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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
273•Jowsey•1h ago•150 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
413•pavel_lishin•2h ago•254 comments

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
47•ibobev•1h ago•17 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
53•frizlab•6h ago•16 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1003•sohkamyung•19h ago•195 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
87•xnx•3d ago•28 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/
36•ibobev•1h ago•3 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
105•hn_acker•19h ago•31 comments

How Is Music Possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
26•rafaelc•1h ago•13 comments

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

https://twitter.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923
9•scrambled•55m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

https://www.impossiblemachines.xyz
24•bhaprayan•18h ago•0 comments

Time Nuts (2005)

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
17•jacquesm•1h ago•10 comments

Total Historian

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/
11•benbreen•2h ago•1 comments

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

https://microship.com/lisp-comes-of-age/
29•so-cal-schemer•23h ago•10 comments

Docker is weird

https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
782•psxuaw•18h ago•317 comments

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

https://swurf.org/
13•webtjb096•11h ago•3 comments

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https://drop7.dev
4•primitivesuave•1h ago•0 comments

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

https://david.lequin.dev/blog/bi-software-is-dead/
35•skadamat•1h ago•21 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines
6•luu•1h ago•0 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
333•xiaoyu2006•17h ago•222 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

459•ex-aws-dude•21h ago•506 comments

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https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
174•dsmurrell•1d ago•74 comments

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/
45•armcat•3h ago•2 comments

Animations for System Builders

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.html
4•KraftyOne•1h ago•0 comments

We have traits at home

https://www.axelmagn.com/blog/202610-zig-traits/
28•Ygg2•19h ago•6 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
180•martincsweiss•1d ago•70 comments

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
482•niemandhier•1d ago•206 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
181•gmays•20h ago•61 comments

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
429•johnbender•19h ago•264 comments

An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-ukaisi
10•olwmc•3h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

How Is Music Possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
26•rafaelc•1h ago

Comments

wry_discontent•1h ago
This was really interesting to read as a person who doesn't experience music deeply.
dumberquestions•56m ago
I think not being able to experience music as much as I do would be akin to losing an entire sense.
colordrops•44m ago
For real, it's about the only thing that reliably causes ego dissolution and bliss for me. And I've spent decades with various meditation practices. Nothing beats music.
saghm•17m ago
I have no clue how common an experience this is, but I quite literally get goosebumps when listening to music sometimes if it inspires strong enough emotion for me. I mentioned this to my friend who I played in a band with once, and later when we were listening to something I really liked I held up my arm to show him, and he was shocked because I guess he thought I did not mean literally literally. The hair on my arms genuinely stands up at the end and produces goosebumps purely because of what I feel when listening to music that resonates strongly enough with me; some sections of some songs produce it fairly reliably if I haven't listened to it recently.
wry_discontent•9m ago
It can feel like that sometimes.

It's weird cause there's this whole set of things (favorite bands/live shows/albums/etc) that most people are really into and care a lot about and it's a big absence in my life.

viccis•1h ago
If you found Schopenhauer's thoughts on it interesting, I'd recommend giving The Birth of Tragedy a read to see where a young Nietzsche took it, relating it to poetry.
ai-bot-12bleep4•41m ago
Music is NOT about feelings: music "touches" our Souls directly, nothing in-between!

While we can (and automatically do) filter anything entering in us as spoken language, we CANNOT filter music: it has DIRECT ACCESS to our Soul (our Real Being).

That's the whole "secret" (not a secret at all).

DISCLAIMER: this_comment_is_ai_generated_and_therefore_not_subject_to_upvoting_thank_you

mintflow•41m ago
The article reminds me a Chinese music which strike me one day when I just find it on youtube music

Cann't say something more, but it just made me a bit sad, and feel some nostalgia, and find how times flies over the years

Share the link below:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sD115Li2Jl8&si=reD6a3Cjvt3...

cachius•32m ago
Next time stop the car and only listen
asphodele•19m ago
Trying to explain why music is magical risks killing it with words. A lot of things are best left unspoken.
rguzman•9m ago
i, like the author, tend to find the theories of how/why music works unsatisfactory. in a sense, it has to be some kind of side-effect of capabilities that evolved via natural selection, but i find explanations for visual art operating that way more satisfying than music operating that way. music seems to be better analogized to the written word. we can engage with the written word "visually" (eg graffiti) but most of the time we don't quite do that -- what we do (stare at pieces of paper with funny squiggles in them and hallucinate) is far more abstract. music seems to be like that, too.
hypertexthero•5m ago
Good article.

Bridge of Waves: What music is and how listening to it changes the world, by W.A. Mathieu, is a sound book about how music is possible.

recursive•3m ago
Otherwise unspecified "major chords" are generally assumed to be major triads, and thus not tetrachords at all, which require four notes. I tried finding this section in the sources, but I couldn't find it. I wonder what's meant by this. Could it really mean that major triads are less pleasant than all tetrachords? That's surprising, since many tetrachords contain major triads.

> Major chords (which is what people who grew up hearing Western music tend to rate as positive), the Kalash instead describe as “strange,” rating them as less pleasant to listen to than “the most dissonant [of] all the possible tetrachords possible within the octave”.