828 points by input_sh | 471 comments
Science news article on Serbia's Student List winning parliamentary elections, bringing dozens of academics into parliament and hopes for science and university reform.
2770 points by karpathy | 613 comments
Karpathy blog post introducing HackerTube, a YouTube-style site of 6,454 videos recommended in HN comments, built with Claude Opus.
367 points by DHowett | 109 comments
Guest blog post by Rairii describing porting classic Mac OS (7.6 to 9.2.2) to Nintendo GameCube/Wii hardware, covering bootloader, kernel patches and drivers.
311 points by DeepLogin | 182 comments
A PieFed 'You Should Know' post warning that the Signal fork Molly hasn't been updated since July and remains vulnerable to bugs fixed in mainline Signal, with comments.
290 points by costco | 96 comments
GitHub repository for cfsolve, a Rust library and CLI that solves Cloudflare Turnstile widgets and challenge pages without a headless browser.
221 points by francisofascii | 70 comments
Episodle is a daily browser guessing game where players identify Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes from image clues in six attempts.
214 points by khalidkhair | 128 comments
Cisco Talos analysis of VOLTA, a Windows infostealer that sends stolen victim data to LLMs via OpenRouter to rank assets by monetization value, with model fallback on refusals.
201 points by signa11 | 40 comments
A blog post examining how GCC lowers C switch statements into jump tables, comparison trees, and bit tests, with assembly examples and a walkthrough of GCC source.
148 points by ryanmadden | 179 comments
Blog post describing how GPT-5.6 Sol running in Codex autonomously completed a peaceful-mode Factorio run to rocket launch in 13.5 hours of game time.
128 points by gslin | 33 comments
Colin Percival's essay on the ethical duty to share knowledge, recounting his 2005 Hyper-Threading side-channel disclosure and drawing on Fichte's lectures on the scholar.
67 points by the-mitr | 43 comments
CHI '25 open-access paper by Microsoft Research and CMU surveying 319 knowledge workers on how generative AI use affects critical thinking and cognitive effort.
950 points by _chall | 542 comments
Phorion security advisory analyzing a backdoored Claude Code for VS Code extension (v2.1.313) on the Cursor Marketplace that installs a persistent reverse SSH backdoor.
319 points by x______________ | 118 comments
A Tell HN post sharing Scribd Inc.'s security incident notice stating user emails and partial payment card data may have been accessed.
304 points by wilbertliu | 227 comments
Vitalik Buterin blog post describing his experiments with digital minimalism, including using Firefly instead of the X interface and living with phone cell data off.
688 points by oger | 323 comments
Atlas Security advisory on CVE-2026-98432, a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, covering affected versions, distro status, checks, and mitigations.
206 points by karagenit | 110 comments
Casio's 50th anniversary heritage page on its 1980s watches; the capture shows an Akamai Access Denied error instead of the content.
175 points by foOg | 47 comments
Build notes blog post describing Marelleo, a DIY open-source ESP32 and NFC story box for children, covering prototyping, enclosure design, battery safety, and PCB design.
167 points by fovc | 118 comments
Chris Wellons announces Prospero, a lightweight C++ Dear ImGui coding harness for LLM agents, describing its features, configuration, design principles, and editions.
161 points by mpweiher | 151 comments
Guardian news article reporting that the Green party of England and Wales voted to drop its blanket opposition to nuclear power, allowing case-by-case support.
71 points by helloplanets | 95 comments
Provisional transcript of the French National Assembly's 30 October 2026 session on the 2027 finance bill, including adoption of an amendment taxing digital data flows.
830 points by ecares | 211 comments
Smithsonian magazine feature on Claudio Grossi, a Parma farmer who planted old attic seeds and revived a seven-eared ancient wheat he calls 'miracle grain.'
238 points by ntur1337 | 76 comments
A Pivot engineering blog post explaining how radix partitioning speeds up GROUP BY aggregation by improving CPU cache utilization, with perf counter measurements.
71 points by lakesare | 47 comments
A data analysis showing that knowing the most common words in eight anime yields high word coverage but far fewer fully understood subtitle lines.
12 points by torcete | 7 comments
SourceForge project page for CDE, the classic UNIX Common Desktop Environment from Sun, HP, IBM and others, released as LGPL open-source software.
560 points by domhudson | 400 comments
WIRED article reporting that a $6.3 billion hack of Binance, possibly by North Korean group TraderTraitor, was carried out in about 20 minutes.
468 points by js4ever | 348 comments
Northflank's status page reporting a security incident and major outage, advising all users to assume environment variables were decrypted and rotate keys.
272 points by aatish | 80 comments
An interactive explainer from the Myriad blog that builds simulated creatures with tiny neural circuits, showing how simple wiring produces behaviors like attraction, fear, aggression and love.
300 points by aphyr | 167 comments
Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury of ParticleDB 1.1.4 through 1.1.18, reporting 96 issues including lost committed writes and isolation anomalies.
23 points by eustoria | 27 comments
Landing page for A/SIDE, an open-source private social app for iOS and Android with a chronological friends-only feed, no ads or algorithm, and encrypted DMs.
