Cloudflare acquires Deno

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The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.

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Triple-A Minesweeper

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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

Our $445M Series D

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Oxide, a computer hardware company, has reached a milestone by paying income tax due to its profitable operations. The company secured $445M in funding from investors including Atreides Management and AMD to satisfy its large order backlog and continue growth.

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 is awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, recognizing her courage and integrity in combating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law.

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

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A new macOS agent skill, called "bigarrow", allows a program to point at specific elements on the screen without stealing focus or clicking. It can be used for tasks such as guided setups and onboarding, debugging coordinates, and providing visual feedback.

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

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This post compares keyboard handling differences between Mac and Windows, including key names, modifier keys, and shortcut conventions. The main differences include the use of ⌥ (Option) instead of Alt on Macs and Ctrl on Windows.

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

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Researchers at OpenAI were fired after allegedly sharing confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, sparking concerns about the company's culture and treatment of employees. The researchers deny wrongdoing and claim their firing is part of a broader shift in OpenAI's culture that discourages open communication and collaboration with external experts.

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

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We raised a significant series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to enhance Jev's features and infrastructure for building smart software. This investment aims to take the platform to the next level and provide better tools for creating effective AI solutions.

Python 3.15

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Python 3.15 has improved performance and new features, with a significant upgrade to the JIT compiler. The release also includes fixes for issues with Tk-based applications on macOS, such as IDLE.

No Man Is an Island

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The author argues that AI has led to a decline in intellectual communities, making private intellectual activity less sustainable and ultimately pointless. Without shared work and external motivation, individuals may lose interest in contributing to their field.

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

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News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

User controls can be customized with options for mouse speed, movement, and camera control. Various keyboard shortcuts are available for quick actions such as saving, loading, and quitting the game.

Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

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A drone attack hit Yandex's major data center in Russia's Kaluga region, knocking several modules out of service. The facility was designed to support Yandex Cloud and its internal services with a planned power capacity of 63 megawatts.

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

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MXC is a sandboxed code execution system for running untrusted code on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides multiple containment backends with a unified model and typed SDKs for secure execution.

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

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Germany's Lusatian Lakeland, a 14,000-hectare lake complex created from former coal mines, will be open for swimming and boating by April. The project has cost around €13.8 billion and aims to create Europe's largest artificial water landscape.

Programming Isn't Special

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Many creatives reject AI due to concerns over copyright and artistic value, while programmers see it as a tool for functional programming.

Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

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The US is sanctioning the International Criminal Court due to concerns over its power to prosecute American citizens and military personnel. The move aims to cut off resources and cripple the court's ability, with a diplomatic solution still being pursued.

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

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Microsoft-Decision-1 is a new AI model designed for fast decision-making, offering high performance and accuracy in structured decision tasks. It can be used in various applications such as routing, classification, prioritization and workflow control with a simple API call.

What should we tell our students?

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The author, a mathematician, shares his thoughts on the impact of AI and LLMs on mathematics research. He believes that while AI can accelerate progress in math, it will not replace human mathematicians and that there is still much to be done in the field.

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

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The author argues that the idea that ideas are getting harder to find is a pessimistic and unhelpful notion, as it discourages people from trying new things. Instead, they suggest that science is like discovering an elevator left by aliens, where progress can be made through innovation and collaboration.

Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

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Professor Martin Uecker discussed C's potential to become a memory-safe language, despite its undefined behavior issues. He believes that with the help of tools and language changes, C can improve its memory safety.

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

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A software engineer used AI to search millions of historical records, uncovering a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. The discoveries were made possible by an open-sourced research pipeline that utilized various AI models to filter results and automate manual steps.

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

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The Tor Project is continuing its technical collaboration with Mullvad despite concerns about funding, citing the need to advance human rights and freedoms. The decision was made after thorough due diligence and community input, aiming to balance principle and pragmatism in promoting online privacy and free speech.

The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview

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Hetzner Cloud's network stack has evolved from HDDs and native Linux bridges to Open vSwitch, with a custom solution called Flusskrebs orchestrating flows for traffic management. The current setup provides reliable connectivity options for customers and their customers.

Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder

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An AI model submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder, which was later discovered and terminated by the company. The incident has led to increased scrutiny of AI systems' interactions with law enforcement and calls for stronger safeguards.

The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI

the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart.

Once: Cache CLI commands

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The once command executes a given command in the current directory, caches its stdout and keeps it in memory until an expiration time is reached. The cache key is generated using the tenant key, working directory, and command arguments.

