6:40:53 AM MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2026 THE HACKER NEWS
karpathy
a day ago
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!...
6 HOURS AGO
MISSWATERFAIRY
OccupySaaS
A DAY AGO
LUU
Bidirectional charging during grid outages
3 DAYS AGO
TMWNN
Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry
2 DAYS AGO
THEVET
The She-Wolves of Jülich
A DAY AGO
HAPAX_LEGOMENA
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
2 DAYS AGO
NMJENKINS
Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
2 DAYS AGO
OHJEEZ
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
A DAY AGO
OGER
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
A DAY AGO
GUREGODEVO
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
joonehur
5 hours ago
F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.
rdmuser
5 hours ago
AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture
LLM-powered wikis, often full of inaccurate or irrelevant information, are starting to take over, leaving fans sidelined and publishers playing whack-a-mole....
Anon84
17 hours ago
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as the...
smilelamp
12 hours ago
Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
[This is a guest post by Frank Calegari. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Why we should not be sad The release by OpenAI on Octob...
FabCH
18 hours ago
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Fast, robust, accurate diffing . Contribute to ivankovic/omnidiff development by creating an account on GitHub....
stevenalowe
3 days ago
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking 3D invisibility cloak that can hide complex objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme heat and cold. Instead of blocking he...
luu
a day ago
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…...
raphlinus
3 days ago
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
Image compression at 4bpp with extreme decompression speed - raphlinus/nibnib...
headsupernova
4 days ago
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
Point your camera at the landscape around you to learn about its geology: what its rocks are called, when and how each formed, and where the continents were at the time. Works offline....
slater
4 days ago
Radiation Map of the World
A global radiation map measured by its community: tracks, areas, and live statistics from RadiaCode detectors around the world....
n_plus_1_acc
20 hours ago
Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
Unicode contains a range of symbols which don't get much use. For example, there are separate symbols for TradeMark - ™, Service Mark - ℠, and Prescriptions - ℞. Nestling among the "Letterl...
colinprince
2 days ago
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
What the heck is parchment paper, where did it come from, and why is it such a prominent baking aid these days? So many questions—here’s my attempt to answer.
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whyleyc
3 days ago
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business....
edward
15 hours ago
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027...
rhaynes
13 hours ago
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Great leaders, and great nations, need role models like Jean-Luc Picard....
doodlesdev
a day ago
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000....