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Saturday, 24 October 2026

• FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered
  codeberg.org · Discuss

• Why Gopher in 2026?
  gopher.muffinlabs.com · Discuss

• Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats
  makeuseof.com · Discuss

• America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
  apricitas.io · Discuss

• We should be more ambitious with the software we build
  danluu.com · Discuss

• Small Programs and Languages
  ratfactor.com · Discuss

• The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning
  ratfactor.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
  stealmybitcoin.com · Discuss

• No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
  apollo.com · Discuss

• Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
  missileer.watch · Discuss

• SpeedCrunch 1.1
  speedcrunch.org · Discuss

• Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map
  bbtree.xiangpeng.systems · Discuss

• Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
  gizmodo.com · Discuss

• The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise
  de.numista.com · Discuss

• Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
  blog.roku.com · Discuss

• Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
  actu.epfl.ch · Discuss

• FreeDNS
  freedns.afraid.org · Discuss

• Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
  nypost.com · Discuss

• Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
  steveblank.com · Discuss

• I can't believe we're still arguing over whether X is for jerks
  lexontech.org · Discuss

• AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
  torrentfreak.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706
  gitlab.com · Discuss

• I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
  southampton.ac.uk · Discuss

• ThinkRail from JetBrains
  thinkrail.ai · Discuss

• Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
  aikido.dev · Discuss

Friday, 23 October 2026

• Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended
  reddit.com · Discuss

• Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company
  symby.com · Discuss

• How close can pure functional programming get to C?
  rtfeldman.com · Discuss

• How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
  ayoships.com · Discuss

• Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  philipotoole.com · Discuss

• Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
  grapheneos.social · Discuss

• Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more
  nitter.click · Discuss

• German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'
  courthousenews.com · Discuss

• Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more
  computerworld.com · Discuss

• CVE Tracker
  cve.0xosprey.com · Discuss

• No Source Code? No Problem
  queue.acm.org · Discuss

• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  quantum5.ca · Discuss

• Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
  techpowerup.com · Discuss

• Securing our frontier model training environment
  openai.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer
  corgi.computer · Discuss

• Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501
  rune.build · Discuss

• We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
  thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
  block.xyz · Discuss

• Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home
  nbcnews.com · Discuss

• DNS: A Replacement for Finger
  altchan.org · Discuss

• Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
  jefftk.com · Discuss

• Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
  david.lequin.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)
  drop7.dev · Discuss

• Time Nuts (2005)
  leapsecond.com · Discuss

• Animations for System Builders
  brooker.co.za · Discuss

• AI Is Not a Tool
  write.as · Discuss

• Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
  kimi.ai · Discuss

• UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
  alexsci.com · Discuss

• The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)
  isaacmarovitz.com · Discuss

• How is music possible
  henrikkarlsson.xyz · Discuss

• AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley, California
  verysane.ai · Discuss

• Total Historian
  theideasletter.org · Discuss

• Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
  blog.calif.io · Discuss

• Reforming English Spelling
  blog.oup.com · Discuss

• eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media
  bugzilla.mozilla.org · Discuss

• An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy
  bottlecapai.com · Discuss

• Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
  kadoa.com · Discuss

• Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
  keepandroidopen.org · Discuss

• Shitter – A Nitter Fork
  codeberg.org · Discuss

• Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
  bitdefender.com · Discuss

• Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited
  thisandthat.chat · Discuss

• Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
  sverigesradio.se · Discuss

• PHP advisory: disable session upload progress to prevent another unlikely RCE
  php.net · Discuss

• Is this the new cyber normal?
  drew.silcock.dev · Discuss

• No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
  blog.jim-nielsen.com · Discuss

• Job loss and cortisone mania
  tilschuenemann.de · Discuss

• France needs to read my paper
  wilsoniumite.com · Discuss

• The Rise and Fall of Jev
  blog.alexewerlof.com · Discuss

• Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
  tvfandomlounge.com · Discuss

Thursday, 22 October 2026

• Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web
  swurf.org · Discuss

• The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
  berget.ai · Discuss

• I Did This Without Your Knowledge
  lesswrong.com · Discuss

• Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• This I Believe (1952)
  awakin.org · Discuss

• The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
  cs.utexas.edu · Discuss

• Mapping the Northern Sky
  maps.com · Discuss

• Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop
  jank-lang.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world
  impossiblemachines.xyz · Discuss

• Docker is weird
  codeandcake.dev · Discuss

• AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market
  economist.com · Discuss