THE HACKER NEWS

pavel_lishin
6 hours ago
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone....
6 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)
5 HOURS AGO
SCRAMBLED
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen
5 HOURS AGO
SKADAMAT
Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
6 HOURS AGO
BENBREEN
Total Historian
6 HOURS AGO
RAFAELC
How is music possible
3 HOURS AGO
MICHELANGELO11
Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home
4 HOURS AGO
CLASH
Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed
2 HOURS AGO
KHALIDKHAIR
Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
A DAY AGO
GIANCARLOSTORO
Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop
3 HOURS AGO
GSLIN
Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here's What to Do Next
Jowsey
6 hours ago
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, our most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modeling, and financial research.
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xnx
3 days ago
The Real Kevin Bacon
Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood...
speckx
3 hours ago
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
Somehow a film made 56 years ago named Colossus The Forbin Project predicted the world of today...
throwaway2037
3 days ago
A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna
In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing...
Group_B
an hour ago
CVE Tracker
Live count of published CVE records, rebuilt daily from the official CVE list....
hn_acker
a day ago
Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, ha...
JustSkyfall
3 hours ago
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
According to the new terms, sharing your data for better AI recommendations also means opening it up for more personalized ads....
sohkamyung
a day ago
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you....
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
speckx
3 hours ago
Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
Sony has stopped shipping the UBP-X700/K in Japan, its last standalone 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player in the country. Shipments ended on October 22, and according to Sony retailer Kunkoku, the r...
dsmurrell
a day ago
Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key
Learn to sing the songs you love. A free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that listens to the music you play. - dsmurrell/onkey...
armcat
8 hours ago
Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy
This is the fifth model in the ThinkingCap series. We reduced how much Google's gemma-4-26B-A4B-it thinks, without compromising the quality of its answers....
martincsweiss
a day ago
The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
Scientific discovery is constrained not only by what is true, but by what is cognitively available to researchers. Many directions are coherent in light of the literature yet unlikely to be ...
alphax314
2 days ago
WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
A 360M model that pretends to be a terminal, and remembers what you did...
gmays
a day ago
How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
TL;DR Frontier LLMs are now capable of generating artistic images using SVG. We ask – if these LLMs had to hide a message in an image – how would the…...
njx
3 hours ago
New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
Microsoft plans to start testing the tool in a Boston hospital soon....
animalhot
a day ago
Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart
Local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant for webOS TVs - anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv...