Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins (www.anthropic.com)
GifCities (gifcities.org)
Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console (github.com)
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June (www.ft.com)
eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear (www.arrl.org)
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AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess (www.lrb.co.uk)
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks (www.mercor.com)
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/dev/null: social network for developers (dev-null.sh)
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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases (jakearchibald.com)
Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do (wonderhop.io)
US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership (ritchietorres.house.gov)
America''s Wumao: Inside Polymarket''s Paid Quote-Retweet Esports Program (www.readergrev.com)
Grimoire for Biology (grimoire.bio)
My old job feels distant now (www.pinecoder.dev)
OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS (onedeploy.co)
rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents (rstation.ai)
Tesla Unveils ''Flying'' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video] (www.youtube.com)
What on Earth Is Dekton? (www.worksinprogress.news)
Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall (www.cbsnews.com)
How to Formalize All of Mathematics (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
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RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop (anuragbhatia.com)
Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route (waymo.com)
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD (calif.io)
Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft (starskirmish.com)
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Artificial intelligence is capitalism''s final destination (www.equator.org)
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Gyroscopes Got So Small [video] (www.youtube.com)
Men with Queer Nerves: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (publicdomainreview.org)
Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities (nltimes.nl)
Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens (blog.bityard.net)
I Love Software Rendering (www.jamesfmackenzie.com)
MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026) (blogs.windows.com)
Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins 2 (www.techpowerup.com)
AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10 (github.com)
Tesla''s new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second (www.foxbusiness.com)
New ''Super Ice'' 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to the Strength of Concrete (www.sciencealert.com)
Japanese people still aren''t having sex. And nobody knows why (www.sciencefocus.com)
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The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire (www.michelecoscia.com)
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation (orlp.net)
Porsche Mission S (www.porsche.com)
The Folders Programming Language (danieltemkin.com)
Self-Evolving Agent Harness (arxiv.org)
New York City''s iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot (www.cnn.com)
Last rites for Gentoo''s Chromium package (lwn.net)
Casio F-91W using Statecharts (github.com)
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Tesla makes cars that fly? [video] (www.youtube.com)
4 Years of Ludicon (www.ludicon.com)
''500-hour'' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds (www.polygon.com)
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Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia (6abc.com)
Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad (github.com)
Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net (chenglou.me)
Thank You, Deno (www.vlt.io)
Non-Determinism Doesn''t Matter (sklar.rocks)
Tesla Roadster (www.tesla.com)
RPKI Now Protects 70% of Internet Routes, Up from 54% a Year Ago (ipinfo.io)
Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30 (www.niemanlab.org)
Speculative Sauropods (svpow.com)
BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.''s BeBox (github.com)
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering (krebsonsecurity.com)
Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo''s hinge to dissipate heat (www.pcmag.com)
Major ICQ security hole (1998) (opennet.ru)
Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI (boldagents.co)
The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain (www.sfgate.com)
FastH3-Omni: The best open-source H3 model (www.reactor.inc)
What I Self-Host (viceconsole.fyi)
Why are we even doing all this? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
New Withings Users Must Pay 99/Year for Apple Health Syncing (support.withings.com)
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Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) (philzimmermann.com)
E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4 (www.eink.com)
Why We''re Banning AI (www.currentaffairs.org)
Turn an old junk phone into a Talking Jack-O-Lantern (jack-o.io)
Jev Meets the Trolley Problem (zachlandes.com)
Anthropic Update on Independent Evaluators (www.anthropic.com)
More on Anthropic''s Scion ripping off Mononoke (sunshowers.io)
Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date (research.meta.ai)
An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads (www.theverge.com)
Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python (stario.dev)
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom (www.reuters.com)
Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally (sygal.app)
The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC (www.bipm.org)
Krea 3 – Frontier Image Model 4 faster than Nano Banana Pro (www.krea.ai)
Neural Networks Are Already Clean (already-clean.goodfire.com)
Proa – a Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering (proa.so)
Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic''s New Vibe Coded Launcher (respawnfirst.com)
ChatGPT Ads Target Your Phone Number, Email (www.404media.co)
Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love (www.seriouseats.com)
I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one (snoutcover.com)
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran (fortran-lang.org)
Simons Foundation Launches 15M Effort to Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era (www.simonsfoundation.org)
