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Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html

1132•j4mie•1h ago•203 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/

960•kuberwastaken•6h ago•270 comments

The importance of communities around software

https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html

53•amcclure•1h ago•40 comments

Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-bos...

134•mgh2•3h ago•72 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

229•ea016•5h ago•103 comments

After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html

67•rafaelc•3h ago•38 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html

254•ibobev•5h ago•137 comments

Claude Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/

38•nathanfig•3h ago•24 comments

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart

343•WalterSobchak•8h ago•538 comments

Edit an SQLite database in your browser

https://editsqlite.com/

45•chmaynard•2d ago•18 comments

One reviewer per layer: splitting code review by the way code is read

https://djordjepuzic.com/blog/posts/2026-10-27-one-reviewer-per-layer/

18•djordjep•2d ago•7 comments

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers

237•882542F3884314B•10h ago•104 comments

Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks

https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler

102•wondersky•5h ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

35•shong0504•5h ago•12 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer

10•airinei•25m ago•1 comments

IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf]

https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf

18•matco11•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms

https://github.com/emmilco/us-tax-model

26•RGS1811•1d ago•3 comments

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats

117•mektrik•5h ago•57 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/

60•memalign•4h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape

https://github.com/lonthq/overtone-captions

12•rvanderlinden•3h ago•0 comments

Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic

https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-...

140•armcat•4h ago•14 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land

195•rokostik•8h ago•214 comments

NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748

146•luke8086•8h ago•115 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo

110•ZeljkoS•12h ago•210 comments

noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang

https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc

58•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•34 comments

Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn

80•owls-on-wires•6h ago•7 comments

I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off...

260•bookofjoe•5h ago•285 comments

The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

https://www.wired.com/story/the-tragedy-of-losing-your-wikipedia-page/

44•tptacek•3d ago•62 comments

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half

364•hubraumhugo•4h ago•309 comments

If-then-else had to be invented (2020)

https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md

157•theanonymousone•4d ago•151 comments

Open in hackernews

Patrick Stewart Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html

73•duke_sam•1h ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•1h ago

non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-s...

Official tweet post: https://twitter.com/sirpatstew/status/2115891266131300517

pavel_lishin•1h ago

I don't typically read non-fiction, but his autobiography ("Making It So", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_It_So) was very, very good.

One of the things I particularly liked is that he admits to the mistakes he made, and the times when he wasn't the human being he strived to be.

ChrisArchitect•59m ago

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702

jh00ker•9m ago

*Sir Patrick Stewart