THE HACKER NEWS

molind
4 hours ago
Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms
We published the triangulator of our map engine as earstrip, an ISC-licensed C++ and WebAssembly library. How it came to be: the ear clipper rebuilt one idea at a time and timed on 3.7 milli...
3 DAYS AGO
BOJACKH
The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build
3 DAYS AGO
JESSICARUMBELOW
Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight
20 HOURS AGO
CBG0
Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
A DAY AGO
NNX
DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
21 HOURS AGO
KMANSM27
Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents
3 DAYS AGO
IBOBEV
Chain of Thought for Humans
A DAY AGO
HKC
Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
A DAY AGO
UKD1
9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX
20 HOURS AGO
AARONBRETHORST
EA is shutting down BioWare
gumby
3 days ago
What Is Gridifcation
A 50-year comparison of Billboard’s top songs shows how recorded music became machine-perfect.
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cubefox
2 hours ago
Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619...
hoffmannesque
2 days ago
The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors
Though his name is all but forgotten, James Wall Finn’s paintings adorn some of Manhattan’s most beautiful rooms. Such obscurity suits a man who sought recognition only from peers and patron...
riffraff
2 days ago
No more icons in every menu by default
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in…...
wffurr
3 days ago
Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test
Can undersea geothermal power help Pacific Rim nations cut down on oil imports?...
passenger
16 hours ago
Security Disclosure
Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention...
kuberwastaken
18 hours ago
Claude Duet
Claude Duet is a personal AI agent you message. It handles your inbox, calendar and follow-ups and messages you when something needs you. Join the waitlist....
alphax314
11 hours 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...
https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
armcat
8 hours ago
OpenAI CLI
Official CLI for the OpenAI API. Contribute to openai/openai-cli development by creating an account on GitHub....
bryanrasmussen
2 days ago
Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua
The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say...
albertodenia
3 days ago
Code is clay now
Artisans, factories and the new material software is made of...
ejohnso49
a day ago
Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed....
theanonymousone
20 hours ago
The compiler was supposed to end programming too
In 1954, IBM said FORTRAN would virtually eliminate coding and debugging. What the numbers say about AI and software work in 2026, and my guess at a developer's Tuesday in 2031....
tuyuri
a day ago
PHP 8.2.35
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.2.35. This is a security release fixing two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) that can allow ...
gmays
11 hours ago
Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
With our new Claude for Google Workspace add-on and connectors (in beta), bring Claude into your Google files or work on your files directly from Claude. ...
simfinii
a day ago
Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents
PAM for AI agents, enforced at runtime: vaulted credentials, per-action policy, approval before risky calls complete, and an audit trail for every call through Alter....