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MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
153•jtg•2h ago•42 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
364•iamnothere•5h ago•102 comments

Android apps running native on macOS

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk
87•flocked•2h ago•29 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
57•evakhoury•1d ago•20 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
215•goostavos•1d ago•202 comments

The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ipo-private-trust-188f41f7?st=RtdGHg&reflink=desktopwebshar...
49•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•12 comments

Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/
430•groar•9h ago•82 comments

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3
120•cmrdporcupine•1h ago•49 comments

Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://evidence.dev/jobs
1•hughess•1h ago

Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing
242•rbanffy•7h ago•69 comments

Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2015/spring/cs463/lecture/03_23_AES.html
46•ankitg12•2d ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures

27•skull8888888•2h ago•13 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
17•hakonjdjohnsen•9h ago•3 comments

The fire retardant in the seafood chain

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/
15•gumby•1d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

31•rzk•7h ago•34 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
86•debo_•17h ago•29 comments

Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-additional-remote-perspectives-for...
197•gslin•8h ago•66 comments

Credit where credit is due

https://thefloatingcontinent.com/blog/credit-is-due/
6•evakhoury•3d ago•0 comments

Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

https://simpleflying.com/chicago-ohare-digs-up-50-ton-boulder-public-names/
22•Stratoscope•17h ago•20 comments

CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership

https://home.cern/cern-and-mistral-join-forces-to-accelerate-ai-for-science/
225•kensai•3h ago•45 comments

Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

https://norforge.com/blog/inside_cairn
10•ragu4u•5h ago•3 comments

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

https://heymaxwell.ai/
13•laginimaineb•5h ago•7 comments

The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)

https://vt100.net/dec/vt100/rom/
24•Aleksandr_NFA•16h ago•2 comments

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

http://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html
71•mindracer•5h ago•21 comments

Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16220441/Ukraine-carries-aerial-drone-evacuation-wounded-s...
68•theflyingelvis•1h ago•14 comments

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository
210•phoronixrly•2h ago•188 comments

Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks

https://3anddoneapp.com/try
27•dmayle•5h ago•27 comments

Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

https://yle.fi/t/18-332106/fi
12•NaOH•2h ago•1 comments

Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8tzbpcnl75jp
138•gateauxd•3h ago•109 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
263•Eric_Gullichsen•19h ago•118 comments
Open in hackernews

Android apps running native on macOS

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk
85•flocked•2h ago

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dang•28m ago
This looks like a great submission! But I wanted to let you know that some of your recent comments have been killed by our software because they've been classified as genai text, which is not allowed on HN itself (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079).

(Of course it's fine to use AI tools! We use them heavily ourselves. Just please don't use them to generate or edit text to be read by fellow humans on Hacker News itself.)

It's impossible to know for sure what was LLM generated or edited, but we have to rely on imperfect classifiers or else the site would be completely flooded by genai text, which is not what the community here wants to read, nor in the intended spirit of HN.

sirjaz•1h ago
This is awesome, now this needs to work on Windows
Tarball10•44m ago
Windows had something like this (Windows Subsystem for Android) which worked really well until Microsoft went and killed it.
forgotpwd16•39m ago
WSA was (or is, since still works unofficially) running Android in VM underneath.
majorchord•29m ago
BlueStacks has worked really well for me.
hypfer•57m ago
Arguably not a bad use of a claude subscription, provided that it actually works.
tantalor•50m ago
Reminds me of Google vs. Oracle lawsuit for API fair use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....

Zigurd•32m ago
Google v Oracle comes down to an argument over infringement when copying constants. IANAL but I would've said constants are facts and not protectable.
bilalq•47m ago
In practice, the Google Play Services dependencies and other walled-garden initiatives from Google will make this less useful than it could otherwise be. But still, this is really cool.
Doohickey-d•41m ago
I guess, in practice this can also be likely be made to run google services, the same as they can run on custom ROMs. And it already lists Aurora store as a solution.

So it's definitely something for more tinkerer people, but still quite cool.

als0•28m ago
Everything aside from apps with SafetyNet dependencies. Banking apps come to mind.
chaosharmonic•22m ago
Also, a lot of games. This is actually why I stopped playing Pokemon Go, and never picked up a worse gacha game habit haha
franga2000•8m ago
Soo many more things than banking apps at this point. Things as normal as looking at train schedules, grocery store catalogues, ordering a taxi... sometimes have SafetyNet DRM.

When you publish apps on Google Play, the Play Developer Console even nags you to use harder obfuscation and implement Google's DRM to, allegedly, protect yourself and your users.

Can the EU finally make this shit illegal? Oh wait, they're pusing for mandatory DRM too... Fuck.

bobsmooth
iAMkenough•47m ago
No app sandboxing? User files and settings stored in the /Applications/ folder, rather than the User’s home folder?
bsimpson•35m ago
People take the iOS version of Fortnite and repackage it to run on Mac.
LoganDark•31m ago
Couple issues with this right off the bat:

- Seemingly relies on the Java virtual machine for simulation -- no support for native ARM binaries?

- Stores data inside the .app

f17428d27584•28m ago
Handy for Minecraft players on Mac: windows players may be on Java or on bedrock versions, but mobile and console players are all only on bedrock. Being able to run the Android version on Mac means I can play with local console players or join a bedrock realm.

(There are compatibility workarounds if you run your own server but I don’t want the headache of doing so).

Perhaps one day Mojang will enable Macos users to run the iPad (bedrock) version of Minecraft as well..

forgotpwd16•15m ago
Funnily, specifically for Minecraft Bedrock, there's such a project (implementing a limited/specialized compatibility layer) targeting Linux/macOS for few years now.
VCFundedGenYer•6m ago
There was a solution on macOS for quite some time (https://github.com/minecraft-linux/macos-builder/) but Apple is killing off the OpenGL frameworks to make it work.
mkirsten•24m ago
Crazy I was the first to star on GitHub. I’m going to give this a try for some tinkering projects.
tuomas2•20m ago
This is very cool! Next IOS.apk? ;)
VCFundedGenYer•7m ago
Catalyst already exists.

It sounds like you're trying to reinvent the wheel without knowing what's already out there.

VCFundedGenYer•9m ago
Naming it Mac.apk is a poor choice. So it's Mac.apk.app?

Overall this repo has a lot of tells of a low quality LLM generated app. Many issues with data structuring, naming etc.

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35m ago
Can MicroG be ported?
chaosharmonic•22m ago
Optimist take: this will matter less over time as more developers start targeting Steam devices
gambiting•6m ago
...what steam devices? Steam Deck and Machine? I work in video games(at one of the largest publishers - worked at other two in the lasy few years) - and while we usually do some testing on the steam deck it's literally just to see if the windows version runs well. Full on Linux porting effort like Larian did for BG3 is very very rare and extremely hard to justify.
freedomben•2m ago
In your experience, is "Steam Deck Verified" attractive enough to fix any issues you might find when testing? I've been immensely curious about whether it's moved the needle at all