Passkeys are a trap(nonfunctional.substack.com)
934 points by laurex | 482 comments
A Substack essay for non-technical readers arguing that passkeys serve platform interests over users and advising people not to adopt them.
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Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
Fingerprints are the new cookies(royfish.dev)
694 points by royfish | 333 comments
Interactive post demonstrating browser fingerprinting by assigning a persistent nickname derived from audio, GPU, WebGL, canvas, time zone and hardware signals.
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening(twitter.com)
662 points by albertzeyer | 963 comments
A post by Andrej Karpathy on X arguing that the gap in understanding of LLM capability is widening into a funnel, from non-users to professional users of coding agents.
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers(nanolathe.gg)
653 points by jttnr | 247 comments
Landing page for Nanolathe, an open-source MIT-licensed 2.5D RTS engine that rebuilds Total Annihilation for modern computers, with a playable demo.
Bot traffic from Yandex(radar.cloudflare.com)
561 points by walrus01 | 226 comments
Cloudflare Radar page showing bot traffic statistics for Yandex's autonomous system (AS13238) over the past seven days; only a verification challenge loaded.
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect(nyc.gov)
555 points by gregsadetsky | 279 comments
Official NYC government page announcing its "Click to Cancel" rule is in effect and letting residents file complaints against businesses that make cancelling subscriptions hard.
![Screenshot of teorth.github.io: Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/11/5fa8cc24-3e1c-4321-8c9a-8aee16c4af72.jpg)
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf](teorth.github.io)
533 points by Anon84 | 530 comments
PDF slide deck titled "Math 2.0" by mathematician Terence Tao, dated October 2026, apparently from a Caltech talk.
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit(status.yandex.cloud)
532 points by defly | 638 comments
Yandex Cloud status page incident report about a third data center being hit, but the capture shows only a SmartCaptcha robot check.
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help(nitter.net)
405 points by ForHackernews | 202 comments
Nitter's homepage update reporting X Corp. cease and desist letters, the project's lack of legal counsel, and a request for funding and legal help.
LineageOS 24(lineageos.org)
402 points by timschumi | 163 comments
LineageOS blog post 'Changelog 32' announcing LineageOS 24, covering the new release based on Android 17, updated apps, and universal USB tools.
Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers(theguardian.com)
401 points by heyimada | 115 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Google was ordered to halt work on two Finnish datacentre sites after failing to carry out environmental impact assessments.
The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)(jsomers.net)
390 points by jsomers | 123 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis.
So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?(theonion.com)
358 points by mooreds | 56 comments
The Onion's page asking readers to sell back old print issues for its archive, explaining how to identify volume and issue numbers.
I paid people to try and follow my README(shkspr.mobi)
356 points by edent | 184 comments
Blog post by Terence Eden on shkspr.mobi about paying people to try following a project's README; the capture shows only a bot-verification interstitial.
IRCv3(ircv3.net)
355 points by basilikum | 305 comments
Homepage of IRCv3, the working group that develops and publishes specifications and extensions for the modern IRC client protocol.
Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil(insideclimatenews.org)
347 points by gumby | 181 comments
Inside Climate News article on Massachusetts attorney general court filings revealing previously undisclosed ExxonMobil documents in a climate deception case.
Cartographers of North Korea (2019)(cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
306 points by edent | 63 comments
An interactive analysis by Wonyoung So of OpenStreetMap data for North Korea, examining who its contributors are and how and why they mapped the country.
I'm sorry, but you still have to think(itsallaboutthebit.com)
291 points by drogus | 128 comments
Blog post by Piotr Sarnacki critiquing DHH's AI-agent-generated rewrites of Campfire Once into Rust and other languages, arguing developers still need to read code and think.
Sound (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
260 points by dverlaeckt80 | 32 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining what sound is, how it is created, and how it propagates, with playable audio demos.
