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 1.                                                                  Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher ( vals.ai )                                
     497 points by u1hcw9nx 5 hours ago | hide | 212 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
 2.                                                                  Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? ( atomic14.com )                                                
     612 points by iamflimflam1 8 hours ago | hide | 285 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                            
 3.                                                                  The case against JPEG XL ( giannirosato.com )                                                          
     42 points by contact9879 1 hour ago | hide | 37 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
 4.                                                                  Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) ( treybastian.com )                                                      
     13 points by zdw 1 hour ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                            
 5.                                                                  Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs ( signalusers.org )       
     90 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
 6.                                                                  Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List ( interconnects.ai )                                       
     25 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
 7.                                                                  Julia 1.13 highlights ( julialang.org )                                                                
     159 points by eigenspace 7 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                            
 8.                                                                  Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 ( lesswrong.com )           
     383 points by Levitating 11 hours ago | hide | 176 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
 9.                                                                  Data collected by cars and sold to third parties ( theverge.com )                                      
     314 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | hide | 163 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
10.                                                                  Show HN: Is It Greg? ( github.com/antoineleclair )                                                     
     10 points by antoineleclair 19 minutes ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            
11.                                                                  Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) ( wisc.edu )                  
     67 points by walrus01 5 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
12.                                                                  Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)                                                      
     91 points by david927 8 hours ago | hide | 195 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
13.                                                                  Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster ( techcrunch.com )                          
     49 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | hide | 101 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
14.                                                                  The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire ( katjahoyer.uk )                               
     31 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                            
15.                                                                  The Coming War on General Computation (2011) ( wikisource.org )                                        
     51 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | hide | 11 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
16.                                                                  Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust ( bensimms.moe )                   
     392 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | hide | 90 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
17.                                                                  I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears ( myday24.com )           
     16 points by tomasslavicek 3 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
18.                                                                  Making Startups Powerful ( paulgraham.com )                                                            
     164 points by tosh 12 hours ago | hide | 76 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
19.                                                                  I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant ( medium.com/ivangomezarnedo )                     
     181 points by ichacas 15 hours ago | hide | 86 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
20.                                                                  Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? ( devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing )         
     207 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | hide | 49 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
21.                                                                  Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi ( honisoit.com )                              
     4 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
22.                                                                  CUDA for AMD on Windows ( github.com/speedstu )                                                        
     141 points by chiassedu80 11 hours ago | hide | 72 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
23.                                                                  AI is not a normal technology ( 12gramsofcarbon.com )                                                  
     4 points by theahura 1 hour ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                            
24.                                                                  Apple's Dimensional Drawings ( developer.apple.com )                                                   
     5 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                            
25.                                                                  Why is privacy so hard? ( acm.org )                                                                    
     31 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | hide | 25 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
26.                                                                  Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" ( zenodo.org )        
     6 points by akkartik 2 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                            
27.                                                                  Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace ( aprilnea.me )       
     60 points by rzk 8 hours ago | hide | 14 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                            
28.                                                                  The contagion of fear ( dtrace.org )                                                                   
     142 points by elffjs 3 hours ago | hide | 103 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
29.                                                                  Bad code is kudzu ( vickiboykis.com )                                                                  
     40 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
30.                                                                  Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) ( youtube.com )
     80 points by binyu 9 hours ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
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