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  1. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)
    535 points • by u1hcw9nx • yesterday at 9:06 PM • 243 comments
  2. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)
    640 points • by iamflimflam1 • yesterday at 5:37 PM • 301 comments
  3. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (spaceships.treybastian.com)
    49 points • by zdw • last Thursday at 4:44 AM • 15 comments
  4. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)
    110 points • by Cider9986 • yesterday at 9:47 PM • 53 comments
  5. Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (www.interconnects.ai)
    31 points • by simonpure • today at 12:22 AM • 2 comments
  6. Show HN: Is It Greg? (github.com)
    29 points • by antoineleclair • today at 1:58 AM • 10 comments
  7. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
    170 points • by eigenspace • last Thursday at 12:27 PM • 12 comments
  8. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)
    392 points • by Levitating • yesterday at 2:28 PM • 178 comments
  9. AI is not a normal technology (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    18 points • by theahura • today at 1:00 AM • 27 comments
  10. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)
    328 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 1:45 PM • 169 comments
  11. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
    11 points • by rasengan0 • today at 1:22 AM • 4 comments
  12. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
    68 points • by walrus01 • yesterday at 8:33 PM • 8 comments
  13. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (self)
    99 points • by david927 • yesterday at 5:31 PM • 226 comments
  14. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
    60 points • by ilamont • yesterday at 8:19 PM • 114 comments
  15. The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (www.katjahoyer.uk)
    34 points • by NaOH • last Thursday at 7:39 PM • 7 comments
  16. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (developer.apple.com)
    40 points • by herbertl • today at 12:11 AM • 6 comments
  17. Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (honisoit.com)
    10 points • by andsoitis • today at 12:27 AM • 5 comments
  18. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)
    395 points • by vinhnx • last Thursday at 3:32 AM • 91 comments
  19. The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (en.wikisource.org)
    55 points • by gregsadetsky • yesterday at 11:54 PM • 14 comments
  20. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
    172 points • by tosh • yesterday at 2:09 PM • 76 comments
  21. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    217 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 12:30 PM • 50 comments
  22. Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age (knowablemagazine.org)
    4 points • by knowablemag • last Friday at 5:38 PM • 0 comments
  23. I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears (myday24.com)
    16 points • by tomasslavicek • last Thursday at 3:35 PM • 7 comments
  24. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)
    142 points • by chiassedu80 • yesterday at 2:25 PM • 73 comments
  25. AI Robots – When will they be in our homes (spectrum.ieee.org)
    5 points • by andsoitis • today at 12:44 AM • 2 comments
  26. "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts (www.science.org)
    11 points • by sbulaev • today at 12:07 AM • 0 comments
  27. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
    63 points • by rzk • last Friday at 3:45 AM • 16 comments
  28. Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media (www.thevidmarket.com)
    4 points • by ryanpere2298 • today at 1:14 AM • 0 comments
  29. The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)
    164 points • by elffjs • yesterday at 10:38 PM • 125 comments
  30. Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)
    43 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 1:02 PM • 14 comments
  31. Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout (fortune.com)
    6 points • by andsoitis • today at 2:50 AM • 2 comments
  32. Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)
    7 points • by akkartik • last Saturday at 2:01 AM • 1 comment
  33. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) (www.youtube.com)
    80 points • by binyu • last Thursday at 11:32 PM • 22 comments
  34. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)
    367 points • by TheJCDenton • yesterday at 3:44 PM • 201 comments
  35. JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)
    531 points • by taubek • yesterday at 7:49 AM • 217 comments
  36. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
    59 points • by kevvok • last Friday at 9:06 AM • 53 comments
  37. David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)
    280 points • by kolanos • yesterday at 4:52 PM • 207 comments
  38. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
    62 points • by lumpa • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 33 comments
  39. Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)
    281 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 8:08 PM • 122 comments
  40. Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 (web.eecs.utk.edu)
    35 points • by azhenley • yesterday at 5:41 PM • 4 comments
  41. 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)
    116 points • by blincoln • yesterday at 12:01 PM • 39 comments
  42. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
    50 points • by xlmnxp • yesterday at 3:02 PM • 19 comments
  43. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com)
    72 points • by zdw • last Saturday at 11:43 PM • 13 comments
  44. I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)
    182 points • by ichacas • last Thursday at 9:32 AM • 89 comments
  45. DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL (query.farm)
    7 points • by rustyconover • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 0 comments
  46. Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident (news.bostonscientific.com)
    5 points • by teleforce • yesterday at 10:49 PM • 0 comments
  47. The End of Friday Nights with Friends (journals.sagepub.com)
    5 points • by marojejian • yesterday at 10:41 PM • 2 comments
  48. I Stabilized Never Type (blog.ihatereality.space)
    4 points • by birdculture • today at 2:39 AM • 0 comments
  49. LG says we're fake news [video] (www.youtube.com)
    317 points • by HelloUsername • last Saturday at 7:35 PM • 168 comments
  50. Dynamics in Mesoscopic Systems (www.ds.mpg.de)
    3 points • by andsoitis • yesterday at 11:32 PM • 0 comments