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Linux 7.3 Released
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149392 Points: 330 # Comments: 143
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150434 Points: 122 # Comments: 24
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Documents: Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
Article URL: https://www.wjcl.com/article/savannah-police-officer-ice-agent-flock-access/74135816 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150750 Points: 182 # Comments: 92
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation
Article URL: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-additional-remote-perspectives-for-domain-validation/252166 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150809 Poin..
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150927 Points: 35 # Comments: 5
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esa-hera-dimorphos-rendezvous Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150935 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body
Article URL: https://github.com/IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151390 Points: 30 # Comments: 6
1:05 pm, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
Article URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146624 Points: 51 # Comments: 49
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994
Article URL: https://sanitys-edge.shouden.us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146966 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/watch-footage-of-the-flock-search-a-judge-ruled-unconstitutional/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147455 Points: 84 # Comments: 29
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
Article URL: https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147492 Points: 54 # Comments: 24
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
Article URL: https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/verisign-com-domain-name-registry-consumer-class-action Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148441 Points: 53 # Comments: 13
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148452 Points: 97 # Comments: 28
7:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
What the heck is /pkg?
Article URL: https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143154 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
PalmOS Lemmings
Article URL: https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143536 Points: 85 # Comments: 23
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages
Article URL: https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144066 Points: 109 # Comments: 18
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
https://x.com/Jiaru_Zou/status/2110400256647340476https://github.com/togethercomputer/HybridAgenthttps://huggingface.co/collections/togethercomputer/hybridag...Evaluations: https://arxiv.org/html/2610..
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Article URL: https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145507 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on.I wanted to run it for free..
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
How RC2's π table was made
Article URL: https://khalidhamadeh.com/writing/rc2-pi-table Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146286 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
Article URL: https://colo.to/cyberspace.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625 Points: 29 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 19, 2026 Hacker News
RepRapMicron
Article URL: https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076 Points: 244 # Comments: 36
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
Article URL: https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141579 Points: 79 # Comments: 43
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-and-science/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141681 Points: 91 # Comme..
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141909 Points: 203 # Comments: 192
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142449 Points: 50 # Comments: 7
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Someone behind the software
Article URL: https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142573 Points: 98 # Comments: 34
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142866 Points: 81 # Comments: 34..
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Mitos editor is a fork of Helix
Article URL: https://mitos.computer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143132 Points: 21 # Comments: 22
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
PalmOS Lemmings by Aaron Ardiri
Article URL: https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143536 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks
Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdhaliwal/2026/10/16/cfpb-opens-debanking-investigation-into-nine-large-national-banks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143876 Points: 7..
7:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138531 Points: 293 # Comments: 133
1:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Parser Combinators
Article URL: https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139067 Points: 66 # Comments: 33
1:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50..
1:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1146834/kids-are-outsmarting-social-media-bans-thats-not-a-problem-we-need-to-solve/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5013993..
1:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
Article URL: https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140001 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
1:05 pm, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Gold is now the top U.S. export
Article URL: https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870 Points: 306 # Comments: 157
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133231 Points: 119 # Comments: 44
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-kee..
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Article URL: https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137620 Points: 70 # Comments: 61
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5
Lately I've been testing frontier models by having them create self-contained web pages that display clocks--sort of my personal version of Simon Willison’s pelican-on-a-bicycle metric.I have been p..
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
FOSS, Basically it plugs into your existing coding agent workflow and every time you push to prod it'll throw up a questionnaire that checks if you understand how the code you're pushing works. Comme..
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity
Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/notes-on-the-complex-roots-of-unity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138002 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138044 Points: 58 # Comments: 6
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will
Article URL: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can-cloudflare-offer-a-free-cdn-with-unlimited-bandwidth/88685#88685 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138087 P..
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
The game industry is broken – can we fix it?
Article URL: https://knowledge.edge-online.com/p/the-game-industry-is-broken-can-we-fix-it-tim-sweeney-edge-crash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138156 Points: 18 # Comments: 15
7:05 am, October 18, 2026 Hacker News
Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Article URL: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131213 Points: 178 # Comments: 50
7:05 pm, October 17, 2026 Hacker News
Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256 Points: 325 # Comments: 176
7:05 pm, October 17, 2026 Hacker News
Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
Article URL: https://pele.run/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132193 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
7:05 pm, October 17, 2026 Hacker News
GLP-1 may slow biological aging
Article URL: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-study-shows-popular-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-may-slow-biological-aging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132328 Points: 14..
7:05 pm, October 17, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