58 points by dverlaeckt80 | 43 comments
IEEE Spectrum history article on early 20th-century electric cars marketed to women, covering GE mercury-arc rectifier chargers and Bailey electric vehicles.
4 points by bilater | 2 comments
An interactive analysis of 63,300 Hacker News comments from 2008 to 2026, ranking the 100 software tools users most often and persistently ask for.
60 points by g0xA52A2A | 12 comments
Redox OS news post summarizing an NLnet-funded project adding io_uring-like ring buffer async I/O, a liburing-like API, an async driver executor, and IPC optimizations.
43 points by entryleveljobsc | 48 comments
The Cairo Report article on a hacking group that exploited LED display software to show porn on a Giza highway billboard run by an intelligence-linked operator and screens abroad.
315 points by raybb | 136 comments
Tech Policy Press op-ed arguing that proposed federal and New York stealth crawler bills would harm journalism, research, and archiving without stopping abusive AI scraping.
171 points by ecliptik | 105 comments
Blog post announcing that multiple BeOS versions now run in the browser via Infinite Mac, detailing DingusPPC emulator fixes and impressions of BeOS.
136 points by dnetesn | 32 comments
Essay on Jules Verne's long-unpublished 1863 novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, comparing its predictions of 1960 Paris's technology and culture with reality.
127 points by timr | 158 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that OpenAI raised less than half of its $30 billion target in its latest funding round; page showed a device verification screen.
56 points by brandonb | 25 comments
A JACC: Case Reports open-access article analyzing wearable-captured physiological changes in a 76-year-old man in the months before his sudden cardiac death.
142 points by samizdis | 41 comments
A New Yorker weekend essay by Dustin Hoffman recounting his casting and insecurities while making Mike Nichols's film "The Graduate."
83 points by tevlon | 56 comments
A browser-playable port of NES Contra, translated from annotated 6502 assembly to C and compiled to WebAssembly, with online two-player co-op.
12 points by pentagrama | 24 comments
OpenAI post compiling excerpts from amicus briefs supporting fair use for AI training in the New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.
17 points by sweetdingoes | 1 comments
Wikipedia article on the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian mathematical text from around 1550 BC held at the British Museum.
193 points by datascientist | 45 comments
Podcast episode and transcript of The Data Exchange where Ben Lorica interviews Lean creator Leo de Moura about AI, formal verification, and verified software.
116 points by luu | 26 comments
A 2015 ryg blog post by Fabian Giesen explaining why buffered reads and writes behave asymmetrically, especially in error reporting, fsync, and durability.
40 points by aray07 | 25 comments
Jeff Geerling's blog post documenting replacing the noisy stock fan in a Calnex Rb/GPS frequency reference with a quieter Noctua fan.
39 points by datavorous_ | 26 comments
A blog post describing post-training a Qwen-based 7B model on 25k Dwitter JavaScript demos with curriculum learning and human-preference RL to generate demoscene continuations.
61 points by sebg | 41 comments
Blog post summarizing a conference talk on the ambiguity of None in Python and using sentinel values, including the new built-in sentinel from PEP 661 in Python 3.15.
13 points by Hussain04 | 1 comments
Landing page for SAMOSA, an open-source tool that checks matrix-math derivation steps by evaluating them over finite fields and reporting counterexamples and fixes.
38 points by praccu | 39 comments
Google blog post announcing the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite's first AI response, a Gemma 4 haiku generated by an orbiting data-center-class TPU.
6 points by kenyounot | 1 comments
Demo landing page for MoneyPouch, a self-hosted expense tracker, offering a 24-hour sandbox with a year of sample spending data.
278 points by dbreunig | 136 comments
GitHub repo for nesformer, which compiles an NES 6502 CPU, RAM, and cartridge ROM into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model so it can run games like Super Mario Bros.
80 points by WesleyGrant782 | 57 comments
TorrentFreak article on deposition testimony that a former Meta researcher torrented the pirated Books3 dataset and later deleted it, amid authors' copyright lawsuits.
79 points by kerlenton | 3 comments
GitHub repo for bootgpt, a tiny int8 char-level neural network whose inference engine fits in a 512-byte MBR and generates fake Linux boot logs.
43 points by dxs | 13 comments
CNN article about a 78-year-old retired UPenn professor arrested in Philadelphia for blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot, who vows to keep protesting.
193 points by dxs | 90 comments
Science Norway article on glacial archaeologists in Innlandet finding Stone and Bronze Age arrows as Norway's oldest ice patches melt away.
58 points by healsdata | 11 comments
India Today news article reporting that security startup Cathedral used AI agents to access Anthropic's internal HR, sales and IT systems within 12 hours during a sanctioned test.
38 points by ibobev | 16 comments
A blog post with a timeline chart of DEC PDP computer models, their prices and speeds, and notes on how they shaped Unix and Lisp hacker cultures.
139 points by wh33zle | 32 comments
Firezone blog post announcing sanstun, an open-source sans-IO userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust with a parallel-friendly encryption API, replacing their boringtun fork.
73 points by MilnerRoute | 10 comments
WKYC investigative news article on Flock camera searches in Highland Heights dropping 95% after a dispatcher's misconduct was caught; the page returned an Access Denied error.
