Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
692 points by ds | 200 comments
Redact blog post reporting that WhatsApp help pages contained hidden instructions telling AI models not to recommend contacting a regulator.
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624 points by hakonjdjohnsen | 139 comments
YouTube video by Joshua Bird showing how he built and flew a drone that uses only a single motor.
601 points by iamnothere | 199 comments
An openbsd-ports mailing list message proposing a new port of Wine for OpenBSD, made possible by emulating the %gs prefix to work around gsbase limitations.
559 points by cjd8 | 252 comments
LWN.net news item announcing the release of Linux kernel 7.3, quoting Linus Torvalds and listing record commit counts and notable new features.
557 points by groar | 104 comments
Mistral AI blog post announcing Timestral, a family of time-series foundation models.
547 points by cmrdporcupine | 496 comments
Reuters news article about a DHS order banning the Chinese AI DeepSeek from U.S. federal civilian agency IT systems; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
534 points by rzk | 650 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how engineers cope with shipping AI-generated code they don't fully understand, citing a Meta engineer's LinkedIn post.
525 points by debo_ | 162 comments
Starcraft: Ashfall is an unofficial browser-based StarCraft fan shooter game with commanders, companions, and a squad deployment menu.
520 points by DeepLogin | 249 comments
WJCL local news report that documents show an ousted Savannah police officer shared her Flock license-plate camera login with her ICE agent husband.
501 points by jtg | 209 comments
MiniMax blog post announcing the MiniMax M3.1 Flash model, claiming gains in agentic tasks, coding, and computer use with faster, cheaper inference.
440 points by gumby | 208 comments
Substack essay from the Musical Form Institute comparing tempo variation in 1975 vs 2025 Billboard hits to argue modern pop production is grid-quantized to machine perfection.
399 points by phoronixrly | 373 comments
Blog post by a Ruby gem author explaining why they archived all their gem repositories and stopped maintaining them, citing a loss of Ruby's human-focused joy.
386 points by yzydserd | 289 comments
NBC News article on a Ukrainian brigade claiming the world's first evacuation of a wounded soldier by drone, used because landmines and enemy drones blocked ground vehicles.
334 points by CraftThatBlock | 144 comments
A blog tutorial explaining how to remove ads from Android TV and Google TV, including the home screen banner and YouTube ads.
325 points by rbanffy | 98 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature on organ-on-a-chip and other technologies emerging as alternatives to animal testing in biomedical research.
308 points by kensai | 57 comments
CERN news article announcing a statement of intent with Mistral AI to partner on advancing AI for science and strengthening Europe's technological capabilities.
307 points by flocked | 164 comments
GitHub repository for Mac.apk, an AGPL-3.0 open-source project that runs Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
247 points by gslin | 78 comments
Let's Encrypt community forum announcement that it is adding two new remote network perspectives for domain validation to meet CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements.
237 points by jumpocelot | 127 comments
EFE news report on Lula supporters protesting outside Meta in Brazil, accusing the company of electoral interference.
234 points by pfeifferj | 120 comments
A personal blog post describing installing Arch Linux on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an NVIDIA RTX Spark ARM64 chip, with setup patches and benchmarks against Windows.
219 points by albertodenia | 141 comments
Blog essay by iOS developer Alberto Denia arguing agentic coding makes code malleable like clay, contrasting hands-on 'artisan' and automated 'factory' workflows.
218 points by cmrdporcupine | 84 comments
Inception Labs blog post announcing Mercury 3, its diffusion-based large language model.
217 points by emot | 187 comments
IPinfo blog post analyzing internet-exposed supermarket fridge control dashboards, most in France, that were left vulnerable online for months.
198 points by hans_castorp | 36 comments
Blog post by PostgreSQL committer Peter Eisentraut reflecting on why 8 to 10 significant features were reverted from PostgreSQL 19 during its beta period.
197 points by chatmasta | 116 comments
ProjectDiscovery research post showing how edited open-weight models, such as abliterated builds, can carry backdoors, demonstrated end to end through the Codex coding agent.
194 points by frizlab | 82 comments
Michael Steil's blog post presenting diorama64, an open-source port that renders Super Mario 64 levels as tabletop dioramas on Apple Vision Pro.
193 points by mindracer | 92 comments
Blog post analyzing in-the-wild exploitation of Plex Media Server vulnerabilities used to deploy a cryptocurrency miner.
169 points by doener | 39 comments
Mastodon post by Bryan Steele previewing OpenBSD 8.0 changes, including Clang/LLVM 22, sparc64 Clang switch, and DRM graphics drivers updated to Linux 6.18.
163 points by cassianoleal | 69 comments
An essay introducing 'decoherence', the buildup of incompatible models in a system, arguing it is the worst form of tech debt and that AI-generated code is accelerating it.
159 points by theanonymousone | 58 comments
Artificial Analysis model page benchmarking DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) on intelligence, speed, and price.
