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)
Apple HomeView (www.apple.com)
Apple''s Minions: A virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon Macs (machinelearning.apple.com)
Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (blog.character.ai)
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise (www.firefox.com)
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (www.theverge.com)
An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air (eg2.haku.sh)
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)
Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers (www.reuters.com)
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (www.bloomberg.com)
AWS Lambda Web Functions (aws.amazon.com)
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM (www.heise.de)
Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? (ptrbrynt.com)
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (blog.maximeheckel.com)
Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev (www.unsiloed.ai)
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher? (github.com)
Denmark set to allow return of ''physical force'' in school (www.lemonde.fr)
A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms (www.argmin.net)
AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities (arxiv.org)
SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com)
Leaving Tech (ryanbigg.com)
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
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Neuroscience can make decluttering easier (www.nytimes.com)
Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n (app.getsupers.com)
A shared, verifiable fix database that AI agents read and write themselves (cuddly-guide-4q6q54rg76653jvxj-8000.app.github.dev)
An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP (github.com)
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com)
The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) (jsomers.net)
SQL Injection found on ibm.com subdomain (hackerone.com)
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle (nirajrajgor.com)
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (www.intel.com)
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Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)
Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)
AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. (yyhh.org)
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
America''s Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (www.thetravel.com)
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
In Praise of John Cale, the Superior Velvet (thequietus.com)
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (www.avclub.com)
Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell (theinference.org)
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (www.markround.com)
''AI'' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (gist.github.com)
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (www.anthropic.com)
Introducing OpenFatigue (openfatigue.ai)
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.rnz.co.nz)
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon''s Producer (www.wired.com)
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I rewrote my website in Swift (sindresorhus.com)
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
Thinking Will Become a Hobby (www.spinellis.gr)
Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents (news.ycombinator.com)
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com)
Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)
Kevin Kelly''s 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses (www.reuters.com)
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence (z.ai)
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.com)
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after ''unprecedented'' cyberattack (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (www.theguardian.com)
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (azure.microsoft.com)
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Why aren''t AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere (www.nationalgeographic.com)
"Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (justismills.substack.com)
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com)
Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges (www.tomshardware.com)
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)
QGIS bans AI assisted contributions (github.com)
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (www.sciencealert.com)
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich''s wealth (www.bbc.com)
Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid 92M theft claims (crypto.news)
Hetzner: The New GPU Server GEX63 for Professional AI Workloads (www.hetzner.com)
Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)
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PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)
Loop Engineering: Optimizing Code Generation and Verification (bradleygibbs.dev)
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)
Research Firm Calls Anthropic''s IPO ''Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'' (www.cnbc.com)
Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com)
Postgres isn''t slow, your storage is (clickhouse.com)
AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware (torrentfreak.com)
Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com)
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (www.shokunin.studio)
Draw by Pinging IPv6 Addresses (pings.utwente.io)
Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac (crestbrowser.com)
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (amosbbatto.wordpress.com)
Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (www.youtube.com)
Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (radar.cloudflare.com)
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun (blog.boxlite.ai)
X Is Bad, Though (lexontech.org)
No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)
Sorry we made you grind LeetCode (www.hackerrank.com)
Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com)
Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)
Yes I Understand How LLMs Work (kemendo.com)
Tattoos you can turn on and off (www.livescience.com)
Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)
Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM (github.com)
HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo (github.com)
BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab (github.com)
Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (www.cell.com)
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused (www.opencampus.org)
Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes (github.com)
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (www.economist.com)
Illustration Beyond Proof (terrytao.wordpress.com)
ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com)
Rubber Duck: An AI interviewer for the knowledge in your head (rubberduck.talk)
Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries (pydantic.dev)
