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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years

274•lukehandcool•1h ago•58 comments

US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/us-suspends-visa-program-for-tech-firms-includ...

212•alephnerd•1h ago•213 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus

135•speckx•3h ago•87 comments

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185

519•ent101•11h ago•521 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/

166•benbreen•2d ago•54 comments

US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-suspending-permanent-residency-program-for-microsoft-vance-sa...

74•geox•1h ago•36 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...

20•Hooke•19h ago•3 comments

Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

66•kmstout•4h ago•24 comments

Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization

https://github.com/SamsungLabs/LittleBit

37•brainless•3h ago•4 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/

31•andreynering•2h ago•24 comments

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/

222•stared•4h ago•122 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5

994•sfkgtbor•22h ago•469 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/

289•shahidhussain•3d ago•107 comments

4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/4-hour-battery-storage-is-cheaper-to-install-than-g...

25•01-_-•36m ago•1 comments

Time Travel in Braid (2015)

https://qntm.org/braid

64•Ariarule•3d ago•25 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html

330•Muhammad523•2d ago•136 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090

99•sashank_1509•9h ago•414 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

1999•muglug•19h ago•231 comments

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

https://blog.pkh.me/p/49-float-and-integer-arithmetic-follow-two-different-paradigms.html

32•ibobev•3d ago•8 comments

The Outing of Tinky Winky (2014)

https://priceonomics.com/the-outing-of-tinky-winky/

6•sternmere•21h ago•1 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...

268•pavel_lishin•2d ago•92 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/

724•joshuawright11•22h ago•426 comments

New gTLD Application for .lan

https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications/CD2694T-T26351/summary

52•mzajc•47m ago•49 comments

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

https://interop-rank.fxdx.dev/

28•jaffathecake•3h ago•4 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/

232•gumby•20h ago•131 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)

228•djoldman•1d ago•47 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169

338•6bitquant•21h ago•347 comments

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026

113•sonabinu•4h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/

628•SpeakingOfBrad•1d ago•148 comments

VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ranfp_vz30

40•CharlesW•1d ago•11 comments

Open in hackernews

Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization

https://github.com/SamsungLabs/LittleBit

35•brainless•3h ago

Comments

badatnames•15m ago

Their paper shows this comes with huge quality loss, but that doesn't make it a negative result by any means

nico•13m ago

Has anyone tried this on apple silicon M1-5? Any benchmarks/comps?

big-chungus4•11m ago

Can this produce a useful model? So far 1 bit quants have been less useful than smaller models that use the same memory