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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
111•gumby•51m ago•57 comments

I paid people to try and follow my README

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
172•edent•3h ago•99 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
256•timschumi•9h ago•84 comments

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
72•arusekk•3h ago•43 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
45•verdagon•3h ago•20 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
258•ForHackernews•4h ago•113 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
82•Anon84•2h ago•90 comments

Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

http://adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09-16-plumbers-chains-and-famous-painters-the-history-of-the-pi...
23•sinnsro•2d ago•2 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
553•Michelangelo11•4d ago•107 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
187•basilikum•5h ago•162 comments

Rolling the Root Key

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/09/rolling-the-root-key-2/
6•speckx•1d ago•2 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
1•adchurch•3h ago

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
397•softwaredoug•16h ago•92 comments

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
127•1potato•1d ago•122 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
17•kartik017•3h ago•6 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
436•JumpCrisscross•18h ago•150 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
514•oskarth•1d ago•80 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
34•mpweiher•1d ago•2 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
61•theanonymousone•2d ago•24 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
117•therepanic•14h ago•11 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
88•theanonymousone•3d ago•17 comments

Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-...
24•mathgenius•1h ago•8 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
221•ingve•2d ago•52 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
75•jbaudanza•2d ago•14 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
174•rafiss•1d ago•76 comments

When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64

https://joelsiks.com/posts/aarch64-exclusive-access-cacheability/
15•joelsiks•1d ago•2 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
309•rociiu•1d ago•142 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
212•Curiositry•23h ago•76 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
213•smokel•2d ago•60 comments

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
363•defly•7h ago•440 comments
Open in hackernews

Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next
24•mathgenius•1h ago

Comments

giancarlostoro•1h ago
Yep, I realized this back in February, you can remake basically anything in a drastically shorter span of time with a single frontier model and patience and test thoroughly.
Stitch4223•54m ago
I’d be thoroughly impressed if all the weird quirks of Excel also make the cut.
800xl•38m ago
All I see in this article is bunch of ads and something about people arguing on Twitter. Is there a link to the actual project or announcement?
NookDavoos•35m ago
https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft

https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft

800xl•10m ago
Thank you kindly!
cosmicradiance•33m ago
Internet decentralized the data. Now, AI has decentralized software. Next, we need decentralized AI.
zuhsetaqi•8m ago
How is AI currently not decentralized?
muglug•22m ago
Can these tools withstand Microsoft’s lawyers?