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Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
46•sgiannopoulos•53m ago•2 comments

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
764•SiNTEx•3h ago•693 comments

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm
96•coffeemug•3h ago•47 comments

Pharo 14

https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html
90•xkriva11•4h ago•22 comments

One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport

https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport...
136•skadamat•3d ago•47 comments

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261019-birdwatching-rewires-the-brain-and-slows-cognitive-de...
326•cisc•2d ago•136 comments

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/
15•zdw•17h ago•2 comments

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/
367•theanonymousone•7h ago•172 comments

Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST

https://github.com/RFnexus/partyline
17•iamnothere•1h ago•3 comments

Colorfigures

https://april-zhu.com/colorfigures
68•the-mitr•3d ago•7 comments

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/
38•bmacho•2d ago•21 comments

Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-10-26/ai-data-workers
74•cdrnsf•3h ago•57 comments

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/
338•davidbarker•12h ago•63 comments

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quart...
58•doctorzook•29m ago•41 comments

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2...
213•Austin_Conlon•12h ago•127 comments

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
630•jumploops•21h ago•105 comments

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
164•bagatelle•5h ago•128 comments

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot
204•vardhan1237•12h ago•74 comments

Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gi5Z51KdUE
6•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

OLED iPad Mini

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-mini
123•etothet•2h ago•163 comments

'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
67•geox•38m ago•76 comments

Growing Trees

https://brashandplucky.com/2026/10/15/growing-trees.html
159•ibobev•3d ago•23 comments

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
238•NotARoomba•1d ago•82 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
370•speckx•4d ago•124 comments

The new iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
91•soheilpro•2h ago•85 comments

DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-says-presidents-should-be-able-to-sell-secrets-on-ebay/
88•_____k•2h ago•24 comments

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
163•westurner•16h ago•56 comments

AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1xftc5s/amija_amiga_emulator_in_java/
14•doener•1h ago•0 comments

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/iron-age-salt-mining-complex-beneath-hallstatt/
109•janandonly•3d ago•52 comments

Everything

https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything
17•ent101•1h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-says-presidents-should-be-able-to-sell-secrets-on-ebay/
87•_____k•2h ago

Comments

pjc50•50m ago
Recall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States for a moment:

"Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional purview, at least presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer perimeter of their official responsibility, and no immunity for unofficial acts".

Now, if there was any kind of consistency, there would be a ruling that the president's "personal" White House papers aren't above the law, but I expect another piece of legal Calvinball to happen again.

dylan604•42m ago
Just because POTUS writes down classified information in his personal notes/papers does not mean the information is no longer classified. Yes, POTUS has the power to de-classify, but there's a way of doing that so everyone is aware that certain information is now public. Doing it on a whim as a CYA because someone wants to make their illegal decision legal only after it becoming publicly known it occurred is not the way of properly de-classifying something.
mrinterweb•39m ago
We all know who Trump is. This behavior, from Trump, should shock no one by now. I'm equally upset with all those who enable him. Midterms are here, time to do the one thing we are still allowed to. Be certain, Trump will cry foul on the elections unless they go his way.
mindslight•25m ago
Grump will cry foul on anything, because that's what he does. Normally for someone at his point in life, this would be confined to yelling at nursing home staff for the food being too cold and having the wrong color skin. But unfortunately, there are way too many gullible fools in this country who felt validated by his crying.
dylan604•25m ago
It's less about who is doing it rather than that a US president is doing it at all. Obviously, once you find the right person, things can change quickly. Finding the right person when the other two branches of government are controlled by the same party, you can speed run the end of democracy. This is the part that's really shameful to me more so than just a single megalomaniac POTUS. The fact Congress has just capitulated its duties while overtly corrupt members of SCOTUS flaunt jurisprudence is something I thought we'd never have to see.
Rapzid•24m ago
It makes me happy every day that his clock is running out. Clocks. All the clocks running out.

But we need to do some serious rethink and work on curbing the power of the POTUS.

croes•18m ago
And he can do a lot of damage until he is gone. He is too old to face any of the consequences he caused
wat10000•38m ago
Ridiculous as it may be, I'm not sure the argument is incorrect under the law. The president is the ultimate classification authority. The only reason he was prosecuted for mishandling classified documents previously is because that was after he left office.

The American system of executive power needs a major rethink. For decades, Congress has given up more and more power to the executive under the assumption that the president will be a careful steward of those powers. This was a dumb decision at the time and it's made quite obvious now that an absolute cretin holds the office.

Unfortunately, I don't imagine we'll get that rethink. Instead, we'll just try to fix it by giving somebody else too much power and hoping they use it better.

throwawayffffas•24m ago
The question is not around classification but of ownership and especially of the ownership of the documents after the president leaves office. The argument is that the documents generated during the presidency are the personal property of the president.
SAI_Peregrinus•22m ago
Congress created the laws which allow classification & declassification. The president is the authority over what gets classified, but should still be required to follow the procedures for doing so.
wat10000•16m ago
Are those procedures described in law or were they created by the executive?
declan_roberts•37m ago
It looks like this stems from the Mar-a-lago raid in 2022. Did we ever find out what the president was actually squirreling away there that he wants to sell on eBay? I remember the leak at the time was that it was nuclear secrets, but I haven't really seen an update on it.
dylan604•29m ago
The results of that investigation were squashed by Judge Eileen Canon in Florida claiming the special prosecutor was not legal. Jack Smith has bent over backwards to not release information based on the court's decision to bar its release.

However, Trump's case against the BBC has become an interesting one. The judge overseeing this case recently stated that the BBC can call Jack as a witness potentially allowing an end run around Judge Canon's release of Jack's report.

otterley•26m ago
Minor nit: in a legal context, the word is "quashed" - e.g., quashing a subpoena.
tantalor•20m ago
Your comment somehow got quashed.
dylan604•16m ago
to be honest, I wasn't even thinking in those terms. I didn't s/squash/quash/ in my head and use the wrong term. I literally was thinking the judge stomped all over the case. Is quash really the correct term here as you're implying?
otterley•27m ago
Source article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/presidential-record...
testemailfordg2•26m ago
This sounds like POTUS is the new Roman Emperor of our times and he / she can sell the republic or interests of its subjects to anyone as he wishes, keeping all the benefits generated for his personal fortune and distributing all the mis-fortune / longer term effects to the wider population base... Guess what there is a name for this game, "Privatize the profits and socialize the losses".
malfist•5m ago
Let's be honest here, this calvinball only applies to one political party. The other can't wear a tan suit or forgive a small fraction of student loans.
NooneAtAll5•20m ago
I don't think being able to sell secrets on eBay is a bad thing. The point of secret classification isn't to restrict trusted people - but to restrict *unathorized* access. And highest person in chain of command naturally has full authority to do as he sees the situation fit

What I don't understand how it's allowed is that money earned from such ebay sell would go to private pocket instead of the government

I feel like that latter point isn't accentuated enough

tgv•7m ago
So national interest doesn't exist? It's all at the whim of a demented money grabber, just because a small majority of the voters (if there really was a majority) got riled up?
wang_li•7m ago
In this day and age, 100% of all presidential acts need to be documented publicly. It's no longer enough to wave a piece of paper around and say "see, it has his signature." Random cabinet secretaries and white house staffers running papers through the autopen should be a capital crime and the only sentence should be hanging.