Tesla Roadster(tesla.com)
1578 points by shekhar101 | 2862 comments
Tesla's product page for the Roadster electric sports car; the capture shows an Akamai Access Denied error instead of the page.
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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins(anthropic.com)
989 points by ahlCVA | 363 comments
Anthropic Frontier Red Team post saying Claude explained the long-mysterious origins of the seeds behind the ECDSA standard curves, attributing them to timestamps.
You could have invented transformers from memory(alexwang.ai)
602 points by speckx | 133 comments
Blog post by Alex Wang explaining transformer layers (MLPs, gated MLPs, self-attention) as associative memory stores, with code and an interactive app.
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks(mercor.com)
558 points by speckx | 495 comments
Mercor research page presenting a Benchmark Map that measures how well existing AI benchmarks cover tasks across American jobs.
Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour(nature.com)
535 points by alkyon | 115 comments
Nature news article reporting that bleached coral fragments recover within days by forming tissue bridges with healthy neighbours that supply microalgae.
How the Claude Code team does code review(claude.dev)
407 points by pretext | 386 comments
An Anthropic engineering blog post by Addy Osmani describing how the Claude Code team reviews the high volume of code produced by AI agents while minimizing human review time.
Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console(github.com)
356 points by Anon84 | 83 comments
GitHub repository for PS5LM, a port of llama.cpp that runs GGUF language models natively on a jailbroken PlayStation 5.
Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio(machinelearning.apple.com)
355 points by antipaul | 188 comments
Apple Machine Learning Research post on running large LLM inference locally and distributed across Mac Studio machines using MLX and RDMA.
Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States(smithsonianmag.com)
344 points by sohkamyung | 87 comments
Smithsonian Magazine article on how removing small, often obsolete dams in northeastern US streams and rivers is helping herring and other fish return.
I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases(jakearchibald.com)
307 points by farlight | 195 comments
Jake Archibald's blog post comparing JPEG XL and AVIF image formats for web use, with examples and benchmarks, after JPEG XL landed in all major browsers.
Waymo in Toronto(waymo.com)
304 points by ChrisArchitect | 409 comments
Waymo's official blog post announcing its expansion of autonomous ride-hailing service to Toronto.
eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear(arrl.org)
261 points by 7402 | 232 comments
ARRL Letter item reporting that eBay is restricting listings of radio transmitting equipment under new FCC rules, while exempting gear that operates only on amateur bands.
Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft(starskirmish.com)
229 points by __cayenne__ | 103 comments
StarSkirmish Bench, a benchmark where LLMs play StarCraft: Brood War by writing code, showing gameplay and results for flagship models.
Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad(github.com)
220 points by chanana | 59 comments
GitHub repository for Sill, a free open-source app that streams any Mac window to an iPhone or iPad with touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keyboard input, without servers.
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June(ft.com)
203 points by JumpCrisscross | 62 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Anthropic received the highest junk-grade credit rating in June, shown behind a subscription paywall.
I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets(github.com)
202 points by trvrprkr | 155 comments
A closed GitHub issue on the home-assistant.io repo in which a user complains that an integration scanning their secrets was enabled without authorization, calling it a privacy invasion.
FLUX 3 Image Klein(bfl.ai)
201 points by gmays | 57 comments
Black Forest Labs blog post announcing FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open-weights image generation model.
"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math(nytimes.com)
189 points by vinipolicena | 382 comments
New York Times article about mathematician Terence Tao and a crisis in mathematics, apparently related to AI; the page loaded as a captcha check.
Lean now ships with verified kernels(leodemoura.github.io)
189 points by matt_d | 68 comments
Leonardo de Moura blog post announcing Lean v4.35.0 ships with lake check, leanchecker, and four additional independent verified kernels for rechecking proofs.
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD(calif.io)
188 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs | 58 comments
A Calif research post by Andrew Griffiths describing how a 37-year-old OpenBSD kernel bug involving a small counter was exploited to gain a root shell.
