Gemini 4 Argon(deepmind.google)
1417 points by 737max | 1014 comments
Google DeepMind's model page for Gemini 4 Argon, with links to try it in Gemini, Google AI Studio, and Google Antigravity.
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic(anthropic.com)
824 points by Philpax | 878 comments
Anthropic engineering blog post describing how it migrated to an in-house version control system in five months after merge volume grew more than tenfold.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/55d51130-eedf-4ef7-94ba-29af22cff19a.jpg)
Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video](youtube.com)
802 points by johnnyApplePRNG | 236 comments
CTV News YouTube video about a Vancouver woman who rescued an injured crow and now regularly receives 'thank-you gifts' from crows.
Apple HomeView(apple.com)
737 points by etothet | 864 comments
Apple product page announcing HomeView, a smart home display on a speaker base, available starting November 13.
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker(github.com)
723 points by formerly_proven | 406 comments
A rust-lang/rust GitHub issue reporting that a struct's lifetime requirements can be bypassed via covariant field assignment, an unsoundness bug in the borrow checker.
Firefox Enterprise(firefox.com)
708 points by recvonline | 301 comments
Mozilla's Firefox Enterprise landing page, presenting Firefox products and solutions for businesses with an option to request a demo.
OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room(sfstandard.com)
596 points by forthwall | 493 comments
San Francisco Standard news article reporting that an OpenAI engineer was arrested for allegedly bugging an executive conference room.
Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard(guitoro.com)
533 points by talccc | 147 comments
Guitoro is a free browser-based virtual guitar using real instrument recordings, playable via keyboard, mouse, or touch, with chord tools, tuners, and song practice.
Thunderbird for iOS(blog.thunderbird.net)
440 points by mjorgers | 187 comments
Thunderbird blog post giving a first look at the in-development native Thunderbird email app for iPhone/iOS.
We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model(eg2.haku.sh)
404 points by amrrs | 86 comments
Landing page for Embedding Gemma Transcribe, a free macOS app that adapts Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 into an on-device speech-to-text model.
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades(bloomberg.com)
388 points by helsinkiandrew | 195 comments
Bloomberg exclusive reporting that a CFTC chairman's adviser had staff retract an analysis of suspicious oil bets placed around Trump's reversal on an Iran power plant attack.
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s(ourworldindata.org)
386 points by karakoram | 634 comments
An Our World in Data insight by Hannah Ritchie showing UK electricity generation per person has fallen by a third since its 2003 peak, below 1970s levels.
Hittite royal archive found in Turkey(thehistoryblog.com)
370 points by benbreen | 88 comments
The History Blog post about the discovery of a Hittite royal archive in Turkey; the capture shows only a security check page.
New Apple TV 4K(apple.com)
320 points by corvad | 588 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing a new Apple TV 4K with a more conversational Siri AI, faster performance, and improved home theater features.
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic(sammystraus.com)
313 points by sammy0910 | 170 comments
Blog post by the developer of sprinklz.io describing how his site slowed after an HN post due to heavy AI bot and scraper traffic, found via NGINX logs.
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy(blog.character.ai)
310 points by nryoo | 274 comments
Character.ai blog post giving a company update, linked in connection with its voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and asset sale to Disney.
Recreational Programming(cphiri.dev)
284 points by jslakro | 133 comments
A personal developer site page for a presentation titled "Recreational Programming" with the subtitle "You guys are getting paid?"
Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome(9to5mac.com)
269 points by ivell | 450 comments
9to5Mac article on Apple's 'Switch to Safari' marketing campaign arguing Safari is more powerful and private than Chrome.
AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities(arxiv.org)
252 points by sbulaev | 118 comments
An arXiv paper showing AI models can embed encrypted neural network backdoors that provably hide arbitrary capabilities from elicitation-based safety evaluations.
