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Phones are the last big body of software only people can use

https://getopposable.com/blog/giving-phones-thumbs
1•possiblelion•1m ago•0 comments

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Erodes Your Ability to Persist at Hard Things

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/using-ai-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-persist-hard-th...
2•giuliomagnifico•7m ago•0 comments

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun

https://blog.boxlite.ai/building-a-vmm-from-scratch-0-why-boxlite-is-replacing-libkrun
1•dorianzheng•8m ago•0 comments

Do you need to walk 10k steps a day?

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/10/09/do-you-need-to-walk-10000-steps-a-day
2•andsoitis•10m ago•0 comments

What's Wrong with GitHub

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-github.html
1•signa11•10m ago•1 comments

An exploratory study of hallucination in Qwen 3.8-27B and GPT-OSS-20B

https://github.com/alitenes2020-sys/Repository-name-llama-hallucination
1•Nipola•11m ago•0 comments

Voice racer game built with OSS model NeuDecide

https://github.com/vimalananddev/voice-racer
1•neuphonic_s•15m ago•0 comments

How has AI changed Hackathons?

https://paypalaihackathon.devpost.com
1•eddiejaoude•16m ago•1 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
9•ForHackernews•16m ago•0 comments

Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pins from die photos

http://www.righto.com/2023/07/8086-pins.html
1•utiiiD•18m ago•0 comments

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

https://robotgirlgang.com/2026/10/08/robot-is-a-social-construct-why-your-dishwasher-is-not-a-robot/
5•birdculture•19m ago•1 comments

You Built a Knowledge Graph from 1M Documents. Can You Trust It?

https://memgraph.com/blog/can-you-trust-your-knowledge-graph
1•LLcolD•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WhimKid, an AI storybook generator for children

https://whimkid.com/
1•sylwair•21m ago•0 comments

Training LLMs to write tools generalized beyond self use

https://tool-use-smith.github.io/
2•blackcat201•25m ago•0 comments

Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
5•walrus01•26m ago•6 comments

Rank 17 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

https://medium.com/the-hitmagist/rank-17-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-d3b4e0d6f7e2
1•bryanrasmussen•28m ago•0 comments

Simulation Hypothesis

https://www.realm33.org/conspiracy-theory/the-simulation-hypothesis/
2•jruohonen•34m ago•0 comments

Brickbait

https://olliegreen.info/posts/18/brickbait/
2•Oarch•34m ago•0 comments

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
2•joshcsimmons•36m ago•0 comments

H.266 vs. AV1 for Live Streaming: What Codec to Choose

https://www.red5.net/blog/h266-vs-av1/
3•mondainx•38m ago•0 comments

Superstar podcasts are Silicon Valley's way of talking to itself

https://economist.com/culture/2026/10/08/superstar-podcasts-are-silicon-valleys-way-of-talking-to...
4•andsoitis•38m ago•0 comments

Progressive Determinization in Software Development

https://novian.works/progressive-determinization.html
2•reverseblade2•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: THX-01 – Free API for our open-source decision model

https://twitter.com/reversedoofz/status/2109005792246657448
2•lebagetdefrance•42m ago•0 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
50•basilikum•42m ago•33 comments

cgo is not Go (2016)

https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
2•tosh•44m ago•0 comments

go-duckfs: DuckDB virtual file system based on io/fs

https://github.com/firetiger-oss/go-duckfs
1•tosh•46m ago•0 comments

Relevance of LTS distro releases and the GenAI world

https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2586/
1•Hendrikto•55m ago•1 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.dev/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models/
2•robluxus•1h ago•0 comments

Vibe Prospecting – B2B Prospecting from Claude and Claude Code via MCP

https://github.com/explorium-ai/vibeprospecting-mcp
1•zivnadil•1h ago•0 comments

A new language has been born in the Northwest (2022)

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/05/new-language-for-deaf-blind-born-in-northwest/
4•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
50•basilikum•42m ago

Comments

meethkr•18m ago
Maybe with all the age verification spyware around its time I finally went back to IRC chat.
9dev•13m ago
That’s just nostalgia. You wouldn’t miss bouncers, worrying about presence, multiple devices, file sharing, and more.
mgaunard•10m ago
I never worry about presence in any form of chat. I don't care if people are there when I message them; it's up to them to pick up my messages at their convenience.
jeltz•1m ago
Which is never if the person you messaged did not have a bouncer or their bouncer crashed.
dewey•10m ago
I've been using https://www.irccloud.com for years, it takes care of all these things and also has an app / push notifications. It's still IRC, but it takes care of a lot of the annoying parts of it that made it feel dated.
gsich•5m ago
The Lounge https://thelounge.chat/
neals•18m ago
Makes me wonder if moving away from discord back to IRC would be a fun move. But I think we'd miss mobile access and accounts on different devices maybe? Any thoughts?
rylando•16m ago
I mean, it seemed mobile enough for that tv presenter to get caught on a plane being a pedo on IRC
yieldcrv•15m ago
why wouldn’t mobile access work? Its just a protocol
hengheng•4m ago
The protocol needs ugly extensions to have a variety of devices plug into the same user account. For me back in the day this was an ssh session running the IRC client in a screen, and it was no worse than whatever else was available.
dewey•3m ago
Yes, but compared to "modern" apps IRC is very rudimentary and you would not get messages if you "close the app". You always have to run some secondary infrastructure like a bouncer to get offline messages or see what happened while you were away.

