2884 points by dbreunig | 869 comments
MIT CSAIL blog post reporting that frontier LLMs can read, fix, and write neural network weights directly, including editing Qwen3.5-0.8B to improve math performance.
1417 points by sidgarimella | 465 comments
GitHub issue reporting that the Postman desktop app automatically installed Codex and Claude Code plugins, an MCP connection, and a CLI, and tried to self-approve its startup hook.
994 points by syllogism | 203 comments
Matthew Honnibal's blog post arguing that a post claiming GPT-6 Astra can read and write neural network weights to improve Qwen conflates different techniques and misleads readers.
900 points by xx_ns | 337 comments
A blog post describing reverse engineering and rooting a TomTom Carminat LIVE head unit in a 2014 Renault Latitude to change the clock without a navigation SD card.
476 points by paddingtone | 249 comments
WebKit blog post announcing Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta, explaining how it darkens light websites and how developers can opt out or add native dark mode.
166 points by jpmulhausen | 77 comments
Keeping Up benchmark page showing modeled net worth percentiles for U.S. people aged 30–33 from Fed SCF data, with a percentile calculator and breakdowns by age and metro.
176 points by user_7832 | 79 comments
Product page for Flipper One, an open ARM Linux portable network multi-tool with Wi-Fi 6E, Gigabit Ethernet and M.2 expansion, now open for pre-orders.
351 points by ibobev | 55 comments
arXiv listing for a 195-page book offering a derivation-oriented mathematical primer on generative AI, from PCA and VAEs to diffusion, flows, GANs and energy-based models.
105 points by cornfieldlabs | 34 comments
A short blog post sharing uBlock Origin filter rules that block TechCrunch's autoplaying JW Player and Connatix videos and hide the leftover boxes.
82 points by Shugyousha | 55 comments
Campaign site for Quili.AI, where Quilicura, Chile residents acted as a human-powered AI chatbot for a day to protest data center water use amid drought.
786 points by aarushyadav | 364 comments
Product landing page for Subvocal, YC-backed smart glasses that use RF sensing to decode silently mouthed words into text at speech speed, with preorders.
698 points by theanonymousone | 203 comments
Simon Willison blog post testing whether Qwen 3.8 27B running locally can identify which game a neural network was trained on from its raw weights, following a recent paper.
433 points by polpenn | 133 comments
Hacker Times is a site that presents Hacker News stories in a New York Times-style newspaper layout with summaries and sections, updated hourly.
517 points by bookofjoe | 219 comments
Ars Technica article on Fujifilm investing about 10 billion yen to raise LTO magnetic tape production fivefold, citing AI-driven archiving demand.
325 points by bpierre | 73 comments
GitHub repository for DiscImageStudio, a GPL-3.0 C#/.NET tool that burns visible images onto CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs, with experimental Linux and macOS CLIs.
782 points by nharada | 233 comments
Product page for Stringman, a $795 open-source room-scale cable-driven gripper robot from Neufangled Robotics, with specs, install steps, and FAQ.
386 points by anner_ | 214 comments
Namespace engineering blog post on running MacBooks and Mac Minis in datacenter racks and virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework for CI.
248 points by campervans | 116 comments
GitHub repository for NVIDIA's Auto Ontology, an Apache-2.0 Python framework for building graph-based semantic reasoning layers over data for LLM and agent workflows.
144 points by mooreds | 88 comments
Terence Eden blog post on receiving an apparently AI-generated customer service reply from Ocado, complaining, and getting a human response.
118 points by speckx | 65 comments
Blog post reverse-engineering macOS's VulgarWordUsage.db and private Lexicon.framework flags that mark dictionary words as vulgar, offensive, or sensitive, with C and Swift code.
364 points by ibobev | 32 comments
Hironobu Suzuki's free online book explaining PostgreSQL internals, covering storage, query processing, concurrency, VACUUM, buffer manager, WAL, and replication.
43 points by n_plus_1_acc | 35 comments
An interactive 27-question game asking whether various scenarios violate the rule "No vehicles in the park," exploring language and rule interpretation.
41 points by donk8r | 32 comments
GitHub repository for Octomind, an open-source Rust AI coding agent and runtime that works with any model, is MCP-native, and runs in terminal, CI, or as a daemon.
460 points by xoobdev | 436 comments
A NameDaisy data blog post analyzing US Social Security baby name data from 1936–2025 to show which names shifted between boys and girls and what drove the shifts.
207 points by floitsch | 68 comments
Blog post announcing the Toit programming language v2.0.0 release after four years of alpha, listing highlights such as ESP32 support, package manager, and mixins.
143 points by thebigship | 50 comments
A browser game in the style of Katamari Damacy where players roll up real-size objects from The Met's Open Access collection.
128 points by NaOH | 81 comments
Esquire feature profiling Gabe Kavookjian, a 35-year-old man with Down syndrome who works at the Prospector theater and wants to find love.
88 points by ibobev | 85 comments
A biographical blog post on Charles Tandy, covering his early life, Tandy Leather, Pier 1 Imports, his turnaround of Radio Shack, and his management style.
23 points by rmason | 31 comments
The Hustle article explaining why modern car key fobs are costly to replace, covering anti-theft tech history, dealer programming controls, and DIY alternatives.
9 points by MINTYSTAR12 | 0 comments
Michael Caldwell's long-running personal homepage, yingster.net, with an FAQ-style intro, projects, choir, pets, and switchable retro themes.