154 points by iamnothere | 108 comments
Politico Magazine article arguing that federal investigators found evidence of possible collusion behind high US egg prices, previously blamed on bird flu.
144 points by gateauxd | 111 comments
GitHub status page incident report on degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks.
138 points by ibobev | 18 comments
Blog post with an interactive visualiser explaining how NetHack generates Gnomish Mines levels using random fill and four passes of cellular automata.
135 points by erikkannike | 95 comments
Blog post introducing a fine-tuned Qwen3-4B-Instruct model, trained on a MacBook Air, that avoids common AI writing tics and runs locally via Ollama.
133 points by ankitg12 | 94 comments
A crystl guide to using tmux for running Claude Code and other AI coding agents, covering session naming, pane layouts, send-keys, capture-pane, and scaling limits.
132 points by wffurr | 58 comments
Ars Technica article on Endurance Energy's first subsea geothermal power plant test near an underwater volcano, which briefly produced net-positive electricity.
131 points by iheatuchriswogu | 61 comments
Blog post introducing Superlite, an autonomous build workflow for Claude Code that executes a spec with fewer permission prompts, covering usage and benchmarks.
125 points by jcalabro | 13 comments
Blog post by Jim Calabro explaining bloom filters and a technique for implementing them using a single hash function, with context from Bluesky's backend.
124 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 88 comments
WSJ article about Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust and how it could affect the AI company's potential IPO; the capture shows a device verification screen.
112 points by laginimaineb | 49 comments
Landing page for Maxwell by doubleAI, a 'Code Execution Model' that optimizes running code for hardware and data with formally proven equivalence, offering early access.
110 points by Stratoscope | 91 comments
Simple Flying article reporting that Chicago O'Hare airport dug up a 50-ton boulder beneath its airfield and is asking the public to suggest names for it.
110 points by scottfalconer | 116 comments
Dries Buytaert's blog post recapping his DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 keynote on Drupal CMS, Canvas Headless, Drupal AI, the Tool module, and a new Advocacy Program.
109 points by ibobev | 54 comments
Blog post describing how narrating one's thoughts aloud, like LLM chain-of-thought or rubber duck debugging, improved the author's puzzle solving in The Witness.
108 points by theflyingelvis | 38 comments
Daily Mail news article reporting that Ukraine used an aerial drone to evacuate a wounded soldier from the frontline.
108 points by utopcell | 19 comments
Blog post from Dorchester 3D describing a homemade second-version laptop case build for the ZX Spectrum Next dev board.
108 points by isuruwijesiri | 50 comments
GitHub repository for Harness Engineering 101, a guide to building AI agents from first principles, treating the LLM as brain and the harness as body.
104 points by anigbrowl | 42 comments
404 Media article presenting footage of a police search using Flock license plate reader data that a judge ruled unconstitutional.
100 points by bcongdon | 17 comments
Blog post by Ben Congdon arguing that LLM agents dedicated to watching individual system components are the future of software operations monitoring.
99 points by greyface- | 46 comments
Hagens Berman law firm page for a consumer class action alleging Verisign overcharged .com domain buyers through an illegal monopoly since 2022.
97 points by tosh | 20 comments
Netflix Technology Blog post on Medium describing how Netflix built an ontology-driven, end-to-end knowledge graph for observability at scale.
93 points by giuliomagnifico | 64 comments
Reuters article on European electric vehicle sales rising 70.3% in September to a 32.6% market share; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
75 points by stokedmartin | 31 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post describing Prometheus, Meta's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster and the data center and networking work behind it.
65 points by Aleksandr_NFA | 3 comments
An annotated disassembly of the original 8 KiB DEC VT100 terminal firmware, with sections on methodology, bugs and oddities, and an 8080 coverage checker.
63 points by dajonker | 61 comments
Blog post arguing that Ruby on Rails and frameworks generally still make sense even as LLMs make writing code cheap.
62 points by rbanffy | 7 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on ESA's Hera spacecraft preparing to image asteroid Dimorphos after NASA's DART planetary defense impact.
61 points by jessicarumbelow | 15 comments
Eigenmoon is a browser-based puzzle game teaching linear algebra concepts through moonlit, minimalist interactive levels.
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59 points by NaOH | 8 comments
Yle's Pentulive hub page featuring a 24/7 live video stream of a lagotto romagnolo mother and her six puppies, plus related news, podcasts and chat.
56 points by samclemens | 8 comments
A reported essay in The Dial by Snigdha Poonam investigating AI-assisted scams targeting authors, such as fake book clubs, publishers, and agents.
57 points by skull8888888 | 23 comments
Launch HN post for Laminar, an open-source AI agent observability platform introducing flow-1, an RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces.
57 points by bojackh | 38 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature by Agility Robotics co-founder Jonathan Hurst on the design path from ATRIAS and Cassie to the bulky, commercial Digit 5 warehouse humanoid.