Do dentists know what they're doing?(mapwriting.substack.com)
925 points by doitLP | 653 comments
A MapWriting Substack essay by Parker Tatum asking whether dentists actually know what they're doing, questioning the evidence behind dental practice.
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Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe(tomshardware.com)
865 points by Zeekaas | 964 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a cyberattack that triggered automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, affecting deliveries and prices.
Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts(bleepingcomputer.com)
769 points by thm | 487 comments
News article reporting that Ledger confirmed a hidden chip implant in tampered hardware wallets was behind cryptocurrency thefts totaling about $92 million.
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill(yyhh.org)
742 points by layer8 | 573 comments
Blog post by Huahai on yyhh.org rebutting Rich Hickey's "AI is Not a Tool" essay, arguing LLMs are tools that require skill to use well.
A Modern Web App in C(prophitt.me)
678 points by prophittcorey | 303 comments
Corey Prophitt's blog post on building and shipping marketyour.games, a commercial web product written in C and served via CGI in 2026.
GLM-Legal(z.ai)
660 points by ilreb | 357 comments
Z.ai research blog post introducing GLM-Legal, a language model aimed at agentic legal work such as analyzing source documents and producing client-ready work product.
Muse Wonder(research.meta.ai)
637 points by meetpateltech | 341 comments
A Meta AI research blog page announcing "Muse Wonder," presented with an animated text intro and a video.
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default(github.com)
568 points by whimblepop | 276 comments
GitHub issue on openai/codex requesting that daemon_auto_start be made opt-in rather than having the CLI install a persistent self-updating background daemon by default.
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth(bbc.com)
540 points by Betelbuddy | 182 comments
BBC investigation reporting that documents were falsified to evade tax on Roman Abramovich's wealth, implicating Deloitte.
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver(github.com)
397 points by djfergus | 107 comments
GitHub repository w1700k-sdr with firmware and host tools that turn a WiFi 7 router into a 320 Msps software defined radio receiver.
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age(bbc.com)
395 points by scrlk | 437 comments
BBC News article by Theo Leggett on Citroen reviving its classic 2CV car as a modern electric vehicle.
QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions(github.com)
361 points by bwnkl | 391 comments
Merged GitHub pull request adding QGIS Enhancement Proposal 428, which changes the project's policy to forbid AI-generated contributions.
Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity(catchabird.com)
356 points by eduardsik | 103 comments
Catch a Bird is a web app that asks visitors what made them happy today and shows each one-sentence answer as an illustrated bird from around the world.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software(arstechnica.com)
303 points by gumby | 263 comments
Ars Technica article on a study finding AI coding agents increase code output but efficiency gains are absorbed by human code review bottlenecks.
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X(intel.com)
293 points by hurricanepootis | 168 comments
Intel product page for its data center GPU D-series AI inference accelerators, including the D270 with up to 480 GB LPDDR5X memory.
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly(github.com)
279 points by deadxwarrior | 146 comments
GitHub repository for ps2-web-recomp, a project that statically recompiles PS2 games to WebAssembly with a native runtime to run them in the browser.
Thinking will become a hobby(spinellis.gr)
277 points by pranitha_m | 396 comments
Diomidis Spinellis blog post arguing that AI will take over most cognitive work, leaving human thinking as more of a hobby.
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox(lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
269 points by speckx | 127 comments
A short blog post explaining that setting network.http.response.timeout to 0 in Firefox's about:config makes large downloads more stable and resumable.
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors(news.mit.edu)
260 points by zdw | 53 comments
MIT News article on Encora Therapeutics, whose FDA-cleared wristband for treating tremors began as a project in MIT's 2.009 product-design class.
900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)(openculture.com)
255 points by mdp2021 | 44 comments
Open Culture article about a 900-page hand-painted color guide from 1692, a precursor to Pantone, with a link to a complete high-resolution digital scan.
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?(mortoray.com)
245 points by ingve | 222 comments
A blog post on Musing Mortoray questioning why AI companies are not prosecuted for hacking, presumably over aggressive data scraping practices.
Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?(purplesyringa.moe)
243 points by pngmangi | 21 comments
Blog post examining the x86 FMA instruction vfmaddrnd231pd, which performs fused multiply-add with per-instruction rounding control.
Solar panels that plug into your wall(nationalgeographic.com)
238 points by speckx | 259 comments
National Geographic article on plug-in balcony solar panels, noting California's new law easing their installation and experts' expectation they will spread widely.
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig(lalinsky.com)
236 points by lukaslalinsky | 84 comments
Blog post by Lukáš Lalinský describing an approach to type-safe HTML templating in the Zig programming language for web development.
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?(amosbbatto.wordpress.com)
229 points by amosbatto | 259 comments
Blog post discussing whether Linux-based phones can become a viable alternative to Android and iOS; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'(cnbc.com)
220 points by m463 | 164 comments
CNBC article reporting that research firm New Constructs called Anthropic's planned $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO the most ridiculous IPO of 2026.
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey(linkedin.com)
217 points by svieira | 108 comments
An essay by Rich Hickey, originally on LinkedIn and mirrored in a GitHub Gist, arguing that 'AI' is not a tool.
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD(github.com)
207 points by khalidkhair | 77 comments
GitHub repository for Janas, a pure C inference engine that runs LLMs larger than RAM by streaming MoE experts from SSD, on CPU or GPU.
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google(simonkoeck.com)
204 points by soeckly | 101 comments
A security writeup describing how a self-contained Flask session secret on Google DevSite enabled forged sessions and remote code execution across seven Google domains for a $90,000 bounty.
