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Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-cup/
9•dverlaeckt80•1d ago

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
481•karpathy•3h ago•184 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
257•oger•4h ago•118 comments

An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and Planted Them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
24•ecares•48m ago•6 comments

With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

https://learnfromx.com/research/anime-word-coverage-vs-lines-understood
42•lakesare•2h ago•28 comments

It's the Memory Latency, Stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
95•ntur1337•4h ago•28 comments

When Electric Cars Were for Women

https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles
5•dverlaeckt80•21m ago•0 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
73•gslin•4h ago•24 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
36•samizdis•3h ago•9 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
291•DeepLogin•13h ago•168 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
171•aphyr•9h ago•94 comments

Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)

https://epoyraz.github.io/nes-contra-us/
31•tevlon•4h ago•18 comments

First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-sate...
4•praccu•19h ago•0 comments

Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/
34•sebg•2d ago•24 comments

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt
44•kerlenton•10h ago•0 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
294•armcat•12h ago•143 comments

Distributed Proofreaders

https://www.pgdp.net/c/
17•gone35•2h ago•1 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
137•pretext•3h ago•42 comments

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus
12•sweetdingoes•1d ago•1 comments

Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/scientists-recreate-the-1600-year-old-recipe-of-lycurgus-...
9•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•0 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
201•aatish•4d ago•66 comments

Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/
51•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•11 comments

5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet

https://oqtadrive.org/10.other/5-years/
13•xelalex•1d ago•3 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
71•luu•3d ago•22 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
195•signa11•15h ago•36 comments

Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/noctua-fan-swap-calnex-rb-gps-frequency-reference/
40•aray07•2d ago•24 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
299•wilbertliu•17h ago•224 comments

William Nordhaus has died

https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-cli...
43•ilreb•5h ago•16 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
792•input_sh•13h ago•455 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode

https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/
149•ryanmadden•4h ago•159 comments

Spooky C++

https://www.nablag.com/spooky_cpp
6•nablags•1h ago•1 comments