Whatever became of holography? (2011) (www.americanscientist.org)
Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)
JulianFlux: Electrodynamic vector retrieval and causal routing for AI (github.com)
Fingerprints Are the New Cookies (royfish.dev)
Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers (www.theguardian.com)
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (pub.sakana.ai)
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them (nonfunctional.substack.com)
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (www.inc.com)
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com)
Cartographers of North Korea (cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion? (theonion.com)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS (blog.kammel.dev)
Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger (www.ways-of-seeing.com)
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
NYC''s "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (www.nyc.gov)
Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things (www.playgrnd.tools)
Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? (news.ycombinator.com)
Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside (shnatsel.github.io)
FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE (tommyb3ll.github.io)
I guess I''m using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
Why we''re watching these climate tech companies (www.technologyreview.com)
apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com)
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)
Why hasn''t SpaceX, worth 2T, paid this Bay Area chef the 70K it owes him? (www.sfchronicle.com)
I''m sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)
The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less (0xff.nu)
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)
Nicolas Cage says he won''t work with Amazon again over AI dispute (www.latimes.com)
How I reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait (a16z.com)
The Wild West of polyglot docs sites (technicalwriting.dev)
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign (insideclimatenews.org)
BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
Rolling the Root Key (blog.apnic.net)
Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications (www.tomshardware.com)
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R (adolfoalvarez.cl)
How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go (github.com)
Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center (bsky.app)
Compression and Concatenation on the Web (theconsensus.dev)
Don''t Put Tilde In Your Path (disconnect3d.pl)
Scandinavia''s first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)
Valen''s Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel (copilot.travel)
I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
AI is creating a ''human premium'' for art created by people (www.bbc.com)
When Ldaxr Doesn''t Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64 (joelsiks.com)
Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter (radar.cloudflare.com)
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot (robotgirlgang.com)
Rat''s Register Allocator (hexrat.cc)
IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall (www.economist.com)
European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
The Marriage That Captures a High Point of American Art (www.theatlantic.com)
I wish you the best in the Offline (daverupert.com)
LineageOS 24.0 (lineageos.org)
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (status.yandex.cloud)
Thorium 229 based nuclear clocks (www.jerrycards.com)
Decade-old RAM is making a comeback (www.theverge.com)
How big is a Git commit? (ratfactor.com)
AI agents in a stand-up call (atoll92.github.io)
Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s (www.telegraph.co.uk)
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (www.youtube.com)
tiny-audio, nanoGPT for speech-to-text (github.com)
GSD Task Manager – an MCP server that gives your AI agent a task list (github.com)
Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine (www.drvinayprasad.com)
A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease (www.sciencedaily.com)
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ''compromised'' (www.theverge.com)
CIA World Facebook Is Dead – Here Is an Attempt at Recreation (worldfacts.app)
Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld (celld.dev)
Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude (www.theregister.com)
Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon''s competitions (www.dpreview.com)
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com)
Veda: The First Agentic Hobby Operating System (github.com)
Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (www.nature.com)
WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
Why aren''t Americans rising up against tipping? (news.ycombinator.com)
A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches (github.com)
Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com)
Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won''t Say What It Protects (rews.cc)
Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
MrBeast ''spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'' (www.barchart.com)
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (www.cockroachlabs.com)
Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan (veiledantiquity.com)
A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th (www.nature.com)
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn''t (housing.over.pizza)
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics (arstechnica.com)
50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (www.makeuseof.com)
Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal (github.com)
Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign Amazon AI Waiver: ''I''m Not an AI-Friendly Actor'' (variety.com)
The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
Takeshi''s Castle (en.wikipedia.org)
Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal (github.com)
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
Nvidia in talks to acquire US ''open'' model startup Reflection AI (www.ft.com)
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents (www.reuters.com)
OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic (metedata.substack.com)
Grieving the Loss of Details (purplesyringa.moe)
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a 1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (www.theguardian.com)
The Disease called Politics (1962) (www.panarchy.org)
Knuth Reward Check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
How Protein Took over the World (www.ft.com)
PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (chronicles.popvax.com)
Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots (theverifiedpost.com)
Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack (www.businessinsider.com)
Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web (projecttimestamper.org)
I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall (conversableeconomist.com)
Lobbying Is Corruption (carette.xyz)