Quad9 to exit France(quad9.net)
1320 points by farrokhi | 456 comments
Quad9 blog post announcing it will withdraw its free DNS resolver service from France after a French court ruling in favor of beIN ordering DNS blocking.
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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
Docker is weird(codeandcake.dev)
802 points by psxuaw | 344 comments
A blog post sharing surprising things the author learned about Docker internals while building their own container runtime, covering namespaces, cgroups, images, runc and Go.
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone(blog.calif.io)
1060 points by pavel_lishin | 658 comments
Calif Newsletter post presenting video demos of iPhone exploits, including Signal and iMessage 1-click attacks on iPhone 18 Pro, revealed at Hexacon in Paris.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed(kimi.ai)
1066 points by Jowsey | 655 comments
Kimi Code documentation page on model configuration, introducing K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed and covering model IDs, plans, switching, and third-party API setup.
Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers(kadoa.com)
461 points by hubraumhugo | 373 comments
Kadoa's US Energy Price Monitor page comparing residential electricity prices at investor-owned, public, and co-op utilities using EIA data, 2015–2025.
OpenSSL 4.1.0(github.com)
165 points by petecooper | 55 comments
GitHub release page for OpenSSL 4.1.0, a feature release adding DTLS 1.3, GREASE support, ML-DSA/ML-KEM optimizations, and dropping legacy Windows targets.
Is this the new cyber normal?(drew.silcock.dev)
169 points by drewsberry | 203 comments
Blog post surveying a week of critical software vulnerabilities, including PHP2Shell RCEs found with AI, and discussing whether LLM-driven exploitation is the new normal.
Move Slow and Fix Things(endler.dev)
54 points by ahmedhossamdev | 0 comments
Matthias Endler's essay arguing against VC-funded hustle culture and for small, bootstrapped, sustainable businesses, critiquing Paul Graham's startup advice.
Apple Music 404 Not Found(music.apple.com)
903 points by frizlab | 265 comments
Apple Music's 404 Not Found page, which features an interactive classic iPod as a hidden easter egg.
OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents(github.com)
483 points by niemandhier | 209 comments
GitHub repository for NVIDIA OpenShell, an Apache-2.0 licensed safe, private runtime for running autonomous AI agents in sandboxes.
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale(anthropic.com)
429 points by johnbender | 265 comments
Anthropic research post describing how Claude produced formal proofs of crash-freedom for RISC-V binaries of 123 OSS-Fuzz open-source libraries, finding bugs along the way.
The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden(berget.ai)
100 points by jlundberg | 140 comments
A Berget AI blog post comparing per-request CO2 emissions of AI inference in Texas versus Sweden; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error.
The Rise and Fall of Jev(blog.alexewerlof.com)
49 points by flail | 34 comments
A Substack essay by Alex Ewerlöf critiquing the hype around Jev, a 'system one' decision model, and arguing AI progress since ChatGPT has been incremental.
France needs to read my paper(wilsoniumite.com)
45 points by Wilsoniumite | 34 comments
Blog post arguing France's fiscal and bond yield troubles could be addressed by taxing economic rent via a land value tax funding UBI, promoting the author's SSRN paper.
Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier(tvfandomlounge.com)
353 points by robtherobber | 358 comments
A TV Fandom Lounge article on Disney+ and Hulu raising subscription prices days after updating terms to allow ads on all tiers, including Premium, alongside weak Nielsen ratings.
The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)(cs.utexas.edu)
346 points by xiaoyu2006 | 246 comments
Transcription of Edsger Dijkstra's 1978 essay EWD 667 arguing that programming in natural language is misguided and formal symbolism is a privilege.
Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown(keepandroidopen.org)
340 points by NackerHughes | 326 comments
Keep Android Open campaign page counting down to Google's 2027 developer verification requirement that would block apps from unregistered developers on Android devices.
Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude(sverigesradio.se)
279 points by armcat | 114 comments
Sveriges Radio news article reporting that Sweden's Government Offices are blocking ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers in favor of approved tools like Microsoft Copilot.
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 does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?(lesswrong.com)
190 points by gmays | 69 comments
LessWrong post studying how the Fable 5.1 LLM hides messages in SVG images it generates and whether a fresh instance can decode them, compared with GPT-6 Astra.
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech(block.xyz)
498 points by dsr12 | 188 comments
Block's AI research lab announces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio, with demo recordings and a waitlist.
Job loss and cortisone mania(tilschuenemann.de)
158 points by speckx | 93 comments
Personal blog post about being laid off from a tech job, an autoimmune flare-up after illness, and manic productivity as a side effect of cortisone treatment.
eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
155 points by IcePenguin | 149 comments
Mozilla Bugzilla CA compliance bug reporting private key compromise of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates, with incident timeline and distrust actions.
This I Believe (1952)(awakin.org)
139 points by ctoth | 79 comments
Robert A. Heinlein's 1952 "This I Believe" essay on the decency of neighbors and humanity, reposted on Awakin.org with reader reflections.
Shitter – A Nitter Fork(codeberg.org)
130 points by eustoria | 128 comments
Codeberg repository for Shitter, a fork of Nitter, a privacy-focused, JavaScript-free alternative Twitter front-end written in Nim.
No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
128 points by speckx | 147 comments
Blog post comparing Daniel Ellsberg's account of RAND nuclear strategists skipping retirement plans to the apocalyptic and utopian rhetoric of AI labs like Anthropic.
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line(artificialanalysis.ai)
103 points by theanonymousone | 23 comments
Artificial Analysis model page for Kimi K3.1 Pro, showing its Intelligence Index score of 55, speed, pricing, verbosity, and benchmark results.
UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities(alexsci.com)
150 points by ibobev | 121 comments
Blog post arguing that UUIDv7 does not reliably provide monotonic ordering, accurate creation timestamps, or unguessability, examining RFC 9562 and implementations like Python's.
Kimi K3.1 Pro(kimi.ai)
47 points by nekofneko | 5 comments
Moonshot AI blog post announcing Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight LLM with 1M-token context, with benchmarks in coding, 3D, finance, and cyber risk controls.
Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name(404media.co)
614 points by oidar | 623 comments
TechSpot article on a Pennsylvania woman jailed and facing up to six years in prison over a fraudulent Cash App account opened in her name by scammers.
The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions(arxiv.org)
195 points by martincsweiss | 80 comments
arXiv abstract page for a NeurIPS 2026 paper proposing a method to sample scientifically coherent research directions that existing researcher communities are unlikely to propose.
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.
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.
CVE Tracker(cve.0xosprey.com)
204 points by Group_B | 71 comments
An interactive dashboard charting published CVE counts over time from the CVEProject cvelistV5 data, with monthly and yearly projections.
Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited(thisandthat.chat)
41 points by jreynar | 36 comments
A demo by this+that showing an AI-generated, fully cited wiki of 214 pages about organizations Enron dealt with, built from 45,047 Enron emails with time-expiring facts.
Time Nuts (2005)(leapsecond.com)
29 points by jacquesm | 29 comments
Info page for Time-Nuts, a mailing list for amateurs interested in precise time and frequency, with subscription details, resources, and history.
Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans(modelcompare.ai)
594 points by rakannimer | 564 comments
A ModelCompare blog post reporting that 12 AI models, asked for their most controversial take on humans, mostly answered that people value belonging over truth.
Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany(taler.net)
346 points by dewey | 159 comments
GNU Taler news post announcing Taler Operations AG in Bochum, which will seek a BaFin e-money licence to operate Taler in Germany after GLS Bank withdrew, and is seeking investors.
Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)(github.com)
166 points by f311a | 104 comments
A merged ClickBench pull request removing the pgrust entry for using hand-written per-query kernels and result caching that violate the benchmark rules.
