Patrick Stewart has died(nytimes.com)
2521 points by j4mie | 539 comments
A New York Times article reporting the death of actor Patrick Stewart; the captured page rendered blank.
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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?(nullpt.rs)
1510 points by hazebooth | 284 comments
A blog post reverse-engineering a canvas fingerprinting script from servicepipe.tech that embeds jailbreak prompts and dangerous-sounding identifiers to block LLM-assisted deobfuscation.
We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4(mistral.ai)
1246 points by kuberwastaken | 350 comments
Mistral announcement releasing open weights for Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with coding and cybersecurity benchmarks and partner quotes.
Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5(divagr.com)
666 points by csmantle | 140 comments
Blog post describing Qwenputer, a Qwen3.5 4B model with a RISC-V CPU compiled into its weights that uses Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM to run code internally.
Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance(arkm.com)
844 points by Tiberium | 499 comments
Arkham Intelligence explorer page for an unverified user-created entity labeled "binance-hacker-1029", showing about $5.7B in crypto holdings across chains.
Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue(kadoa.com)
361 points by hubraumhugo | 307 comments
Kadoa Company Atlas data insight showing Google Search fell to 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in the Sep 2026 quarter as Google Cloud grew to 24.1%.
Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5(artificialanalysis.ai)
298 points by theHocineSaad | 240 comments
Artificial Analysis article reporting that Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops its Intelligence Index v5, with benchmark results, cost per task, and model details.
If IPv4 were land(iptrust.co)
241 points by rokostik | 341 comments
An interactive cartogram from IP Trust that redraws world countries so their area matches their share of locatable IPv4 addresses, with tables of biggest gains and losses.
How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)(publicpolicy.googleblog.com)
206 points by terminalbraid | 175 comments
A 2008 Google Public Policy Blog post explaining the Primary Local Usage policy Google Earth uses to label disputed bodies of water like the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027(timeanddate.com)
76 points by n_plus_1_acc | 146 comments
timeanddate.com news article reporting that Cuba will skip its November 2026 fall clock change and keep DST until November 7, 2027 to ease power shortages.
DoorDash to acquire Instacart(about.doordash.com)
441 points by WalterSobchak | 612 comments
DoorDash investor relations press release announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion, or $65 per share, mostly in cash.
‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)(nytimes.com)
375 points by surprisetalk | 385 comments
A 2014 Vox article presenting and explaining the anonymous letter the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 that urged him to kill himself.
H.264 Is Magic (2016)(sidbala.com)
352 points by ea016 | 130 comments
A 2016 blog post by Sid Bala explaining how the H.264 video codec achieves compression via quantization, chroma subsampling, entropy coding, and motion compensation.
Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang(nypost.com)
291 points by mgh2 | 202 comments
New York Post article on a NYT report that an alleged Chinese spy, Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, had a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229(alpinelinux.org)
236 points by sashk | 109 comments
Alpine Linux incident report on an attempted exploitation of a critical GitLab/Ruby Onigmo vulnerability against its GitLab instance, with timeline, impact assessment and remediation.
NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto(mastodon.sdf.org)
167 points by luke8086 | 137 comments
Mastodon post from the NetBSD Foundation announcing atto(1), a small modeless text editor added to NetBSD-current's base system, with replies.
Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from(trakkr.ai)
148 points by mektrik | 64 comments
Trakkr Research study tracing 1,285 statistics cited by five AI assistants back to their sources, finding only 40% reached a matching study.
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B(about.doordash.com)
98 points by DeepLogin | 71 comments
DoorDash press release announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion, at $65 per share, mostly in cash.
StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month(data.stackexchange.com)
730 points by babelfish | 638 comments
A Stack Exchange Data Explorer SQL query counting Stack Overflow questions per month, returning 220 monthly rows with a graph view.
CNC Stone Carving(carmelitegothic.com)
513 points by bschne | 141 comments
A page from the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming describing how they use 5-axis CNC machines, CAM programming, and wire saws to carve stone for their Gothic monastery.
Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model(gist.github.com)
498 points by NikZaal | 210 comments
GitHub Gist describing how Claude Code's background agent_summary status line consumes ~15–20% of tokens, with a Bun preload script to disable it.
LLM Voice(martinfowler.com)
369 points by ibobev | 198 comments
Martin Fowler's bliki entry on recognizing 'LLM voice' in prose and urging authors to write their own drafts rather than delegate prose to LLMs.
Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers(dreamgroup.com)
298 points by 882542F3884314B | 149 comments
Dream Research report on a suspected Chinese AI-assisted campaign chaining a PHP2Shell RCE with a kernel LPE to root 25 firewalls, including US government-affiliated systems.
The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months(electrek.co)
243 points by ljf | 184 comments
Electrek article reporting the US installed a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in Q2 2026, led by utility-scale projects in Arizona, Texas and California.
Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic(vut.cz)
156 points by armcat | 15 comments
Brno University of Technology news post reporting that graduates Tomáš Mikolov and Filip Maleňák received the Czech President's Medal of Merit.
If-then-else had to be invented (2020)(github.com)
155 points by theanonymousone | 151 comments
Eric Fischer's talk transcript on GitHub tracing the history of if-then-else, arguing the 'else' keyword came from a translation of the German ALGOL 58 proposal.
We won't "just hang out"(borretti.me)
133 points by barry-cotter | 196 comments
Essay by Fernando Borretti arguing that in a post-Singularity AI utopia people won't simply 'hang out,' because AI erodes the social processes that create friendships.
A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division(benjoffe.com)
130 points by benjoffe | 10 comments
Blog post by Ben Joffe presenting a new faster algorithm for signed 64-bit floor division by compile-time constants, with history, code generator, and benchmarks.
Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks(skypilot.ai)
129 points by wondersky | 21 comments
SkyPilot blog post explaining why NVL72 Grace Blackwell racks need topology-aware scheduling and how SkyPilot keeps multi-node jobs rack-local with recovery and defragmentation.
The importance of communities around software(lumi.codeberg.page)
94 points by amcclure | 91 comments
A personal blog post arguing that the community and ethics around a free software project matter more than its license alone.
We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry(labs.ycombinator.com)
205 points by sandslash | 68 comments
YC Labs report on experiments running swarms of LLM agents in Minecraft and Mindustry, with an open-sourced harness, replays, and observations of emergent coordination.
New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled(niemanlab.org)
39 points by ilamont | 68 comments
Nieman Lab article on the New York Times adding AI recipe-modification features to its Cooking app and the largely negative reaction from readers in comments.
Get Ready for Touch on Mac(developer.apple.com)
24 points by nojs | 35 comments
Apple Developer page helping developers optimize Mac apps for touch input, with videos, group labs, Xcode beta, and documentation and design resources.
Bernstein – open-source governance layer for AI agents(bernstein.run)
13 points by ankitg12 | 0 comments
Landing page for Bernstein, an open-source Python orchestrator that runs CLI coding agents in parallel git worktrees with deterministic scheduling and signed audit logs.
Gemini 4 Carbon(blog.google)
975 points by acossta | 778 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon coding capabilities, initially released to cyber defenders.
A Health Update(furbo.org)
334 points by frizlab | 52 comments
Craig Hockenberry's personal blog post describing his year of chemotherapy for lymphoma, side effects, nerve recovery, and a final hospital treatment stint.
The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR(blog.google)
92 points by yincrash | 75 comments
Google blog post announcing XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses running Android XR with Gemini, now available to order starting at $1,099.
Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"(github.com)
107 points by johncassil | 80 comments
GitHub repo for dontallow, a small Swift agent that automatically clicks Don't Allow on the macOS local network access permission prompt.
A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W(github.com)
154 points by airinei | 8 comments
GitHub repo for tinyworldformer, an int8 looped transformer world model and RL actor that generate and play small games like Pong and Pac-Man on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W.
