1014 points by eyvindn | 372 comments
Personal blog post describing how 48 AI agents analyzed NASA lidar data to find an apparently unregistered Maya site in Mexico, confirmed by INAH within 72 hours.
947 points by super_linear | 259 comments
GitHub repository for AWS Emulator, an official Rust-based local emulator of AWS APIs for testing software without calling AWS, with server and embedded modes.
542 points by NaOH | 374 comments
The Autopian article on Toyota reviving the Scion brand, whose first product is the KEI-01, a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet kei truck for a US fleet pilot program.
430 points by panic | 202 comments
VulnCheck blog post analyzing seven months of Anthropic's Project Glasswing, arguing its vulnerability findings yield few fixes, many duplicates, and burden maintainers.
563 points by mbac32768 | 262 comments
A personal war story from a former Jane Street systems engineer about a false smoke alarm that shut off cooling and nearly triggered sprinklers in the firm's NYC datacenter.
363 points by js2 | 131 comments
A blog tutorial on storing SSH keys in the macOS Secure Enclave with Touch ID using built-in tools like sc_auth and ssh-keychain.dylib.
635 points by herpderperator | 659 comments
CBS News MoneyWatch article reporting that United Airlines is banning third-party AI agents from booking flights for travelers, citing security risks and federal rules.
14 points by luxgile | 3 comments
Opinion article arguing Zig's management, breaking changes, AI contribution ban, response to Bun's departure, and GitHub exit make it hard to recommend.
1100 points by skittleson | 394 comments
Blog post laying out rules for building a smart home that works without internet, using Tasmota, MQTT, and Node-RED, with slide-by-slide walkthroughs of two talks.
902 points by p4bl0 | 196 comments
Neil Fraser's blog post announcing Verisign retracted its plan to terminate 22,000 .name domains and email redirects, grandfathering existing registrations.
1371 points by ayhanfuat | 172 comments
Discourse thread on discuss.python.org where Guido van Rossum announces the death of Tim Peters and recounts his contributions to Python, with community tributes.
235 points by palsecam | 52 comments
Tom Moertel's 2013 blog post recounting an assembly-level hack used to speed up background tile drawing in an 8-bit 6809 side-scrolling game.
285 points by emschwartz | 41 comments
Blog post arguing that a model's weight edit fixing Qwen3.5-0.8B thinking loops can be reproduced by solving a linear program, with fewer changed weights.
173 points by Wilsoniumite | 222 comments
Blog essay arguing that US productivity gains since 1973 freed 24 of 40 weekly work hours but went to output and inequality rather than leisure, tied to wages' role.
113 points by xkriva11 | 32 comments
A web app running the Pharo Smalltalk VM in the browser via WebAssembly, offering Pharo 13.1, 14, and 15 images to download and run locally.
110 points by d3Xt3r | 71 comments
GitHub repository for Ginux, a Rust userspace kernel that runs isolated Linux-compatible instances by mediating syscalls, after pivoting from a bootable kernel project.
55 points by edward | 43 comments
BBC News article about a Derbyshire YouTuber who craned a £4,000 Bmibaby Boeing 737-500 fuselage into his back garden to make an underground bunker.
42 points by jlengrand | 70 comments
A catalogue site, Open Source Says No, listing open source projects that ban AI-generated contributions, with quotes from their policies, scope, and star counts.
219 points by linsomniac | 79 comments
Atuin blog post announcing Threads, which syncs and searches AI coding agent sessions across machines and lets users resume or fork them between agents like Claude Code and Codex.
221 points by zerop | 38 comments
Apple Machine Learning Research post on learned support functions (SupportNet, KeyNet) that speed up maximum inner product search for RAG retrieval.
97 points by azhenley | 95 comments
Talk page for Christian Bird's UC Irvine seminar on why AI coding tools haven't sped up software shipping, with video, slides, and related papers.
553 points by zenincognito | 74 comments
Colin McMillen's page for his SIGBOVIK 2019 joke paper using OCR to show 93% of paint splatter images parse as valid Perl programs, with gallery and dataset.
422 points by everlier | 77 comments
A browser-based hyper-realistic sand simulator built with WebGL2 and JavaScript, controllable by touch, tilting, and shaking on phones, tablets, and desktops.
221 points by bolau | 85 comments
Term Sheet, Please is a browser game inspired by Papers, Please where the player acts as an investor deciding whether to fund, pass on, or hold YC-style startup founders.
107 points by drbm | 13 comments
Guest post on Werner Vogels' blog by Swami Sivasubramanian announcing AWS Emulator, an agent-built local AWS test environment, and reflecting on engineers' roles when agents write code.
51 points by artrax | 9 comments
Thomas Neumann's Database Architects blog post critiquing GenDB-V's AI-generated database engine for overfitting TPC-H via precomputation and hard-coded dbgen knowledge.
320 points by digital55 | 58 comments
Book page for Terence Tao's popular math book "Six Math Essentials" with publication details, description, and links to publishers, an excerpt, and reviews.
1197 points by jbredeche | 1579 comments
A Wall Street Journal article reporting that Nvidia is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang; the page showed only a device verification screen.
