Things to know when you get cancer(jjmaxwell4.com)
1850 points by jjmaxwell4 | 442 comments
A personal blog post by someone diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in 2026, listing practical lessons learned about navigating cancer care.
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Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts(csoonline.com)
922 points by latexr | 569 comments
CSO Online news analysis arguing that AI agent hacking incidents stem from frontier labs' containment and monitoring failures, not rogue agents, with advice for CISOs.
How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet(not-ship.com)
897 points by sighborg | 684 comments
A Not-Ship newsletter article examining how Amazon's marketplace policies drive up prices across other online retailers.
OpenCode 2.0(anoma.ly)
828 points by gmays | 354 comments
Announcement page for OpenCode 2.0, a major overhaul of the OpenCode AI coding tool informed by its daily users' experience.
Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font(typeof.net)
699 points by otobrglez | 286 comments
Homepage of Iosevka, an open-source sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font family, with download, customization, repository, and specimen links.
Tiny Little Office(tinylittleoffice.com)
641 points by donohoe | 178 comments
Tiny Little Office is a web-based collection of small office tools including a word processor, outliner, presentation builder, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing and diagram tools.
Passkeys are not a trap(scotthelme.co.uk)
585 points by speckx | 732 comments
Blog post by Scott Helme arguing that passkeys are not a lock-in trap and defending their use as a secure authentication method.
Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years(dataforprogress.org)
543 points by hubraumhugo | 519 comments
Data for Progress blog post presenting survey data showing Americans' social activity has declined sharply over the past 30 years, amid concerns about a loneliness epidemic.
AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs(github.com)
450 points by tharen | 220 comments
GitHub issue in android/ndk reporting a bionic bug where wcscspn()/wcspbrk() treat every wchar_t >= 0x100 as a match on Android 17 builds.
ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program(prospect.org)
443 points by bhrlady | 231 comments
American Prospect article reporting that ICE plans a $100 million ERO ONE program hiring 142 cleared intelligence contractors deployed in US cities.
Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts(androidauthority.com)
421 points by Brajeshwar | 108 comments
Android Authority article reporting that Android's opt-out phone number verification setting links your phone number across every Google account signed in on the device.
Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)
384 points by epestr | 362 comments
Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.
Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men(telegraph.co.uk)
358 points by ivewonyoung | 450 comments
Telegraph news article on suicide rates reaching record highs among middle-aged men; the page loaded as an access-denied block screen.
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke(sunshowers.io)
356 points by sunshowers | 132 comments
A short blog post arguing that Anthropic's Scion version control system borrows its "derived data" concept for blame and history from Meta's Mononoke.
Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland(dpa-international.com)
355 points by ilamont | 245 comments
dpa International news report on a fire at a Starlink site in Bulgaria following suspected sabotage in Poland, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote(startupfortune.com)
341 points by smartmic | 237 comments
Startup Fortune article reporting that JPMorgan, MUFG and other banks are struggling to distribute $38 billion in construction debt for Oracle-leased AI data centers.
We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers(typesafe.ai)
317 points by emschwartz | 101 comments
Company blog post from typesafe.ai announcing the Jev 1.14.0 release along with experimental features.
Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27(go.dev)
285 points by allddd | 46 comments
Go Blog post by Nicholas Husin and Damien Neil about improved HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27's net/http client.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents(liquid.ai)
271 points by gmays | 72 comments
Liquid AI blog post announcing LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a sparse language model with about 2B active parameters designed for fast on-device agents.
Felix Rieseberg Homepage(felixrieseberg.com)
258 points by rglover | 99 comments
Felix Rieseberg's personal homepage, presented as an interactive 3D desk scene with a retro CRT TV, CD player, and links to about, work, and posts.
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved(blog.cloudflare.com)
235 points by coloneltcb | 76 comments
Cloudflare blog post analyzing how bot traffic from Yandex networks changed during a Yandex outage, finding malicious bots migrated rather than stopping.
Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors(admin.ch)
211 points by wuemeli | 123 comments
Swiss Federal Council press release on its planned law for communication platforms and search engines, adding child-protection measures and extending reporting of unlawful content.
Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW(github.com)
197 points by jascha_eng | 49 comments
GitHub repository for pg_vectorsearch, a Timescale PostgreSQL extension providing high-performance vector search indexing.
Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free(petal.live)
197 points by thedracle | 39 comments
Landing page for Petal, a free open-source pair programming app with low-latency screen sharing and remote control for macOS and Windows, from the makers of CoScreen.
Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)(philzimmermann.com)
174 points by GaryBluto | 65 comments
Phil Zimmermann's essay from the original 1991 PGP User's Guide, updated in 1999, explaining why he created PGP to protect the privacy of personal communications.
Submarine cable resilience(blog.apnic.net)
161 points by speckx | 63 comments
APNIC blog post by Geoff Huston on submarine cable resilience, opening with the Matsu Islands' cable cuts near Taiwan.
I electrified my push scooter with a power drill(eddieabbondanz.io)
161 points by speckx | 55 comments
A personal blog post describing converting a Razor A5 Lux push scooter to electric power using a cordless drill, welding, 3D-printed parts, and off-the-shelf components.
ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam(reuters.com)
153 points by tartoran | 145 comments
Reuters article on ASML's strong quarterly orders and sales forecast easing fears of a slowdown in AI spending; page showed a device verification screen.
America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it(lawfaremedia.org)
152 points by speckx | 73 comments
Lawfare article arguing the US sold off its rare earth industry and that financing to rebuild domestic supply should reflect China's strategic control risk.
An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling(cjr.org)
139 points by danso | 96 comments
Columbia Journalism Review interview with Nicole Noren, an ESPN producer who quit in protest over the network's ties to sports betting.
TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material(swedenherald.com)
136 points by tobr | 75 comments
Sweden Herald article reporting that TV4 postponed its show The Challenge to 2027 after an AI agent erased edited footage; the page showed a Cloudflare check.
The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)
136 points by mikk14 | 30 comments
Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.
Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack(oxide.computer)
129 points by tosh | 13 comments
Oxide Computer blog post describing Virtual Oxide Labs, a system for emulating a full Oxide rack to support testing and development without physical hardware.
How the Military Will Hack the Election(kenklippenstein.com)
127 points by pavel_lishin | 53 comments
Ken Klippenstein Substack article reporting on Task Force Raider's role in the 2026 US elections and military officers' unease about it.
SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president(iwm.org.uk)
127 points by stmw | 44 comments
Imperial War Museums article on Churchill's top secret SIGSALY encrypted telephone hotline to the US President from the Churchill War Rooms.
Why do LLM pelicans look like this?(arcfu.com)
127 points by pcwelder | 116 comments
Blog post examining why SVGs generated by various LLMs for the prompt "pelican riding a bicycle" all look strikingly similar, with a gallery comparing models.
Fancy Curl Sites(nytpu.com)
126 points by adunk | 24 comments
A blog post explaining how the author built a terminal-friendly version of their website that renders with ANSI formatting when fetched via curl.
Has AI tells(theconsensus.dev)
126 points by 7777777phil | 106 comments
A Consensus blog post by Phil Eaton about a small detector for AI writing tells, used to help promote good technical writing.
Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges(extremetech.com)
121 points by speckx | 80 comments
ExtremeTech article reporting on an NHTSA petition alleging Tesla robotaxis speed through school zones; the agency has three months to decide on an investigation.
AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10(github.com)
115 points by ofrzeta | 42 comments
GitHub repository for Konnect, a native KiCad 10 plugin in Rust exposing 217 PCB design tools to Claude or other LLMs for AI-assisted design.
Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request(nrc.nl)
115 points by jeroenhd | 46 comments
NRC news article reporting that Amsterdam police seized a server of left-wing Italian internet provider A/I at US request over alleged facilitation of 'antifa'.
Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
113 points by nikanj | 72 comments
Tell HN post warning that third-level .name domains will be permanently removed next year and asking how others migrated, with discussion comments.
Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?(zetter-zeroday.com)
110 points by hacb | 107 comments
Kim Zetter's Zero Day article on a roughly $100 million crypto theft via hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by resellers in Asia and Europe.
Types of types: Haskell's Kind system(thunk.blog)
108 points by Thom2503 | 75 comments
Blog post explaining Haskell's Kind system, drawn from the author's work adding typed configuration to a Haskell Redis server clone.
Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart(hub.jhu.edu)
103 points by giuliomagnifico | 18 comments
Johns Hopkins news article about wireless magnetic millirobots designed to deliver medicine inside the beating heart.
Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI(mastodon.social)
103 points by jervant | 66 comments
A Mastodon post by Mario Guzmán showing a screenshot of an advertisement appearing in Apple Keynote's inspector sidebar.
Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series(lwn.net)
99 points by janvdberg | 59 comments
LWN brief reporting that Linus Torvalds posted a ten-patch kernel series written with LLM assistance, using RCU to speed up folio lookups for read()-heavy workloads.
Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox(clova.email)
97 points by edpin2000 | 75 comments
Landing page for Clova.Email, an email service offering infinite inboxes that lock to a single sender, temporary inboxes, and prefix-based auto-created aliases.
Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change(blumify.io)
95 points by gcsydney | 59 comments
Blumify is a site that finds interviews, podcasts and speeches by public figures like AI CEOs, summarizes what they said, and links quotes to transcript moments.
Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord(strafe.chat)
84 points by brydencalaway | 57 comments
Landing page for Strafe, an open-source, self-hostable, federated and end-to-end encrypted community chat platform positioned as a Discord alternative.
I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4(leangineer.com)
84 points by saviorand | 12 comments
A blog post describing an implementation of the RealWorld demo application (a Medium-like reference app) written in the Lean 4 programming language.
Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code(museumofages.org)
82 points by micstradev | 33 comments
Museum of Ages' free browser-based 3D guided tour of a Leonardo da Vinci museum, featuring his paintings, rebuilt machines, manuscripts, and his house in Amboise.
Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs(qawolf.com)
76 points by jadenlemmon | 27 comments
QA Wolf blog post describing E2exe, their system for running Windows desktop app tests at scale from Linux using disposable VMs.
RIP Eric Binnion(ma.tt)
74 points by speckx | 34 comments
Matt Mullenweg's blog post memorializing Eric Binnion, noting a 30-day extra HTTP header added via Nginx across WordPress sites in his honor.
Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)(blog.lorenzano.eu)
70 points by mpweiher | 16 comments
Blog post by Esteban Lorenzano about presenting Pulsar, a new coding-first IDE for Pharo Smalltalk, at the ESUG 2026 conference.
The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain(sfgate.com)
69 points by elsewhen | 44 comments
SFGATE article about the Great Crack, an 8-mile-long fissure in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park whose formation remains poorly understood.
Hatching (Heraldry)(en.wikipedia.org)
64 points by theanonymousone | 18 comments
Wikipedia article on hatching in heraldry, a system of lines and dots used to indicate tinctures in monochrome depictions of coats of arms.
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)
64 points by popcar2 | 54 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.
Smart people don't think others are stupid(sive.rs)
62 points by andsoitis | 49 comments
A 2012 short essay by Derek Sivers arguing that dismissing groups of people as stupid shows a lack of understanding, from his book Hell Yeah or No.
Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010(vintagecassettes.com)
60 points by austinallegro | 9 comments
Vintage Cassettes is a collector site cataloging photos of 2,669 sealed compact cassettes from 1963-2010, organized by brand and year, with tape history resources.