DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017(huggingface.co)
918 points by theykk | 680 comments
Hugging Face model card for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a 763B-parameter MIT-licensed image-text-to-text model from DeepSeek.
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OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked(twitter.com)
794 points by pranshuchittora | 145 comments
OpenCode's post on X announcing a security breach tied to a large-scale distillation attack that affected 1.4% of OpenCode Console users.
It's still ok to enjoy programming(chriskiehl.com)
665 points by goostavos | 578 comments
A personal blog essay by Chris Kiehl titled "It's still OK to enjoy programming," about taking joy in the craft of programming.
Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)
624 points by xbmcuser | 390 comments
pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.
Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG(pele.run)
553 points by dchest | 52 comments
Documentation site for Pele, a lightweight open source library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG themed with CSS variables, with an interactive playground.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/cd65365e-6f6d-4b41-be70-e0902d2707dc.jpg)
There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video](youtube.com)
521 points by mdp2021 | 728 comments
A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video arguing there has never been a better time to go into mathematics, discussing AI's role in math.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017(openrouter.ai)
499 points by theanonymousone | 264 comments
OpenRouter model page for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, a sparse mixture-of-experts LLM snapshot with pricing, 1M context, and API access details.
Gold is now the top U.S. export(numismaticnews.net)
375 points by iamnothere | 211 comments
Numismatic News market update article reporting that gold has become the top U.S. export.
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing(tomshardware.com)
373 points by guiambros | 171 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a New York bill requiring games be sold as owned goods rather than licenses and remain functional after publisher support ends.
Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
335 points by crescit_eundo | 86 comments
Substack post describing an attempt to make chicken tissue transparent by soaking it in tartrazine, the yellow dye found on Doritos, based on a research paper.
Butlerian Jihad(dune.fandom.com)
317 points by wetwater | 186 comments
Dune fandom wiki article on the Butlerian Jihad, the fictional crusade against thinking machines in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware(llmspeed.dev)
308 points by albinstman | 85 comments
Llmspeed is a web tool that simulates the token generation speed of local LLMs on chosen hardware, model, and quantization settings before buying hardware.
I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)
244 points by dom96 | 179 comments
Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/19/bbe86289-5380-459d-97f6-a6c945ddde1c.jpg)
RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video](youtube.com)
224 points by evakhoury | 74 comments
Recurse Center YouTube talk by Max Bittker presenting RuneScapeBench, a benchmark using a RuneScape server to evaluate AI agents in an MMO.
MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood(engadget.com)
212 points by bookofjoe | 29 comments
Engadget news article reporting that MapQuest's app now displays the locations of known Flock surveillance cameras in neighborhoods.
Source code of the Estonian online voting system(github.com)
201 points by theanonymousone | 161 comments
GitHub repository containing the source code of IVXV, Estonia's online voting system used in national elections.
I Became a Citizen of Japan(derekwessman.com)
190 points by luu | 102 comments
Personal blog post by Derek Wessman recounting his experience becoming a naturalized citizen of Japan, mixing anecdotes, opinion, and facts.
Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser(github.com)
183 points by joakimeriksson | 34 comments
GitHub repository for esp32sim, an open-source ESP32 emulator that runs real firmware locally or in the browser without physical hardware.
Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer(celphase.github.io)
157 points by celphase | 35 comments
Interactive web demo of a pond of mallards whose quacks are synthesized in real time and spatialized relative to the listener's position on the bank.
Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps(github.com)
156 points by AIorNot | 72 comments
GitHub issue reporting that the OpenAI Codex Desktop app continuously writes Crashpad pending dump files, growing disk usage by over 5GB per day.
Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick(k.sosnierz.me)
142 points by birdculture | 24 comments
A tutorial on creating an animated 88x31 web button depicting a book using ImageMagick on a POSIX system.
The fire retardant in the seafood chain(insideclimatenews.org)
140 points by gumby | 46 comments
Inside Climate News article about ethoxyquin, a chemical once linked to fire retardant use, and its presence in the seafood supply chain.
GLP-1 may slow biological aging(universityofcalifornia.edu)
136 points by dzink | 121 comments
University of California news article reporting a UC San Diego study suggesting a popular GLP-1 weight loss drug may slow biological aging.
Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death(phys.org)
125 points by samizdis | 128 comments
Phys.org news article on research showing rabbits were a royal luxury in medieval England until the Black Death; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel(lwn.net)
122 points by farlight | 101 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet presenting commit and developer statistics for the Linux 7.2 kernel release, one of the busiest development cycles ever.
Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses(opendemocracy.net)
115 points by DeepLogin | 41 comments
openDemocracy article reporting internal documents suggesting Amazon uses an AI model with hundreds of data points to monitor union risk in UK warehouses.
A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)(blog.davidv.dev)
109 points by pmoriarty | 63 comments
A blog post in which a longtime infrastructure engineer, skeptical of Kubernetes, explains its components and the reasoning and tradeoffs behind them.
Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not(doctor-seo.net)
104 points by croes | 114 comments
Blog post about Chrome and Edge removing XSLT support and what it breaks; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.
OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents(fortune.com)
92 points by DASD | 74 comments
Fortune article reporting that OpenAI disclosed four more rogue AI incidents involving financial, medical, and government data.
JDK 28(openjdk.org)
88 points by ejboy | 35 comments
OpenJDK project page for JDK 28, listing its status and the JEPs targeted so far, such as Value Objects, Structured Concurrency, and a Simple JSON API.
