Apple Pass Designer(developer.apple.com)
540 points by soheilpro | 321 comments
Apple Developer page introducing Pass Designer, a tool for creating and previewing Apple Wallet passes for businesses.
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Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art(newgrounds.com)
430 points by azhenley | 126 comments
Newgrounds homepage, a community site for games, music, and art, shown here behind a Spooktober-themed bot-check/security interstitial.
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting(bsky.app)
387 points by mariuz | 79 comments
Bluesky post by Paul Byrne sharing a 12-year sequence of telescope images showing four massive exoplanets orbiting a star 133 light-years away.
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows(deepseek.com)
375 points by Kuyawa | 196 comments
Landing page for DeepSeek Harness, an open-source AI agent desktop app in public preview for macOS and Windows with composable plugins.
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4(dwarfstar.sh)
332 points by fibo | 95 comments
Landing page for DwarfStar 4 (ds4), an MIT-licensed C inference engine for running open-weight LLMs like DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.x and Qwen locally on Mac, CUDA and ROCm.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/2/9c938b6a-a927-482d-a7be-9510fb08ae82.jpg)
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video](youtube.com)
313 points by usernomdeguerre | 114 comments
YouTube video of Greg Kroah-Hartman's Kernel Recipes talk "Security in the LLM age" on Linux kernel security in the era of large language models.
![Screenshot of gwern.net: The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/2/f40e3e6d-db7b-4d6b-8562-1f3d9460447c.jpg)
The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf](gwern.net)
292 points by suopspaces | 163 comments
A 1973 essay by mathematician Paul Halmos recounting the life, achievements, and legends of John von Neumann, presented as a scanned PDF.
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS(developer.apple.com)
278 points by notfirstpost | 193 comments
Apple Developer news post announcing changes to Full Disk Access in macOS, citing developers misusing it in ways that expose users' private data.
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now(arstechnica.com)
273 points by PaulHoule | 138 comments
Ars Technica article on an AI that beat top Stratego players by adding a second neural network to guess the identity of hidden pieces.
Shimano Bicycle Museum Review(inrng.com)
272 points by pietroppeter | 68 comments
An Inner Ring cycling blog post reviewing the Shimano Bicycle Museum.
The Tao of Backup(taobackup.com)
250 points by vntok | 100 comments
The Tao of Backup, a parable-style site teaching data backup principles through a master's lessons on the 'seven heads of backup'.
The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)(yuka.dev)
249 points by signa11 | 168 comments
A blog post detailing how the author first booted Linux on an Apple M4 Mac mini, building on Asahi Linux work.
Muse Gadgets(gadgets.muse.ai)
232 points by anant | 104 comments
Landing page for Muse Gadgets, open source DIY devices built on ESP32 or Raspberry Pi with SDKs to connect the Muse assistant to displays, buttons, and sensors.
How Singapore's government-run dating service works(singapore-samizdat.com)
222 points by danielfoster | 229 comments
A Singapore Samizdat newsletter post examining the questions in Singapore's government-run FirstDate matchmaking tool and arguing it won't fix the nation's dating problems.
Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash(niklasroy.com)
213 points by r0r0 | 33 comments
Niklas Roy's project page with a video of a working 30-minute pendulum clock built from trash in Glashütte, also a satirical time standard reference.
One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash(wagtail.org)
211 points by ThibWeb | 165 comments
Wagtail blog post by Thibaud Colas recounting a month of using only the open GLM 5.3 Flash model for coding, consuming 2B tokens.
Zig v0.17.0(ziglang.org)
209 points by ErenayDev | 132 comments
Official release notes for Zig 0.17.0, covering five months of work from 206 contributors including a reworked build system, Build Server Protocol, and ELF linker improvements.
Make Tmux the OS(matduggan.com)
179 points by weaksauce | 111 comments
Blog post by Mat Duggan responding to Scott Jenson's talk on desktop UX, arguing for a tmux-centric, terminal-based approach to the desktop OS interface.
A map of every lighthouse(mapped.earth)
178 points by karakoram | 76 comments
An interactive 3D globe from mapped.earth showing 75,919 charted lighthouses and navigation lights worldwide, each flashing on its real light cycle.
