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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
492•u1hcw9nx•5h ago•212 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
608•iamflimflam1•8h ago•283 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
42•contact9879•1h ago•34 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
87•Cider9986•4h ago•42 comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
24•simonpure•1h ago•1 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
7•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
155•eigenspace•3d ago•12 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
383•Levitating•11h ago•176 comments

Show HN: Is It Greg?

https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg
6•antoineleclair•15m ago•1 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
314•bookofjoe•12h ago•162 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
63•walrus01•5h ago•8 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

91•david927•8h ago•193 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
47•ilamont•5h ago•99 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
31•NaOH•3d ago•5 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
51•gregsadetsky•2h ago•10 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
16•tomasslavicek•3d ago•5 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
392•vinhnx•3d ago•90 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
164•tosh•12h ago•74 comments

I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770...
181•ichacas•3d ago•86 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
207•ibobev•13h ago•49 comments

AI is not a normal technology

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology
4•theahura•1h ago•3 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
141•chiassedu80•11h ago•72 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
5•herbertl•2h ago•0 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
30•andsoitis•4h ago•24 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
6•akkartik•2d ago•1 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
60•rzk•2d ago•14 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
140•elffjs•3h ago•102 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/
3•andsoitis•1h ago•1 comments

Bad code is kudzu

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/bad-code-is-kudzu/
39•surprisetalk•3d ago•12 comments

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

https://www.science.org/content/article/chilling-warning-or-overreaction-ai-bioweapons-report-div...
5•sbulaev•2h ago•0 comments