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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
471•u1hcw9nx•4h ago•198 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
594•iamflimflam1•8h ago•277 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
29•contact9879•47m ago•18 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
80•Cider9986•4h ago•40 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

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

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
17•simonpure•1h ago•0 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...
382•Levitating•11h ago•176 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
309•bookofjoe•12h ago•159 comments

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

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

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

85•david927•8h ago•171 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
29•NaOH•3d ago•5 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...
42•ilamont•5h ago•86 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
45•gregsadetsky•1h ago•9 comments

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

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

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
163•tosh•11h ago•73 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...
176•ichacas•3d ago•85 comments

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

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
205•ibobev•13h ago•47 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/
13•tomasslavicek•3d ago•4 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

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

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
28•andsoitis•4h ago•23 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
135•elffjs•3h ago•91 comments

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

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
58•rzk•2d ago•13 comments

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

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

Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0
77•binyu•3d ago•19 comments

Bad code is kudzu

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

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distil...
359•TheJCDenton•10h ago•192 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
528•taubek•18h ago•213 comments

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428
278•mfiguiere•5h ago•118 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names

https://00f.net/2026/09/09/base84/
58•kevvok•2d ago•52 comments

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
262•kolanos•8h ago•195 comments
Open in hackernews

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

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
5•akkartik•1d ago

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akkartik•1d ago
I had to shorten the title to fit it, but there's so much here and the Necker cube is just a final addendum. This is what publishing was intended to be like!