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 1.                                                                 Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher ( vals.ai )                         
     855 points by u1hcw9nx 11 hours ago | hide | 355 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
 2.                                                                 Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) ( treybastian.com )                                               
     203 points by zdw 7 hours ago | hide | 36 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
 3.                                                                 Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs ( signalusers.org )
     228 points by Cider9986 10 hours ago | hide | 114 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
 4.                                                                 Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013) ( lareviewofbooks.org )                 
     21 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | hide | 6 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
 5.                                                                 Apple's Dimensional Drawings ( developer.apple.com )                                            
     161 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | hide | 56 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
 6.                                                                 The case against JPEG XL ( giannirosato.com )                                                   
     133 points by contact9879 7 hours ago | hide | 180 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
 7.                                                                 Data collected by cars and sold to third parties ( theverge.com )                               
     413 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | hide | 203 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
 8.                                                                 Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age ( knowablemagazine.org )        
     56 points by knowablemag 6 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
 9.                                                                 Julia 1.13 highlights ( julialang.org )                                                         
     221 points by eigenspace 13 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                    
10.                                                                 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)                                               
     155 points by david927 14 hours ago | hide | 475 comments                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                    
11.                                                                 Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster ( techcrunch.com )                   
     136 points by ilamont 11 hours ago | hide | 184 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
12.                                                                 OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others ( calif.io )          
     47 points by negura 5 hours ago | hide | 11 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                    
13.                                                                 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? ( atomic14.com )                                         
     786 points by iamflimflam1 14 hours ago | hide | 350 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                    
14.                                                                 Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents ( eterdb.com )    
     30 points by fdeth 5 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
15.                                                                 The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire ( katjahoyer.uk )                        
     74 points by NaOH 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                    
16.                                                                 Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) ( wisc.edu )           
     80 points by walrus01 11 hours ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                    
17.                                                                 Five Words from Vanishing Fleece ( wordnik.com )                                                
     5 points by dan353hehe 2 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                    
18.                                                                 'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit ( wsj.com )                                                 
     3 points by Thevet 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                    
19.                                                                 Who gets to define the rules for AI? ( cohere.com )                                             
     33 points by throwworhtthrow 3 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                    
20.                                                                 Open-source AI and open models reading list ( interconnects.ai )                                
     102 points by simonpure 7 hours ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
21.                                                                 Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires ( danluu.com )        
     22 points by luu 3 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                    
22.                                                                 The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence ( arxiv.org )                                      
     61 points by rasengan0 6 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
23.                                                                 CUDA for AMD on Windows ( github.com/speedstu )                                                 
     160 points by chiassedu80 17 hours ago | hide | 85 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
24.                                                                 Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout ( fortune.com )            
     99 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | hide | 122 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
25.                                                                 Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" ( zenodo.org ) 
     28 points by akkartik 8 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                    
26.                                                                 Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 ( lesswrong.com )    
     430 points by Levitating 17 hours ago | hide | 201 comments                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
27.                                                                 Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace ( aprilnea.me )
     84 points by rzk 14 hours ago | hide | 20 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    
28.                                                                 Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping ( securityaffairs.com )          
     54 points by kristianp 4 hours ago | hide | 19 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
29.                                                                 Why is privacy so hard? (2019) ( acm.org )                                                      
     46 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | hide | 47 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                    
30.                                                                 Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022) ( honisoit.com )                
     73 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | hide | 48 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                    
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