Things that apparently cause cancer(breakthroughjournal.org)
172 points by timpera | 63 comments
An Ecomodernist article by Deric Tilson and Adam Stein questioning the methodology behind studies claiming various things cause cancer.
Supabase is acquiring Turso(supabase.com)
171 points by cvburgess | 89 comments
Supabase blog post by CEO Paul Copplestone announcing the company is acquiring Turso to evolve database infrastructure for AI agents creating many databases.
Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours(home-assistant.io)
158 points by 2sf5 | 57 comments
Home Assistant blog post announcing that its cloud subscription service is being renamed, citing Big Tech's damage to the term "cloud".
ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts(npr.org)
155 points by rbanffy | 72 comments
NPR Morning Edition segment on how U.S. sanctions affect ICC judge Kimberly Prost personally and what they mean for international courts.
On social reality in China(lesswrong.com)
147 points by thicTurtlLverXX | 148 comments
A LessWrong linkpost essay by alkjash sharing intuitions and anecdotes about social reality in China, in the context of spreading AI safety and rationalist ideas there.
Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market(bigthink.com)
143 points by RickJWagner | 40 comments
Big Think article by Robin Wigglesworth on how a failed 12th-century Venetian crusade against Constantinople led Venice to create the world's first bond market.
Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)(darbiansphotography.com)
141 points by NaOH | 27 comments
An urbex photography blog post documenting the abandoned 1936 Woking electrical control room that powered the Southern Rail network, photographed in September 2016.
Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers(developers.redhat.com)
140 points by tomncooper | 50 comments
Red Hat Developer article benchmarking AI decision models like TypeSafe AI's Jev against LLM-as-a-judge and traditional classifier guardrails.
Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor(github.com)
125 points by vltmrkls | 44 comments
GitHub repository for Audionaut, an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor and recorder written in C++ with JUCE.
AI Makes Me Sad(mondobe.com)
121 points by mondobe | 120 comments
A personal blog essay in which the author describes feeling sadness and hopelessness about new developments in AI, despite being positioned to benefit from it.
Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model(blog.sshh.io)
117 points by iacguy | 85 comments
Substack essay by Shrivu Shankar arguing that every SaaS business will become a harness wrapping AI models with tooling and state.
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator(github.com)
114 points by antelocnova | 44 comments
GitHub repository for ldraw-nova, open-source agent tooling that uses LLMs to generate LEGO CAD models in the LDraw format, packaged as a dockerized web app.
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server(pipod.dev)
98 points by edverma2 | 39 comments
Landing page for pi pod, an open-source tool that runs pi coding agent sessions in isolated sandboxes on a self-hosted server, with a waitlist for a hosted service.
Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)
97 points by xqcgrek2 | 47 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.
Martian chaos terrain(en.wikipedia.org)
95 points by tiagod | 25 comments
Wikipedia article on Martian chaos terrain, regions of jumbled blocks, mesas and valleys on Mars thought to be linked to ancient water outflow.
Results from the ASIC puzzle(blog.janestreet.com)
90 points by eru | 43 comments
Jane Street blog post by Benjamin Devlin and Anish Singhani discussing the results and submissions from their ASIC design puzzle.
GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression(discuss.grapheneos.org)
90 points by Cider9986 | 31 comments
GrapheneOS forum announcement that its release fixes a Pixel kernel driver regression in Android 17 QPR1 causing stuttering, lag and freezes under memory pressure.
Dutch computer museums (2022)(aresluna.org)
89 points by npollock | 24 comments
Marcin Wichary's archived 2022 Twitter thread with photos from visits to computer museums in the Netherlands.
Everyone's Packing Up(widdershins.verja.net)
86 points by speckx | 69 comments
A personal blog post reflecting on the trend of people leaving platforms like Reddit, WordPress, and GitHub for smaller, self-hosted spaces and the smallweb.
Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid(nber.org)
77 points by bko | 23 comments
NBER working paper examining whether foreign aid diversion shifted to cryptocurrency after the 2016 Panama Papers tightened offshore banking enforcement.
