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Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
201•allinonai•4h ago•122 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
53•Eric_Gullichsen•1h ago•3 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
311•tosh•8h ago•134 comments

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/
20•amrrs•4h ago•11 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
113•sysrpl•6h ago•22 comments

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448
24•nanochess•3d ago•5 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
329•RobotToaster•11h ago•54 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

https://github.com/finereli/whatsapp-mcp
37•zoozla•3h ago•23 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
125•gmays•23h ago•75 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
158•mdp2021•1d ago•111 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
546•fagnerbrack•18h ago•257 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
89•memalign•7h ago•23 comments

"Traditional, but Puzzling"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/traditional-but-puzzling/
19•colinprince•2d ago•2 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
45•zoobab•2d ago•9 comments

16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1WYyO2jdY
36•oliculipolicula•3d ago•16 comments

What the heck is /pkg?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg
15•GavinAnderegg•8h ago•4 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
136•hnisjafx40•10h ago•102 comments

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
74•dom96•1d ago•66 comments

"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html
82•vinipolicena•2d ago•116 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
88•pwg•9h ago•33 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
429•sashk•8h ago•202 comments

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
111•stmw•4d ago•39 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
173•_Microft•14h ago•13 comments

Developing for Debugging (2025)

https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/
28•mpweiher•1d ago•0 comments

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking
19•verdagon•13h ago•4 comments

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
364•MaysonL•22h ago•514 comments

I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

https://eddieabbondanz.io/post/shop/drill-powered-scooter/
131•speckx•4d ago•50 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
161•jsomau•12h ago•99 comments

Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

https://thunk.blog/posts/types-of-types-haskell-kind-system/
102•Thom2503•4d ago•73 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
221•schindlabua•17h ago•79 comments
Open in hackernews

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
50•Eric_Gullichsen•1h ago

Comments

cubefox•24m ago
Meanwhile, "cyberpunk" has been successfully trademarked in the US, even though it describes a literary genre. That's like someone trademarking "space opera", "romantasy", "film noir" etc.
derektank•10m ago
Choose Your Own Adventure is also trademarked, though that trademark (initially held by Bantam books, lapsed, and re-registered by another company) did originate the name of the genre