The Folders Programming Language(danieltemkin.com)
185 points by gurst | 32 comments
Daniel Temkin's page describing Folders, an esoteric programming language where programs are encoded as nested empty directory structures.
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude(anthropic.com)
164 points by pretext | 34 comments
Anthropic research post describing how Claude was used to design more efficient quantum circuits.
US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership(ritchietorres.house.gov)
161 points by DeepLogin | 90 comments
Press release from Rep. Ritchie Torres announcing the Power to the Players Act, legislation meant to ensure gamers actually own the video games they buy.
Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua(teal-language.org)
160 points by Lyngbakr | 64 comments
Homepage of Teal, a statically-typed dialect of Lua, with links to about, playground, download, docs, and community.
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix(theregister.com)
148 points by magoghm | 56 comments
The Register article reporting that PostgreSQL 19's release was pushed to November and up to 10 features reverted after AI review tools surfaced more bugs than developers could fix.
What on Earth Is Dekton?(worksinprogress.news)
141 points by wawayanda | 51 comments
A Works in Progress feature by Charles C Mann exploring porcelain and the engineered stone material Dekton, prompted by a pricey kitchen stove.
Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game(frozenfractal.com)
138 points by ibobev | 10 comments
A devlog post, part 34 of a series on the sea exploration game Around The World, about rendering a pretty sky.
/dev/null: social network for developers(dev-null.sh)
137 points by mnapoli | 126 comments
Landing page for /dev/null, a GitHub-login social network for developers to follow coders and post plain text to a shared log, built live in PHP.
The DNS Museum(dns.museum)
120 points by zdw | 15 comments
The DNS Museum is a catalog of odd, inventive, and impractical uses of DNS, such as traceroute art, DNS tunnelling, and DNS-based tools and toys.
Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low(news.gallup.com)
107 points by karakoram | 81 comments
Gallup news article reporting that the share of people worldwide wanting to move permanently to the U.S. has hit a new low, though the U.S. remains the top destination.
Nine-Inch Snails(theatlantic.com)
105 points by zdw | 54 comments
The Atlantic article by Cara Giaimo about invasive giant African land snails in Florida and how the state combats them.
Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland(engelsbergideas.com)
104 points by lermontov | 30 comments
Engelsberg Ideas essay on how Gdynia grew from a Baltic fishing village into a major port embodying interwar Poland's modernising ambitions.
What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)
103 points by ibobev | 79 comments
Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.
C++26: The New Debugging Header(sandordargo.com)
98 points by jandeboevrie | 23 comments
Blog post by Sandor Dargo introducing the C++26 <debugging> header for programmatic breakpoints, replacing compiler-specific code like __debugbreak.
RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop(anuragbhatia.com)
90 points by porridgeraisin | 49 comments
Blog post by Anurag Bhatia describing experiments with RFC8950, routing IPv4 prefixes over an IPv6 next-hop without tunnels, and its use cases for networks.
One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux(quentinkaiser.be)
87 points by zoobab | 22 comments
Blog post by Quentin Kaiser describing two bugs in a Broadcom WiFi parser and how they are exploited on routers running eCos and Linux.
Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program(readergrev.com)
80 points by paimapi | 53 comments
A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.
Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia(lwn.net)
79 points by signa11 | 23 comments
LWN article covering Sharon Yang's FOSSY 2026 talk comparing Chromium development work at Google versus the employee-owned cooperative Igalia.
Regex visualized as 3D marble run(regexmarblerun.com)
78 points by seizethecheese | 27 comments
Regex Marble Run is an interactive web tool that visualizes regular expression matching and backtracking as a 3D marble run machine.
A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip(adepts.of0x.cc)
75 points by michidk | 5 comments
A blog post on reverse engineering the firmware of a Eufy HomeBase 2 device, covering WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns, and recovering data from a damaged flash chip.
