Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
892 points by snehesht | 402 comments
GitHub repository for Strata, an inference engine offering one-click install to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally on consumer hardware with an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API.
716 points by privacyisntdead | 477 comments
GitHub repository for RemoveMacAI, an MIT-licensed Swift CLI that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and reclaims its disk space, reversibly.
469 points by sensanaty | 608 comments
Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.
385 points by wiso | 127 comments
A browser-based recreation of the classic Microsoft Visual Basic 6 IDE with form designer, toolbox, project explorer and properties panel.
363 points by shahidhussain | 127 comments
A personal essay by Shahid Hussain about a years-long search for information on Salvage, an obscure indie rock band he discovered on a CD in 2011.
304 points by vinhnx | 318 comments
Nolan Lawson blog post examining why web developers often don't "use the platform" and rely on JavaScript instead of built-in browser features.
239 points by rdmuser | 31 comments
Film Stories news article reporting that a digital archive of animation materials from Tippett Studio appeared online after the studio's closure.
235 points by benbreen | 175 comments
Works in Progress magazine essay arguing that technology to eradicate mosquito-borne diseases already exists and their persistence is a choice.
229 points by walrus01 | 116 comments
SmartHomeScene review comparing 12 budget Zigbee temperature and humidity sensors from Aqara, Sonoff, Tuya, Thirdreality, Zemismart, and Moes.
185 points by longhaul | 107 comments
Project page from Northeastern University presenting the first large-scale measurement study of the connected-vehicle ecosystem and the data cars share with manufacturers and third parties.
167 points by luu | 69 comments
Jeremy Reimer's blog post recounting the story of Mineserver, a crowdfunded Minecraft server product, and the consequences of lies behind it.
158 points by renehsz | 34 comments
Vincent Bernat's blog post explaining how to build self-hosted HTTP tunnels to expose a local server using a plain SSH client and nginx.
149 points by allenleee | 67 comments
GitHub repository for SCM, an MIT-licensed macOS tool that provides AI-powered search across photos and every frame of videos in any folder.
141 points by droidjj | 78 comments
Jagex teaser page announcing development of a new RuneScape MMO, showing a flaming "4" graphic behind a privacy consent dialog.
140 points by bookofjoe | 332 comments
New York Times article about religious scholars meeting with Anthropic to discuss morals and values for its Claude AI; the capture shows a bot-block page.
135 points by JumpCrisscross | 123 comments
Energy Transition article by Paul Hockenos on how distributed renewable energy in Ukraine, such as in Mykolaiv, kept services running despite Russian strikes on power plants.
132 points by knuckleheads | 32 comments
GitHub repository for Headstart, patches to rustc and cargo that start dependent crates before their dependencies finish type-checking by emitting metadata early.
131 points by bookofjoe | 39 comments
New York Times obituary of venture capitalist William (Bill) Draper; the captured page is a bot-detection block screen.
102 points by woodruffw | 24 comments
A TIL blog post explaining that Rust's #[derive(...)] for traits like Debug and Clone emits #[inline] attributes, shown via macro expansion.
96 points by aghuang | 94 comments
Landing page for ArtCraft's suite of seven native, open-source creative apps built in Rust for image, vector, video, photo, PDF, motion graphics and layout work.
95 points by rdmuser | 16 comments
Video Game History Foundation blog post announcing its digital archive has passed 5,000 magazines and outlining plans for the collection.
93 points by Ariarule | 38 comments
A 2015 essay by qntm analyzing the time travel mechanics in the puzzle platformer game Braid.
92 points by hukl | 92 comments
Blog post by John-Paul Bader describing Holocron, his approach to using Blu-ray M-Discs as a last-resort long-term archival backup.
92 points by actfrench | 47 comments
A Substack post by Maya Sissoko offering parents a guide to rejection sensitivity in gifted and twice-exceptional children, covering connection and friendships.
90 points by mooreds | 100 comments
Wikipedia article on Blindsight, Peter Watts's 2006 hard science fiction novel about astronauts investigating an alien signal and themes of consciousness.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/4/19a83d9b-9696-4e42-89f7-05b0effd5404.jpg)
86 points by simonjgreen | 35 comments
YouTube video of Lenny's Podcast with Stripe's Katie Dill on scaling intent, quality, and artistry in product design with AI.
83 points by timbill | 11 comments
GitHub issue in net4people/bbs where a reporter alleges Xray-core maintainers concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability for half a year.
79 points by dnetesn | 60 comments
A Blue Continuum magazine profile of David Gruber, who is trying to decode what sperm whales are saying, using AI to analyze their communication.
79 points by HeavenFox | 26 comments
Landing page for AstroHelm, a mobile app that plate-solves the sky through a phone camera mounted on a telescope or camera to guide users to celestial objects.
