frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
398•kuberwastaken•1h ago•94 comments

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17B

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart
96•DeepLogin•1h ago•68 comments

Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself (2014)

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter
304•surprisetalk•2h ago•193 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1
248•theHocineSaad•3h ago•193 comments

Only 40% of AI-cited statistics trace back to a study

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats
19•mektrik•50m ago•2 comments

Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers
116•882542F3884314B•5h ago•53 comments

Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

https://xpipe.io/blog/java-aot-cache
42•theanonymousone•3d ago•15 comments

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer
635•csmantle•15h ago•132 comments

Finland investigate Google over destruction of 250k trees

https://yle.fi/a/74-20254086
67•DeepLogin•58m ago•47 comments

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

https://smsofdeath.com/
247•MarkBlah•8h ago•125 comments

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
1469•hazebooth•22h ago•273 comments

Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html
145•terminalbraid•4h ago•116 comments

Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn
13•owls-on-wires•1h ago•0 comments

Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

https://inventor7777.github.io/blog/2026/10/22/debug-access-on-brother/
138•inventor7777•3d ago•40 comments

The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/the-us-added-a-record-20-2-gwh-of-battery-storage-in-just-3-months/
209•ljf•5h ago•137 comments

Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497
169•firefax•3h ago•31 comments

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/good-devs-wary.html
10•torutofu•1h ago•1 comments

Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/
189•austinallegro•9h ago•35 comments

Two RTX 5090 hosts sharing a KV cache over Ethernet

https://viiwork.pulu.app/blog/kv-share-two-5090-hosts/
3•velmu•1d ago•0 comments

Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-southern-africa-stenciled-art-plain.html
29•wglb•2d ago•6 comments

MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark

https://dmux.github.io/minilake/
81•kermatt•2d ago•16 comments

OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

https://the-decoder.com/openais-isolated-ai-agents-found-ways-to-talk-to-each-other-through-cpu-c...
321•limbicsystem•2d ago•219 comments

NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748
86•luke8086•3h ago•69 comments

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1
677•babelfish•16h ago•575 comments

A Health Update

https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/
331•frizlab•18h ago•52 comments

GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html
232•sashk•16h ago•109 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
509•bschne•1d ago•140 comments

Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off...
9•bookofjoe•26m ago•2 comments

A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division

https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-floordiv
131•benjoffe•2d ago•10 comments

Requests, Please

https://morronel.github.io/requests_please/
63•sysoleg•3d ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

Open Sound Connect – Control Sony Headphones from Your Mac

https://opensoundconnect.app
14•rolottr•2d ago

Comments

blargwill•51m ago
As an owner of one of these pair of headphones, I'm trying to understand what this brings to my life? It's not clear why this app is specifically useful for sony headphones? The price seems quite high from what I can see it offers?
aleqs•43m ago
What do you mean? It's brand new shiny vibecoded macos copy/clone of an open source project[0][1], and it has 'Open' in the name despite being a completely closed copy of an open source project... and it's at the top of hacker news completely naturally from this first time poster...

I'm impressed, but I guess haters gonna hate.

/a

[0] https://github.com/AmitRajput-Dev/SonyBridge

[1] https://github.com/marconvcm/sony-device-center

MomsAVoxell•30m ago
Give it some time - its good that we have such alternatives, because they'll still be there the day Sony decides not to support your particular OS incantation.
malkosta•34m ago
What is "open" about it?
vexonius•31m ago
Price
l_h•23m ago
The source code can be found at https://github.com/rolottr/open-sound-connect
aleqs•19m ago
It's an 'open' , for-profit vibed clone of actual open source projects [0]... they do have a source link to their vibed copy buried somewhere on their site, but I don't see any reason to care really.

https://github.com/marconvcm/sony-device-center