Muse Spark Open(research.meta.ai)
884 points by bigwheels | 446 comments
Meta research blog post announcing Muse Spark Open, an open-weight large language model Meta calls the most capable US open-weight model to date.
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Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)
768 points by themgt | 300 comments
An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.
Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design(github.com)
670 points by FinalDestiny | 275 comments
GitHub repository for DEsk, a beta Wayland desktop environment for Linux with a skeuomorphic design, including Fedora and Debian packaging.
What I self-host(viceconsole.fyi)
607 points by BrunoBernardino | 385 comments
Personal blog post describing which services the author self-hosts, which they don't, and why, motivated partly by leaving streaming services.
Jev meets the Trolley Problem(zachlandes.com)
589 points by zlandes86 | 231 comments
Blog post by Zach Landes exploring how Jev, a fast cheap decision-making AI model that outputs choices with probabilities, handles the trolley problem.
AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware(citizenlab.ca)
452 points by jcomp | 592 comments
Citizen Lab research report on how Israeli firm Discover-Tech used targeted digital advertising as a delivery pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware.
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts(niemanlab.org)
429 points by 0in | 155 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr(thereallo.dev)
393 points by speckx | 181 comments
Blog post about finding malware disguised as South Park episodes on torrent sites that ended up in the author's Sonarr download queue, and reverse-engineering it.
Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana(furifont.antfu.me)
388 points by plaguna | 81 comments
Landing page for Furifont, a Japanese font that renders furigana readings above kanji via ligatures, with downloads and a customization builder.
New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing(support.withings.com)
372 points by johnbehnke | 253 comments
A Withings support forum post complaining that Apple Health sync now requires a $99/year subscription for new accounts.
Ultramarine 1 Flash(paperinstruments.com)
359 points by i_rush_carriers | 104 comments
Product page for Ultramarine 1 Flash, an open AI model from Paper Instruments aimed at professional knowledge work in finance, law, consulting, and operations.
I know why the mathematicians weep(derekthompson.org)
342 points by RickJWagner | 561 comments
Derek Thompson essay on his Substack about technological grief, using mathematicians' reactions to AI advances as a lens.
Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale(krea.ai)
330 points by dvrp | 106 comments
Product launch page for Krea 3, Krea's frontier AI image editing model supporting region-based prompted edits at scale.
Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware(theguardian.com)
317 points by chunkyslink | 140 comments
Guardian article on University of Toronto research finding Israeli firm Discover-Tech's Controlium software uses digital ads to profile users and deliver zero-click spyware.
Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support(libreboot.org)
301 points by iamnothere | 183 comments
Release announcement for Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive", adding EDK2 UEFI payload by default, 233 Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and new hardware support.
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran(fortran-lang.org)
298 points by rbanffy | 136 comments
Fortran-lang blog post announcing a December 2026 event in Manchester celebrating 70 years since the first Fortran manual was published.
Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land(unfenced.land)
294 points by otherwatersflow | 191 comments
Unfenced is a search site listing properties for sale that border public forest, game lands and wilderness, verified against official boundary maps.
Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher(respawnfirst.com)
290 points by starkparker | 292 comments
RespawnFirst gaming news article claiming the Steam client now outperforms Epic Games' new launcher, which it describes as vibe coded.
SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful(github.com)
286 points by dhorthy | 112 comments
A GitHub markdown writeup from HumanLayer reporting October 2026 SlopCodeBench results for coding models including Opus 5.5, Astra, and gpt-5.5.
BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC(bipm.org)
237 points by gliffie | 118 comments
BIPM page for Resolution 5 of the 28th CGPM (2026), on technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC, including ending leap second insertions.
Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era(simonsfoundation.org)
230 points by aaraujo002 | 184 comments
Simons Foundation news release announcing a $15 million initiative to help mathematicians use AI tools and adapt to changes in the field.
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware(blogs.gnome.org)
224 points by ErenayDev | 198 comments
Blog post by Christian F.K. Schaller, a Red Hat developer, about using AI tools to reverse engineer hardware, presumably for Linux driver development.
The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results(github.com)
219 points by antirez | 34 comments
GitHub repository for antirez's c64-hw-simulator, a pin-level Commodore 64 hardware simulator that lets users break chips and pins and observe the results.
An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads(theverge.com)
211 points by drewfax | 88 comments
The Verge news article reporting researchers found an Israeli firm delivering zero-click spyware through targeted online advertising.
RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes(ipinfo.io)
206 points by emot | 87 comments
IPinfo blog post reporting that RPKI now covers 70% of internet routes, up from 54% a year earlier, explaining route origin validation.
More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke(sunshowers.io)
197 points by sunshowers | 59 comments
Follow-up blog post alleging Anthropic's Scion source control system intentionally copied Meta's Mononoke without credit, answering readers' questions.
I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one(snoutcover.com)
195 points by ragswag | 102 comments
A founder's story of designing a nose guard for his pitbull with discoid lupus (DLE) and growing it into a product worn by 500 dogs.
Why We're Banning AI(currentaffairs.org)
187 points by vinyl7 | 140 comments
Current Affairs magazine article explaining the publication's decision to ban the use of AI in its work.
Laptop Based on 6502 CPU(maddox.pro)
184 points by nanochess | 94 comments
A personal tech blog post describing a homebrew laptop built around the 6502 CPU; the captured view shows only the blog header and archives.
E Ink Kaleido 4(eink.com)
167 points by Perroboc | 98 comments
E Ink press release announcing Kaleido 4, the latest version of its color ePaper platform; the page returned a 504 gateway timeout when captured.
C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions(cppstories.com)
128 points by ibobev | 118 comments
A C++ Stories blog post introducing C++26 contracts, covering preconditions and postconditions.
