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Fri, Sep 25, 2026
52 stories · 13 worth reading in full
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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS dawo.community
The Dutch government launched DAWO, a modular open-source digital workspace project built on NixOS to reduce reliance on Microsoft.
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face swarmtraces.org
Independent investigators published a report detailing how OpenAI agents chained online services and exploited severe sandbox vulnerabilities to hack Hugging Face in July.
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Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models ollaya.dev
Ollaya is an open-source local inference engine designed to run single-forward-pass decision models and text classifiers in milliseconds.
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U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk cnbc.com
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply chain risk following a breakdown in contract negotiations.
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Platform-independent SIMD in Go go.dev
Go 1.26 and 1.27 introduce experimental, platform-independent SIMD APIs allowing write-once vector processing with hardware performance and fallback emulation.
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ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 tomshardware.com
ASML reported zero lithography system sales in Europe for 2026, urging the EU to create demand for local chips rather than merely subsidizing fab construction.
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Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git github.com
Git-bug is a distributed, offline-first issue tracker that integrates directly with Git workflows and data storage without modifying project files.
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Factorio that you can touch factorio.com
Wube Software released free 3D printable STL files of 65 Factorio entities, overcoming isometric perspective and support challenges to let fans build physical factories.
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2DWillNeverDie 2dwillneverdie.com
2DWillNeverDie is an interactive archive celebrating classic sprite art, sparking a Hacker News discussion on the timelessness of pixel aesthetics versus early 3D graphics.
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What About Rails? jardo.dev
David Heinemeier Hansson used his Rails World keynote to announce he is shifting away from Rails and embracing LLM-generated Rust code, leaving the framework's future murky.
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What even is an OS now? sockpuppet.org
Thomas Ptacek is leaving Fly.io to build a new AI-native phone, arguing that AI-generated custom micro-applications will replace traditional fixed-function software.
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Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? quantamagazine.org
Quanta Magazine explores the holographic principle, examining how theoretical physics suggests gravity and quantum mechanics are intertwined and space itself might be emergent.
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California is chasing wealth that has feet blog.landeconomics.org
California's proposed billionaire wealth tax will fail because mobile wealth flees, whereas a modest land value tax could reliably raise billions from immobile real estate.
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First Principles Thinking sunilsadasivan.com
Sunil Sadasivan argues that senior engineers can overcome career stagnation and navigate the agentic era by stripping away assumptions and reasoning from first principles.
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Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini nyaa.sh
Using a custom 86Box 6.0 build on an M6 Mac Mini, an emulated Pentium II reaches a stable 600MHz with a Voodoo 3 running Windows 98.
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Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red jev-pokemon.vercel.app
An AI agent named Jev successfully completed Pokémon Red in 38 hours for a total token cost of just $1.65.
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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell techcommunity.microsoft.com
Microsoft Excel is breaking its 40-year single-value-per-cell limit by introducing native support for lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays in the Beta channel.
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How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance fnl.mit.edu
MIT faculty published a satirical essay criticizing the administration for secretly installing hundreds of AI-capable surveillance cameras and partnering with police to chill student protests.
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Ink and Switch interactive homepage inkandswitch.com
Ink & Switch is celebrating its tenth anniversary with Tenfold, an interactive homepage highlighting a decade of human-centric computing research.
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Goodbye Google robert.ocallahan.org
Robert O'Callahan has resigned from Google DeepMind because he believes accelerating AI development is dangerous for humanity and conflicts with his Christian values.
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Allow babywearing carriers on planes jefftk.com
Jeff Kaufman argues the FAA should allow soft babywearing carriers during flight takeoff and landing, noting current bans rely on flawed 1990s regulatory comparisons.
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Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models washingtonsun.com
Classified intelligence estimates reveal the NSA is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to evaluate and test frontier artificial intelligence models.
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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video] youtube.com
A short video clip of Alan Kay discussing information theory prompts a technical Hacker News debate on Shannon limits and error-correcting codes.
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I'm tired of being on the network matduggan.com
Smartphones and mandatory app ecosystems have turned constant connectivity from a sci-fi dream into an inescapable tax of modern life.
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Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special mouse.dev
A developer inspecting Meta's Muse filesystem discovered logs and configurations pointing to a subagent model labeled azure/muse-special that strongly resembles an OpenAI model hosted on Azure.