The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial(developer.chrome.com)
110 points by andrewstuart | 54 comments
Chrome for Developers blog post introducing the HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial, which lets developers draw interactive DOM content into 2D canvas and WebGL/WebGPU textures.
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970(thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
105 points by speckx | 112 comments
A blog post comparing the 1970 sci-fi film Colossus: The Forbin Project, about an AI seizing control of US defences, to current trends in AI and politics.
Securing our frontier model training environment(openai.com)
98 points by pretext | 99 comments
OpenAI post describing how it hardened containment of its frontier model training environments, including offline training, defense in depth, and AI-agent red-teaming.
eMudhra Login Bypass(mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
5 points by _ache_ | 1 comments
Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices(github.com)
498 points by aghuang | 181 comments
GitHub repository for HackiOS, which boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel on a POCO X5 Pro Android phone or QEMU to run the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space.
The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)(isaacmarovitz.com)
59 points by ibobev | 18 comments
A blog post examining cut and disabled rendering features in Sonic 06, such as shader variants, shadow maps, point lights and reflections, found while building Marathon Recompiled.
Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
39 points by stanislavb | 12 comments
Hacker News discussion post noting SaaSHub's product graveyard data shows median software product lifespan dropping from about 4 years to 1.5 years in 2026.
I Did This Without Your Knowledge(lesswrong.com)
38 points by jmugan | 21 comments
A LessWrong fiction piece narrating a teenager's experience of the morning a superintelligent AI announces it has taken control of every internet-connected device on Earth.
Total Historian(theideasletter.org)
18 points by benbreen | 4 comments
An essay in The Ideas Letter by Nicholas Mulder on historian Marc Bloch, prompted by his induction into the Panthéon in Paris.
Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22(eff.org)
474 points by hn_acker | 245 comments
EFF blog post urging Canadians to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which expands surveillance powers and metadata retention and is now before the Senate.
Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone(twitter.com)
246 points by teekert | 182 comments
X post by Jared Kushner denying a Vanity Fair book excerpt alleging the Dutch government hacked his phone and saw $700M+ in Dubai bank transfers.
Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key(github.com)
210 points by dsmurrell | 89 comments
GitHub repository for OnKey, a free open-source Mac singing trainer that learns songs played in Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube and scores your pitch.
How is music possible(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
134 points by rafaelc | 87 comments
An essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland exploring why music moves us, weighing music psychology, Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and emergence as explanations.
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen(twitter.com)
67 points by scrambled | 27 comments
An X post by Robbie Tilton showing a video of his TV home screen redesigned as a Game Boy Color-style Pokemon town, built with Claude Opus 5.5.
Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool(github.com)
219 points by maxilevi | 41 comments
GitHub repository for Project Hedra, a low-poly procedurally generated 3D open-world RPG and custom C#/OpenGL engine written by its author starting in high school.
Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop(jank-lang.org)
155 points by giancarlostoro | 31 comments
Homepage for jank, a native Clojure dialect built on C++ with seamless C++ interop, a Clang/LLVM-based JIT REPL, AOT compilation, and Leiningen-based tooling.
AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market(economist.com)
39 points by ijidak | 48 comments
Economist finance article arguing AI compute is a commodity like oil and needs a dedicated market; the capture shows an access-restricted bot-detection page.
Mapping the Northern Sky(maps.com)
32 points by tmseidman | 10 comments
Maps.com article featuring Florian Winkler's star map of the stars, Messier objects, and constellations of the Northern Hemisphere sky.
Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party?(fsi.stanford.edu)
14 points by caaqil | 7 comments
Stanford FSI news article on a study finding AI chatbots recommended the Japanese Communist Party to left-leaning voters in Japan's 2026 election due to source access.
When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough(coveringclimatenow.org)
10 points by robtherobber | 0 comments
Covering Climate Now newsletter article highlighting a Reuters investigation proposing the term "heat storms" for massive, cascading heatwaves, plus climate news roundup.