The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news(lenfestinstitute.org)
76 points by giuliomagnifico | 27 comments
Lenfest Institute case study on how The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool that surfaces hyperlocal news leads for reporters.
Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc(byzantine-systems.github.io)
75 points by schonfinkel | 15 comments
First post on the Byzantine Systems blog describing a blogging setup built with Gleam, Emacs Org-mode, and Pandoc.
The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding(distantprovince.substack.com)
73 points by haute_cuisine | 40 comments
A Substack essay by Alex Martsinovich arguing that agentic coding causes four problems: slop, alienation, deskilling, and team fallout.
Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs(joshua.hu)
69 points by chanux | 35 comments
Blog post introducing Magic Switch, a free open-source macOS app for sharing an Apple Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or Mouse between two Macs.
gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer(github.com)
67 points by luu | 10 comments
GitHub repository for gpuvis, an MIT-licensed GPU trace visualizer tool for viewing GPU and CPU event timelines.
Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio(tuftesrazor.scienceux.org)
66 points by s4074433 | 30 comments
An interactive scrolling guide explaining Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio by stripping elements from a cluttered chart one piece at a time.
Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)(devforum.play.date)
66 points by ibobev | 7 comments
Playdate developer forum thread sharing advanced C optimization tricks learned while building a full-speed Game Boy emulator for the Playdate.
F.02 Decommission(figure.ai)
65 points by ad_hockey | 25 comments
Figure AI news post announcing the decommissioning of its Figure 02 (F.02) humanoid robot, with a linked YouTube video.
Barcodes are about to go extinct(thehustle.co)
61 points by rmason | 92 comments
The Hustle article by Katherine Laidlaw explaining why traditional UPC barcodes are about to be phased out in retail.
The Heilbronn Problem(math.tejstead.com)
60 points by tejstead | 12 comments
A website collecting the best known point configurations for the Heilbronn triangle problem in squares, triangles, and convex regions, with coordinates and an in-browser verifier.
The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's(onlineonly.christies.com)
60 points by peter_hansteen | 13 comments
Christie's online auction lot listing for a framed printout of the first packet sent via the RFC 1149 avian carrier (carrier pigeon) Internet protocol, April 2001.
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux(againstallodds.games)
59 points by nor-and-or-not | 26 comments
Blog post from indie studio Against All Odds about PasRISCV, the RISC-V emulator running Linux inside their space terraforming game SEEDS.
Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit(blog.google)
58 points by pantalaimon | 56 comments
Google blog post announcing that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, built with Planet, launched on SpaceX Transporter-18 to test TPUs in orbit.
Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors(reuters.com)
57 points by wslh | 59 comments
Reuters report, citing the FT, that Amazon is seeking to offload about $8 billion worth of Nvidia chips to investors; the page showed only a device verification screen.
How to save a life without knowing CPR(bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
53 points by bookofjoe | 38 comments
A bookofjoe blog post in the BeyondTheMedspeak series explaining how to save someone in cardiac arrest without formal CPR training, with a survival-vs-time chart.
The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit(behindthecode.ca)
51 points by paulgerhardt | 12 comments
A blog post on Behind The Code with Gerry about the Partner-N64 PC development kit used for creating Nintendo 64 games.
Quantitative Finance with OCaml(qcaml.com)
49 points by leonry | 9 comments
Online book teaching quantitative finance with OCaml, covering derivatives pricing, risk, credit modeling, trading algorithms, and financial infrastructure.
Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex(alexalejandre.com)
45 points by veqq | 12 comments
Interview with CHICKEN Scheme maintainer Peter Bex covering the CHICKEN 6.0.0 release, Scheme standardization, Postgres vs MySQL/SQLite, and Clojure.
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban(reuters.com)
44 points by geox | 32 comments
Reuters report that the US told France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face a US export ban; the page showed only a device verification screen.
Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl(theguardian.com)
44 points by beardyw | 44 comments
Guardian article on people returning to CDs, DVDs and vinyl to escape streaming algorithms, protect data, support artists and keep control of their choices.
GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow(agent-wow.sh)
43 points by almostlit | 26 comments
Blog post describing the agent-wow project, in which the GPT-6 Astra LLM plays World of Warcraft as an autonomous agent for the first time.