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

479•lukehandcool•3h ago•118 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
49•gmays•40m ago•7 comments

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea
385•alephnerd•2h ago•559 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
163•speckx•4h ago•106 comments

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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
43•Hooke•20h ago•13 comments

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

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
543•ent101•12h ago•546 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
194•benbreen•2d ago•64 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...
95•01-_-•1h ago•37 comments

Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization

https://github.com/SamsungLabs/LittleBit
56•brainless•4h ago•7 comments

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

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
251•stared•5h ago•132 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
18•AnneWodell•1h ago•6 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
1006•sfkgtbor•23h ago•472 comments

The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail

https://blog.pentlander.com/the-deeply-impersonal-personalized-recruiter-mail/
5•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
80•kmstout•5h ago•26 comments

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

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
305•shahidhussain•3d ago•112 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
148•sashank_1509•10h ago•446 comments

Time Travel in Braid (2015)

https://qntm.org/braid
75•Ariarule•3d ago•29 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
339•Muhammad523•2d ago•148 comments

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

https://blog.pkh.me/p/49-float-and-integer-arithmetic-follow-two-different-paradigms.html
47•ibobev•3d ago•9 comments

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

https://interop-rank.fxdx.dev/
38•jaffathecake•4h ago•7 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
2037•muglug•20h ago•236 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...
280•pavel_lishin•2d ago•94 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
734•joshuawright11•23h ago•431 comments

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

https://www.ft.com/content/b66a9858-f8fb-46cb-b506-44bfe26fca2a
26•mfiguiere•54m ago•2 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
246•gumby•21h ago•136 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
236•djoldman•1d ago•49 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
348•6bitquant•22h ago•363 comments

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
160•gumby•23h ago•46 comments

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

https://bigwords.page/
645•SpeakingOfBrad•1d ago•150 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ranfp_vz30
48•CharlesW•1d ago•11 comments
Open in hackernews

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
17•AnneWodell•1h ago

Comments

hosel•51m ago
Without the pelicans I don’t know what to think
behole•39m ago
paging Simon Wilson!
minimaxir•29m ago
Since people keep doing it: no, you don't have to make an allusion to Simon's pelicans every time a Hacker News thread about a new LLM pops up. It's a lower-effort joke than even Reddit memes.
esafak•30m ago
Doesn't look competitive along any dimension: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/step-5#intelligence-com...
lykr0n•28m ago
Wonder if this was the space bunny alpha model
minimaxir•27m ago
After some quick tests, it likely isn't. Additionally, Space Bunny Alpha had hints it was a Minimax-variant model.