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 1.                                                                Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher ( vals.ai )                                    
     458 points by u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago | hide | 185 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                              
 2.                                                                Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? ( atomic14.com )                                                    
     581 points by iamflimflam1 7 hours ago | hide | 272 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                              
 3.                                                                Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs ( signalusers.org )           
     71 points by Cider9986 3 hours ago | hide | 37 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
 4.                                                                The case against JPEG XL ( giannirosato.com )                                                              
     15 points by contact9879 31 minutes ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                              
 5.                                                                Julia 1.13 highlights ( julialang.org )                                                                    
     153 points by eigenspace 6 hours ago | hide | 12 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                              
 6.                                                                Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List ( interconnects.ai )                                           
     14 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                              
 7.                                                                Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 ( lesswrong.com )               
     376 points by Levitating 11 hours ago | hide | 177 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                              
 8.                                                                Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) ( wisc.edu )                      
     58 points by walrus01 5 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                              
 9.                                                                Data collected by cars and sold to third parties ( theverge.com )                                          
     304 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | hide | 159 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                              
10.                                                                Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)                                                          
     83 points by david927 8 hours ago | hide | 158 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
11.                                                                The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire ( katjahoyer.uk )                                   
     26 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                              
12.                                                                Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster ( techcrunch.com )                              
     38 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | hide | 78 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                              
13.                                                                The Coming War on General Computation (2011) ( wikisource.org )                                            
     37 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                              
14.                                                                Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust ( bensimms.moe )                       
     377 points by vinhnx 16 hours ago | hide | 89 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                              
15.                                                                Making Startups Powerful ( paulgraham.com )                                                                
     158 points by tosh 11 hours ago | hide | 73 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                              
16.                                                                I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears ( myday24.com )               
     13 points by tomasslavicek 2 hours ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                              
17.                                                                I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant ( medium.com/ivangomezarnedo )                         
     174 points by ichacas 14 hours ago | hide | 84 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
18.                                                                Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? ( devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing )             
     204 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | hide | 47 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                              
19.                                                                CUDA for AMD on Windows ( github.com/speedstu )                                                            
     140 points by chiassedu80 11 hours ago | hide | 71 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                              
20.                                                                Why is privacy so hard? ( acm.org )                                                                        
     25 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
21.                                                                The contagion of fear ( dtrace.org )                                                                       
     132 points by elffjs 2 hours ago | hide | 88 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                              
22.                                                                Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace ( aprilnea.me )           
     57 points by rzk 7 hours ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                              
23.                                                                Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" ( zenodo.org )            
     4 points by akkartik 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                              
24.                                                                Bad code is kudzu ( vickiboykis.com )                                                                      
     37 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | hide | 11 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                              
25.                                                                Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025) ( youtube.com )    
     77 points by binyu 8 hours ago | hide | 18 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                              
26.                                                                Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too ( techcrunch.com )                
     356 points by TheJCDenton 9 hours ago | hide | 188 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                              
27.                                                                Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) ( twitter.com/techemails )                                   
     274 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | hide | 115 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                              
28.                                                                Base84 deserves a place in file names ( 00f.net )                                                          
     58 points by kevvok 14 hours ago | hide | 51 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                              
29.                                                                JetKVM Mini ( jetkvm.com )                                                                                 
     526 points by taubek 17 hours ago | hide | 212 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
30.                                                                David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models ( twitter.com/davidsacks )
     254 points by kolanos 8 hours ago | hide | 188 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                              
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