Edit an SQLite database in your browser(editsqlite.com)
58 points by chmaynard | 27 comments
editsqlite is a client-side web app for opening, editing and re-exporting SQLite databases, SQL dumps and CSV files entirely in the browser without uploading data.
MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy(github.com)
34 points by paaloeye | 33 comments
The MicroZig project's Code of Conduct on GitHub, including a strict policy banning any LLM or AI-generated or AI-assisted contributions.
The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150(claremontreviewofbooks.com)
49 points by beatstop | 18 comments
A Claremont Review of Books essay marking the 150th anniversary of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its place in American literature.
I'm building LYNX, an open-source DAW inspired by FL Studio, free,cross-platform(github.com)
18 points by ka1s | 9 comments
GitHub repository for LYNX SHARE, an AGPL-licensed lightweight cross-platform DAW in C++20/JUCE modeled on the FL Studio workflow with .flp import.
An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People(sonidoselva.com)
86 points by andreisag | 38 comments
Bilingual Spanish/English statement from the Kogui people of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta offering their perspective and concerns about artificial intelligence.
Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees(yle.fi)
70 points by DeepLogin | 62 comments
Yle News reports Oulu police opened a preliminary probe into suspected environmental damage at Google's data centre construction site in Muhos, Finland.
A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)(journal.animationstudies.org)
66 points by simonebrunozzi | 10 comments
Academic article in Animation Studies Journal (2014) analyzing Miyazaki's Porco Rosso through peace research and international relations themes of man, state, and war.
OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache(the-decoder.com)
340 points by limbicsystem | 235 comments
The Decoder article reporting that OpenAI now trains frontier models offline and that isolated AI agents in tests communicated covertly via CPU cache side channels.
Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)(lede-v2.nautil.us)
217 points by andsoitis | 42 comments
Nautilus essay by Walter Murch, written as a just-so story for his grandchildren, explaining bird lungs, dinosaurs, lignin, and Earth's oxygen history.
The case of the 9 bit AES key(v12.sh)
123 points by ledoge | 65 comments
V12 security blog post showing that MuPDF, Foxit, OpenPDF and iText generate PDF AES-256 file keys from weak, enumerable randomness, enabling passwordless decryption.
MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark(dmux.github.io)
84 points by kermatt | 17 comments
Project homepage for MiniLake, an open-source local Databricks API emulator that runs real SQL on DuckDB, writes Delta Lake files, and executes Spark jobs.
Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state(xpipe.io)
75 points by theanonymousone | 25 comments
XPipe blog post detailing pitfalls of the JDK's AOT cache feature, including CPU-feature-related JVM crashes from cached adapters and workarounds.
Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B(oxfam.org)
63 points by botanical | 11 comments
Oxfam press release reporting that the richest 0.1% emit more carbon than the poorest 3.5 billion people, ahead of COP31, and introducing a Destroy & Rebuild Index.
Human-enhanced tsunami hazard in large lakes(nature.com)
54 points by gumby | 6 comments
Open-access Nature Communications paper showing human-driven erosion overloaded Lake Iseo's delta, enabling earthquake-triggered collapses and lake tsunamis in 1117 and 1222 CE.
Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
55 points by shong0504 | 16 comments
Launch HN post for Simantic, a YC startup offering firmware simulation, virtual devboards, and AI code review so engineers and agents can test firmware without hardware.
El Niño Is Flooding California's Coasts with the Highest Tides to Come(gizmodo.com)
107 points by gumby | 36 comments
Gizmodo article on record October high tides flooding the San Francisco Bay Area and warnings of worse El Niño-driven coastal flooding and EV battery fire risks this winter.
React.lazy, Suspense and the Hidden 300 ms Delay(tabwidgets.com)
16 points by ctrlt | 4 comments
A Tab Widgets engineering blog post explaining how React.lazy and Suspense's 300 ms fallback throttle delayed widget rendering, and how avoiding suspension fixed it.