78 points by greyface- | 9 comments
GitHub repository for DEDA, a TU Dresden toolkit to extract, decode, and anonymise the hidden yellow tracking dots printed by color laser printers.
77 points by luu | 25 comments
A personal blog post describing a couple's music-based accountability system where completing a daily task earns sending the other a song, contrasted with accountability bets.
71 points by delphidolphin | 11 comments
GitHub repository for Nightwatch, an MIT-licensed macOS menu-bar app that notifies you when tonight's sky will be clear enough for telescope imaging.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/4/cc29e144-96cb-4fc8-a781-e61a3640372d.jpg)
70 points by signa11 | 36 comments
AI Engineer World's Fair talk video in which Stanford's John Ousterhout presents Homa, a transport protocol proposed to replace TCP in AI datacenter clusters.
67 points by jgx0 | 95 comments
A personal blog post about the author's search for an affordable custom-domain email service with unlimited addresses, verified sending, and Apple Mail integration.
66 points by aw1621107 | 26 comments
Blog post examining C++ proposal P4313R1, which adds bitmask operations for enums via a C++26 annotation, and edge cases around complementing values.
53 points by bazzmt | 106 comments
An Economist article on the evolution of effective altruism and how the movement spread; the captured page shows an access-restricted block instead of the article.
47 points by 6bitquant | 34 comments
Stephen Wolfram essay on the role and future of human pure mathematics research as AI systems increasingly solve math problems.
43 points by zero_k | 39 comments
A blog post on the SAT solving and cryptography blog 'Wonderings of a SAT geek' discussing how incentives shape behavior in academic research.
43 points by latein | 10 comments
Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.
42 points by porridgeraisin | 5 comments
Igor Ostrovsky's 2010 blog post demonstrating processor cache effects with code examples; the capture shows a hosting 'Resource Limit Is Reached' error.
27 points by davidwshao | 10 comments
First lesson of SciMigo's Build with Python course, a browser-based beginner Python course using Pyodide where code draws pictures on a canvas.
27 points by vismit2000 | 12 comments
A Mazda Stories feature on the origami paper crane, its uses in gifts and education, and the legend of its miraculous powers.
26 points by saikatsg | 5 comments
A JetBrains AI blog post presenting a developer diary and field notes on building a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline for semantic code search.
24 points by airhangerf15 | 34 comments
A 404 Media article about a project that 'tortures' LLMs in a simulated robot prison and the online debate it sparked over AI sentience and welfare.
23 points by pjmlp | 11 comments
News article reporting that OpenBSD developers rejected a port of the Rust-based uutils coreutils, citing licensing and compatibility concerns.
23 points by bilsbie | 20 comments
A browser-based interactive 3D simulation of an O'Neill cylinder space habitat that users can walk around, reportedly built with Claude.
21 points by joozio | 11 comments
A LessWrong linkpost by Katalina Hernandez reflecting on lessons from co-leading an AI safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners.
18 points by colinprince | 14 comments
A Robert X. Cringely blog post titled "The Auditor's Opinion" on his I, Cringely technology commentary site.
15 points by rdmuser | 10 comments
Fog-Bank project page explaining how it captures and archives every frame from FogCam, the oldest running webcam, including its pipeline to YouTube and failure tracking.
15 points by jaypatelani | 8 comments
NetBSD blog post reporting on a Google Summer of Code 2026 project to improve and stabilize the racoon2 IKE daemon for IPsec VPNs.
15 points by cliffclimber | 0 comments
Chain of Thought newsletter post featuring npm co-founder Laurie Voss on how AI-cheapened coding shifts value from software engineering to product engineering and context.
15 points by cautiouscat | 34 comments
Reddit post in r/2007scape about RuneScape's stance on generative AI; the page was blocked by Reddit's network security.
14 points by ferran9908 | 4 comments
A personal blog post arguing that "no vendor lock-in" claims signal a weak product, and that AI models should be judged on cost per task rather than cost per token.
14 points by akbarnama | 4 comments
Guardian news article on tens of thousands protesting in Madrid and other Spanish cities over the housing crisis after new legislation failed to pass.
13 points by omidontop | 6 comments
GitHub repository for Arcadeia, an open-source self-hosted photo and video library with animated previews, search, and optional local transcription.
12 points by ripe | 6 comments
A New York Times Magazine piece arguing that gambling logic underpins Silicon Valley products, including prediction markets; the capture shows a bot-block page.
11 points by bookofjoe | 0 comments
Live Science article on a study finding about 1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections, mostly from four pathogens, and the role of vaccines in prevention.
11 points by bookofjoe | 3 comments
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article arguing AI could trigger nuclear war without superintelligence or malicious intent; the screenshot shows a different article on Trump-Xi strategic stability.
9 points by thunderbong | 1 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on Google Japan's 3D-printable conveyor-belt Gboard keyboard with four belts of 29 keys each for one-hand typing.
9 points by javierluraschi | 2 comments
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