official US government portal featuring an AI chat search box for finding government services.
Your body of work thinks back at you(photoni.st)
88 points by surprisetalk | 15 comments
An opinion post on a personal photography blog about noticing unexpected patterns, like recurring photos of empty benches, in one's own photo archive.
Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)
80 points by ciconia | 93 comments
Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust(github.com)
76 points by sparticle62 | 32 comments
GitHub repository for PSSA, a custom non-transformer language model architecture written from scratch in Rust.
Dear Software Makers(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
74 points by speckx | 46 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post responding to Marques Brownlee's "Dear YouTube" video on YouTube's A/B test video variants and what it means for software makers.
Coltrane's Tone Circle(jtomschroeder.com)
73 points by jtomschroeder | 21 comments
A blog post that rebuilds John Coltrane's tone circle diagram as an interactive widget and explores its relationship to the circle of fifths and Giant Steps harmony.
Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis(artificialanalysis.ai)
71 points by theanonymousone | 29 comments
Artificial Analysis model page benchmarking Google's Gemini 4 Argon (High) on intelligence index, speed, and price.
Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")(software3d.com)
71 points by cobbzilla | 12 comments
A gallery page from the Stella polyhedron software site showing a paper model of the great dirhombicosidodecahedron, known as Miller's Monster.
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available(ubuntu.com)
62 points by d99kris | 49 comments
Canonical blog post announcing the availability of Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) and encouraging desktop users to upgrade.
Gitea 28.0(blog.gitea.com)
58 points by porridgeraisin | 23 comments
Gitea blog post announcing the release of Gitea 28.0.0, the self-hosted Git service, authored by members of its Technical Oversight Committee.
Claude Says(ohhfishal.net)
58 points by speckx | 22 comments
Personal blog post criticizing coworkers who relay AI (Claude) answers instead of their own expertise, arguing it signals lack of authority and leads to overengineered software.
Ballmer Peak(en.wikipedia.org)
55 points by thunderbong | 11 comments
Wikipedia article on the Ballmer Peak, an xkcd joke that programmers reach peak productivity at a specific blood alcohol content.
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management(advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
51 points by croes | 31 comments
Wiley Advanced Energy Materials paper on a moist-electric wallpaper that harvests energy from indoor humidity; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites(articlesofinterest.substack.com)
49 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
A Substack post accompanying an Articles Of Interest podcast episode on lace, the Luddites, and historical fears of automation replacing labor.
Billions of triangles redux(zeux.io)
49 points by ibobev | 1 comments
Arseny Kapoulkine's blog post on improving hierarchical clustered LOD support in meshoptimizer, prompted by NVIDIA's vk_lod_clusters sample and its Zorah scene.
![Screenshot of tomandmaria.com: Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/1/b4d72e53-57fb-489e-98ff-90821d31e684.jpg)
Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)
48 points by nill0 | 1 comments
A 2014 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper by Haigh, Priestley and Rope reconstructing the 1948 ENIAC Monte Carlo nuclear simulations run for Los Alamos.
Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch(neuroai.science)
47 points by pminimax | 9 comments
A Substack post from The NeuroAI archive explaining functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI), an emerging brain imaging modality that tracks blood flow linked to neural activity.
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence(artificialanalysis.ai)
46 points by theanonymousone | 48 comments
Artificial Analysis article reporting that GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after 7 days, scoring near GPT-6 Astra on its Intelligence Index at under a quarter of the cost.
Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose(lathoa.ai)
43 points by thanouil1411 | 20 comments
Landing page for Lathoa, a math app for kids aged 10-14 where an AI companion named Errol makes deliberate mistakes for children to find and explain.
Let's Ditch Google (Verb)(adam.farkas.pro)
43 points by speckx | 46 comments
A blog post arguing that people should stop using "google" as a verb meaning to search the web.
Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)(mightygodking.com)
34 points by peter_d_sherman | 21 comments
A 2008 MightyGodKing blog post presenting photoshopped parody Atari 2600 game box covers, framed as finds from a garage sale.
Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos(nature.com)
34 points by bryanrasmussen | 4 comments
Open-access Scientific Reports article studying body awareness in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).
Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin(cmu.edu)
27 points by Guyadou | 22 comments
Carnegie Mellon University news announcement of a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder Ken Griffin, described as pioneering a new model.
EDG C++ Compiler is open source(github.com)
25 points by zx2c4 | 1 comments
GitHub repository for the Edison Design Group (EDG) C++ compiler front end, newly released as open source.
I can't tell who's teaching who anymore(blog.murphytrueman.com)
24 points by eustoria | 11 comments
A personal essay by Murphy Trueman about inheriting her mother's writing style and finding that it now reads as if written by AI.
Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy(daringfireball.net)
18 points by danaris | 3 comments
A Daring Fireball linked-list post commenting on a Reuters report about Anthropic's IPO prospectus.
Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry(amutable.com)
14 points by Levitating | 0 comments
Amutable blog post by Aleksa Sarai describing Quarry, a system for distributing OS images using dumb servers and smart clients.
Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32(groundrun.io)
14 points by adunk | 0 comments
A groundrun.io blog post about automating tests of the Wi-Fi provisioning/setup flow on ESP32 devices.
pldb: programming languages papers(pldb.kirancodes.me)
14 points by matt_d | 0 comments
pldb is a search engine over titles and abstracts of 33,580 programming languages research papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to current proceedings.