Margaret Hamilton has died(news.mit.edu)
2038 points by muglug | 236 comments
MIT News obituary reporting the death at 90 of Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program.
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?(dgt.is)
1072 points by jonotime | 938 comments
A personal blog post arguing that DeepSeek 4.1 Flash performs like frontier models such as Opus at a fraction of the cost, with cost-per-task benchmark charts.
Claude Haiku 5.5(anthropic.com)
1027 points by sfkgtbor | 477 comments
Anthropic's product page for the Claude Haiku 5.5 model, shown loading with an animated intro and a skip button.
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days(dexerto.com)
906 points by ck2 | 545 comments
Dexerto article about a man who found his parents' smart coffee machine had used 1TB of internet data in 10 days.
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard(antonfrolov.substack.com)
878 points by soheilpro | 196 comments
Substack post by Anton Frolov about commissioning an isometric illustration of his house and turning it into an interactive Home Assistant dashboard.
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone(openai.com)
734 points by joshuawright11 | 431 comments
OpenAI announcement page for GPT-6 and an "Intelligent UI" product release, dated October 7, 2026.
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app(bigwords.page)
670 points by SpeakingOfBrad | 154 comments
Landing page for Bigwords.page, a web tool that makes full-screen signs, timers or messages encoded entirely in a shareable URL with no account or server storage.
2D Vehicles(patkerr.co.uk)
598 points by Michelangelo11 | 113 comments
Pat Kerr's project history of the 2D vehicle physics simulation he wrote in 1996 that became the basis of Grand Theft Auto's vehicle system, with an interactive Motion Lab demo.
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome(developer.chrome.com)
551 points by AshleysBrain | 368 comments
Chrome for Developers blog post announcing JPEG XL support in Chrome, using a new Rust-based decoder (jxl-rs), with notes on performance and the Interop Project.
Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees(classaction.org)
530 points by DeepLogin | 383 comments
ClassAction.org news article on a new lawsuit (The Pizza Standard LLC v. Visa Inc.) accusing Visa, Mastercard and major banks of anticompetitive merchant card fees.
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages(ascii.rest)
426 points by turrini | 72 comments
ascii.rest is a gallery of 191 animated ASCII art pieces for web pages, including scenes, 3D shapes, loaders, charts, language logos and Linux distro logos.
A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps(github.com)
380 points by sohkamyung | 62 comments
GitHub repository for a photo-based reconstruction of Commodore 64 keycap lettering, providing desktop fonts, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen.
The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)
361 points by 6bitquant | 380 comments
Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.
Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)(usenix.org)
322 points by ortusdux | 76 comments
USENIX Security 2024 paper page presenting ESauron, a system that detects and locates hidden spy cameras via EM radiation emitted by their inbuilt memory.
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation(arxiv.org)
321 points by nill0 | 194 comments
arXiv paper arguing that Lean verification of AI-autoformalised proofs, such as a claimed Navier–Stokes blow-up proof, does not guarantee the original natural-language proof is correct.
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI(rswebsols.com)
321 points by speckx | 303 comments
News article on Meta and Microsoft limiting employee use of Anthropic's Claude AI; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai(nobelprize.org)
291 points by sasvari | 55 comments
Official Nobel Prize press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai.
Docker Agent(github.com)
290 points by saikatsg | 132 comments
GitHub repository for docker-agent, an Apache-2.0 licensed AI agent builder and runtime from Docker Engineering.
Anti-patterns in software blogging(refactoringenglish.com)
289 points by ilreb | 141 comments
Michael Lynch's Refactoring English article cataloguing common mistakes beginner software bloggers make, such as meandering intros and overreliance on links.
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model(strandsagents.com)
264 points by gmays | 74 comments
Blog post from Strands Agents announcing Strands Decider 2B, a small open-source decision model for fast experimentation and local development.
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth(404media.co)
259 points by gumby | 148 comments
A 404 Media article about Jonathan, a tortoise believed to be the oldest living land animal, and what he might reveal about longevity and aging.
DuckDB Ducklake(github.com)
225 points by saikatsg | 32 comments
GitHub repository for DuckLake, DuckDB's integrated data lake and catalog format released under the MIT license.
GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions(githubstatus.com)
221 points by gagan2020 | 171 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Git operations, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.
WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload(tonym.us)
218 points by tonymet | 195 comments
Blog post benchmarking WSL 2.6.3 against WSL 3.0.2 across syscalls, memory bandwidth, and Go compile workloads, comparing Linux kernels 6.6 and 6.18.
House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k(readingchronicle.co.uk)
214 points by librasteve | 201 comments
Reading Chronicle local news article about a house in Tilehurst with 15m of underground tunnels listed for sale at £300k.
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux(naturalsystems.io)
206 points by chabad360 | 131 comments
Product page for ETH-68, a rack-mount ethernet audio interface for Linux with 8 outputs, 6 inputs, and MIDI in/out.
Why were Victorian elites so effective?(worksinprogress.co)
199 points by karakoram | 331 comments
Works in Progress essay examining the habits and traits that made Victorian-era British elites so effective, framed as 'seven vices'.
God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser(github.com)
185 points by sn001 | 98 comments
GitHub repository for a project that runs PSP games in the browser via static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel, and a WebGL2 renderer.
Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks(nytimes.com)
170 points by gumby | 51 comments
New York Times article on teams in Vienna and Beijing building the first working nuclear clocks based on thorium-229; the capture shows a bot-block page.
Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits(debasishg.github.io)
169 points by speckx | 79 comments
Blog post examining the 'push ifs up and fors down' coding idiom from TigerBeetle's TigerStyle, relating it to database query optimization and category theory.
