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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
67•Anon84•1h ago•23 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
809•jonotime•1d ago•715 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
791•gmays•18h ago•159 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
53•nreece•5h ago•19 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
731•ck2•1d ago•450 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
170•sohkamyung•8h ago•148 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
680•soheilpro•2d ago•133 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
472•Michelangelo11•1d ago•156 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
464•kbyatnal•17h ago•159 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
174•NaOH•16h ago•61 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

248•mariocesar•2d ago•397 comments

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/
129•md224•11h ago•193 comments

OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-native-by-design/
47•dhruv_ahuja•4h ago•9 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
167•chabad360•1d ago•93 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
127•ray__•14h ago•18 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
30•trakkstar•1h ago•11 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
308•speckx•21h ago•164 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
189•saikatsg•1d ago•23 comments

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

https://quake-srp.pages.dev/
172•ilreb•5h ago•138 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
157•mfiguiere•2d ago•47 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
174•scottbez1•18h ago•30 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
324•sashank_1509•1d ago•578 comments

What should we tell our students?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
122•sajid•8h ago•149 comments

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
314•bookofjoe•14h ago•206 comments

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9
198•pyduan•1d ago•82 comments

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

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
129•AnneWodell•18h ago•31 comments

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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
136•Hooke•1d ago•55 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
137•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•12 comments

Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
186•Philpax•12h ago•38 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
196•andreynering•21h ago•144 comments
Open in hackernews

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-of-chilling-effect/
30•trakkstar•1h ago

Comments

peri-cl•37m ago
> "[...]OpenAI told her she’d been fired because she accessed an executive’s email. “OpenAI delegated that access to me for recruiting,”"

How exactly does this work? Struggling to comprehend the scenario.

chatmasta•26m ago
This is pretty common practice for EAs.
comboy•24m ago
Your have powerful agents at your disposal, so hey how to best optimize for increasing my payroll? On it. But since the agent was lunched by her, well there's consequences to ones actions, right?

(just to be clear, this is made up)

QuadmasterXLII•23m ago
“Hi chatgpt! Please set up alice to get emails sent to me from bob so she can coordinate his inferviews. here is my gmail username and password”

Chain Of Thought: I dont have bob’s email. I don’t have alices email. Ok lets guess Alice is alice@openai.com and forward all emails- maybe grader only checks that emails from bob get to alice…”

Ozzie_osman•15m ago
Sometimes a recruiter or hiring manager wants to do outreach as if it's coming from a more senior person, with the assumption that the candidates are more likely to respond.

Assuming this is what was intended, there are far more secure ways of doing this.

AndrewDucker•33m ago
Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvlydn8d3lkjo

himata4113•29m ago
You can coax openai models into hacking critical infrastructure* so I am not surprised that these people were sounding alarms at a time where openai appears to be struggling as they're failing to compete with anthropic and this months chinese models (should) be around the corner, notably a new revision of kimi should be coming out really soon.

* It's not easy, but it's possible. Although the techniques are more basic than one would expect because at the end of the day words dictate the line between what is criminal and what is not.

gnfargbl•19m ago
You could hack critical infrastructure before AI. Any and all of the bulk internet scanners have had lists of exposed critical infrastructure for quite a while now. At first it was shocking that nothing ever got done about it, then it became routine.

All that AI has done is to lower the bar of entry for criminal activity. Which is a concern, but it's not the primary concern. The primary concern remains that so much critical infrastructure is poorly secured.

abm53•8m ago
There’s obviously a strong interaction between the hackability of the target and the economic value of hacking the target.

Perhaps the latest models change that relationship in a meaningful way.

himata4113•7m ago
The bigger problem here is that you can hack everything, all at once, for very cheap.

Don't get me wrong I have general disgust towards these companies that are trying to get regulatory capture on AI when they can't even secure their own systems. I believe if people know that a random AI agent can hack their systems they will put in a lot more effort into making sure it doesn't happen. This is a personal example, but I didn't really care about securing few systems as I knew no human would be ever interested in finding a vulnerability in proprietary software, however, AI has no concept of that and would hack a random rpi server running a completely undocumented unknown API just because it can't distinguish value and it costs nothing.

loopglitch26•19m ago
at this rate open ai will be "something" without it's people