A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices(machinelearning.apple.com)
239 points by acossta | 96 comments
Apple Machine Learning Research paper page for Minions, a distributed virtual GPU cloud that uses idle Apple Silicon devices for ML inference.
Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary(seriouseats.com)
237 points by mhb | 185 comments
Serious Eats article on the history of Biscoff cookies, from Belgian speculoos to Delta's in-flight snack and grocery staple.
Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses(blog.ikaes.de)
235 points by aragonite | 101 comments
Blog post showing a technique to invoke arbitrary JavaScript functions without parentheses using Error.prepareStackTrace and prototype overrides.
Show HN: How random are you?(lab.specr.net)
205 points by vunderba | 108 comments
Interactive web game where you say or type numbers as randomly as you can while the page predicts each next number before you reveal it.
A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms(argmin.net)
204 points by mochomocha | 129 comments
Ben Recht's argmin blog post critiquing OpenAI's math repository claim of a faster FFT algorithm, arguing it is more an exploit than a breakthrough.
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics(developers.googleblog.com)
201 points by xnx | 45 comments
Google for Developers blog post announcing Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics, a Gemini model variant aimed at robotics applications.
Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled(anitab.org)
198 points by mooreds | 144 comments
AnitaB.org press release announcing an important update about the Grace Hopper Celebration, reportedly its cancellation.
Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat(pcmag.com)
183 points by giuliomagnifico | 134 comments
PCMag article with an exclusive interview of Apple engineers explaining the cooling system in the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, including a graphite pipe through the hinge.
'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds(polygon.com)
173 points by cvoss | 123 comments
Polygon impressions piece on Order of the Sinking Star, the dense, meticulously designed puzzle game follow-up to The Witness billed as a 500-hour experience.
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360(kennedn.com)
155 points by kennedn | 42 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's years-long effort to hack an Xbox 360 using a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D glitcher modchip.
Monte-Carlo Simulations(eli.thegreenplace.net)
154 points by ibobev | 35 comments
Eli Bendersky blog post explaining Monte Carlo simulations with examples like estimating pi by throwing darts, using Rust and Python.
How to engineer an AI harness for game development(kylekukshtel.com)
151 points by kkukshtel | 73 comments
Blog post by Kyle Kukshtel exploring practical ways to make games more legible to AI agents and speed up agentic iteration in game development.
Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks(pdftomp3.com)
144 points by janpmz | 74 comments
Page for PDF to MP3, a tool that lets users connect their existing OpenAI subscription to convert PDF documents into audiobooks, with a demo video.
Leaving Tech(ryanbigg.com)
133 points by jonahx | 127 comments
Ryan Bigg, a 20-year Ruby and JavaScript developer, explains on his blog why he is leaving the tech industry after repeated job rejections.
Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall(cbsnews.com)
132 points by ohjeez | 88 comments
CBS News report that two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France were found slightly damaged behind a cinder block wall, with a suspect charged via DNA evidence.
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy(theverge.com)
130 points by yanis_t | 94 comments
The Verge news article reporting that chatbot startup Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy and is looking to sell its assets to Disney.
The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio(newyorker.com)
129 points by bookofjoe | 46 comments
New Yorker feature by Jordan Salama about isolated residents of rural Patagonia, Argentina, who exchange personal messages over AM radio broadcasts.
Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany(ua.news)
129 points by paaloeye | 107 comments
UA.News article citing RMF24 reporting that a cyberattack halted construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany.
Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation(orlp.net)
117 points by surprisetalk | 22 comments
A blog post on orlp.net explaining the two-stack technique for sliding-window aggregation over operators without inverses, with Python code examples.
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
116 points by mushstory | 98 comments
Yomiuri Shimbun news article reporting that China surpassed the U.S. as the world's top R&D spender in 2024, citing Japanese science ministry data.
New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete(sciencealert.com)
113 points by andrewl | 88 comments
ScienceAlert article reporting on a new reinforced 'super ice' material said to be ten times stronger than normal ice, approaching concrete's strength.