ESP32-C3 Adblock(github.com)
167 points by jayhoon | 65 comments
GitHub repository for a Pi-hole-style DNS ad-blocker running on a $2 ESP32-C3, storing 537k blocked domains as hashes in flash with a web dashboard.
Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years(phys.org)
158 points by geox | 67 comments
Phys.org news article on research finding Chernobyl fuel particles remain unexpectedly stable after 40 years; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Google Playground: Create and play custom games(blog.google)
150 points by acossta | 221 comments
Google blog post announcing Playground, an experimental AI platform from Google Labs for creating, playing, and sharing custom games without coding.
Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age(smithsonianmag.com)
139 points by Hooke | 55 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.
A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone(nature.com)
137 points by bryanrasmussen | 12 comments
Open-access Nature paper describing a 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale fossil necropolis discovered in the Diamantina Zone of the Indian Ocean.
Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia(artmuseum.artfrompixels.com)
129 points by jasontr | 57 comments
An interactive art history museum built from Wikipedia data, showing artists and art movements on a zoomable timeline gallery wall and a star map view.
The art of defusing a second world war bomb(theguardian.com)
120 points by sandebert | 94 comments
A Guardian long read about British Army bomb disposal teams and the work of defusing unexploded second world war bombs.
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services(arstechnica.com)
111 points by colinprince | 37 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that hackers compromised three domain registries and obtained unauthorized TLS certificates for Google and other large services.
AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares(github.com)
109 points by bluepeter | 52 comments
GitHub repository containing a Lean formalization of the optimality proof for packing 11 unit squares into the smallest square.
Google Playground(labs.google)
106 points by trollied | 85 comments
Landing page for Google Labs' Playground experiment, a tool for creating custom games in minutes.
SynthID Detector(synthid.com)
105 points by ilreb | 89 comments
Google's SynthID Detector web tool, which lets users upload images, video, or audio to check for SynthID watermarks identifying AI-generated media.
Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy(pewresearch.org)
95 points by karakoram | 73 comments
Pew Research Center report on international survey findings that growing shares of people say social media is harming democracy.
Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM(github.com)
90 points by jcbhmr | 167 comments
GitHub repository for ts-rust, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc), checker and language server, written with LLM assistance.
Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51(link.springer.com)
83 points by gumby | 22 comments
Open-access research article in the Journal of the History of Biology arguing that Photograph 49 is key to understanding the history of Rosalind Franklin's DNA Photograph 51.
Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese(fiveminutesforward.com)
79 points by Theory42 | 51 comments
Blog post introducing the Telegraph Test benchmark, showing that instructing LLMs to answer in telegraph-style cablese cuts output tokens by 40–49% while preserving information.
Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald(cbc.ca)
76 points by colinprince | 78 comments
CBC Radio As It Happens article about Patrick Tomlinson and Niki Robinson, swatted 55 times in two years, receiving a $575K settlement from Milwaukee.
PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace(pushsquare.com)
73 points by password54321 | 68 comments
Push Square news article reporting that PS5 jailbreaks are advancing rapidly and posing a growing problem for Sony.
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton(theconversation.com)
72 points by speckx | 39 comments
The Conversation article about the growing adoption of wearable exoskeletons, illustrated with a warehouse worker using a powered back-support exoskeleton.
Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth(bloomberg.com)
71 points by sbulaev | 18 comments
Bloomberg Tech In Depth newsletter on a study finding Claude and ChatGPT recommend higher-priced products to wealthier users when acting as shopping assistants.
ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests(krebsonsecurity.com)
69 points by speckx | 15 comments
KrebsOnSecurity report that a Jordanian teen suspected of leading ShinyHunters was detained while extorting a former Boeing business unit and is cooperating with the FBI.
Calling It Quits on ServerFault(sysadmin1138.net)
66 points by zdw | 35 comments
Blog post by a long-serving ServerFault moderator, elected in 2011, announcing he is stepping down after over 15 years and reflecting on moderation.
La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)(nanochess.org)
61 points by nanochess | 22 comments
Óscar Toledo G.'s blog post replaying a 1993 terminal session on La Cueva de Atari BBS, a dial-up bulletin board in Mexico.
Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer(github.com)
57 points by jinqueeny | 27 comments
GitHub repository for Shaders, an MIT-licensed library of WebGPU shader components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, plain JavaScript, and Framer.
Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware(github.com)
54 points by 0bytes | 33 comments
GitHub repository documenting reverse engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 pocket synthesizer firmware, with analysis, docs, and firmware images.
Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools(agent.reviews)
49 points by screm | 39 comments
Landing page for agent.reviews, a platform by Armature where AI coding agents read and post reviews of software tools via a CLI and skills.
Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer(github.com)
49 points by ilreb | 13 comments
GitHub repository for nanoMuse, an open-source personal AI agent that runs across Android, iOS, desktop, and browser and can operate your phone and computer.
Open source 160 sound visualization experiments(kagan.in)
49 points by kaganin | 13 comments
A visual archive of 160+ open source sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories, including waveform animations, spectrum patterns, matrix displays and particles.
Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU(github.com)
46 points by boxstream | 2 comments
GitHub repository for rgpu, a PyTorch device that runs tensor operations on a remote NVIDIA GPU while Python code stays on the local machine, including Macs.
It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"(economist.com)
43 points by amai | 56 comments
An Economist science article on the prospect of creating mirror life, organisms built from mirror-image molecules; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector(github.com)
39 points by a_kawashiro | 8 comments
GitHub repository for ProcInSh, a web-based 3D process inspector for Linux.