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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
602•Jowsey•5h ago•364 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
432•frizlab•10h ago•156 comments

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

https://block.xyz/dessa
135•dsr12•3h ago•48 comments

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

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
656•pavel_lishin•6h ago•436 comments

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

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1160•sohkamyung•23h ago•222 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
17•Group_B•1h ago•1 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
197•xnx•3d ago•59 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...
256•hn_acker•23h ago•124 comments

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update
147•JustSkyfall•2h ago•65 comments

We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

https://thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev/we-are-all-living-inside-of-an-obscure-sci-fi-film-from-1970/
70•speckx•2h ago•56 comments

No Source Code? No Problem

https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/945131.945155
10•ibobev•1h ago•1 comments

OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment

https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/
45•pretext•2h ago•40 comments

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers

https://quantum5.ca/2025/03/22/whirlwind-tour-of-systemd-nspawn-containers/
13•ibobev•1h ago•1 comments

A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

https://e360.yale.edu/features/2026-film-contest-second-place-cerrado
6•throwaway2037•2d ago•1 comments

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-3-release
15•ernestrc•2h ago•0 comments

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
94•ibobev•5h ago•79 comments

Animations for System Builders

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.html
24•KraftyOne•5h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

https://www.impossiblemachines.xyz
48•bhaprayan•22h ago•14 comments

Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

https://www.techpowerup.com/354081/sony-retires-its-last-4k-blu-ray-player-in-japan-ps5-is-all-th...
53•speckx•2h ago•31 comments

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

https://altchan.org/sh/42
12•Bender•3h ago•12 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/
55•ibobev•5h ago•13 comments

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

https://microship.com/lisp-comes-of-age/
54•so-cal-schemer•1d ago•15 comments

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

576•ex-aws-dude•1d ago•628 comments

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

https://twitter.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923
53•scrambled•4h ago•15 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
210•dsmurrell•1d ago•89 comments

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

https://swurf.org/
40•webtjb096•15h ago•25 comments

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

https://david.lequin.dev/blog/bi-software-is-dead/
100•skadamat•5h ago•63 comments

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

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/
90•armcat•7h ago•14 comments

Time Nuts (2005)

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
27•jacquesm•5h ago•23 comments

Total Historian

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/
18•benbreen•6h ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

https://altchan.org/sh/42
12•Bender•3h ago

Comments

cowlevel•1h ago
What is this altchan.org place? Looks very new. Where's the reply button?

And why do we want finger to exist?

Bender•1h ago
What is this altchan.org place? Looks very new. Where's the reply button?

Its just a private fork of an open source anonymous image board. I had a static blog for it but I got bored and moved all my blog posts to the image board. Probably a rather unorthodox experiment. The reply button is at the bottom right. I might change that.

And why do we want finger to exist?

There were discussions in the past about the finger service and how hardly anyone runs it any more and even less likely to be found on the open internet. DNS seemed like a good replacement for it to me as more and more people have domains now and authoritative DNS servers are likely to be more secure and distributed I think. Maybe one day specific groups of people do something like this in place of sites like X. half kidding

Now instead of having a special purpose client, one need only query a DNS record. In this case I use "dig" as the example but there are other DNS tools people might prefer to use.

GalaxyNova•1h ago
Because it allows for an easy interface to see what someone else is up to without needing to load a JS-heavy page.
warkdarrior•1h ago
Assuming you have this finger app installed. My Android store does not seem to have one, for example.
Bender•48m ago
It's just a shell function so in this case if one had a terminal app that has a shell one could add the function. No idea how feasible that is on a phone.
cowlevel•44m ago
A terminal emulator is more heavy than a dedicated app is
Bender•41m ago
I will leave writing an app to someone else. I've watched others go through all the challenges of getting into app stores and it's just not for me.
cowlevel•29m ago
Fortunately some phones allow you to install apps, not just get them through the overpriced shit store.
adzm•36m ago
> many large TXT records can be abused for DDoS purposes. dig -t txt ebay.com for a DDoS Example used today

What does this mean, I see a bunch in the lookup but I don't understand the ddos part

Bender•30m ago
If a site has a large set of TXT records, they can be used by clients that spoof packets to request large volumes of answers by DNS servers. This is called an amplification attack. Many tiny spoofed requests in, many large answers out.
JdeBP•31m ago
I don't need it.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916853

The real challenge is not finding another channel for transmitting personal information. It is finding something else for the FINGER protocol to do. (-: