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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1015•roansh•11h ago•192 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
17•joonehur•1h ago•2 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
125•soheilpro•2d ago•81 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2343•karpathy•1d ago•544 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

181•LecroJS•7h ago•342 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
111•raphlinus•2d ago•19 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
26•_Microft•1d ago•4 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
88•luu•4d ago•14 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
13•anurag•2h ago•1 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
99•misswaterfairy•3h ago•64 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
29•TMWNN•2d ago•11 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
141•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•77 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
179•FabCH•14h ago•44 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
55•stevenalowe•3d ago•26 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
242•smilelamp•9h ago•267 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
119•Anon84•14h ago•63 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
23•rdmuser•1h ago•9 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
316•luu•21h ago•233 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
414•entryleveljobsc•12h ago•149 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
128•croes•1d ago•44 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
90•luu•1d ago•131 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
17•Thevet•1d ago•2 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
139•slater•4d ago•44 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
115•dverlaeckt80•13h ago•50 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
161•headsupernova•3d ago•38 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
78•kevs3d•1d ago•12 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
146•gmays•11h ago•38 comments

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/
43•colinprince•1d ago•21 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
61•n_plus_1_acc•16h ago•48 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...
776•ecares•1d ago•203 comments
Open in hackernews

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
23•rdmuser•1h ago

Comments

skhr0680•44m ago
Fandom (ex-Wikia) has been a dumpster fire since day one.
nieve•42m ago
As witness the choice to squat on the name "Fandom" when they were notoriously averse to treating fandoms reasonably.
jacquesm•38m ago
Wait until you have to audit your average codebase post-AI.

AI is rotting pretty much everything that was carefully curated over the last couple of decades. If it can be expressed in bits it will be degraded. This is one of the most annoying side effects of AI, the general decrease in quality. Quality of discourse, quality in literature, quality of information, quality of software. It's everywhere.

gboss•23m ago
I’m not sure I’d call most enterprise code repositories, carefully curated. I think lava flow is way more standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_flow_(programming)
Terr_•16m ago
There are at least different kinds of messes, and the new kind may offer different challenges which may eventually require different (easier? harder? invented-yet?) techniques than the ones we're used-to.

The problem I'm already having with LLMs (in miniature) is code/comments/docs where I don't know whether it's someone's intent or whether its un-reviewed LLM babble. It creates a continual stumbling block for figuring out whether the thing should be the way it is.

xlayn•33m ago
I know the steel made before this particular year is look after because was not affected or build during periods of radiation, and that gives it qualities sought after.

When AI started I got a copy of 6 months before of wikipedia and open street map.

At some point you cannot trust anything because everything has been touched by everything as a regurgitation of everything.

rdmuser•16m ago
In case anyone isn't familiar with that type of steel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel