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Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
51•allddd•1h ago•3 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/
66•speckx•2h ago•9 comments

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
569•otobrglez•9h ago•237 comments

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/
148•bhrlady•1h ago•52 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
146•jascha_eng•6h ago•42 comments

LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

https://frankforce.com/littlejs-is-2d-and-3d-now/
25•dmit•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents

https://github.com/graphicle-ai/graphicle
23•KarLexAI•2h ago•1 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
536•sighborg•8h ago•495 comments

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation
49•jadenlemmon•3h ago•22 comments

US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/dating-app-scams-us-congress
19•PaulHoule•27m ago•1 comments

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/
55•Brajeshwar•1h ago•12 comments

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

https://lwn.net/Articles/1100449/
51•janvdberg•1h ago•12 comments

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2024-01-21-gold-bug.html
48•ripe•2d ago•9 comments

Has AI Tells

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1
34•7777777phil•1h ago•21 comments

The Origin Story of Kid Pix

http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
144•MBCook•1d ago•30 comments

Sound (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
254•dverlaeckt80•3d ago•27 comments

Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/14/sally-rooney-says-she-can-no-longer-sell-books-in...
11•gojiberries•21m ago•1 comments

ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-forecasts-q4-sales-above-expectations-ai-chip-demand-2026-1...
145•tartoran•3h ago•128 comments

Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/teaching-birds-lost-songs
21•speckx•4h ago•1 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
77•micstradev•7h ago•33 comments

Why do LLM pelicans look like this?

https://arcfu.com/post/the-emperor-pelican-has-no-clothes/
116•pcwelder•1h ago•99 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-e...
112•tobr•7h 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
256•mdp2021•2d ago•44 comments

Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/
68•mpweiher•7h ago•15 comments

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

https://brooker.co.za:443/blog/2026/10/04/encoders.html
15•surprisetalk•3h ago•0 comments

The Genealogy of Eliza

https://elizagen.org/genealogy.html
23•abrax3141•1d ago•1 comments

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/
33•ibobev•5h ago•21 comments

Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges
16•speckx•1h ago•3 comments

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1418•737max•1d ago•1014 comments

The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1st-time-machines-mogged-mathematicians
77•list•22h ago•47 comments
Open in hackernews

Has AI Tells

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1
32•7777777phil•1h ago

Comments

taylorgibson•38m ago
Is there a link I'm missing to the tool this article is discussing?
arjie•33m ago
No. There is no link. But crucially, they have given you modern source-code for the entire thing. You should be able to use an LLM agent to produce a similar tool. And the diversity of such tools may well restore diversity of textual conversation.
jiaaro•10m ago
I don't see the source code, where did you find that?

[Edit] Or are you implying that readers should direct an LLM at the entire article and expect an equivalent tool to be produced

arjie•8m ago
Haha, yes, the latter. The textual description is the critical source code. Here, it tells you that you:

* compare pre-LLM and post-LLM writing using 2023 as your index year

* create some 100+ fixed rules rather than a sophisticated model

* use a fixed threshold to kill

jakzurr•27m ago
I read it as it's an in-house tool used at theconsensus.dev for labeling articles in their feed, because using Pangram on every article would cost too much.
Isamu•36m ago
I think we should start to shift away from pure concern that a text is written by AI and toward strictly rewarding better writing. I realize that only some of this involves literal pattern matching against annoying AI ticks that grate like fingernails on a chalkboard.

But moving forward the goal should remain that writing should be comprehensible and not overly reliant on templates and other annoyances.

xyzsparetimexyz•31m ago
No, I am capable of assessing whether a text is written well. I do want to know if someone cared enough to write it themselves though. That's an important piece of metadata.
Zambyte•6m ago
It depends on the goal of the text. I don't care if technical documentation is written by human or machine. I care if it's correct and helpful. I don't care if a letter providing emotional support for a lost loved one is a perfectly accurate, beautifully structured piece of text. I care that it's heartfelt, coming from a person that meant what they wrote. Such metadata is important for the latter, but irrelevant for the former.
socializer•27m ago
No. There's a problem with fully-AI writing that is independent of quality: you can produce a practically infinite supply of it at nearly zero cost. This means that if we don't push back, it's simply bound to crowd out human expression. You already see this on your social media feed, if you're paying attention.