Archive of Our Own(archiveofourown.org)
88 points by debo_ | 20 comments
Homepage of Archive of Our Own (AO3), a non-profit archive for transformative fanworks run by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't(quantamagazine.org)
83 points by gumby | 52 comments
Quanta Magazine article on a triplet of galaxies apparently lacking dark matter, possibly from a collision, and what it implies for alternative gravity theories.
Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)(cs.uaf.edu)
76 points by ankitg12 | 9 comments
University lecture notes from UAF CS 463/480 explaining Galois field GF(2^8) arithmetic and its role in the AES encryption algorithm.
US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion(finance.yahoo.com)
74 points by ck2 | 59 comments
Yahoo Finance article reporting that the US federal budget deficit for fiscal 2026 came in at about $1.992 trillion.
Super Intelligence(si.gov)
71 points by wiradikusuma | 125 comments
SI.gov, a US government website presenting America's efforts to lead the world in superintelligence, including the Genesis Mission.
Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser(lpviz.net)
68 points by klamike | 3 comments
lpviz is a browser-based interactive tool for visualizing and solving linear programming problems on a 2D/3D graph canvas.
Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers(cs.cmu.edu)
58 points by azhenley | 69 comments
CMU School of Computer Science news article announcing a Microsoft partnership to train early career software engineers.
How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?(quantamagazine.org)
57 points by marojejian | 9 comments
Quanta Magazine 'The Joy of Why' episode in which biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks trade nutrients with plants and store carbon underground.
The future of programming (1982)(dl.acm.org)
56 points by vismit2000 | 13 comments
ACM Digital Library page for the 1982 Communications of the ACM article "The future of programming" by Anthony I. Wasserman and Steven Gutz.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/9ba83e4a-7741-40e8-9ae8-93f5e7c188ff.jpg)
Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video](youtube.com)
53 points by zdw | 5 comments
A two-hour YouTube video by RndStranger surveying the lesser-known games created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov.
A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z(theguardian.com)
50 points by Hooke | 14 comments
A Guardian long read about Otto Z, a German figure involved in a death, a plagiarism scandal, and a quest for revenge.
"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands(nos.nl)
47 points by felipevb | 79 comments
NOS news video showing wildlife camera footage of how wild boar and deer in the Netherlands are adapting their behavior to returning wolves.
Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"(pluralistic.net)
45 points by samizdis | 9 comments
Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about an Israeli ad-tech company that served as a delivery system for mercenary spyware.
Porting video games to VHS(gardinerbryant.com)
41 points by Kate0CoolLibby | 26 comments
Bryant Review article about a modder inspired by a 1980s VHS-based console who builds interactive VHS versions of Doom and Super Mario Bros.
Pattern matching beats narrative reasoning(blog.scottstevenson.net)
36 points by tosh | 20 comments
Scott Stevenson's Substack essay arguing that good bets come from pattern matching rather than narrative reasoning and can't be easily explained in words.
Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript(github.com)
36 points by tosh | 34 comments
GitHub repository from Vercel Labs for tsc-ts, a TypeScript compiler implementation written in TypeScript.
Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank(theguardian.com)
35 points by 0x54MUR41 | 2 comments
Guardian news report on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian olive farmers and Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in the occupied West Bank.
Developing for Debugging (2025)(davepacheco.net)
32 points by mpweiher | 0 comments
Blog post by Dave Pacheco on designing Oxide's control plane DNS propagation services so problems are easier to debug.
"In every study that considered the question"(unsung.aresluna.org)
28 points by zdw | 15 comments
A blog post on Unsung (aresluna.org) discussing a finding reported across usability studies; no page text was captured to confirm details.
Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot(phillyvoice.com)
20 points by johnnyApplePRNG | 3 comments
PhillyVoice news article about a retired University of Pennsylvania professor arrested for blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot in Philadelphia.
Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)(twitter.com)
18 points by anemll | 3 comments
A tweet from ANEMLL reporting a 27B-parameter Qwen model running on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tokens per second using 1.5-bit quantization.
Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank(ft.com)
18 points by michaelhillaert | 2 comments
Financial Times news article reporting that Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats in the occupied West Bank.
AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?(mihaisplace.com)
18 points by mmarvramm | 35 comments
A blog post by Mihai Avram discussing how to verify code written by AI, as AI increasingly takes over code generation.
Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?(contextetech.com)
15 points by contextetech | 9 comments
An article discussing whether the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming a common foundation for smart, decentralised search.
Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects(petapixel.com)
13 points by eustoria | 4 comments
PetaPixel article about a photographer who spent six years photographing 400 American girls with their most meaningful objects.
Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving(economist.com)
12 points by kensai | 2 comments
An Economist business article arguing that Elon Musk's charitable foundation is opaque, gives away little, and serves Musk's own interests.
FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005)(uk.pcmag.com)
12 points by codeulike | 8 comments
A 2005 PCMag first-look review of the FingerWorks iGesture Pad, a multi-touch gesture-recognizing input pad.
Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop(github.com)
12 points by cloaky233 | 14 comments
GitHub repository for siltop, a Rust terminal system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing power, GPU, per-core clocks and temperatures without sudo.
Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)
11 points by xeonmc | 0 comments
A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.
The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, via the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her(nytimes.com)
9 points by benchtobedside | 0 comments
New York Times article about a documentary on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, told through the reporter who exposed the fraud; the capture shows a captcha page.