frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1262•737max•16h ago•890 comments

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
107•dverlaeckt80•2d ago•15 comments

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260
213•tharen•2h ago•96 comments

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-confirms-hardware-wallet-spy-implant-behind...
664•thm•1d ago•432 comments

Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled

https://anitab.org/press-release
175•mooreds•10h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/
420•talccc•13h ago•107 comments

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

https://felixrieseberg.com/
177•rglover•4h ago•66 comments

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html
157•mdp2021•1d ago•18 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
754•Philpax•17h ago•745 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
299•karakoram•17h ago•434 comments

Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/
23•Bluestein•1d ago•9 comments

Recreational Programming

https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
171•jslakro•10h ago•74 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
270•ivell•18h ago•454 comments

Arena Allocators in C

https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/arena-allocators-in-c/
35•dimonomid•2d ago•10 comments

Show HN: How random are you?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
141•vunderba•15h ago•72 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
204•zdw•1d ago•39 comments

The People's Bookshelf (Riga, Latvia)

https://tautasgramatuplaukts.lv/en/
8•wmchen•1d ago•0 comments

Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/history-proposal.html
39•evakhoury•1d ago•7 comments

Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?

https://brookslybrand.com/posts/do-frameworks-matter-anymore/
48•fagnerbrack•7h ago•32 comments

AlphaNIST

https://alpha-nist.github.io/
71•jasonjmcghee•10h ago•23 comments

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/openai-engineer-arrested-alleged-bugging-executive-conference-r...
564•forthwall•12h ago•467 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
723•etothet•19h ago•849 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

https://music.xy.dev/
69•jmole•15h ago•56 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
370•benbreen•1d ago•88 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
674•layer8•1d ago•536 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
719•formerly_proven•22h ago•402 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
432•mjorgers•17h ago•185 comments

PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery

https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0
1•morraa•11h ago

Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20261007-the-man-hiking-the-world-in-search-of-rare-cheeses
92•tosh•1d ago•27 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
147•kkukshtel•18h ago•72 comments
Open in hackernews

Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-sweden-abandoning-cashless-society-070000442.html
37•nephihaha•1h ago

Comments

nephihaha•1h ago
Quote from article: 'It all changed when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Realising that reliance on an electronic payment system left Sweden vulnerable to blackouts or sabotage, the Riksbank – Sweden's central bank – urged civilians to keep 1,000 Swedish kronor (£80) per adult at home. The government issued a brochure entitled "If Crisis or War Comes" to every household, advising Swedes to use cash regularly to "strengthen preparedness".'
bryanrasmussen•1h ago
Denmark has the same suggestion from the Government, although I can't remember if the amount is the same or less (also considering exchange rate)
yourusername•22m ago
Netherlands recommends 70 euro per adult and 30 euro per child. There's probably some coordination going on between countries that they all land on roughly the same ammount of money.
thg•38m ago
For the curious, you can download the English version here: https://www.mcf.se/sv/publikationer/om-krisen-eller-kriget-k...
wartywhoa23•32m ago
A blessing in disguise.
davidguetta•26m ago
there's a level of "naiveté" that's borderline criminal to have been moving on with the previous plan without considering a war could be possible
cleaning•19m ago
Very melodramatic.
IslandRebel•15m ago
You should have cash in a drawer somewhere just in case you lose your card / wallet / phone. A lot of people talk about totalitarian societies and being cut off from payment at a click of a switch, but the reality is more mundane.

Cash is a good backup and is easy to give to someone else e.g. I recently moved house and my brother was driving my car (while I drove the moving van). I left £60 in cash in the cubby box, so he could refill. No need to mess around with apps/bank transfers, just leave the notes/coins in the compartment.

lifestyleguru•40m ago
How have we even arrived to a point where all payments go through Visa/Mastercard duopoly and to pay people hectically unlock, reconnect, and reinstall stuff on their smartphones?
yoavm•28m ago
Cashless society in Sweden is very much built around a Swish, a local service that I don't think has much to do with Visa/Mastercard as it communicates directly with your bank.
m000•4m ago
The bank still charges 2 SEK / transaction (~$0.2). This is a free handout to the banks, which already profit from you keeping your savings in their books. It's also a fee that affects mostly small vendors.
knorker•25m ago
Sweden specifically has Swish, though.

Brazil has Pix. Though if Bolsonaro wins the election he'll sell the financial system to the US, even though Brazilians love Pix.

These are not fringe payment systems, either. They're really big where they are.

EU is working on something similar, and I think it's launched in a couple of countries.

IslandRebel•20m ago
Bolsonaro can't win the election as he can't legally run again.
knorker•18m ago
You do know Bolsonaro jr is in the lead and will likely win the second (aka final) round, right?

We're literally in the middle of the election Bolsonaro is winning.

ethor•31m ago
Imagine becoming a dissident in a totalitarian society where you can be cut off from all commercial transactions with the click of a button (i.e. cash has a broader purpose).
s_dev•24m ago
Isn't that what happened with International Criminal Court judge who dared to oppose Israel?
Pinus•22m ago
Funny thing is, a good way of making someone hover their finger over that button is to try to deposit any significant amount of cash to your bank account. One part of the system says "Use cash!", another part says "What is this cash? How did you get it? From whom? Did you give them a receipt? Can you prove that?"

If "the electronics" break down, shops usually can't accept any form of payment at all, because that would be illegal with their on-line cash registers being offline...

SanjayMehta•19m ago
You don't have to imagine it.

Col. Jacques Baud is living it right now. He's been cut off from his pension and bank accounts completely in Belgium and is prohibited from crossing borders.

So he can't even return to Switzerland.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/former-swiss-in...

miroljub•11m ago
It is happening in the EU right now. Martin Sellner has denied or closed by 109 banks for his opinion that Europe should stay European.

Prophecy: some people here may argue that's a good thing, and we should differentiate between a good and bad debanking.

jmkd•25m ago
A shame that this took the threat of war to be taken seriously, rather than the reality of disenfranchisement faced by the elderly, immigrants, the homeless and the unbanked for whom cash remains a lifeline.

It is of great convenience to governments that digital payments require registered accounts on easily-tracked systems.

Just let people buy vegetables without becoming a cell in a Borgesian spreadsheet.

whizzter•9m ago
The tax service here takes money laundering quite seriously so there's been a lot of regulation added for businesses handling cash, most affecting is probably the requirements of "certified tellers" that shot up the price for many smaller businesses (some even closing down or just switching to Swish).

Not entirely sure if those rules were relaxed, but the state and banks with higher cash handling fees did have a fair share in pushing cash out.

Aldipower•23m ago
In Germany we like to mimic things from other western countries a lot. Especially the nordics (including Sweden) and the US. Problem, we do this with a delay of 5-10 years. Right now we are in the transformation process of becoming cashless.. Like our role model Sweden. Hmm, something feels wrong.. :-)
jszymborski•16m ago
This isn't the worst practice, however. Wait for the early adopters to test new ideas and implement the best ones. Maybe the cashless rollout in Germany might be curbed now.
Aldipower•8m ago
Sure, that would be good, but that's not how Germany does it. Germany looks at the early adopters, doesn't wait, but needs 5-10 years for execution and then cannot revert it anymore, because so many parties are involved implementing this.
wood_spirit•22m ago
Sweden still feels very cashless in practice. My barber went back from swish to cash because of the charges for businesses but that is the only non-swish/non-card shopping I do these days and my haircut is literally the only thing I’ve paid cash for since well before covid. Even market stalls etc take swish. I never carry cash on me normally. It has made life much better. There is a small number - less in real life than on the comments on the internet to be honest - people lamenting the decline of cash but the vast vast majority completely don’t miss cash.
countWSS•15m ago
Any "central payment system"(like e.g. obsession with Paypal) is a single-point-of-failure vulnerability. Cash is decentralized and independent of any technology failing. people find this the hard way during electric blackouts, that credit cards are useless without electricity, but somehow still think "electronic payment" is worth completely switching over.
atoav•15m ago
Interesting because I have read that Germans traveling to Ukraine are amazed at how cashless daily life is even close to the front lines. Now Germany is a famously cash-centric society, so I am not sure what to make of that comparison.

Nevertheless it is certainly a good idea to think about fallbacks tho.

crazybonkersai•11m ago
Funny that Sweden abandoned its 200-year neutrality and joined NATO in the name of security and yet security situation for Sweden has only deteriorated since then. Shows how short sighted and brainwashed Swedish politicians are.
vidarh•7m ago
To the extent the security situation has deteriorated, it has deteriorated because of a continuation of the same situation that made them join NATO. They'd not be in any better position without it.
IslandRebel•13m ago
I assumed you meant Senior. I haven't kept up with Brazilian politics in quite some time.
appointment•6m ago
On the other hand, the closest equivalent in the rest of the Nordics (Denmark/Norway/Finland) is Vipps/MobilePay, and you must have a Visa or Mastercard card to use it.
gvfsa•20m ago
Because dealing with cash sucks for both businesses and clients.
ajuc•18m ago
Most EU countries have widely used alternatives. In Poland you can pay with Blik in basically every card terminal and use it intead of your card at ATM, and for online payments it serves 70% of transactions.

And before Blik most people used online direct transfers for online payments, not cards anyway.

The only reason I need a debit card is paying subscription to American companies.

ericmay•7m ago
Right like in China.

But if we are going to view the government as the enemy in this context and thus cash is a way to avoid “control” it also follows that the same are espousing avoidance of paying taxes and the control government and taxes have over you as well.

It’s interesting to see folks talking about the “disadvantaged” such as immigrants (presumably illegal because legal immigrants have varying levels of bank access) who of course deserve to use cash as a moral imperative against the totalitarian government but then if someone says well I disagree with and don’t want to pay taxes (give me cash) because of that same anti-totalitarian point of view they’d be labeled all sorts of negative things like being a non-contributor or something similar.

We have to align on consistent moral claims. If you want to argue well so and so is part of the totalitarian government apparatus then all you are doing is creating an “other” who uses cash to avoid “totalitarianism” and in which case the so-called “totalitarian” apparatus is justified in its hostility toward entities which seek to destroy it.