The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME(disconnect3d.pl)
226 points by arusekk | 144 comments
Blog post explaining that a quoted tilde in a PATH export is not expanded to the home directory in bash/zsh, creating a security risk.
500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter(momo5502.com)
186 points by davikr | 136 comments
Blog post by Maurice Heumann describing using AI agents, consuming over 500 billion tokens, to decompile a first-person shooter game.
Doory – Open-Source Canva(github.com)
185 points by acley | 68 comments
GitHub repository for Doory, an open-source alternative to Canva for creating graphic designs, with backend and frontend code.
Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac(betterwispr.com)
183 points by kartik017 | 105 comments
Landing page for BetterWispr, a free, open-source macOS dictation app that cleans up speech into text locally, with per-app writing styles.
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her(inc.com)
175 points by bhrlady | 136 comments
Inc. article on a New Jersey lawsuit alleging a remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that photographed her every three minutes.
Whatever became of holography? (2011)(americanscientist.org)
163 points by cainxinth | 92 comments
An American Scientist article from 2011 examining the history and fate of holography; the capture shows only a browser verification screen.
Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking(verdagon.dev)
157 points by verdagon | 84 comments
Blog post by Evan Ovadia describing Valen's new flexible borrow checker, where references track the paths they point to, as an alternative to Rust-style borrowing.
Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)(ways-of-seeing.com)
136 points by rafael859 | 39 comments
Web edition of Chapter 1 of John Berger's 1972 book "Ways of Seeing," an essay on how we perceive images and art.
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person(asheradeniyi.com)
121 points by doppp | 120 comments
A blog post by Asher Adeniyi on how salaried professionals can build wealth; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence(pub.sakana.ai)
113 points by hardmaru | 61 comments
Sakana AI and UC Berkeley research page introducing MASS, a method that optimizes multi-agent workflows and distills their collective intelligence as self-supervision for recursive self-improvement.
Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
113 points by Ixander | 124 comments
Ask HN post gauging interest in buying routers with DD-WRT pre-installed, comparing existing options like OpenWrt One, GL.iNet Flint and pfSense boxes.
How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect(epestr.com)
112 points by epestr | 35 comments
A blog post describing how the author reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect to recreate it as a simple real-time audio processor for Linux using PipeWire.
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage(tedhaley.ca)
111 points by TedHaley | 38 comments
Landing page for Pensieve, a Mac app that locally indexes files, repos and agent sessions so AI agents get relevant context with fewer tool calls.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/11/638f8aad-c52c-48ec-a2c1-24cd9814f1ff.jpg)
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video](youtube.com)
110 points by pizzaiolo | 30 comments
YouTube video from Bo Made It showing a Game Boy emulator running on an ESP32 with an e-paper display at 30 frames per second.
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p(github.com)
105 points by SaarthRanka | 19 comments
GitHub repository for Atticus, an open-source hold-to-talk macOS voice assistant that handles simple tasks locally and routes complex ones to Claude via claude -p.
Illustration Beyond Proof(terrytao.wordpress.com)
92 points by smilelamp | 14 comments
A blog post on Terence Tao's blog titled "Illustration Beyond Proof"; the capture only shows a browser-check interstitial.
Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad(github.com)
85 points by joshcsimmons | 19 comments
GitHub repository for LemonSeed Studio, an iPad IDE running local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt using the Linux amdgpu driver embedded in DriverKit.
apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper(github.com)
81 points by tosh | 17 comments
GitHub repository for APSW, Another Python SQLite Wrapper, a C extension providing a thin Python interface to the SQLite database library.
European Alternatives(buy-european.net)
80 points by doener | 53 comments
A directory on buy-european.net listing non-European products and services, such as 1Password, Amazon, and Apple, with links to European alternatives for each.
Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos(cell.com)
75 points by Bluestein | 51 comments
A Cell Press Matter journal article on photochromic nanoparticle inks enabling rewritable tattoos; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n(app.getsupers.com)
73 points by swesnow | 37 comments
An Auto Research dashboard by Super tracking reviewed progress on open math problems, here the exponent saving for integer multiplication below n log n.
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis(economist.com)
73 points by andsoitis | 70 comments
An Economist finance and economics article arguing that governments are mishandling the affordability crisis; the page showed an access-restricted notice.
Arena Allocators in C(eliasebner.com)
69 points by dimonomid | 30 comments
A blog post by Elias Ebner explaining arena allocators as a performant, versatile way to manage memory in C and reduce memory leaks.
HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo(github.com)
66 points by vmatsiiako | 12 comments
GitHub repository for HashiCorp Boundary, an identity-based access management tool for dynamic infrastructure, now archived and read-only.
Google Data Centers around the world(datacenters.google)
66 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
Google's Data Centers site with an interactive map and search for locating the data centers Google owns and operates worldwide.
YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit(tomshardware.com)
65 points by ljf | 23 comments
Tom's Hardware news article about a Canadian YouTuber who built a Flock-like camera to track police vehicles and was then visited by officers over privacy concerns.
I wish you the best in the Offline(daverupert.com)
64 points by birdculture | 38 comments
Dave Rupert blog post reflecting on people he follows announcing departures from social media, AI usage, or the internet entirely, including Salma's retirement post.
Tattoos you can turn on and off(livescience.com)
62 points by MortyDev | 29 comments
Live Science article about researchers creating multicolored tattoo inks activated by different wavelengths of light, letting tattoos be hidden or shown.
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests(phys.org)
55 points by optimalsolver | 79 comments
Phys.org news article on ancient DNA research suggesting Scandinavia's first Neolithic farmers violently replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population.
Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things(playgrnd.tools)
49 points by eustoria | 9 comments
Playgrnd is an index of 52 free small browser-based tools for generating visual art like patterns, marbling, glyph patchworks, and posters.
The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl(ei3lh.eu)
48 points by austinallegro | 14 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's detective work into the origins of a Toftwood Male Voice Choir vinyl record found while crate digging.
Choreographic Programming in Rust(github.com)
47 points by o8vm | 35 comments
GitHub repository for hibana, a Rust library providing choreography-derived runtime enforcement for distributed protocols.
Vectorized CLZ and CTZ(purplesyringa.moe)
47 points by zX41ZdbW | 5 comments
Blog post on purplesyringa explaining how to implement vectorized count-leading-zeros and count-trailing-zeros using floating-point tricks.
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people(bbc.com)
46 points by colinprince | 56 comments
BBC article by Ros Atkins examining whether AI-generated content is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people, and whether that premium will last.
Artificial Insanity(richwhitehouse.com)
44 points by leglock | 33 comments
A blog post on Rich Whitehouse's personal site titled "Artificial Insanity," apparently commenting on artificial intelligence.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS(blog.kammel.dev)
43 points by datosh | 1 comments
A blog post on using VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) documents to manage vulnerability reports in NixOS.
Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute(latimes.com)
43 points by Bluestein | 8 comments
Los Angeles Times article reporting that Nicolas Cage says he will not work with Amazon again because of a dispute over AI.
Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications(tomshardware.com)
39 points by mathgenius | 32 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a developer of free Adobe clones releasing open-source replicas of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, with Autodesk tools possibly next.
What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel(copilot.travel)
38 points by heikkikalliokos | 38 comments
A guide to the 2026 costs of driving across European countries, covering tolls, vignettes, bridge fees and fuel.
The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less(0xff.nu)
37 points by hxii | 31 comments
A personal blog essay arguing against the corporate pursuit of constant growth and happiness, advocating for doing less at work to avoid burnout.
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude(theregister.com)
37 points by alex_young | 28 comments
The Register article on Anthropic's updated usage policy discouraging abuse of Claude, alongside rules on weapons, surveillance, and election interference.