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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500 Points: 61 # Comments: 27
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060674 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694 Points: 35 # Comments: 10
7:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-will-be-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-year-analyst-says.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051583 Points: 155 # Comments: 99
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/posette-talk-recap-postgres-isnt-slow-your-storage-is Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052163 Points: 130 # Comments: 129
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
Article URL: https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052251 Points: 96 # Comments: 43
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
Article URL: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/commit/d821685ea6732436fcdf786a81d076958471e467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052814 Points: 155 # Comments: 45
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054207 Points: 323 # Comments: 92
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
Article URL: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054751 Points: 132 # Comments: 99
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620r33plgppo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220 Points: 23 # Comments: 13
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-..
1:05 pm, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Fingerprints are the new cookies
Article URL: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642 Points: 278 # Comments: 131
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo
Article URL: https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049498 Points: 66 # Comments: 12
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Doory – Open-Source Canva
Article URL: https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049872 Points: 82 # Comments: 18
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Crest – an Arc-inspired open-source browser for Mac
Article URL: https://crestbrowser.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051097 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Article URL: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051530 Points: 73 # Comments: 52
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
Article URL: https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051573 Points: 51 # Comments: 23
7:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
Article URL: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048522 Points: 46 # Comments: 15
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638 Po..
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Fingerprints Are the New Cookies
Article URL: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642 Points: 46 # Comments: 17
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Google Data Centers around the world
Article URL: https://datacenters.google/locations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048768 Points: 45 # Comments: 36
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol
Article URL: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049003 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Illustration Beyond Proof
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049133 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/10/08/governments-are-mishandling-the-affordability-crisis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049302 Points: 31 # Co..
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes
Article URL: https://github.com/plimsollmark/plimsoll Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049388 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Whatever became of holography? (2011)
Article URL: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049411 Points: 38 # Comments: 8
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
Article URL: https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049508 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
1:05 am, October 12, 2026 Hacker News
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Article URL: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Points: 171 # Comments: 209
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043682 Points: 349 # Comments: 183
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
Article URL: https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043689 Points: 172 # Comments: 64
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
Article URL: http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044272 Points: 41 # Comments: 17
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
Article URL: https://asheradeniyi.com/2026/04/10/how-to-build-wealth-as-a-career-person/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044715 Points: 55 # Comments: 52
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things
Article URL: https://www.playgrnd.tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044989 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper
Article URL: https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045273 Points: 22 # Comments: 7
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canadian-youtuber-builds-flock-like-camera-to-exclusively-track-police-vehicles-officers-visit-his-home-to-express-privacy-concer..
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
Article URL: https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045946 Points: 40 # Comments: 8
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Article URL: https://nanolathe.gg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045984 Points: 60 # Comments: 27
7:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619 Points: 266 # Comments: 98
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot
Article URL: https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041667 Points: 25 # Comments: 29
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
Article URL: https://nitter.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682 Points: 162 # Comments: 50
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5vgjm3gk7rzo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042107 Points: 45 # Comments: 42
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
What driving across Europe costs in tolls, vignettes, bridges and fuel
Article URL: https://copilot.travel/tolls/europe-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042149 Points: 20 # Comments: 11
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
I paid people to try and follow my README
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042219 Points: 60 # Comments: 34
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
Article URL: https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042362 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scandinavia-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-population.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042370 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
Don't Put Tilde In Your Path
Article URL: https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042425 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
1:05 pm, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
Article URL: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032758 Points: 244..
7:05 am, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP
Article URL: https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038623 Points: 64 # Comments: 6
7:05 am, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
Article URL: https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039092 Points: 75 # Comments: 57
7:05 am, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039536 Points: 49 # Comments: 11
7:05 am, October 11, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