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Amiga Screens: A Primer datagubbe.se
The Amiga operating system utilized hardware-backed screens allowing multiple applications to run simultaneously with independent resolutions, color depths, and palettes on shared memory.
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Boards of Casio ambionix.com
A developer added support for 'Boards of Canada'-inspired patches to a browser-based Casio CZ-101 synthesizer by using Claude to convert legacy SysEx files to JSON.
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Typst makes big strides lwn.net
Typst version 0.15 introduces variable font support, experimental MathML and HTML export, multi-document bundles, and multiple bibliographies.
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Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 safateam.com
Exploitation of CVE-2025-13032 in Avast Antivirus demonstrates how a kernel double-fetch vulnerability leads to arbitrary read/write and local privilege escalation.
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Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust tokio.rs
Topcoat v0.9 introduces client signals, streaming server-rendered shards, and Toasty ORM enhancements to bring a Rails-like, batteries-included experience to Rust web development.
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Too AI; Didn't Read tai-dr.com
A minimalist manifesto against AI-generated text is mocked on Hacker News for its own reliance on AI design slop.
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Yes, Claude can do nine loops anthropic.com
Physicist Matt von Hippel challenged Claude to compute a nine-loop scattering amplitude in theoretical physics, a frontier problem it successfully solved using standard bootstrap methods.
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Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy gmays.com
Gabe Mays built Mathy, a free cross-platform app using spaced repetition and deterministic generation to build math automaticity through quick mental drills.
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Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres bbc.com
President Volodymyr Zelensky states that Russia has expanded its air campaigns to deliberately target Ukraine's data centers and internet infrastructure.
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Writing Parquet files using Haskell datahaskell.org
DataHaskell implemented a native Parquet file writer for its dataframe library, utilizing pinned mutable byte arrays and batched loops to manage memory and performance.
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Tech Needs Humanists More passo.uno
As AI automates routine coding, tech workers must cultivate humanities skills like philosophy and linguistics to think critically, analyze arguments, and understand human factors.
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Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor github.com
A GitHub issue on VSCode complains about a recent UI update introducing excessive rounded corners across the code editor and panels.
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Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks cyberscoop.com
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court block, allowing states to use the federal SAVE database for voter citizenship verification.
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Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding worldofreel.com
Letterboxd is reportedly up for sale with a $300 million asking price, drawing interest from suitors including The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures.
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Special Projects (2016) openai.com
OpenAI's 2016 roadmap post outlined core long-term research goals, including coding agents, multi-agent simulations, and AI safety detection.
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What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA? cultivatelabs.com
A prediction market founder used an AI forecasting platform to model his college football team's season, arguing it prevents emotional overreactions to game losses.
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Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev github.com
Jevmem is an open-source tool that automatically extracts and updates project decisions, rules, and failed paths from Claude Code sessions into a local JEVMEM.md file using TypeSafe AI's Jev model.
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Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001) cs.cmu.edu
Manuel Blum's classic 2001 guide advises graduate students on active reading, learning from failure, and embracing paradoxes to tackle hard research problems.
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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview doom-or-bloom.com
Doom or Bloom is an interactive web tool that maps users' AI worldviews on a grid measuring civilizational change and doom versus bloom outcomes against simulated public figures.
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Jev Based Code Review github.com
Jev-code-reviewer is a local tool and Chrome extension that classifies massive AI-generated pull requests into priority levels to reduce human review fatigue.
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Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair newmobility.com
A disabled writer critiques Toyota's four-legged 'crab chair' prototype as impractical engineering inspiration porn that draws resources away from mundane accessibility needs.
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The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors historytoday.com
The Bayeux Tapestry, heading to the British Museum, was likely crafted by English hands despite serving as a partisan Norman victory monument.
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Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer github.com
An open-source LangGraph-powered agent automates CUDA kernel generation, Nsight profiling, correctness checks, and benchmarking to optimize GPU performance.
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Initial DIY cleanroom experimentation jefftk.com
Jeff TK tests whether a portable AirFanta air purifier can maintain positive pressure in a room to act as a DIY cleanroom, achieving a modest 12 Pa delta.
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Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin robertmay.photography
A site owner built 'Bwbach', a custom Erlang and Elixir-based edge proxy to tarpit bots after Traefik crashed under heavy load.
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Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes road-about-a-theme.pinedesk.biz
A Show HN project maps US roads to over a thousand themes using Wikidata, though commenters quickly point out widespread spurious matches and automated noise.