HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
2753 points by karpathy | 605 comments
Karpathy blog post introducing HackerTube, a YouTube-style site of 6,454 videos recommended in HN comments, built with Claude Opus.
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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN(hackerbooks.org)
1735 points by roansh | 283 comments
HackerBooks is a browsable site of about 16.5k books recommended in Hacker News comments since 2007, with filters by decade and topic and links back to the comments.
Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes(visitnorway.com)
626 points by giuliomagnifico | 387 comments
Visit Norway tourism article showcasing architect-designed public restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes, such as Stegastein, Ureddplassen and Eggum.
Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare(nurse.org)
126 points by ravetcofx | 117 comments
Nurse.org news article on an AI Now Institute report about 'Uber for nursing' gig apps lobbying states to exempt themselves from healthcare staffing rules.
Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500(asymco.com)
56 points by zdw | 29 comments
Asymco research post arguing Apple is the last major consumer company, capturing over half of consumer revenue among the top S&P 500 firms, partly behind a subscription.
An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them(smithsonianmag.com)
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.'
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8(atlasum.net)
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.
Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it(terrytao.wordpress.com)
351 points by smilelamp | 447 comments
Guest post by Frank Calegari on Terence Tao's blog arguing mathematicians should adapt to AI after OpenAI released over 700 AI-generated research papers.
Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter(semiconductor-today.com)
183 points by gmays | 60 comments
Aju Press news article reporting that Seoul Biosys has begun mass production of WICOP-based white micro LEDs that produce white light without rare earth phosphors or packaging.
Novellas with Groff(movq.de)
120 points by dverlaeckt80 | 51 comments
A blog post describing how the author typeset two self-written novellas using groff with a custom macro package, plus Markdown pre-processing, Vim, and Git.
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs(arxiv.org)
156 points by Anon84 | 78 comments
arXiv paper by Balestriero and LeCun proving a Platonic Representation Theorem for JEPAs and showing good views align modalities more efficiently than next-token prediction.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/11/1/624d1adb-6481-4e20-b88d-680dc03e62cd.jpg)
No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video](youtube.com)
98 points by surprisetalk | 83 comments
A 52-minute YouTube video by Hayyoth recreating Unix file utilities (touch, cat, mkdir, mv, rm, find) in C by hand without AI assistance.
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed(github.com)
175 points by raphlinus | 31 comments
GitHub repository for nibnib, a Rust image format using delta palettes at 4bpp for extremely fast decompression, designed for RP2350 DVI output.
U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947(fortune.com)
192 points by qlte | 96 comments
Fortune article reporting BLS data showing U.S. labor share of output fell to 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since 1947, with economists citing automation and immigration policy.
OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust(github.com)
32 points by theanonymousone | 35 comments
GitHub repository for OpenIDEA, an open-source IntelliJ IDEA–style IDE rebuilt in Rust with editor, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients.
Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?(vinibrasil.com)
26 points by vnbrs | 37 comments
A blog post on how Japan's fragmented JR train booking sites reflect Conway's Law, with organizational structure leaking into user experience.
Pi Is the Last Harness(destiner.io)
11 points by Destiner | 3 comments
Blog post arguing that Pi, an open-source, vendor-agnostic, extensible AI coding harness, will become the dominant 'harness engine' for agentic coding.
Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation(tomshardware.com)
366 points by entryleveljobsc | 145 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that Plymouth's police chief physically unplugged Flock surveillance cameras after the company ignored the city's contract cancellation.
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power(vox.com)
382 points by rhaynes | 291 comments
Vox essay by Ian Millhiser reflecting on Patrick Stewart's death and how Jean-Luc Picard modeled responsible use of power in a post-Cold War era.
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing(jetstream.security)
310 points by doodlesdev | 195 comments
JetStream Security editorial on a Brazilian labor court fining two lawyers for hiding a white-text prompt-injection command in a filing to manipulate the court's AI review tool.
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks(nolanlawson.com)
436 points by luu | 325 comments
Nolan Lawson's blog post benchmarking the cost, time, tokens, and output quality of AI coding agents building the same app across a dozen JavaScript frameworks.
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother(blog.zamzar.com)
223 points by whyleyc | 52 comments
Zamzar's founders reflect on 20 years running their bootstrapped, independent online file conversion service, sharing usage stats and anecdotes.
It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge(blog.raed.dev)
108 points by Raed667 | 62 comments
Blog post arguing that Proton CEO Andy Yen calling a pentest request "loser thinking" reveals a leadership problem, not an AI problem, for a privacy company.
A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income(economist.com)
84 points by motionlessveloc | 70 comments
Economist article about a small Pacific nation introducing universal basic income; the capture shows an access-restricted bot-detection page instead.
So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now(eva.ac)
42 points by xyzeva | 33 comments
Personal blog post by security researcher eva explaining why she doesn't use LLMs for research and criticizing AI-driven security marketing and disclosure practices.
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard(github.com)
418 points by guregodevo | 202 comments
GitHub README for team-solve, a Memdoor multi-agent workflow where five Qwen3.8-27B roles solve programming problems, with benchmark results on LiveCodeBench Hard versus Fable 5.
Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case(reddit.com)
522 points by entryleveljobsc | 168 comments
Reddit r/technology post about a Lenovo fingerprint 'encrypted' USB drive found to be an unencrypted SD card; the page shows a network-security block.
Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics(tibleiz.net)
194 points by bogdanoff_2 | 107 comments
Homepage for Copper, a minimal low-level programming language intended as a C replacement, featuring type inheritance, generics, Ruby-style syntax, and an example.
Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++(nullprogram.com)
145 points by luu | 27 comments
Blog post by Chris Wellons giving a checklist of practical tips for more effective fuzz testing of C and C++ programs with AFL++, including sanitizer config and persistent mode.
When electric cars were for women(spectrum.ieee.org)
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.
It's the memory latency, stupid(pivotlake.io)
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.
Altoids Project(uvdn7.github.io)
149 points by uvdn7 | 7 comments
A personal blog post about a parent and 12-year-old son building a tiny Arduino Nano game device with an OLED display inside an Altoids tin over five iterations.
Radiation Map of the World(radiaverse.com)
198 points by slater | 54 comments
Radiaverse, a beta world radiation map site, showing a maintenance page while its database is upgraded.
Bidirectional charging during grid outages(jefftk.com)
101 points by luu | 151 comments
Jeff Kaufman's blog post on why using an EV as home backup power that recharges from solar during grid outages is barely supported today, so he'll likely buy a dedicated battery.
Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
579 points by LecroJS | 689 comments
An Ask HN post requesting recommendations for a large 4K TV that respects privacy and works well purely as a display for Apple TV.
Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2(kevs3d.co.uk)
95 points by kevs3d | 18 comments
Project page for phoria2, a small MIT-licensed JavaScript WebGL 2 library for 3D charts, scenes and product viewers, with demo gallery.
John Leeson (the voice of K9) has died(doctorwhonews.net)
31 points by slyrus | 1 comments
Doctor Who News obituary for actor John Leeson, the voice of robot dog K-9, who died aged 83, recounting his career in Doctor Who and British TV.
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras(sciencedaily.com)
105 points by stevenalowe | 39 comments
ScienceDaily news release on a University of Illinois 3D-printed aluminum-rubber lattice cloak that hides objects from infrared cameras by guiding heat around them.
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)(arxiv.org)
202 points by hapax_legomena | 96 comments
arXiv paper by Mordechai Guri presenting RAMBO, an attack where malware exfiltrates data from air-gapped computers via radio signals generated by RAM buses.
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says(techcrunch.com)
192 points by throwoutway | 223 comments
TechCrunch brief on an Apollo economist's note finding AI has produced no measurable profit or productivity gains for S&P 500 companies outside big tech.
One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems(nature.com)
177 points by croes | 57 comments
Open-access Nature Energy paper showing a worldwide 1-minute grid-frequency oscillation caused by clock-synchronized control software in UPSs and battery storage systems.
With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines(learnfromx.com)
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.
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)(thales.mit.edu)
68 points by peter_d_sherman | 14 comments
Research page from John W. M. Bush's MIT group on pilot-wave hydrodynamics, walking droplets, and hydrodynamic quantum analogs, linking papers and reviews.
First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite(blog.google)
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.
We Took over ChatGPT Accounts(simonwillison.net)
7 points by paaloeye | 0 comments
Simon Willison link post summarizing Parameter Labs' exploit chain that escaped ChatGPT's sandboxed HTML previews via MathLive postMessage and YouTube oEmbed to take over accounts.
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020(maketecheasier.com)
153 points by ohjeez | 46 comments
Article summarizing a National Academies report finding that long-term zinc creep in cable spelter sockets caused the 2020 collapse of the Arecibo telescope.
Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable(piefed.world)
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.
Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4(jepsen.io)
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.
Frontier Airlines Likely Breached(reddit.com)
180 points by 999900000999 | 75 comments
Reddit thread in r/frontierairlines warning about a scam email, suggesting a possible Frontier Airlines data breach; the page shown is a Reddit network-security block.
Surviving "The Graduate"(newyorker.com)
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."
Pac-Man's Siren Call(unsung.aresluna.org)
29 points by tobr | 7 comments
Marcin Wichary recounts building Google's 2010 Pac-Man doodle and how its autoplaying sound, combined with a Firefox extension, made invisible Pac-Man sirens blare on users' computers.
The She-Wolves of Jülich(historytoday.com)
36 points by Thevet | 6 comments
History Today article on Georg Kress's 1591 broadsheet about 300 female werewolves in Jülich and what it reveals about early modern fears of women.
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology(outcrop.rocks)
240 points by headsupernova | 50 comments
Landing page for Outcrop, a free iPhone and Android app that overlays geologic maps on landscapes in augmented reality and names rock units, with offline support.
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust(github.com)
292 points by FabCH | 91 comments
GitHub repository for OmniDiff, an open-source AGPL Rust git difftool that does content-aware diffing of code, configs, images, PDFs, archives and fonts.
The Duty of a Scholar(daemonology.net)
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.
Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)(epoyraz.github.io)
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.
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
71 points by the-mitr | 9 comments
MIT Press Reader essay adapted from Lauren F. Klein's book 'Data by Design' using the 1580 Mapa de Teozacoalco to argue data visualization is never neutral.
A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000(dl.acm.org)
61 points by gjvc | 1 comments
ACM Digital Library page for John Aycock's 2003 ACM Computing Surveys paper surveying forty years of just-in-time compilation work from 1960 to 2000.
Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer(slate.com)
41 points by samclemens | 5 comments
Slate essay by Laura Miller reviewing Emily Ogden's book on Edgar Allan Poe and arguing he is the most influential American writer.