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later(taylor.town)
193 points by surprisetalk | 74 comments
Blog post revisiting AI-related predictions from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable a decade later, quoting excerpts like Google's main product becoming AI.
RJ Mitte has died(news.sky.com)
186 points by austinallegro | 56 comments
Sky News article reporting the death of Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte at age 34; the page returned an Access Denied error.
The Origin Story of Kid Pix(red-green-blue.com)
180 points by MBCook | 42 comments
Craig Hickman's personal history of creating Kid Pix, the children's drawing program, starting with its early years, published on the Dry Reading blog.
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed(openfatigue.ai)
169 points by ajcp | 33 comments
A parody landing page for "OpenFatigue™," satirizing the overuse of "Open" in tech product names like OpenAI and Open WebUI.
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum(markround.com)
169 points by zdw | 35 comments
Blog post describing the tools, techniques and challenges of writing a retro-style demoscene crack intro for the 128K ZX Spectrum.
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?(github.com)
166 points by luggage_bazooka | 47 comments
A GitHub commit in the colinhacks/zod repository titled "Fix bugs and improve performance" tagged v4.6.6, changing 9 files including the release workflow.
Fable Took My Job(cendyne.dev)
162 points by jllyhill | 196 comments
A personal blog post by Cendyne describing losing an engineering job after leadership decided an LLM called Fable was cheaper than their compensation.
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20(doi.org)
154 points by arunc | 101 comments
Open-access Aging Cell paper reporting that blood cells from an 80-year-old donor reprogrammed into stem cells show an epigenetic age under 20.
Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack(radar.cloudflare.com)
153 points by rooftopzen | 45 comments
Cloudflare Radar bot traffic page for Yandex's network (AS13238) over 7 days; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
151 points by vishnukool | 104 comments
Launch HN post for Agent37, a YC startup offering low-cost sandboxes for running AI agents, explaining its cost-reduction techniques like gVisor and non-hyperscaler hosts.
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues(githubstatus.com)
149 points by dkpk | 134 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Actions, Pull Requests and Issues.
Postgres isn't slow, your storage is(clickhouse.com)
146 points by saisrirampur | 148 comments
ClickHouse blog recap of a POSETTE 2026 talk arguing PostgreSQL performance at scale is limited by storage, with benchmarks and a local-NVMe production architecture.
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack(bbc.com)
142 points by cataflam | 87 comments
BBC News article reporting that refrigeration systems in French supermarkets were disrupted by a cyber attack.
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra(nirajrajgor.com)
133 points by nirajrajgor | 90 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author used the GPT-6 Astra AI agent to jailbreak an unused Kindle and turn it into a photo frame.
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch(phreak.ing)
133 points by rickcarlino | 34 comments
Phreak.ing is a web-based internet phone switch styled as a retro telephone keypad, prompting users to dial an extension to log in.
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic(micahflee.com)
128 points by DeepLogin | 80 comments
A blog post by Micah Lee arguing that people should refuse to use or support OpenAI and Anthropic.
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
124 points by thinkcontext | 97 comments
AFP news article on Yahoo Finance about French supermarket chains whose refrigerators were shut down by an 'unprecedented' cyberattack.
Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer(wired.com)
118 points by rndsignals | 75 comments
WIRED article reporting that federal investigators obtained warrants to use cell-site simulators to locate Don Lemon's producer, journalist Georgia Fort, and a Minnesota Senate candidate.
Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold(phloem.stemdeck.app)
114 points by thclpr | 22 comments
Phloem is an interactive web visualization that renders a Git repository's commit history as a glowing, organically growing branching structure resembling a slime mold.
Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)(github.com)
111 points by bherbruck | 27 comments
GitHub repository for SolidCraft, an open-source parametric 3D CAD application written in Rust with desktop, web, and MCP-based automation support.
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones(shokunin.studio)
105 points by riffraff | 118 comments
Shokunin Studio blog post examining attempts by AI enthusiasts to create vibe-coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe Photoshop.
Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses(bbc.com)
98 points by tosh | 30 comments
BBC Travel feature about a man who hikes around the world seeking out rare, traditional cheeses and the people who make them.
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers(jacobin.com)
96 points by PaulHoule | 67 comments
Jacobin article arguing that publishers abandoned the mass-market paperback and then blamed readers for declining reading.
Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand(indigene.app)
94 points by olivierlacan | 16 comments
Indigene is a web app that recommends native plants supporting local wildlife based on your location, sun exposure, and soil, working offline without accounts.
Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction(phys.org)
89 points by maxall4 | 36 comments
Phys.org news article on a sticky alpine flower found to digest insects, confirming Darwin's prediction; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers(words.filippo.io)
74 points by gavide | 13 comments
Blog post by Filippo Valsorda giving updated 'Cryptographic Right Answers' recommendations for developers, covering post-quantum cryptography choices.
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping(blog.ericgoldman.org)
74 points by speckx | 15 comments
Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog post sharing his introduction to a Reddit AMA on r/WebScrapingInsider about the law of web scraping.
Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby(blog.julik.nl)
71 points by julik | 38 comments
Blog post by Julik Tarkhanov critiquing DHH's RailsWorld keynote and reflecting on the state of the Ruby and Rails community.
Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP(github.com)
71 points by androsynth89 | 30 comments
GitHub repository for blokkily, an experimental pattern-first digital audio workstation with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries(github.com)
70 points by taytus | 24 comments
GitHub repository for rea, a tool for reverse engineering apps and native binaries using AI agents.
Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser(brickbrag.com)
66 points by neuling | 39 comments
Landing page for Brickbrag, a free multiplayer browser game set in a shared brick-built town with racing, flying, and house building.