Your C is not standard C(sebsite.pw)
111 points by dverlaeckt80 | 79 comments
Blog post listing incompatibilities between ISO standard C and C as actually used with gcc/clang and glibc/musl.
Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine(pulseos.finance)
102 points by niztk | 55 comments
Landing page for Pulse Local, a free Mac budgeting app that answers spending questions using small AI models running entirely on the user's machine.
Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
101 points by reacharavindh | 96 comments
Ask HN thread where a hobbyist woodworker asks for AI/LLM-assisted CAD tools to speed up designing wood projects, with replies suggesting tools like ShopSpec.
Major ICQ security hole (1998)(opennet.ru)
99 points by sysoleg | 59 comments
Archived copy on OpenNET of Rootshell Security Bulletin #22 from August 1998, a mailing list post including a report of a major ICQ security hole.
A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers(photonlines.substack.com)
91 points by surprisetalk | 57 comments
A Substack article giving a visual, intuitive introduction to complex numbers, including a historical overview of how they were developed and why they are useful.
LittleJS is 2D and 3D now(frankforce.com)
91 points by dmit | 36 comments
Blog post by Frank Force announcing that LittleJS, a small open source JavaScript web game engine, now supports 3D in addition to 2D.
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM(heise.de)
87 points by qwertox | 59 comments
Heise news article on crypto thieves selling tampered hardware wallets containing hidden eSIMs, stealing around $100 million from users.
Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do(wonderhop.io)
86 points by mtlduo | 73 comments
Wonderhop is a daily browser guessing game where players name the most common, rarest, oldest, or newest answers to prompts, with a daily leaderboard.
AlphaNIST(alpha-nist.github.io)
82 points by jasonjmcghee | 30 comments
Project page for AlphaNIST, an end-to-end reinforcement learning policy for contact-rich, high-precision robotic assembly in simulation, with paper link and upcoming code.
AWS Lambda Web Functions(aws.amazon.com)
81 points by HatchedLake721 | 76 comments
AWS News Blog post announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor for running standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting code as event handlers.
Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA(wowhaus.co.uk)
80 points by rmason | 26 comments
WowHaus listing post featuring the yellow Donaldson Futuro House, a 1960s UFO-shaped prefab home for sale in Idyllwild, California.
The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
76 points by list | 47 comments
Pessimists Archive newsletter post on the 1976 computer-assisted proof of the Four Color Theorem and the debate it sparked among mathematicians.
Worlds more habitable than Earth?(nytimes.com)
76 points by cainxinth | 150 comments
New York Times science article about planets that might be more habitable than Earth; the capture shows a bot-block page instead of the article.
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF(theguardian.com)
75 points by novaRom | 69 comments
Guardian article reporting the IMF's warning that a crash in AI-related share valuations, plus government debt and cyber-attacks, threatens global financial stability.
Show HN: XY Music Notation(music.xy.dev)
74 points by jmole | 63 comments
XY Music is a web app that renders sheet music with base-12 pitch-class note heads, offering a library of scores with playback and PDF downloads.
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?(github.com)
74 points by mlukewizard | 41 comments
GitHub repository for DishwasherBench, a dishwasher-loading game on a physical simulation used to benchmark language models, also playable in a browser.
Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add(parsimony.lasu.dev)
67 points by lasu | 13 comments
Parsimony is an open-source benchmark and leaderboard measuring how much net code AI models add when solving tasks, counting syntax-level coding units from published benchmark patches.
Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?(ptrbrynt.com)
65 points by ilreb | 85 comments
Personal blog essay by Peter Bryant arguing that software engineers may be better understood as blue-collar skilled tradespeople than white-collar workers.
A plea not to use uv-build(blogs.gentoo.org)
63 points by Ravencentric | 63 comments
A Gentoo developer's blog post urging Python project maintainers not to adopt the uv-build packaging backend.