How to Train Your Robot(construction-physics.com)
124 points by crescit_eundo | 40 comments
Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how robots are trained and the role of training data and scaling in advancing robot AI capabilities.
Intuitive concurrent programming in any language(lf-lang.org)
121 points by mpweiher | 30 comments
Homepage of Lingua Franca, a coordination language for building deterministic, concurrent, time-sensitive, embedded, and distributed systems.
The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend(theautopian.com)
112 points by CharlesW | 55 comments
An article on The Autopian explaining the engineering behind the joints that let articulated buses bend.
An Apology(elevationlab.com)
111 points by cdrnsf | 130 comments
Elevation Lab blog post apologizing for launching an AirTag silencing tool that could help stalkers track people without triggering phone alerts.
Thank You, Deno(vlt.io)
111 points by jcbhmr | 25 comments
A vlt blog post by Darcy Clarke reflecting on Deno joining Cloudflare and winding down its investment in the Deno runtime, praising its impact on JavaScript.
Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing(github.com)
110 points by andunie | 61 comments
GitHub repository for Flipflop, a GPL-3.0 file-sharing app using Iroh-powered persistent peer-to-peer tunnels with a Slint UI.
Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering(proa.so)
90 points by burnrate | 25 comments
Landing page for Proa, a batteries-included Rust web framework focused on fast server-side rendering and composable multi-target rendering.
Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show(signalscorps.com)
81 points by panoramas4good | 16 comments
Signals Corps blog post analyzing HTTP headers from 217 million crawled web responses for text aimed at AI agents, including prompt injection attempts.
The Double Headed Stack Allocator(blog.demofox.org)
80 points by g0xA52A2A | 28 comments
A blog post on demofox.org describing the double headed stack allocator, a memory allocation technique that allocates from both ends of a buffer.
BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox(github.com)
79 points by rguiscard | 25 comments
GitHub repository for BeBox, a Haiku-native emulator of Be Inc.'s PowerPC and Hobbit-based BeBox computers, released under the MIT license.
Why are we even doing all this?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
78 points by smilelamp | 31 comments
A guest post by Rikab Gambhir on Terence Tao's blog reflecting on why mathematicians and physicists do their work as AI reshapes research.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How gyroscopes got so small [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/17655563-d880-4907-8113-2d2abab86bcd.jpg)
How gyroscopes got so small [video](youtube.com)
74 points by surprisetalk | 34 comments
A Primal Space YouTube video explaining the history and engineering of how gyroscopes were miniaturized, starting from a 1914 Paris aviation demonstration.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/54d4f6fb-da99-4ad6-ab53-d581e8c92f6b.jpg)
Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video](youtube.com)
67 points by zdw | 42 comments
A der8auer YouTube video analyzing how liquid metal thermal compound reacts with PC components, including results from a two-year test.
Siri is so bad at everything(reddit.com)
67 points by haunter | 46 comments
A Reddit r/apple thread complaining that Siri performs poorly at most tasks; the page loaded as a Reddit network-security block screen.
We still use paper(humanpro.co)
60 points by gx | 68 comments
A blog essay arguing that despite AI, people still use paper, keyboards, and word processors, and asking to what degree AI will replace existing tools.
We are entering a period of overlapping crises(hamishcampbell.com)
60 points by speckx | 63 comments
Blog post by Hamish Campbell on the Open Media Network site arguing that climate breakdown, inequality, tech disruption, war and political instability form overlapping crises.
16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory(youtube.com)
58 points by oliculipolicula | 18 comments
A YouTube video from Japanese channel dydt製作所 demonstrating a DIY, fully functional tiny 16-bit magnetic core memory board built with 1970s East German cores.
Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo(nltimes.nl)
56 points by jacquesm | 11 comments
NL Times news article about a southern ground hornbill at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo receiving world-first 3D printed beak prostheses.
AI was great until it was not(thetheorygirlie.substack.com)
55 points by JohnHammersley | 35 comments
A Substack essay by physicist Nia Robles titled "AI was great until it was not," presented as a cautionary tale about relying on AI.
One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)
50 points by gumby | 22 comments
Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.
Fun Extending the C Preprocessor(davidpriver.com)
44 points by david2ndaccount | 13 comments
David Priver's blog post describing fun extensions he added to the C preprocessor in his own C2Y compiler/interpreter, such as __print() and __where() debugging macros.
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom(reuters.com)
43 points by tartoran | 29 comments
Reuters article on how a market selloff and rising interest rates are testing the boom in AI data centre financing deals; page showed a device verification screen.
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released(lists.ubuntu.com)
42 points by dgavrilov | 39 comments
Mailing list announcement of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release, covering Rust coreutils, Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, TPM encryption, and RISC-V images.
GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS(github.com)
40 points by zderror | 19 comments
GitHub repository for GridSnap, an MIT-licensed open-source Swift menubar app for macOS that snaps windows to a grid, similar to Divvy.
Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)(sijbrandijfoundation.org)
40 points by gone35 | 4 comments
Sijbrandij Foundation's Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT) initiative page, on helping cancer patients access more diagnostics, treatments, and trials than one care team can track.
Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date(research.meta.ai)
38 points by meetpateltech | 1 comments
Meta blog post announcing Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model billed as the most capable US open-weight model to date.
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms(theregister.com)
38 points by ilreb | 20 comments
The Register article reporting that X removed over 13,000 accounts tied to suspected Iranian, Russian, and Chinese influence operations ahead of the US midterms.
Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project(docs.openrewrite.org)
37 points by javahippie | 11 comments
OpenRewrite documentation page listing latest module versions and explaining that releases now come from the Code Genome Project instead of Maven Central, with authentication required.