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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907

386•Liwink•4h ago•167 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/

1218•thecosmicfrog•16h ago•2135 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/

43•atiedebee•2d ago•18 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683

24•soheilpro•1h ago•10 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/

346•dmitrybrant•8h ago•148 comments

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus

66•olalonde•1d ago•33 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify

1043•EdwinHoksberg•20h ago•398 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html

539•evakhoury•1d ago•318 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe

350•bookofjoe•17h ago•608 comments

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=12835

20•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•3 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/

392•Limb•18h ago•401 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and

436•ModelForge•19h ago•142 comments

I think I hate the internet

https://strategictree.bearblog.dev/i-think-i-hate-the-internet/

46•saikatsg•4h ago•19 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...

457•awad•16h ago•387 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/

366•meetpateltech•16h ago•399 comments

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

https://solidobjects.dev/blog/introducing-solidobjects

17•cardmagic•1d ago•4 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/

275•LeoPanthera•10h ago•193 comments

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/

93•thomasahle•1d ago•31 comments

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/

80•Anon84•8h ago•13 comments

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244102901892965

175•yurivish•6h ago•130 comments

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

https://mrdee.in/mandala/

6•cyb0rg0•4d ago•1 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

https://gizmodo.com/aardman-is-selling-its-original-movie-puppets-this-month-2000807968

53•Gaishan•3d ago•10 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/

449•willwhitedc•22h ago•96 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3

216•wsxiaoys•17h ago•85 comments

Factoring RSA 260

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260

98•samyok•14h ago•11 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-...

258•Lealen•16h ago•321 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/

411•xlii•22h ago•247 comments

The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/

99•speckx•17h ago•201 comments

Rivian's gambit for full autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving

83•1970-01-01•1d ago•95 comments

ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

https://geo-tp.github.io/ESP32-Bit-Pirate/

98•geotp•3d ago•32 comments

Open in hackernews

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683

23•soheilpro•1h ago

Comments

jasonvorhe•36m ago

A couple of screenshots would've been useful for the post-millennial generations that never got to see the "beauty" (cough) of XP.

moritzwarhier•24m ago

Here's a blog post from 2003 with beautiful pictures.

https://jakeludington.com/2003/12/17/create_your_own_windows...

CalRobert•18m ago

I thought it looked great :-/

Maken•11m ago

XP is Microsoft's prettiest OS by far.

bhaney•23m ago

100 seems like a very unnecessarily low limit, even for the time

daveoc64•9m ago

It's well above the number of images that were in the applicable folder by default, so seems pretty appropriate to me.

moritzwarhier•22m ago

Some say the Admin account defaulted to a chessboard.

I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?

cgio•13m ago

The times when people spent an extra brain cycle to avoid billions of second passes.