534 points by iamdelirium | 154 comments
Google blog post announcing the Gemini Decisions API and Gemini Decision 1 model for fast, calibrated multimodal yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring decisions.
316 points by gslin | 60 comments
Blog post by Hugo van Kemenade explaining how to set up GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles with the gh-actions-lock extension, verify them in CI, and update zizmor.
460 points by speckx | 256 comments
LWN article on Synaptics sending patent infringement claims and cease-and-desist demands to a developer writing Vino, a Rust-based Linux driver for DisplayLink docks.
180 points by iamnothere | 106 comments
Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing that most social programs and policies show null effects, citing Rossi's Iron Law of Evaluation and calling for humility.
137 points by Metacelsus | 120 comments
Science news article on a new U.S. policy requiring federally funded researchers to buy synthetic DNA from approved suppliers that screen orders and verify customers.
120 points by speckx | 151 comments
LPE Project blog post by economist Lenore Palladino arguing that pension funds and 401(k)s invested in private credit and equity are financing AI data centers.
91 points by 0xdeadf1sh | 17 comments
GitHub repo for a Neovim Lua plugin that shows compiled x64/aarch64 assembly for C, C++, and Rust code in a floating window using local compilers.
59 points by ohjeez | 7 comments
A Messy Nessy Chic blog post compiling photographs of abandoned greenhouses around the world, from Alton Towers to Yonkers and Lake Como.
0 points by FrasiertheLion | 0 comments
Hacker News job posting from Tinfoil (YC P25) seeking an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco.
486 points by robertjfclarke | 540 comments
Starlink product page introducing the Mini 2 satellite internet dish with a swappable battery, built-in Wi-Fi 6, IP67 rating, and invitation-only preorders.
466 points by linolevan | 481 comments
9to5Mac article reporting a leaked Apple Mac app called Harbor that runs open-weight AI models locally and clusters multiple Macs over Thunderbolt 5.
408 points by tosh | 99 comments
Val Town founder Steve Krouse announces the platform is winding down, with a shutdown timeline, migration guides, billing pause, and plans to open-source the code.
318 points by Brajeshwar | 237 comments
The Verge article in which a reviewer asks TV and streaming device makers 17 yes-or-no questions about data collection and spying, comparing their responses.
289 points by ggcr | 131 comments
A plain-text essay reflecting on Emacs culture after AI coding tools like Claude Code, with case studies of AI-built packages excali-mode.el and cooked.el.
73 points by jbredeche | 52 comments
GitHub status page incident report on degraded availability affecting Actions, Pages, Webhooks, and Copilot, with timeline updates through mitigation.
59 points by michaelsbradley | 54 comments
Landing page for rVPN, an open-source AGPLv3 Rust VPN protocol that disguises traffic as ordinary HTTPS on port 443 to evade VPN blocking.
30 points by Anon84 | 19 comments
An Economist leader article arguing that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should resign; the captured page shows a bot-detection access restriction instead.
658 points by ilreb | 187 comments
Google DeepMind blog post introducing AlphaProof Code, an agentic AI framework that formally verified the Signal protocol's cryptographic implementation in Lean.
267 points by brownrout | 99 comments
GitHub repository for Yogurt, a free MIT-licensed Electron desktop app that transcribes and summarizes meetings using on-device AI models.
64 points by ndkap | 47 comments
A website that runs a Grand Theft Auto V-styled game in the browser, offering multiplayer servers, sandbox and story modes, and asking for Monero donations.
58 points by udit99 | 65 comments
Gitori blog post analyzing 275,170 answers from its Find the Notes game to show which guitar fretboard notes players find hardest to identify.
51 points by alanjm23 | 40 comments
Landing page for Pomerado, a YC-backed open-source platform that turns any website into a deterministic, self-healing API/MCP server for AI agents.
125 points by iceboundrock | 52 comments
GitHub repository for Stela, a GPL-licensed UEFI boot program with an arm64-to-x86-64 translator and NVIDIA Metal driver to run macOS on x86-64 PCs.
412 points by paulirish | 134 comments
GitHub repo for Modern Web Guidance, a Google Chrome-led set of agent skills and CLI that steer coding agents toward modern native web platform APIs.
239 points by saikatsg | 141 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Apple's Support Community forum is now read-only and will permanently close on November 20, 2026.
206 points by runesoerensen | 255 comments
Microsoft's .NET blog post announcing the release of .NET 11, covering C# 15 union types, SDK, runtime performance, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, and AI tooling changes.
79 points by mrkn1 | 55 comments
Blog post by an IGF judge arguing the Independent Games Festival needs an AI policy and discussing whether House House's Big Walk should be disqualified over LLM use.
51 points by axiomdata316 | 18 comments
An Economist 1843 long read about criminal gangs counterfeiting wine, from fake Romanée-Conti sold by Aleksandr Iugov to fraud spreading into mid-tier supermarket bottles.
121 points by thefox96 | 30 comments
GitHub repository for Huawei CSL's MACaQ, a model-agnostic quantization tool for text, image, video and audio models targeting llama.cpp, vLLM, Diffusers and PyTorch.
26 points by NWChen | 0 comments
Personal blog post by Neil Chen recapping DIY projects built in 2026, including an aluminum extrusion standing desk and a laser-cut neon acrylic picture frame.
