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 1.                                                                 Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher ( vals.ai )                         
     672 points by u1hcw9nx 8 hours ago | hide | 290 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
 2.                                                                 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? ( atomic14.com )                                         
     703 points by iamflimflam1 11 hours ago | hide | 323 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                    
 3.                                                                 Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) ( treybastian.com )                                               
     114 points by zdw 4 hours ago | hide | 22 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
 4.                                                                 Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs ( signalusers.org )
     159 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | hide | 74 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
 5.                                                                 The case against JPEG XL ( giannirosato.com )                                                   
     73 points by contact9879 4 hours ago | hide | 97 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
 6.                                                                 Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List ( interconnects.ai )                                
     63 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | hide | 6 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
 7.                                                                 Apple's Dimensional Drawings ( developer.apple.com )                                            
     96 points by herbertl 5 hours ago | hide | 22 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
 8.                                                                 Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 ( lesswrong.com )    
     408 points by Levitating 14 hours ago | hide | 182 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
 9.                                                                 Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age ( knowablemagazine.org )        
     19 points by knowablemag 3 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
10.                                                                 Julia 1.13 highlights ( julialang.org )                                                         
     185 points by eigenspace 10 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
11.                                                                 Data collected by cars and sold to third parties ( theverge.com )                               
     358 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | hide | 191 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
12.                                                                 The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence ( arxiv.org )                                      
     28 points by rasengan0 3 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
13.                                                                 Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi ( honisoit.com )                       
     39 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | hide | 18 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
14.                                                                 Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster ( techcrunch.com )                   
     87 points by ilamont 8 hours ago | hide | 141 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
15.                                                                 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)                                               
     121 points by david927 11 hours ago | hide | 316 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
16.                                                                 Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) ( wisc.edu )           
     74 points by walrus01 8 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                    
17.                                                                 Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents ( eterdb.com )    
     11 points by fdeth 2 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
18.                                                                 The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire ( katjahoyer.uk )                        
     48 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
19.                                                                 Review a pull request by booting it ( fzakaria.com )                                            
     3 points by lalitmaganti 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                    
20.                                                                 Making Startups Powerful ( paulgraham.com )                                                     
     188 points by tosh 15 hours ago | hide | 84 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                    
21.                                                                 Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? ( devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing )  
     235 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | hide | 54 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
22.                                                                 "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts ( science.org )        
     23 points by sbulaev 5 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                    
23.                                                                 Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media ( thevidmarket.com ) 
     9 points by ryanpere2298 4 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
24.                                                                 CUDA for AMD on Windows ( github.com/speedstu )                                                 
     148 points by chiassedu80 14 hours ago | hide | 75 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
25.                                                                 The Coming War on General Computation (2011) ( wikisource.org )                                 
     74 points by gregsadetsky 5 hours ago | hide | 17 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
26.                                                                 Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping ( securityaffairs.com )          
     18 points by kristianp 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                    
27.                                                                 Why is privacy so hard? (2019) ( acm.org )                                                      
     35 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
28.                                                                 Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" ( zenodo.org ) 
     15 points by akkartik 5 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                    
29.                                                                 Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace ( aprilnea.me )
     73 points by rzk 11 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
30.                                                                 Bad code is kudzu ( vickiboykis.com )                                                           
     54 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | hide | 14 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
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