Mistral Large 4(mistral.ai)
1961 points by Philpax | 1170 comments
Mistral documentation page for Mistral Large 4, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 49B active and 1.05T total parameters.
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Sharing AI progress in mathematics(openai.com)
1314 points by OfficialTurkey | 1488 comments
OpenAI research publication page announcing its AI progress in mathematics, linking to a GitHub repository of math results and preprints.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen(nobelprize.org)
551 points by solarist | 194 comments
Official Nobel Prize page for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Francis Halzen.
JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history(helgilibrary.com)
538 points by thw_9a83c | 486 comments
Helgi Library company data page for JetBrains s.r.o. showing total revenue and net income charts from 2005 to 2025 in CZK, with paid indicator data for sale.
Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"(mistral.ai)
498 points by j-bu | 70 comments
Mistral AI blog post announcing its Mistral Large 4 language model, nicknamed "Le Chonk".
Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
462 points by IvanK_net | 249 comments
Tell HN post by Photopea's developer complaining that GitHub rejected his DMCA takedown of repositories hosting ad-stripped copies of his web app.
Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)
448 points by signa11 | 352 comments
A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.
Polars 2.0(pola.rs)
408 points by simicd | 94 comments
Polars blog post by Ritchie Vink announcing the Polars 2.0 release and its highlights, including out-of-core spill-to-disk support and performance improvements.
EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model(blog.google)
395 points by ilreb | 42 comments
Google blog post announcing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open lightweight on-device model that embeds text, images, audio, and video into a unified space.
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
372 points by mariocesar | 601 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what services people find worth running 24/7 on a cheap $5 VPS or mini PC.
Decisions API is in public beta(developers.openai.com)
370 points by chiefstorm | 215 comments
OpenAI developer documentation for the Decisions API, a public-beta endpoint that returns typed probabilities, choices, or rubric scores from text and images.
Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire(techdirt.com)
342 points by beardyw | 229 comments
Techdirt article by Karl Bode criticizing Meta's agentic AI product Muse for privacy and security failures, including a zero-day flaw and harmful autonomous actions.
OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI(github.com)
326 points by fsbonetto | 371 comments
GitHub repository for openTPU, an open-source AI accelerator with RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler that runs Qwen3 and LFM2.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card.
Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study(phys.org)
301 points by pseudolus | 150 comments
Phys.org news article on a study finding nature's ability to recover from species loss is overestimated; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page instead.
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore(gleam.run)
300 points by ingve | 127 comments
Gleam v1.19.0 release announcement explaining that the Gleam compiler no longer generates Erlang source code as an intermediate step.
AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)(github.com)
295 points by Fe2O3 | 247 comments
GitHub repository for AnyPS5, a tool that automatically ports PS5 executables to run natively on Linux and Windows without emulation.
The Slow Formation of Durable Software(newsletter.dancohen.org)
278 points by benbreen | 113 comments
Dan Cohen's newsletter essay on how a group of historians spent years conceiving Zotero, the research application later used by millions.
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?(signoregalilei.com)
258 points by surprisetalk | 192 comments
A blog post on the Signore Galilei site exploring which species makes up the largest share of Earth's biomass.
Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model(zohaib.cc)
251 points by zed_labs_dev | 147 comments
Personal blog post by Zohaib Ansari arguing Claude Code's suggested message feature primarily benefits the model rather than its users.
Cleo (Mathematician)(en.wikipedia.org)
246 points by djoldman | 55 comments
Wikipedia article on Cleo, the pseudonym of Vladimir Reshetnikov, known for posting precise answers to hard integrals on Math Stack Exchange without showing work.
Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language(vivienhenz.com)
242 points by misterchocolat | 306 comments
Blog post arguing Common Lisp is the best programming language now that LLMs write code, because its image-based, interactive model shortens the feedback loop.
Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery(arstechnica.com)
224 points by Mgtyalx | 356 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery after a last-ditch effort to stop it failed.
Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI(penguin-mail.com)
220 points by kavourias | 150 comments
Landing page for Penguin Mail, an open-source mail and calendar desktop app for Linux supporting Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP and POP3 accounts.
State of Devs 2026(2026.stateofdevs.com)
211 points by sgdesign | 117 comments
Results page for the State of Devs 2026 survey, covering developer demographics, careers, and work life from 5,463 respondents.
How machines learned precision(glinscott.github.io)
194 points by glinscott | 65 comments
An illustrated essay by Gary Linscott on how Industrial Revolution machine tools like the screw-cutting lathe achieved precision from iron.
Wood Tape (2004)(gamesbyemail.com)
189 points by NaOH | 29 comments
A father's personal story from 2004 about his four-year-old son asking for 'wood tape' and drawing plans for a table to build together.
A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)(mitchellh.com)
168 points by mfiguiere | 52 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post introducing OSC 7501, a terminal escape sequence spec that lets programs report status like idle, working, waiting, finished, or failed.
OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller(openscad.org)
157 points by b-man | 120 comments
Homepage of OpenSCAD, free software for creating solid 3D CAD models via a scripting language, available for Linux, Windows and macOS.
I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity(ajmoon.com)
140 points by alex-moon | 87 comments
A speculative fiction blog post by Alex Moon, written from the perspective of an AGI, describing a fictional 2026 timeline in which AI-driven offensive tooling escalates toward wiping out humanity.
What is Codemode(lucumr.pocoo.org)
138 points by Tomte | 60 comments
Armin Ronacher blog post explaining Codemode and why Pi 1.0 added MCP support through it, revisiting his earlier argument that agents should use code over tools.
First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months(techcrunch.com)
137 points by hochmartinez | 59 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the world's first enhanced geothermal power plant was completed in 23 months.
Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand(autodidacts.io)
134 points by Curiositry | 151 comments
A personal blog post on The Autodidacts arguing that vibecoding with AI is less satisfying than writing code by hand.
Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol(mihai.dinculescu.dev)
121 points by faithraven | 58 comments
Blog post announcing that the tapo Rust/Python client library for TP-Link Tapo devices supports the TPAP protocol, so Third-Party Compatibility can stay off.
California closed the Montana license plate loophole(thedrive.com)
117 points by speckx | 290 comments
The Drive article explaining how California closed the loophole of registering vehicles through Montana LLCs to avoid taxes and fees.
Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight(techspot.com)
117 points by healsdata | 115 comments
TechSpot news article reporting that Utah will pilot letting AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight.
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)(worrydream.com)
116 points by _reza | 69 comments
Alan Kay's 1993 HOPL-II paper recounting the origins and development of the Smalltalk programming language, hosted as HTML on worrydream.com.
Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill(citizenlab.ca)
112 points by speckx | 47 comments
Citizen Lab 'In the Media' post about a Toronto-based VPN provider planning to leave Canada over a proposed lawful-access surveillance bill.
The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)(nature.com)
110 points by bushwart | 53 comments
Open-access 2020 Scientific Reports paper studying how cats' slow-blink eye narrowing movements function in communication with humans.
Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing(blog.pipetogrep.org)
99 points by thepipetogrep | 33 comments
A personal blog post by Chris Jones on getting Apple's discontinued iChat audio and video conferencing working again.
OpenSSH 10.6(openssh.org)
97 points by torcete | 23 comments
Release notes for OpenSSH 10.6, noting many AI-assisted security bug reports, more frequent releases, and an upcoming deprecation of scp's -R flag.
Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason(reuters.com)
91 points by semiquaver | 81 comments
Reuters news report on a former German intelligence chief being detained on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason; the page showed only a device verification screen.
Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP(arxiv.org)
91 points by mauriziocalo | 35 comments
arXiv paper by Josh Alman and Virginia Vassilevska Williams giving truly subquadratic 3SUM and truly subcubic APSP algorithms via a new thin matrix product algorithm.
A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU(carette.xyz)
91 points by surprisetalk | 17 comments
Blog post by Antonin walking through building a minimal kernel written in Swift and running it in QEMU, updated to use the @c attribute.
Integer multiplication below n log n(github.com)
88 points by E-Reverance | 59 comments
GitHub directory in OpenAI's math repository containing a preprint paper and README on integer multiplication algorithms faster than n log n.
Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught(erdosproblems.com)
86 points by pfdietz | 37 comments
Blog post by Thomas Bloom on erdosproblems.com describing how AI's rapid progress in solving Erdős problems is changing the site and its purpose.
LLMs may have helped my RSI(vaughanhilts.me)
86 points by vaughands | 44 comments
Personal blog post by Vaughan Hilts describing how using LLMs reduced his typing and appears to have eased his long-standing repetitive strain injury.
Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage(404media.co)
81 points by awoodbeck | 25 comments
A 404 Media article reporting that lawmakers introduced several bills to restrict Flock's license plate reader surveillance following the outlet's reporting.
Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min(parseable.com)
76 points by yashdotrv | 18 comments
Landing page for Parseable, an open-core columnar data lake for observability and telemetry data written in Rust and using Parquet.
Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust(github.com)
74 points by bigwheels | 29 comments
GitHub repository for Photocraft, an open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop written in pure Rust.
Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer(peterszentkiralyi.eu)
73 points by pentakkusu | 23 comments
Product page for Darkplug, an iPhone darkroom timer app that controls a photographic enlarger via a local-network smart plug.
'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'(theguardian.com)
73 points by speckx | 34 comments
Guardian feature investigating why every fish in Furnace Brook lake in East Sussex died overnight, tracing the cause to a neighbouring farm and wider UK river pollution.
When random is not actually random enough(ersc.io)
68 points by steveklabnik | 37 comments
A technical blog post from East River Source Control by Austin Seipp explaining why picking a random element via random number modulo count is not uniformly random.
Mathematics of Geothermal Energy(ebsco.com)
67 points by srameshc | 37 comments
An EBSCO Research Starter article explaining how mathematical models are applied to geothermal energy, from geothermal gradients and reservoir flow to heat pumps and power plants.
We are going to kill "unalive"(anildash.com)
66 points by Tomte | 40 comments
Anil Dash blog post arguing against the euphemism "unalive" and the platform-driven algospeak that self-censors language on social media.
Mistral Large 4(twitter.com)
64 points by apt-get | 4 comments
Mistral AI post announcing Mistral Large 4, a 1T-parameter multimodal open-weights model with 49B active parameters, available via API with weights due end of October.
How to head into VR without wearing a headset(kyushu-u.ac.jp)
61 points by Betelbuddy | 38 comments
Kyushu University press release on research using aerial imaging optics to let users enter virtual reality by sitting down, without wearing a headset.
How Fast is Python 3.15?(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
59 points by Qem | 39 comments
Miguel Grinberg's blog post benchmarking Python 3.15 (rc3) performance against earlier interpreters back to Python 3.10.
ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by helsinkiandrew | 39 comments
BBC News article reporting that users of the ASOS shopping app received push notifications apparently sent by hackers.
Brownian Motion(gregorygundersen.com)
57 points by signa11 | 8 comments
A blog post building intuition for Brownian motion by deriving its marginal distribution from a discrete-time random walk.
Mallet Head Angle(timberframe-tools.com)
57 points by frogulis | 20 comments
A 2011 Timber Frame Tools blog post explaining what angle to put on the head of a joiner's mallet, citing old timber framing books.