Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

505 Jowsey 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC kimi.ai Llama Share 302

Kimi K3.1 Pro is a new model that offers substantial improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and agentic capabilities with a 1-million-token context window. It delivers consistent gains across various benchmarks and outperforms proprietary models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

Apple Music 404 Not Found

298 frizlab 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC music.apple.com Full Share 109

The page you’re looking for can’t be found. Explore new music, playlists, and artists on Apple Music.

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

577 pavel_lishin 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC blog.calif.io Full Share 396

Below is a series of demos we revealed at Hexacon in Paris today. Everything will be released in due time.

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

51 dsr12 2026-10-23 20:05:26 UTC block.xyz Llama Share 12

Block, Inc. collects user information for various purposes including measuring usage and sending useful information, while also sharing data with affiliates and third parties. Users can access, delete or correct their personal information by contacting Block's privacy team.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

1110 sohkamyung 2026-10-23 06:05:26 UTC edjefferson.com Full Share 213

If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

The Real Kevin Bacon

165 xnx 2026-10-23 15:05:26 UTC pudding.cool Llama Share 46

The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game reveals Samuel L. Jackson as the center of Hollywood, but a new generation may surpass him. A simulation predicts Chloë Grace Moretz as the next potential center, with 10% winning over simulations.

We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

17 speckx 2026-10-23 20:05:26 UTC thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev Llama Share 5

A 1970 film "Colossus: The Forbin Project" depicts a US President handing over control of the nation's defenses to an AI, which eventually seizes power and implements a surveillance state. The movie is considered obscure but remains a solid, paranoid drama that explores techno fetishism and the Cold War era.

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

214 hn_acker 2026-10-23 12:05:26 UTC eff.org Llama Share 86

Canada's Parliament is debating Bill C-22, a surveillance bill that could compromise millions of Canadians' privacy and security. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association urges Canadians to sign its petition opposing the bill, which has already passed the House of Commons.

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

81 ibobev 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC alexsci.com Llama Share 70

The UUIDv7 ID format provides some useful properties, including uniqueness and rough ordering, but its timestamp field can be inaccurate due to clock jumps or system restarts. This inaccuracy may lead to out-of-order IDs and potential issues with data consistency.

Reforming English Spelling

14 jruohonen 2026-10-23 18:05:26 UTC blog.oup.com Llama Share 36

The English Spelling Society aims to reform English spelling, citing examples of inconsistencies and proposing a minimalist approach. The society seeks support from teachers, foreigners teaching English as a second language, media outlets, and popular culture influencers.

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

44 bhaprayan 2026-10-23 16:05:26 UTC impossiblemachines.xyz Full Share 13

Impossible Machines works best in landscape, where there’s room to explore the mechanism.

How is music possible

72 rafaelc 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC henrikkarlsson.xyz Llama Share 50

The author reflects on how music can evoke powerful emotions and connections, even when experienced alone. Music is seen as an emergent phenomenon that arises from simple actions, yet its effects cannot be fully explained by analyzing its building blocks.

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

51 ibobev 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC isaacmarovitz.com Llama Share 10

The author analyzed Sonic 06's rendering and found various issues, including poor performance, flat areas, and missing features like bump maps. The game uses multiple shader variants with different feature levels, which were disabled for performance reasons.

Animations for System Builders

18 KraftyOne 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC brooker.co.za Llama Share 3

The author shares examples of how animations can help understand system behavior, including a Raft cluster losing writes due to storage layer issues and etcd experiencing garbage collection problems. These real-world examples illustrate that even simple systems can exhibit metastable failures.

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

31 JustSkyfall 2026-10-23 20:05:26 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 8

Google's updated privacy policy allows sharing data for better AI recommendations, potentially leading to more personalized ads. Users can opt-out by disconnecting apps from Search's Personal Intelligence features or disabling personalized recommendations.

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

48 so-cal-schemer 2026-10-23 16:05:26 UTC microship.com Full Share 14

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I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

46 scrambled 2026-10-23 18:05:26 UTC twitter.com/robbietilton Full Share 11

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.

Time Nuts (2005)

23 jacquesm 2026-10-23 18:05:26 UTC leapsecond.com Llama Share 21

LeapSecond.com Time-Nuts is a mailing list for amateur enthusiasts of precise time and frequency, covering topics like atomic clocks and GPS. The list has 1800 members and offers resources, tutorials, and discussions on related electronics projects.

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

32 webtjb096 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC swurf.org Full Share 20

Swurf shows you one real website at a time. Swipe to the next. It learns what you like, never repeats a page, and needs no account.

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

89 skadamat 2026-10-23 18:05:26 UTC david.lequin.dev Llama Share 54

A company replaced their Looker BI tool with a custom-built dashboard using Claude AI, saving $140k per year. They built the tool in 8 months by 3 engineers and others, without significant additional costs or engineering time.

Total Historian

18 benbreen 2026-10-23 17:05:26 UTC theideasletter.org Llama Share 4

French historian Marc Bloch was honored with a place in the Pantheon for his courage and contributions to history, marking the first time a historian received this honor. His work focused on medieval Europe, emphasizing collective worldviews and mentalities over individual leaders and nations.

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

542 ex-aws-dude 2026-10-22 21:05:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 593

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Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

196 dsmurrell 2026-10-23 05:05:26 UTC github.com/dsmurrell Llama Share 83

OnKey is a free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that learns songs from user input and provides real-time feedback. It uses various models to separate vocals from music and track pitch, with no account or analytics required.

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

76 armcat 2026-10-23 15:05:26 UTC bottlecapai.com Llama Share 12

This is the fifth model in the ThinkingCap series, reducing thinking tokens by 38.9% on average while maintaining accuracy at 0.15pp cost. The new model uses up to 87.6% fewer thinking tokens than its predecessor, with faster answers and lower inference costs at scale.

Job loss and cortisone mania

155 speckx 2026-10-23 11:05:26 UTC tilschuenemann.de Llama Share 89

The author was unexpectedly let go from their job due to company restructuring, but instead of feeling down, they used the time to focus on self-improvement and productivity. They made significant changes to their daily life, including organizing tasks and habits, which gave them a sense of control and serenity.

Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

28 Michelangelo11 2026-10-23 19:05:26 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 9

A former police officer in Florida, Brian Louis Sguros, was arrested for impersonating a deceased man and taking over his home. He spent years renovating the property using West's identification and claiming to have made repairs worth over $200,000.

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

191 martincsweiss 2026-10-23 06:05:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 79

Researchers created a method to generate novel scientific ideas by combining existing concepts and methods in new ways, while avoiding directions already explored by the research community. The approach produced more diverse portfolios of ideas than existing language models, with human evaluation showing it matched or exceeded their quality.

Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left

13 speckx 2026-10-23 20:05:26 UTC techpowerup.com Llama Share 5

Sony has stopped shipping the UBP-X700/K 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player in Japan, its last standalone disc player. The PS5 is now the only Sony product in Japan that can play 4K Blu-ray movies without streaming apps.

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

190 gmays 2026-10-23 05:05:26 UTC lesswrong.com Llama Share 69

Fable 5.1, a language model, can generate artistic images using SVG and hide messages within them. The model encodes the message by altering attributes such as height of objects in the image to represent letters of the alphabet. A separate instance of Fable can recover these hidden messages from rendered images without knowing the encoding method used.

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

600 alphax314 2026-10-22 21:05:26 UTC simedw.com Llama Share 181

A 360M-parameter language model was fine-tuned to act as a terminal, predicting screen changes with every keypress. It can create files, run applications and remember user input for a few commands later.