625 points by ingve | 145 comments
Blog post urging readers to archive websites they love, with a guide to Webrecorder tools like ArchiveWeb.page, Browsertrix, and ReplayWeb.page using WARC/WACZ formats.
518 points by ceejayoz | 417 comments
New York Times article reporting that Google will disable search access for schools that reject or restrict its AI features.
240 points by makeramen | 162 comments
OpenAI engineering post describing Pando, a new horizontally scalable Git backend built to handle agent-driven concurrent pushes and fetches in its monorepo.
177 points by ymz5 | 107 comments
Landing page for ERICI, a non-commercial European initiative defining an open, partitioned reference software stack for RISC-V RVA23 industrial computers.
156 points by wuweiweiwu | 105 comments
Product landing page for Momentic's Mo, an AI QA agent that explores web and mobile apps end to end to find bugs and verify user flows.
455 points by markusw | 222 comments
Nicholas Carlini's article on porting Stockfish and a modernized Crafty to a 1996 Pentium Pro, estimating it would beat Kasparov, with a live playable engine.
442 points by dsalzman | 79 comments
HackerTV is a retro TV-styled web app that plays Hacker News's most-recommended YouTube videos as 24/7 topic channels everyone watches in sync.
63 points by AlexeyBrin | 19 comments
Project homepage for Tiny Basic for Arduino, a lightweight BASIC interpreter with an on-device editor for mid-range Arduino boards and MCUs.
24 points by surprisetalk | 32 comments
Duncan Sabien essay arguing that broken coping responses to a broken society shouldn't be hastily removed, illustrated by his brother forbidding him from playing the flute.
18 points by mooreds | 6 comments
A CEPR weekly tracker by Dean Baker comparing AI-driven stock market trends to historical averages and arguing against bailouts if the AI bubble bursts.
392 points by user052919 | 138 comments
Ask HN post reporting that OpenAI's Codex 'Improve the model for everyone' data-sharing setting was silently re-enabled for users who had opted out.
363 points by cdrnsf | 267 comments
Tech Policy Press opinion piece by Matt Scherer arguing the SEC should block Anthropic's IPO due to massive off-balance-sheet compute commitments and slowing revenue growth.
306 points by stared | 50 comments
An interactive 3D voxel map of central Warsaw built from OpenStreetMap, GUGiK LiDAR and city tree data, with adjustable date, time, weather and controllable pedestrians.
278 points by knlb | 136 comments
A personal essay on resisting uncritical acceptance of AI coding agent output, with tactics for staying in the loop and maintaining comprehension of systems.
149 points by pretext | 153 comments
An X post claiming Revolut moved about 2,000 engineers to self-hosted GLM for coding on 56 Nvidia B200s, cutting costs versus Anthropic and OpenAI.
128 points by benbreen | 18 comments
Vesuvius Challenge post announcing a $50K First Letters Prize for recovering readable Greek text from Herculaneum scroll PHerc. 306B, with details on methods and winners.
75 points by ibobev | 9 comments
Online book by Hongwei Xi introducing the ATS programming language, covering functional programming, dependent and linear types, theorem-proving, and templates.
36 points by ibobev | 7 comments
A blog post describing the rewrite of dxil-spirv's control flow graph structurizer using a Mesa-inspired goto_if approach, validated with GPU-based CFG fuzzing.
0 points by abhikp | 0 comments
Ashby job posting for a remote Engineering Manager in the Americas, with role details and compensation ranges for SF/NYC, US average, and Canada.
0 points by nimz | 0 comments
Y Combinator jobs page for Sava Trust Company (YC F25), listing Founding Engineer and Founding Product Manager roles in New York City.
113 points by colejohnson66 | 94 comments
Blog post describing how macOS 27 Golden Gate fails to mount, convert, or erase CoreStorage encrypted HFS+ volumes, with debugging details and a workaround.
80 points by psxuaw | 50 comments
Bear's blog post marking the notes app's 10th anniversary, with a history timeline, design and privacy principles, hidden features, new icons, widget, and merch.
238 points by zdw | 35 comments
Spoon & Tamago roundup of 2026 Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween costumes from Japan, where people dress as oddly specific everyday situations.
45 points by teleforce | 4 comments
arXiv paper comparing open-source 5G RAN platforms OpenAirInterface and srsRAN on features, deployment flexibility, and performance with real applications.
29 points by laxmena | 2 comments
Index page of personal interactive notes explaining LLM evaluation metrics, machine learning concepts like attention, RLHF and LoRA, and search ranking methods.
17 points by vegnus | 8 comments
A browser-based recreation of the classic ReBirth RB-338 software synthesizer and drum machine, shown as a dark page with a Launch button.
429 points by rbanffy | 444 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Utah filed felony gambling charges against Kalshi and its co-founders while the CFTC sues Utah to block enforcement of its gambling ban.
230 points by whoishiring | 194 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for November 2026; the page loaded as a rate-limit error instead of the thread.
190 points by entryleveljobsc | 185 comments
Yahoo Finance article reporting Intel's continued stock slide and a broader chip and memory stock rout totaling about $3.7 trillion in lost market value since Oct. 6.
92 points by sebg | 59 comments
Ben Recht's arg min blog post on the history of defining algorithmic efficiency, critiquing OpenAI's claimed subexponential SAT algorithm as galactic.