I see inherent value in hearing from and talking to other humans. There is, unfortunately, a lot of AI content hustlers who want to rob me of this so that they can get more links to their website, more eyeballs on their product, etc.

The answer here isn't to demand that submarine marketers and SEO dudes prompt better so that the text is more pleasant to read. It's to cordon it off wholesale. And yeah, that sucks for some corner cases, but there's nothing else we can really do.

pessimizer•22m ago
> But Cynthia Dunlop's survey on tech reader preferences has shown that people overwhelming dislike AI-written articles, preferring even "bad" human writing to "good" AI writing.

I would absolutely ignore surveys on this, and pay attention to studies on this (or run your own if you have a mix of slop and human-written articles on your site.) People don't know their preferences.

It's fine to do a survey of how people think the economy is doing in order to figure out how they might vote; it's dumb to do a survey of how people think the economy is doing in order to figure out how the economy is doing.

rubikscube09•10m ago
it's the same thing with rsearch papers right now as well. it seems to be the first time in history where one can produce "intellectual" content at a rate exponentially faster than one can read it or process it.
acedTrex•25m ago
No, absolutely not. We will continue to value output that purely shows human thinking and effort.
willmarch•18m ago
Why?
programjames•16m ago
Will we? I will value output from people I personally care about, because I want to know more about them. But what about the other 8 billion people? Do you value their output because they are human or for some other reason?

Say there was a Chinese artist in a room...

kingstnap•5m ago
I'm fine with AI writing as long its not bad. The issue is that its far easier to produce large amounts of poorly made AI writing over well made AI writing.
decidu0us9034•23m ago
To be honest, if I am given any reason to suspect someone put less effort into writing something than they expect me to put into reading it, I'm not going to, if I have a choice. And it seems most prevalent in areas of life where you don't have a choice, so to me it feels like an abuse of of the social contract.
programjames•21m ago
When people communicate to me I want them to maximize my comprehension bitrate. AI output is usually dense in incomprehensibility and sparse in bitrate. But the prompt they fed into the AI? Much higher bitrate. And if it's hard to understand, well I can always ask my own AI to help me interpret.

I understand it is a little selfish to want people to maximize my comprehension (what about the thousands of other readers?). I also understand there can purposes other than communication in writing (fiction -> pleasure, poetry -> art). I agree with you that we shouldn't care if it's AI or human writing for these other purposes. But when the goal is one human transferring bits from their brain to mine, playing telephone with an AI cannot be more efficient (it necessarily decreases channel capacity).

There are two exceptions.

1. When AI is good enough to "read people's minds" it can extract extra bits than what they explicitly meant to include in their prompt... but at that point why am I even bothering to listen to them, and not have the more powerful, smarter AI tell me what they think?

2. AI can run experiments or prove things, and I shouldn't have my AI duplicate that work. In this case I would want them to explain what tasks they set the AI out to do, and then provide the results. I would not complain if the results are an AI writeup, though usually I would want to know what in the results the human author felt was important.

karahime•20m ago
Yes, definitely. The search for a way to root out some kind of ephemeral origin or quality besides what is reflected in the text is fundamentally pointless and doesn't improve anything.
bigstrat2003•19m ago
> I think we should start to shift away from pure concern that a text is written by AI and toward strictly rewarding better writing.

I am a human supremacist. I believe humans have intrinsic value and what they produce has intrinsic value (no matter how poorly written it might be). I do not think that the output of a machine has any value, nor am I interested in reading it.

TimPC•7m ago
A lot of the annoying AI writing is actually good writing patterns done far too often. Rule of three is something every writer should use but not three times in one paragraph, etc.