I know that's not the fault of the protocol itself, but that's always one of the biggest hurdle for IRC adoption when everyone is used to just open apps and see the full history at all times.

javier2•14m ago
kristopolous•14m ago
If you look at "old" internet: fidonet telnet bitnet ftp fsp wais netnews whois++ gopher relaynet ... i mean irc is one of the only ones that is still used, and mostly as it was 35 years ago. Pretty impressive.

People love knocking on IRC but people are still on it, still using it...

dist-epoch•11m ago
COBOL is still used 50 years later.
pelagicAustral•5m ago
COBOL is definitely a hallmark of this type of argument.
unclet•3m ago
what about SMTP?
nubinetwork•14m ago
IRC is dead to me, you can thank Andrew Lee (of Freenode infamy) for that one.
dewey•11m ago
Isn't exactly the beauty of IRC that one person doing something to one node in the network isn't affecting the rest at all?
nubinetwork•10m ago
I can't be bothered to sign up for both libera and oftc. When everything was on freenode, you didn't have to jump through any hoops just to ask a question.
dewey•6m ago
You don't need to "sign up". You just open your client, connect to the server and ask your question.
gsich•6m ago
Your loss.
dist-epoch•12m ago
if you look at the linked roadmap, most issues are from 2020/2021, with one from 2017, when Discord appeared.

So yeah, we are going to have the Dyson swarm before this is done.

rie_t•11m ago
An IRC client with an extension for image/video embeds and a voice chat (with video/screenshare support) would go far.
pkal•8m ago
I know it is a different protocol, but doesn't Mumble provide this to some degree?
gsich•6m ago
only voice and subpar text chat.
dewey•7m ago
Many GUI IRC clients do image / video embedding, even 10 years ago. Voice chat / video / screenshare is probably not a good fit unless you run some kind of secondary infrastructure like Jitsi and make it look like it's part of the client. Doesn't seem like a great fit though.
dewey•8m ago
Some of the actors that are listed on that page already implement many of the v3 features (Like https://www.irccloud.com), so it's not really something that will come with a big bang and we have to wait for a release, it's just that not all clients support it yet.
prologic•1m ago
Does IRCv3 need new leadership to continue to drive it forward? Over at Parley/Ahoy (https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley https://git.mills.io/fastidious/ahoy) we've managed to create a federated decentralized IRC chat experience with a Discord/Slack-esque feel but true to both IRC / IRCv3 (Ahoy being a fully featured IRCv3 client).
really need the simple voice chat for me to use it.
pkal•10m ago
If you really insist, it can be hamfisted into IRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R--_ATzE6o. (Though besides the official PoC https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc and my reimplementation https://spectra.video/w/vBd8cUmo9yYD5CtKbyjrL6, I have never seen this actually being used).
trickypr•12m ago
There are irc clients that work on mobile, like this one from the original author of sway: https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma

It’s just they need a bouncer (an always online irc server you run) for things like push notifications (and chat history on servers without the chat history extension).

Bouncers (and some IRC v3 extensions on newer servers) allow you to be logged in to the same account from different devices.

I’ve also had some fun writing a bridge from discord to irc for some personal discord servers (but it uses some account impersonation hijinks that make it impractical for other to use).

mgaunard•11m ago
in general discord has a very bad app and usability, irc regardless of client is a clear upgrade
jeltz•4m ago
Very bad is pretty harsh for the possibly least bad chat app that I have used. I don't like the centralization on Discord but the reason it is popular is because their app is better than the competition.
pkal•11m ago
I consciously use IRC like that: I don't have a bouncer, and connect only when I feel bored and want to see what is going in some channels (nowadays mostly just #emacs on Libera). I can only follow the conversation when I am online and there, and when I leave there is nothing to catch up to. In some sense it is like a digital third-space as oppose to a permanent dual presence that I have to share my attention with. Depending on your use-case this is not ideal, but for me it is a nice, relaxing addition to a lazy weekend evening when I have nothing better to do.