Credit where credit is due(thefloatingcontinent.com)
70 points by evakhoury | 45 comments
Blog post about Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell's Washington Post op-ed on AI cheating, which AI detector Pangram flagged as likely LLM-written, raising questions of authorship credit.
GifCities(gifcities.org)
65 points by augury | 12 comments
GifCities is the Internet Archive's search engine for animated GIFs from archived GeoCities pages; the capture showed a rate-limit error.
How to Formalize All of Mathematics(xenaproject.wordpress.com)
62 points by practal | 53 comments
A Xena Project blog post by Kevin Buzzard's group on how to formalize all of mathematics using the Lean theorem prover.
The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)(softpanorama.org)
60 points by Michelangelo11 | 19 comments
A Softpanorama book chapter by Nikolai Bezroukov on the history of Norton Commander and the NC line of orthodox file managers.
Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package(lwn.net)
60 points by signa11 | 51 comments
LWN article reporting that Gentoo maintainers are dropping the Chromium source package due to its complex build system, bundled dependencies, and frequent releases.
Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination(equator.org)
58 points by tirumaraiselvan | 19 comments
An essay by Arundhati Roy in Equator magazine, "Apocalypse Now and Then," arguing that artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination.
The insider trading you're allowed to do(coached.com)
57 points by rohanm93 | 43 comments
An essay by Rohan Mahtani in the Coached Weekly newsletter arguing that gaining legitimate insider knowledge is a powerful, permitted career advantage.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Tesla makes cars that fly? [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/12e77628-da33-489c-9326-4ab3ad6ed2e4.jpg)
Tesla makes cars that fly? [video](youtube.com)
57 points by merinpapz10 | 35 comments
A 45-second Tesla YouTube video titled "The Ramp | Roadster" showing a car on a tall curved ramp structure, teasing the Roadster.
Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang(github.com)
56 points by Kapendev | 15 comments
GitHub repository for Parin, a simple cross-platform 2D game engine written in the D programming language with WebAssembly support.
Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second(foxbusiness.com)
54 points by nsoonhui | 50 comments
Fox Business article reporting on the debut of Tesla's new Roadster, claimed to fly and reach 60 mph in under a second.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/12cdf499-e400-4131-afaf-dbe4cfbbe4b1.jpg)
Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video](youtube.com)
53 points by skadamat | 41 comments
YouTube video from VideoFromSpace showing Tesla's unveiling of a 'flying' Roadster that uses SpaceX thrusters.
There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.(nytimes.com)
50 points by bookofjoe | 23 comments
New York Times article about how New York City's more than one million street signs are made in the city's sign shop.
The First Candid(newyorker.com)
49 points by Thevet | 12 comments
New Yorker Paris Postcard piece on Daguerre's 1838 Boulevard du Temple photo, the location sleuths identified, and the plaque Paris is placing there.
Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency(neuralwatt.com)
46 points by ccgibson | 23 comments
A Neuralwatt news post arguing that the design of AI agent harnesses affects the energy use and token consumption of LLM workloads.
"Traditional, but Puzzling"(unsung.aresluna.org)
42 points by colinprince | 7 comments
Blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about a puzzling Unix error message seen by users in the 1990s and its history.
How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
41 points by porridgeraisin | 21 comments
Special topic article by Subbarao Kambhampati in AI Magazine on how LLMs, as System 1 predictors, can be made to exhibit System 2 deliberative reasoning through post-training.
The Fatal Flaw of 911(themarshallproject.org)
41 points by plunge | 56 comments
A Marshall Project Q&A about a new book arguing that routing 911 calls to police by default endangers people in mental health crises.
Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator(purplesyringa.moe)
39 points by dverlaeckt80 | 6 comments
Blog post on using superoptimization to find an optimal instruction sequence for a floating-point emulator function returning a float's lowest set bit.
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia(6abc.com)
39 points by snarky-comments | 29 comments
6abc Action News report on a woman arrested after blocking an Avride delivery robot during a confrontation in Center City Philadelphia.