Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB(cactuscompute.com)
913 points by gmays | 176 comments
Cactus blog post announcing Whistle, a 16.9 MB open speech-to-text model for seven languages that runs on CPU alongside their Needle model.
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Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program(apnews.com)
811 points by alephnerd | 1390 comments
News article reporting that the US Trump administration suspended a visa/green card program for tech firms including Microsoft.
Yes, and(htmx.org)
728 points by Michelangelo11 | 285 comments
An essay by htmx creator Carson Gross answering whether people should still become computer programmers given AI, with his response "Yes, and...".
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
687 points by lukehandcool | 211 comments
A Tell HN post about a person who has funded a rural Tanzanian girl's education for ten years and now runs a small 501(c)(3), the Tanzania Education Project.
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically(mathstodon.xyz)
579 points by ent101 | 603 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao arguing that "Math 2.0" should value exposition, community building and new directions over raw problem solving, with AI playing a role.
Theranos.world(theranos.world)
551 points by kbyatnal | 199 comments
An interactive website recreating a Theranos office desk with a blood-testing device, promoting a documentary screening in San Francisco on Oct 22.
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities(quesma.com)
376 points by stared | 187 comments
A Quesma blog post by Piotr Migdał describing how Claude Opus 5.5 built an interactive visualization of Calvino's Invisible Cities from a single prompt over six hours.
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results(twitter.com)
355 points by sashank_1509 | 593 comments
Tweet by Dan Roberts announcing updates to OpenAI's GitHub math repo: 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawn results.
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)(frontiersin.org)
351 points by bookofjoe | 227 comments
A Frontiers in Psychiatry perspective article arguing ADHD can be viewed as a circadian rhythm disorder and discussing implications for chronotherapy.
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers(github.com)
335 points by theemathas | 321 comments
A history.md file in OpenAI's math GitHub repository logging withdrawn and updated math papers, with READMEs explaining gaps and linking retracted manuscripts.
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled(cnbc.com)
331 points by mfiguiere | 216 comments
Financial Times article reporting that OpenAI's annualised revenues are $20bn lower than the company previously signalled, shown behind a subscription paywall.
Beauty in DVD Menus(vale.rocks)
329 points by speckx | 178 comments
An essay on the design and aesthetics of interactive DVD menus, contrasting them with menu-less VHS and LaserDisc formats.
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it(reddit.com)
231 points by pyduan | 113 comments
Reddit post in r/ClaudeAI where a user claims to have found a previously unknown planet using Claude Code; the page shown is a Reddit network-security block.
The value of not getting to the point (2015)(ken.arneson.name)
220 points by NaOH | 75 comments
A 2015 personal blog essay by Ken Arneson reflecting on introversion and why conversations meander, prompted by a text from his college-age daughter.
Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments(scottbezek.blogspot.com)
200 points by scottbez1 | 36 comments
Blog post by Scott Bezek describing how he designed and built a wearable neon-style t-shirt using flexible LED filaments in a few days.
Bevy 0.20(bevy.org)
196 points by Philpax | 45 comments
Official Bevy news post announcing the 0.20 release of the open-source Rust game engine, by the Bevy contributors.
Orkut.com(orkut.com)
194 points by andreynering | 144 comments
Orkut.com landing page pitching a revival of the Orkut social network focused on people, communities, and genuine connection.
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe(solarpowerworldonline.com)
191 points by 01-_- | 99 comments
Solar Power World article on a Wood Mackenzie LCOE report finding four-hour battery storage cheaper than open-cycle gas turbines in all 43 modeled markets.
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics(karagila.org)
184 points by md224 | 275 comments
Blog post by set theorist Asaf Karagila discussing OpenAI in relation to the Partition Principle in set theory and mathematics.
US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams(thequietus.com)
169 points by cdrnsf | 259 comments
The Quietus news article reporting that Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison and must forfeit $8 million for bot-farming music streams.
C for Rust programmers(bd103.dev)
154 points by xyproto | 161 comments
A blog post by a programmer who learned Rust first, listing surprising details and quirks of C for Rust programmers learning the language.
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026(theguardian.com)
142 points by sonabinu | 29 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Canadian poet Anne Carson, author of Autobiography of Red, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment(biohub.org)
139 points by ray__ | 20 comments
Biohub news post announcing an international, cross-sector collaboration committing nearly $2 billion to build foundational biological data for AI disease models.
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter(openrouter.ai)
133 points by AnneWodell | 33 comments
OpenRouter model page for StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter sparse MoE model with 1M context, multimodal input, and $1/$2.70 per million token pricing.
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser(treylorswift.github.io)
133 points by adunk | 117 comments
A BBS-styled web page hosting classic 1990s PC demoscene productions like Unreal and Second Reality, recompiled to run natively in the browser.
New gTLD Application for .lan(newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
116 points by mzajc | 140 comments
ICANN application details page for a new generic top-level domain application for the string .lan, in pre-evaluation processing.
The people holding up the internet(sheets.works)
107 points by simjue | 40 comments
A data-visualization story from sheets.works counting how few maintainers look after the code that billions of phones depend on, measured from the code itself.
Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux(oss.lsantos.dev)
106 points by khaosdoctor | 39 comments
Documentation page for proton-drive-linux-fs, a Go-based FUSE filesystem that mounts Proton Drive as a local folder on Linux with on-demand file downloads.
US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program(reuters.com)
105 points by geox | 51 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US is suspending Microsoft and other major IT firms from a key green card permanent residency program.
OLED burn-in test: 30-month update(techspot.com)
103 points by baal80spam | 69 comments
TechSpot feature giving a 30-month, 8,000-hour update on a long-term test deliberately burning in a QD-OLED monitor.
Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes(nature.com)
99 points by theanonymousone | 20 comments
Open-access Nature research article describing a method to retrofit existing language models to operate directly over bytes instead of tokens.
Telnet BBS Guide(telnetbbsguide.com)
93 points by kmstout | 31 comments
Telnet BBS Guide is a directory website listing bulletin board systems accessible via telnet, with options for sysops to add and manage their BBS listings.
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew(github.com)
81 points by cachebag | 66 comments
GitHub repository for zerobrew, an open-source Homebrew alternative claiming up to 100x faster package installs.
Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization(github.com)
70 points by brainless | 12 comments
GitHub repository from SamsungLabs with the official implementation of LittleBit and LittleBit-2, sub-1-bit LLM compression via latent factorization.
Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man(opper.ai)
60 points by felix089 | 11 comments
Opper's Jevman benchmark page where six AI decision models each played 100 Pac-Man games, with a leaderboard, replays, and a playable mode against model-controlled ghosts.
Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)(github.com)
56 points by pierreneter | 39 comments
GitHub repository for k10s, a clickable Kubernetes terminal UI written in Go with search, logs, exec, port-forward, themes, and AI features.
Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support(github.com)
55 points by mwil1000 | 8 comments
GitHub repository for Diffle, a keyboard-first diff viewer with LSP support and GitHub integration for code and PR review.
Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs(medium.com)
53 points by peter_d_sherman | 35 comments
A Medium article by Tim Ventura about Akhetonics and its photonic computing approach, which claims all-optical CPUs up to 1,000x faster.
Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols(dat-ecosystem.org)
50 points by janandonly | 14 comments
Homepage of the Dat Ecosystem, a community of open-source projects building applications on peer-to-peer data protocols like Hypercore.
2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking(interop-rank.fxdx.dev)
47 points by jaffathecake | 17 comments
A site from the Firefox team that lets users rank Interop 2027 web platform feature proposals to help prioritize browser development.
Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy(blog.janestreet.com)
45 points by eatonphil | 3 comments
Jane Street blog post on scaling and benchmarking a critical internal message bus using a new indexing strategy.
Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator(typeincube.com)
45 points by eustoria | 10 comments
Cube Type is a web playground that renders typed text as letters on isometric 3D cubes, with composition, style, and sharing options.
Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances(cointelegraph.com)
40 points by firstcomm | 27 comments
Cointelegraph news article reporting that Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum researchers urge a crypto 'bunker mode' migration of funds, warning AI could threaten private-key security.
New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads(tomshardware.com)
38 points by danny00 | 18 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on CRAM, a Linux technique exposing compressed RAM via standard memory semantics instead of a block device, claiming up to 452x faster reads.
I think we might lose public key cryptography(twitter.com)
38 points by meken | 14 comments
A Twitter/X thread by cryptographer Matthew Green following up on his tweet suggesting we might lose public key cryptography, sharing his thoughts on the risk.
Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI(github.com)
37 points by thesnarkitecht | 34 comments
GitHub repository for Rembrandt, a free open source photo editor with RAW support, masks and on-device AI for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web(projecttimestamper.org)
35 points by arthuredelstein | 3 comments
Project Timestamper blog post announcing the timestamping of Common Crawl's 339 billion web page snapshots collected over 18 years.
AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents(ahmath.org)
35 points by kkoncevicius | 31 comments
A statement from the AHM mathematicians' group responding to OpenAI's October 6, 2026 release of manuscripts claiming solutions to high-profile math problems.
Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools(svg-spark.vercel.app)
34 points by Zeus808 | 6 comments
SVG Spark is a collection of ten single-page browser-based utilities, such as SVG to PNG/WebP conversion and a regex visualizer, that run entirely client-side.
Serverless Horrors $10,811.41(serverlesshorrors.com)
33 points by 7777777phil | 11 comments
A ServerlessHorrors post by Andras Bacsai showing a $10,811.41 Cloudflare invoice tied to Durable Objects usage from vibe-coded software.
Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI(github.com)
31 points by edris0077 | 7 comments
GitHub repository for Edi Life OS, a self-hosted PHP life dashboard for habits, goals, Kanban, finance and focus with an MCP server for AI assistants.
Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing(news.flinders.edu.au)
28 points by geox | 3 comments
Flinders University news article about research using vanillin in bandages or coatings to help heal chronic wounds.
License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics(davidrevoy.com)
27 points by frizlab | 12 comments
Blog post by artist David Revoy announcing a license update prohibiting AI-generated derivation of his art, lore, stories, and comics.
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail(blog.pentlander.com)
27 points by speckx | 24 comments
A blog post criticizing recruiter emails that recite a software engineer's career history as fake personalization before pitching unrelated jobs.
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France(torrentfreak.com)
27 points by HotGarbage | 3 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that a Paris court rejected Canal+'s request for penalties against Cloudflare, accepting that its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver need not block pirate sites.
CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre(mexicosolidarity.com)
25 points by robtherobber | 0 comments
Mexico Solidarity Media article on CIA collaboration with Mexican right-wing forces ahead of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of students.
Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked(pocketty.app)
25 points by lukeed | 9 comments
Landing page for pocketty, an iPhone and iPad SSH terminal app that sends end-to-end encrypted push alerts when a coding agent managed by herdr is blocked or done.
What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe(tedium.co)
23 points by speckx | 29 comments
Tedium article examining ArtCraft's vibe-coded remakes of creative apps and what they suggest about Adobe and Creative Cloud.
Clojure in the age of language models(yogthos.net)
23 points by silcoon | 7 comments
Blog post arguing that Clojure's data-centric, high-level style suits developers working alongside language models that handle low-level imperative code.
Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025)(sciencebase.com)
22 points by adunk | 1 comments
A blog post by science writer David Bradley about the nonsense phrase "vegetative electron microscopy" appearing in scientific papers.