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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

(www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich)

567 points by u1hcw9nx 7 hours ago | loading comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

(spaceships.treybastian.com/)

66 points by zdw 4 days ago | loading comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

(www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads)

654 points by iamflimflam1 10 hours ago | loading comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

(community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10)

118 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | loading comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

(www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list)

42 points by simonpure 3 hours ago | loading comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

(julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/)

174 points by eigenspace 4 days ago | loading comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

(www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment)

396 points by Levitating 13 hours ago | loading comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

(arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228)

18 points by rasengan0 2 hours ago | loading comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

(www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data)

333 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

(techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempted-ouster-by-board/)

70 points by ilamont 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

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104 points by david927 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

(pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/)

70 points by walrus01 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Apple's Dimensional Drawings

(developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/)

52 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

(knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/prehistory-lost-threads)

8 points by knowablemag 2 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Is It Greg?

(github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg)

43 points by antoineleclair 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

(honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/)

18 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | loading comments

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The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

(www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee)

42 points by NaOH 3 days ago | loading comments

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Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

(fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/)

22 points by andsoitis an hour ago | loading comments

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Making Startups Powerful

(paulgraham.com/powerful.html)

178 points by tosh 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

(www.thevidmarket.com/)

7 points by ryanpere2298 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

(devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689)

220 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | loading comments

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The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

(en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation)

59 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | loading comments

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CUDA for AMD on Windows

(github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows)

145 points by chiassedu80 13 hours ago | loading comments

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AI Robots – When will they be in our homes

(spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robots)

7 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | loading comments

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I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

(myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/)

17 points by tomasslavicek 4 days ago | loading comments

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Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

(zenodo.org/records/1430991)

9 points by akkartik 2 days ago | loading comments

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Bad code is kudzu

(vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/bad-code-is-kudzu/)

48 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | loading comments

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Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

(aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace)

65 points by rzk 3 days ago | loading comments

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"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

(www.science.org/content/article/chilling-warning-or-overreaction-ai-bioweapons-report-divides-experts)