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  1. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (spectrum.ieee.org)
    599 points • by pseudolus • today at 11:52 AM • 389 comments
  2. Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
    90 points • by zenincognito • today at 3:01 PM • 24 comments
  3. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (www.mindstudio.ai)
    415 points • by novaRom • today at 8:46 AM • 192 comments
  4. Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language (evergreenlang.net)
    37 points • by jordan_bonecut • today at 3:25 PM • 20 comments
  5. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (www.theregister.com)
    274 points • by smalltech • today at 2:09 PM • 161 comments
  6. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (blog.cosmos-institute.org)
    170 points • by ersinesen • today at 9:01 AM • 100 comments
  7. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history (www.tomshardware.com)
    83 points • by rbanffy • today at 3:38 PM • 23 comments
  8. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
    197 points • by kevcampb • today at 10:00 AM • 100 comments
  9. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) (self)
    417 points • by jameslk • today at 10:10 AM • 117 comments
  10. Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)
    15 points • by isalexlog • today at 3:30 PM • 2 comments
  11. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out (huggingface.co)
    59 points • by abrarthought • today at 3:30 PM • 6 comments
  12. Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet (www.getgrist.com)
    17 points • by reedciccio • today at 3:21 PM • 13 comments
  13. Show HN: I built a tool that prices a prebuilt PC part by part (pcdealcheck.com)
    14 points • by adlep • today at 3:25 PM • 3 comments
  14. Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
    381 points • by memalign • today at 3:40 AM • 99 comments
  15. Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository (github.com)
    20 points • by peter_retief • today at 3:18 PM • 5 comments
  16. Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle) (lists.debian.org)
    66 points • by SG- • today at 3:04 PM • 13 comments
  17. Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
    290 points • by porridgeraisin • today at 8:57 AM • 185 comments
  18. Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino (github.com)
    13 points • by kimi • today at 1:51 PM • 1 comment
  19. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
    728 points • by nharada • yesterday at 4:47 PM • 225 comments
  20. The Internals of PostgreSQL (www.interdb.jp)
    339 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 9:51 PM • 24 comments
  21. The lost malloc() (napcakes.nekoweb.org)
    115 points • by matt_d • today at 7:37 AM • 45 comments
  22. Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI (twitter.com)
    35 points • by itunpredictable • today at 3:21 PM • 14 comments
  23. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (lamont.columbia.edu)
    130 points • by gmays • today at 1:40 AM • 30 comments
  24. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
    413 points • by dsalzman • yesterday at 1:18 AM • 78 comments
  25. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (www.phoronix.com)
    117 points • by snvzz • today at 11:14 AM • 48 comments
  26. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (www.dana-farber.org)
    113 points • by gmays • today at 3:20 AM • 48 comments
  27. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie (uncracked.city)
    110 points • by passkey1510 • yesterday at 9:20 PM • 53 comments
  28. Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026 (spoon-tamago.com)
    234 points • by zdw • last Monday at 4:31 AM • 35 comments
  29. Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery (www.theguardian.com)
    9 points • by prmph • today at 3:40 PM • 2 comments
  30. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
    698 points • by theanonymousone • yesterday at 5:40 PM • 203 comments
  31. Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick (www.livescience.com)
    9 points • by gmays • today at 3:29 PM • 0 comments
  32. C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
    385 points • by thatxliner • today at 12:33 AM • 295 comments
  33. Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
    73 points • by firstbase • today at 3:11 AM • 6 comments
  34. How I use AI (Oct 2026) (ben.stolovitz.com)
    236 points • by citelao • yesterday at 6:11 PM • 266 comments
  35. YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (techcrunch.com)
    41 points • by karakoram • today at 3:28 PM • 44 comments
  36. Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media (www.youtube.com)
    36 points • by musha68k • today at 2:10 PM • 7 comments
  37. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (www.theguardian.com)
    265 points • by alkyon • today at 10:23 AM • 226 comments
  38. Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs (www.ashbyhq.com)
    1 points • by abhikp • yesterday at 5:00 PM • 0 comments
  39. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (blog.nns.ee)
    910 points • by xx_ns • last Monday at 4:29 PM • 349 comments
  40. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)
    1441 points • by sidgarimella • yesterday at 5:22 PM • 470 comments
  41. There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)
    109 points • by lukasschwab • yesterday at 2:45 PM • 26 comments
  42. US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures (www.semafor.com)
    237 points • by justonepost2 • today at 2:27 PM • 400 comments
  43. 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street? (www.theguardian.com)
    41 points • by theanonymousone • today at 4:11 PM • 72 comments
  44. We're training a Figma-fluent editing model (www.figma.com)
    141 points • by gmays • last Sunday at 4:05 AM • 59 comments
  45. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
    487 points • by paddingtone • yesterday at 9:39 PM • 251 comments
  46. Kyiv Independent reports system breach (hromadske.ua)
    7 points • by wubin • today at 3:35 PM • 0 comments
  47. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
    1007 points • by syllogism • yesterday at 12:21 PM • 205 comments
  48. GDPx: Measuring Frontier Model Capabilities Across the Most Valuable Domains (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
    4 points • by gadflyinyoureye • today at 3:37 PM • 0 comments
  49. AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections (www.tomshardware.com)
    7 points • by rndsignals • today at 3:35 PM • 4 comments
  50. Curiosity Traps (www.autodidacts.io)
    95 points • by surprisetalk • last Monday at 3:40 PM • 13 comments