DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models(github.com)
2273 points by ggcr | 890 comments
GitHub repository for DeepInfer, DeepSeek's open-source high-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models.
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Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)(news-web.php.net)
1438 points by xd | 658 comments
PHP announce mailing list post warning of an upcoming security release on 21 October 2026 fixing two critical vulnerabilities rated CVSS 9.2.
eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)
1124 points by galadran | 503 comments
Disclosure page reporting that private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates trusted by major root programs were compromised, with signed proof.
Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits(permit.petercai.com)
877 points by pcai | 421 comments
Landing page for Permit Pending, a free browser city-builder game where the player, as mayor, must get projects past zoning boards, neighbors, appeals courts and elections.
Voxtral 3(mistral.ai)
747 points by ilreb | 200 comments
Mistral AI announcement page for Voxtral 3, its speech and audio AI model.
Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads(teddysvoronos.com)
584 points by evanb | 296 comments
A teacher's blog post complaining that iPadOS 27 broke the ability to project via AirPlay while using other apps, harming iPad-based presenting and teaching.
No more icons in every menu by default(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
449 points by riffraff | 275 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.
What shall I teach my son?(stevekrouse.com)
442 points by Curiositry | 642 comments
Steve Krouse's personal essay reflecting on what to teach his unborn son and the purpose of education in the age of AGI, drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education.
OpenBSD 8.0(openbsd.org)
440 points by privong | 157 comments
Official OpenBSD 8.0 release page with release date, artwork, mirror and errata links, changelog link, and signify public keys.
Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month(mastodon.gamedev.place)
417 points by AshleysBrain | 406 comments
A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.
Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust(blog.cloudflare.com)
409 points by hnisjafx40 | 213 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing tsrs, a port of the TypeScript compiler to Rust, covering performance gains, motivation, and maintenance plans.
PingCap TiDB Leaks(fulcrumsec.vg)
409 points by swyx | 73 comments
A leak post by the group FulcrumSec claiming a 10.6 TB breach of PingCAP's TiDB Cloud, detailing stolen control-plane data, customer credentials, source code and financial records.
Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case(prestonbyrne.com)
406 points by iamnothere | 447 comments
Blog post by lawyer Preston Byrne arguing Ofcom admitted in Commons committee testimony that its jurisdiction over 4chan ends where foreign courts' jurisdiction begins.
MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space(github.com)
378 points by theanonymousone | 131 comments
GitHub wiki home page for microG GmsCore, a free software reimplementation of Google Play Services for AOSP-based Android ROMs.
Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe(neowin.net)
373 points by paweladamczuk | 207 comments
Neowin news article reporting a Google Cloud outage disrupting HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Equifax and other European services.
Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations(arstechnica.com)
367 points by gumby | 176 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Meta's Muse AI agent exposed shared conversations via discoverable subdomain URLs, prompting Meta to suspend the sharing feature.
Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs(github.com)
366 points by ilreb | 90 comments
GitHub repository for TorchTPU, Google's open-source native PyTorch backend for running models on Cloud TPUs.
The Real Kevin Bacon(pudding.cool)
355 points by xnx | 91 comments
An interactive Pudding visual essay using a network graph of film co-stars to explore the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game and which actors are truly most central.
How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed(kaba.cx)
346 points by kabakabakaba | 104 comments
Blog post describing how the author identified and got over 300 malicious Tor exit nodes removed, with a chart of malicious exit counts over time.
Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs(peec.ai)
315 points by robtherobber | 204 comments
Peec AI blog post by a GEO researcher describing how publishing statistics led to the author's data being widely cited across the web and by LLMs.
Bringing uv and ty together(astral.sh)
303 points by Ravencentric | 111 comments
Astral blog post announcing experimental uv-ty integration, adding PEP 723 script support in ty and a unified `uv check` command for type checking projects.
Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery(e360.yale.edu)
288 points by speckx | 196 comments
A Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that deep sea life around the Deepwater Horizon spill site shows few signs of recovery sixteen years later.
A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents(danielball.com)
270 points by westsmith | 88 comments
A personal guide to AI image generation covering history, how diffusion and multimodal models work, costs, prompting, and integrating image APIs into code and agents.
The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)
265 points by gaplong | 247 comments
A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.
Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site(krebsonsecurity.com)
251 points by Bender | 148 comments
KrebsOnSecurity report that federal investigators suspect a U.S. ransomware negotiation firm executive helped run the ShinyHunters group's extortion website.
Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua(bbc.com)
251 points by bryanrasmussen | 62 comments
BBC News article on the rediscovery in West Papua of a pygmy long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider thought extinct for 6,000 years.
AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right(heistberlin.com)
242 points by firefax | 569 comments
A Heist Berlin news article on hackers publishing 281 GB of AfD emails as AI summaries, revealing antisemitism, racism, violent fantasies and alleged financial misconduct.
My Friend Bob Cringely(tyma.com)
188 points by zinxq | 54 comments
Paul Tyma's personal blog post recounting his friendship with tech journalist Bob Cringely, beginning with a 1996 phone call about Tyma's Java book.
IKEA – 3D Guide(sael.net)
170 points by punnerud | 68 comments
An interactive 3D web guide that animates step-by-step assembly of IKEA furniture like the BILLY bookcase and LACK table alongside the manual pages.
Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it(windowslatest.com)
168 points by khalidkhair | 108 comments
Windows Latest article explaining how Windows 11 still includes the EmulateHeap compatibility shim that gives old apps Windows 95's heap memory manager.
2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)(yoyo-code.com)
166 points by panstromek | 117 comments
Blog post by Matyáš Racek on Rust compiler initiatives maturing in 2026, starting with the next-generation trait solver.
Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
162 points by jruohonen | 155 comments
LSE Impact Blog post by Helen Choi arguing that academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems such as Wikipedia.
NixOS is making me less afraid(entropicthoughts.com)
140 points by ibobev | 138 comments
A blog post on Entropic Thoughts about how using NixOS makes the author less afraid to try and self-host software like FreshRSS.
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers(rootkitlabs.com)
121 points by machinehum | 19 comments
A blog post describing the design of a low-cost stereo vision board built on the Rockchip RV1103 SoC, covering the PCB, Buildroot Linux, and SAD-based depth processing.
Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs(github.com)
114 points by mendym | 79 comments
A closed GitHub issue in golang/go announcing that crypto/x509 will block trust in a small set of intermediate certificates over security concerns about their operation.
Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest(ign.com)
113 points by 4gateftw | 229 comments
IGN news article reporting that Steam users want a filter to hide AI-generated games as Steam Next Fest is flooded with low-effort AI titles.
Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph(github.com)
100 points by coding-maniac | 11 comments
GitHub repository for VoidAccess, an open-source tool that automates dark web OSINT investigations, filtering noise and NSFW content and presenting results as a graph.
Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(jamanetwork.com)
97 points by gumby | 69 comments
JAMA Network Open systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies finding ADHD linked to higher all-cause, suicide, injury and natural-cause mortality, with medication associated with reduced mortality.
Color Names(names.color.pizza)
95 points by akkartik | 26 comments
Color Names is an open, MIT-licensed collection of 31,970 community-authored color names, browsable in a 3D RGB/OKLab viewer and available via npm and API.
Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins(anthropic.com)
87 points by artninja1988 | 74 comments
Anthropic research post describing how Claude was used to design protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins, with a link to a technical report.
The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere(blog.coredump.cx)
85 points by surprisetalk | 20 comments
Blog post by lcamtuf announcing his electronics book The Secret Life of Circuits is now available on Amazon and other retailers, with a plea for reader reviews.
Beyond the &(lwn.net)
83 points by PaulHoule | 10 comments
LWN.net report on Tyler Mandry's RustConf 2026 talk about the "Beyond the &" effort to make Rust smart pointers as flexible as built-in references via places and handles.
Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages(openai.com)
79 points by sumnole | 102 comments
OpenAI research publication on improving its models' coding abilities in low-resource programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, OCaml, and Visual Basic.
Revolut down as users report app not working(bbc.com)
76 points by baal80spam | 88 comments
BBC News report on a Revolut outage affecting multiple services, with thousands of users reporting problems with the banking app.
Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe(cambridge.org)
75 points by XzetaU8 | 36 comments
Open-access Antiquity research article using tooth-enamel lead levels from cemeteries to date and examine the social dynamics of Peak District lead production, AD 600–1500.
What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?(nsidc.org)
74 points by thunderbong | 25 comments
An NSIDC Ask a Scientist article explaining the Karakoram Anomaly, where Karakoram glaciers have gained mass, and the proposed causes and open questions.
On AI writing(bolkunov.com)
72 points by dbolkunov | 61 comments
Blog post by Dima Bolkunov arguing that AI-generated writing averages out style, making the author harder to see and empathize with.
Why do we have so many meetings?(nber.org)
68 points by ilamont | 172 comments
NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.
Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs(deathplanswitch.com)
66 points by romeo19361 | 66 comments
Landing page for Death Plan Switch, an MIT-licensed self-hosted dead man's switch that notifies designated people if a solo developer disappears or dies.
There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository(github.com)
63 points by st_goliath | 66 comments
A GitHub repository by jwz whose only content is a README stating there is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository.
UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules(foxandlion.pub)
60 points by fascinnn | 57 comments
Fox & Lion analysis article on UK banks refusing accounts to defence start-ups due to ESG screening and anti-money laundering checks.
Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia(github.com)
59 points by alex_hirner | 11 comments
GitHub repository for PySR, an open-source library for symbolic regression and equation discovery in Python with a Julia backend.
Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark(science.org)
57 points by YeGoblynQueenne | 148 comments
A Science magazine Books et al. reflection revisiting a 1960 Science paper that predicted a population singularity in 2026, noting the forecast was far off.
Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog(lukaswerner.com)
56 points by derHackerman | 15 comments
A student's blog post with interactive visuals explaining how they built a VGA driver in SystemVerilog on a DE10-Lite FPGA for a digital logic lab, including image display with transparency.
Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it(idiallo.com)
52 points by surprisetalk | 47 comments
A blog post explaining how an Asus Zenbook Pro 17's reboots after sleep were traced to the MediaTek MT7922 Wi-Fi driver and fixed by disabling its power saving.
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record(cam.ac.uk)
52 points by gmays | 5 comments
University of Cambridge news article on research suggesting the spread of collagen-degrading enzymes to aerobic bacteria explains the decline of soft-bodied fossils after the Ediacaran.
Four Years with Decker(beyondloom.com)
51 points by ibobev | 10 comments
Annual progress report on Decker, a HyperCard-like multimedia tool, covering releases 1.61 to 1.71, gamepad input, Lil language improvements, and community highlights.
Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?(jevcards.com)
49 points by totisjosema | 54 comments
Jev Cards is a browser quiz game where players compete against TypeSafe's Jev vision model on 490 picture cards covering fruit, flags, maps, chess, and illusions.
Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2(jepsen.io)
49 points by aphyr | 1 comments
Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury of Orkes Conductor 5.3.2–5.5.0-rc2, finding concurrent task execution, lost or abandoned workflows, and startWorkflow errors.
Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD(trial.medpath.com)
49 points by hnburnsy | 26 comments
News article reporting that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly presented data at the ARDD conference suggesting GLP-1 drugs may slow biological aging.