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  1. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)
    803 points • by u1hcw9nx • yesterday at 9:06 PM • 336 comments
  2. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (spaceships.treybastian.com)
    181 points • by zdw • last Thursday at 4:44 AM • 34 comments
  3. Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013) (lareviewofbooks.org)
    16 points • by bryanrasmussen • today at 6:34 AM • 2 comments
  4. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)
    218 points • by Cider9986 • yesterday at 9:47 PM • 100 comments
  5. The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
    117 points • by contact9879 • today at 1:02 AM • 160 comments
  6. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (developer.apple.com)
    147 points • by herbertl • today at 12:11 AM • 51 comments
  7. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)
    399 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 1:45 PM • 203 comments
  8. Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age (knowablemagazine.org)
    49 points • by knowablemag • last Friday at 5:38 PM • 8 comments
  9. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    212 points • by eigenspace • last Thursday at 12:27 PM • 19 comments
  10. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    52 points • by rasengan0 • today at 1:22 AM • 10 comments
  11. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    124 points • by ilamont • yesterday at 8:19 PM • 175 comments
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (self)
    143 points • by david927 • yesterday at 5:31 PM • 431 comments
  13. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)
    769 points • by iamflimflam1 • yesterday at 5:37 PM • 345 comments
  14. Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents (eterdb.com)
    26 points • by fdeth • last Thursday at 3:41 PM • 4 comments
  15. Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
    18 points • by luu • last Friday at 9:31 AM • 2 comments
  16. The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (www.katjahoyer.uk)
    69 points • by NaOH • last Thursday at 7:39 PM • 24 comments
  17. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
    79 points • by walrus01 • yesterday at 8:33 PM • 9 comments
  18. OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others (calif.io)
    32 points • by negura • today at 2:25 AM • 7 comments
  19. Open-source AI and open models reading list (www.interconnects.ai)
    92 points • by simonpure • today at 12:22 AM • 10 comments
  20. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022) (honisoit.com)
    66 points • by andsoitis • today at 12:27 AM • 43 comments
  21. Five Words from Vanishing Fleece (blog.wordnik.com)
    3 points • by dan353hehe • last Friday at 4:00 PM • 0 comments
  22. Who gets to define the rules for AI? (cohere.com)
    23 points • by throwworhtthrow • today at 4:49 AM • 20 comments
  23. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)
    157 points • by chiassedu80 • yesterday at 2:25 PM • 84 comments
  24. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    86 points • by andsoitis • today at 2:50 AM • 94 comments
  25. Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)
    25 points • by akkartik • last Saturday at 2:01 AM • 6 comments
  26. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)
    426 points • by Levitating • yesterday at 2:28 PM • 200 comments
  27. Airbnb Preventing the Use of BnB (www.theguardian.com)
    18 points • by cycomanic • today at 5:25 AM • 2 comments
  28. “Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts (www.science.org)
    29 points • by sbulaev • today at 12:07 AM • 22 comments
  29. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    79 points • by rzk • last Friday at 3:45 AM • 19 comments
  30. Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping (securityaffairs.com)
    43 points • by kristianp • today at 3:26 AM • 15 comments
  31. Why is privacy so hard? (2019) (cacm.acm.org)
    42 points • by andsoitis • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 44 comments
  32. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (en.wikisource.org)
    87 points • by gregsadetsky • yesterday at 11:54 PM • 26 comments
  33. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (www.thevidmarket.com)
    10 points • by ryanpere2298 • today at 1:14 AM • 1 comment
  34. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    542 points • by taubek • yesterday at 7:49 AM • 221 comments
  35. AI Robots – When will they be in our homes (spectrum.ieee.org)
    21 points • by andsoitis • today at 12:44 AM • 15 comments
  36. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) (www.youtube.com)
    86 points • by binyu • last Thursday at 11:32 PM • 25 comments
  37. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    65 points • by kevvok • last Friday at 9:06 AM • 54 comments
  38. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    385 points • by TheJCDenton • yesterday at 3:44 PM • 212 comments
  39. Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    58 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 1:02 PM • 17 comments
  40. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    407 points • by vinhnx • last Thursday at 3:32 AM • 96 comments
  41. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)
    295 points • by kolanos • yesterday at 4:52 PM • 216 comments
  42. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    121 points • by blincoln • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 40 comments
  43. LG says we're fake news [video] (www.youtube.com)
    335 points • by HelloUsername • last Saturday at 7:35 PM • 175 comments
  44. The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
    202 points • by elffjs • yesterday at 10:38 PM • 143 comments
  45. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    191 points • by ichacas • last Thursday at 9:32 AM • 95 comments
  46. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    249 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 12:30 PM • 58 comments
  47. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    202 points • by tosh • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 93 comments
  48. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    64 points • by lumpa • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 33 comments
  49. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com)
    73 points • by zdw • last Saturday at 11:43 PM • 13 comments
  50. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? (yoshuabengio.org)
    613 points • by jonifico • yesterday at 1:22 AM • 670 comments