1676 points by roansh | 278 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.
314 points by aizk | 92 comments
Wikihack is a scrollable feed of Wikipedia articles linked on Hacker News, ranked by mention frequency, with the related HN submissions and comments for each.
108 points by guitmz | 36 comments
syscall.sh is a reference site and API listing Linux system call tables, numbers, arguments and calling conventions for 27 CPU architectures across kernel versions.
2724 points by karpathy | 601 comments
Karpathy blog post introducing HackerTube, a YouTube-style site of 6,454 videos recommended in HN comments, built with Claude Opus.
660 points by soheilpro | 407 comments
Blog post by PostgreSQL committer Robert Haas explaining that PostgreSQL 19's release is delayed because LLM-found bugs flooded committers with fixes and caused late feature reverts.
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.
171 points by joonehur | 22 comments
A web comic episode from F/OSS Comics about the origins of BSD Unix at Berkeley, covering 1BSD, 2BSD, VAX virtual memory work, and 3BSD.
36 points by devpicon | 9 comments
Essay by Armando Picón arguing that while AI agents can write more code, engineers must still own decisions, context, verification, and acceptance.
169 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.
15 points by afandrew | 22 comments
Interactive data story analyzing 10,202 public comments on data centers at 417 US local government meetings in 2026, showing widespread opposition and key concerns.
542 points by LecroJS | 652 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.
139 points by luu | 26 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.
202 points by EA-3167 | 72 comments
Science news article on a mouse study finding that mechanical strain on bones triggers osteocytes to secrete proteins that slow aging and extend life span.
200 points by _Microft | 89 comments
Forschungszentrum Jülich press release on research showing minute-by-minute power grid frequency dips are caused by battery storage systems running synchronized power checks.
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.
135 points by anurag | 67 comments
Trigger.dev incident report disclosing that an attacker gained unauthorized access to environment variables for a subset of customer organizations.
116 points by fergie | 117 comments
Guardian news article reporting that supermarket refrigeration systems in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg were hit by a suspected cyber-attack, following a similar hack in France.
88 points by xqcgrek2 | 87 comments
BBC News article reporting a suspected cyber-attack that tampered with refrigerators and freezers at supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Ireland.
53 points by mertbio | 6 comments
A long blog post walking through the Hamburg town hall's façade details—emperor statues, the Phoenix, coats of arms and virtues—and the city history they represent.
51 points by TMWNN | 31 comments
A Los Angeles Review of Books essay by Andie Eisen on the rise of young women in mortuary science and the funeral industry, based on interviews with embalmers.
153 points by mw888 | 22 comments
Show HN post for HackerHack, a HackerBooks-style project for HN posts; the link loaded Hacker News's rate-limit error page instead.
100 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.
343 points by smilelamp | 435 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.
283 points by FabCH | 88 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.
188 points by bogdanoff_2 | 105 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.
18 points by bilsbie | 2 comments
Part I of the Slime Mold Time Mold blog series 'A Chemical Hunger', laying out historical and anthropological mysteries surrounding the obesity epidemic.
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.
73 points by gregsadetsky | 23 comments
Wikipedia article on "Never complain, never explain," a public relations motto associated with the British royal family, covering its origins and later use.
54 points by tudell | 25 comments
A Substack essay revisiting fourteen futuristic promises from computer magazine ads of 1984–2004, comparing each with contemporary reviews and what actually happened.
118 points by jonnybgood | 58 comments
Cloud Security Alliance research note analyzing China's MOFCOM Announcement No. 48, which proposes export controls on frontier AI model weights, agents, and AI cyber tools.
78 points by rdmuser | 58 comments
Eurogamer feature on AI-generated fake game wikis spreading false information, crowding out fan-run wikis in search, and AI scrapers burdening independent wikis.
151 points by Anon84 | 77 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.
43 points by FacZap | 35 comments
X thread by Exin Therapeutics CEO Gabriel Ocana-Santero describing an AI agent choosing a gene therapy and performing stereotaxic brain injection on an epileptic mouse under vet supervision.
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.
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.
420 points by luu | 322 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.
174 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.
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.
20 points by hmokiguess | 25 comments
CBC News/AP report on a Learjet 60 business jet crash in Palm Beach County, Florida that killed all nine aboard after icing and turbulence led to a steep dive.
86 points by entryleveljobsc | 80 comments
PC Gamer news article reporting BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk's comments on EA closing BioWare and his criticism that game industry executives have never made a game.
198 points by slater | 54 comments
Radiaverse, a beta world radiation map site, showing a maintenance page while its database is upgraded.
49 points by colinprince | 24 comments
A 2019 Tedium article by Ernie Smith on the history of parchment paper for baking, from animal-skin parchment to acid-treated and silicone-coated paper.
233 points by headsupernova | 48 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
46 points by doener | 29 comments
New York Times interactive feature on the wealthy megadonors who have contributed $1.2 billion to the 2026 US midterm elections.
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.'
132 points by edward | 116 comments
The Register reports Openreach confirming the UK's legacy PSTN landline network will be retired on January 31, 2027, with no further extensions.
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.
123 points by nmjenkins | 25 comments
Fastmail blog post explaining email encryption types (TLS, server-to-server, at rest, zero-access, end-to-end) and their threat-model trade-offs.
46 points by gulmothrowaway | 11 comments
A developer's blog post describing how he used unlimited ChatGPT chats with custom MCP servers and OpenAI's MCP tunnel as parallel coding agents, now ending with usage changes.
7 points by remywang | 2 comments
Blog essay tracing Hilbert's program through Gödel and Turing to AI proof agents, arguing programmers should keep reading and understanding AI-generated code.