The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021) (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Siri is so bad at everything (www.reddit.com)
Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show (www.signalscorps.com)
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware (blogs.gnome.org)
Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (github.com)
I know why Mathematicians weep (www.derekthompson.org)
Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection (citizenlab.ca)
A 3D Configurator for Macropads (npad.ngrok.dev)
GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS (github.com)
C26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions (www.cppstories.com)
The Haunted Toys R Us (www.retroist.com)
Israeli firm''s digital ads enabling installation of ''zero-click'' spyware (www.theguardian.com)
Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support (libreboot.org)
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms (www.theregister.com)
ICE Kills More Americans Than Illegal Immigrants (hughhowey.com)
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released (lists.ubuntu.com)
Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land (unfenced.land)
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Bookofjoe''s Favorite Thing: Best Pill Splitter (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
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AI was great until it was not (thetheorygirlie.substack.com)
Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents (github.com)
Creating a Garmin "MCP" (jackantico.io)
Indigene – Native plants for where you stand (indigene.app)
Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua (uji.sh)
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Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin''s 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction (phys.org)
Flipflop, iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing (github.com)
David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface (www.itsnicethat.com)
An Apology (www.elevationlab.com)
The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl (ei3lh.eu)
My Terminal Themes Web App (news.ycombinator.com)
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 (kennedn.com)
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Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT) (sijbrandijfoundation.org)
Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA (www.wowhaus.co.uk)
Capsem – a Rust hypervisor sandboxing AI agents in air-gapped Linux VMs (capsem.org)
The Double Headed Stack Allocator (blog.demofox.org)
Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity (catchabird.com)
Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive (morewrong.lol)
your C is not standard C (sebsite.pw)
A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix (ghuntley.com)
CAD for wood working with LLM support? (news.ycombinator.com)
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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents (www.liquid.ai)
How I manage persistent Claude Code loops: Spool (github.com)
Problems with the Rust Language (oxetene.net)
Anthropic revenue jumps to 16.8B in third quarter, claims profitable (www.ft.com)
Tiny Little Office (tinylittleoffice.com)
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014) (jsomers.net)
Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack (oxide.computer)
We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers (typesafe.ai)
OpenCode 2.0 (anoma.ly)
Marshall Islands Stick Chart (en.wikipedia.org)
Anthropic''s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke (sunshowers.io)
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved (blog.cloudflare.com)
Casey Newton and John Gruber Slink Back to X (karlbode.com)
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Timur''s Chess – A 14th century chess variant with giraffes (timurschess.com)
Private equity ownership affects dental practices (www.dentaleconomics.com)
Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold (phloem.stemdeck.app)
How the Military Will Hack the Election (www.kenklippenstein.com)
Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland (dpa-international.com)
Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free (petal.live)
Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks (www.cnbc.com)
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote (startupfortune.com)
America Didn''t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It (www.lawfaremedia.org)
OpenAI claims employee sent secret device information to Apple (www.ft.com)
Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent (github.com)
AI agents aren''t ''going rogue.'' Frontier labs are skipping security basics (www.csoonline.com)
I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox (clova.email)
Do dentists know what they''re doing? (mapwriting.substack.com)
Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla''s Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges (www.extremetech.com)
US report details extent of ''devastating'' dating-app scams (www.theguardian.com)
I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn''t Notice (openstation.blog)
Linus Torvalds''s first LLM-assisted patch series (lwn.net)
Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 (go.dev)
Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts (www.androidauthority.com)
ICE Planning 100M ''Nightmare'' Domestic Spy Program (prospect.org)
Has AI Tells (theconsensus.dev)
The Emperor Pelican Has No Clothes (arcfu.com)
Americans'' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years (www.dataforprogress.org)
LittleJS is 2D and 3D now (frankforce.com)
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Amsterdam police confisquates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request (www.nrc.nl)
Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs (e360.yale.edu)
Shit Flow Diagram (en.wikipedia.org)
Submarine Cable Resilience (blog.apnic.net)
Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents (github.com)
Zuckerberg''s new toy is a parasite. Please don''t fall for it (www.sfgate.com)
Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
Character.ai''s Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don''t Work (www.404media.co)
AI is mass decompiling games. That''s both awesome and scary (popcar.bearblog.dev)
Nvidia''s first GPU: GeForce 256 (dfarq.homeip.net)
How Tabasco Became the World''s Hot Sauce (www.weareravenous.com)
Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs (www.qawolf.com)
Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI (mastodon.social)
Why are all these data companies buying internal data? (apnews.com)
Passkeys Are Not a Trap (scotthelme.co.uk)
The Genealogy of Eliza (elizagen.org)
ASML''s strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam (www.reuters.com)
CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY) (www.bls.gov)
The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe''s story that taught me about cryptography (2024) (robotsinplainenglish.com)
Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss''s ''Handpicked'' Editor Threatened CBS Staff (www.mediaite.com)
Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors (www.admin.ch)
RIP Eric Binnion (ma.tt)
The Origin Story of Kid Pix (red-green-blue.com)
The Aaronson Oracle (aaronsonoracle.com)
Smart people don''t think others are stupid (sive.rs)
Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector''s IVFFlat and HNSW (github.com)
TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material (swedenherald.com)
FCSS 2: Utility CSS that reads like CSS (github.com)
Xi''s ''death watch'' will become a global spectacle (www.semafor.com)
The road we were told not to take (www.aspendailynews.com)
A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code (museumofages.org)
Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE) (blog.lorenzano.eu)
Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? (www.zetter-zeroday.com)
Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet (www.not-ship.com)
Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? (alexwennerberg.com)
Who Taught the Machines Mathematics? (nisheethvishnoi.com)
Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript (book.humanexperiences.io)
AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It (www.quera.com)
Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone" (www.aviaduct.com)
I let an AI run my startup for a week (daily.tinyprojects.dev)
Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) (www.apple.com)
What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? (news.ycombinator.com)
How to Select an Experiment (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Starlink limit hits Ukraine''s drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX (defence24.com)
What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa) (smallcultfollowing.com)
Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font (typeof.net)
Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord (strafe.chat)
Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals (marcpaul.io)
Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society (uk.news.yahoo.com)
The People''s Bookshelf (Riga, Latvia) (tautasgramatuplaukts.lv)
Arena Allocators in C (eliasebner.com)
AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs (github.com)
Anthropic conjures threat that doesn''t exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse (www.theregister.com)
Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C (kristaps.bsd.lv)
Felix Rieseberg Homepage (felixrieseberg.com)
A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions (arxiv.org)
Do Frameworks Matter Anymore? (brookslybrand.com)
Is ''Attention'' the Essence of Intelligence? (www.quantamagazine.org)
Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (ciechanow.ski)
Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled (anitab.org)
I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video (blumify.io)
High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom (arstechnica.com)
How Do Cuttlefish Hide? (www.nytimes.com)
Rebuilding the Original Odhner Model 127 Pinwheel Calculator (www.johnwolff.au)
900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan) (www.openculture.com)
Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine (pulseos.finance)
Recreational Programming (www.cphiri.dev)
AlphaNIST (alpha-nist.github.io)
Physical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot (www.pi.website)
Running Qwen3.8 at 255 tok/s on a single 5090 (meshapplied.com)
OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room (sfstandard.com)
Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
IDRs as Records of Intent (wrla.ch)
PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery (jobs.lever.co)
Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add (parsimony.lasu.dev)
OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices (twitter.com)
The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians (newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
Stream live open data in two commands (docs.hypermass.io)
Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses (www.bbc.com)
Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (guitoro.com)
Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits (github.com)
Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW''s Chrome Full Chain (xbow.com)
A plea not to use uv-build (blogs.gentoo.org)
Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript (github.com)
XY Music Notation (music.xy.dev)
Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas? (www.scientificamerican.com)
How Random Are You? (lab.specr.net)
Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics Blog (developers.googleblog.com)
Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths (news.gallup.com)
Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany (ua.news)
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors (news.mit.edu)
The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in the 1970s (ourworldindata.org)
How to engineer an AI harness for game development (kylekukshtel.com)
Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They''re Out There (www.nytimes.com)
Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data (news.ycombinator.com)
Now That Information Is Free, What''s a College Campus For? (commonedge.org)
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic (www.sammystraus.com)
Thunderbird for iOS (blog.thunderbird.net)
Nearly all 19 car brands send driver data to third parties (Northeastern/CR) (news.auravision.co)
Apple''s new ''Switch to Safari'' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome (9to5mac.com)
BB(10) Graham''s Number (github.com)
A Book That Will Never Be Read (forbetterscience.com)
Apple unveils the new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI (www.apple.com)
A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers (photonlines.substack.com)
Sqlthon – A lightweight Pythonic layer for SQLite (github.com)