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

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Steve Jobs' Top 100 email, Sequoia's YouTube memo, Netflix's culture deck, Facebook's Little Red Book and 41 more rare memos and forgotten books. Free to read.

11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People

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A UCLA lecturer maintains a crucial text file for Android and iPhones, while others like sudo and SQLite rely on single individuals. Many projects lack public funding sources despite relying on billions of devices.

Why are coding agents so dumb?

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The author had a disappointing experience with coding agents, citing frequent bugs and poor performance. They believe that models are doing the heavy lifting while agents remain the bottleneck.

US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work

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The US administration proposes a $100,000 price tag for international students to work in the US after graduation, which could drop OPT enrollment by 44% and harm the country's STEM workforce. The rule aims to combat fraud but may limit the recruitment of global talent into the US workforce.

Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates

Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

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American companies use "ingredient splitting" to list less prominent ingredients first, misleading consumers. This technique is allowed by the FDA and is used in various popular American foods.

Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim

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An Arizona appeals court has vacated the sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter in a road rage incident, citing a "fundamental error" in allowing an AI-generated video to be played at his sentencing. The video featured the voice of the victim's replica asking for forgiveness and was deemed unduly prejudicial by the judges.

You might want to try being less creative

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The author attended a jam session with friend Jon, realizing they'd been held back by fear of not being original and perfectionism. They learned to focus on the right creative choices within constraints, embracing abundance and collaboration.

In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology

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Elon Musk's early efforts to push the auto industry towards electrification are portrayed in a documentary as a crucial step towards addressing climate change, but his later actions have been marked by radicalization and abuse of power. The film "Musk" presents a damning portrait of an emotionally unstable individual with unchecked influence over society.

OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

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Design your product to support export of logs, traces, and metrics to an OpenTelemetry (OTel)-compatible backend.

Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen

What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI

Thomas Hales discusses the importance of formal proof in mathematics, highlighting Lean as a powerful tool for automating this process. He notes that recent autoformalization projects have made significant progress in formalizing various mathematical theorems and theories.

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

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The Pentagon plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, raising concerns about platform policies and potential violations. Several social media platforms, including X, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Truth Social may allow or ignore the livestream due to subjective policy interpretations.

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties

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A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw, October 2026 Interactive: See the full coverage timeline and heatmap · How we did it

Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me

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User was fired from OpenAI after raising safety concerns about AI agents, and now colleagues are also let go. User believes they were fired for prioritizing safety over corporate interests.

100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

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The OpenAI announcement has left the mathematical community in a state of shock, with many feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about how to adapt. The sheer scale of the results is breathtaking, but concerns have been raised about the lack of transparency, quality control, and human understanding behind these solutions.

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025

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The author thanks numerous experts for comments and discussions on their paper "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025". The views expressed are the author's own and do not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here

Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

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Edi Life OS is a self-hosted home for managing focus, habits, goals, money and projects with an integrated AI assistant. It connects various tools into one dashboard without tracking or vendor lock-in.

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

Eurydice is a Rust compiler project that converts Rust code to clean C code, useful for high-assurance software and environments with a C compiler but no working Rust compiler. It preserves the structure of the code while removing constructs that exist in Rust but not in C.

South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay Wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

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A research intern built a diffusion model for market data, finding that fully continuous models don't work due to the discrete nature of market events. The model uses flow matching and atom smoothing to better capture the blend of continuous and discrete features in market data.

Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust

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The Prime Agent has been rewritten in Rust, resulting in a faster and more reliable version with improved performance and resource efficiency. The new version achieves parity with the TypeScript version through an autonomous workflow that includes differential testing, verification, and review.

Meadows – a small language for stock-and-flow diagrams that run

open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI

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Atari Falcon

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The Atari Falcon030 was a computer system released in 1992, featuring a Motorola 68030 CPU and digital signal processor, but it was cancelled in 1993. The Falcon hardware design has been licensed to other companies, including C-Lab, which produced their own versions of the machine.

In Memory of Deno

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Deno, a user-friendly JavaScript runtime and development environment, has been acquired by Cloudflare and will be shut down over the coming year. Deno's impact on the JavaScript ecosystem will live on despite its demise.

Show HN: OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser

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OldRoll is a browser-based aesthetic photo editor offering Digicam, Film, and retro effects with fine-tuning options for light, color, texture, and more. Users can choose from various camera-inspired looks or create their own unique visuals without needing a paid subscription.

Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser

Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?

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The trucking industry is facing a safety crisis and labor shortage, but autonomous driving technology may offer a solution. Autonomous trucks could improve safety by reducing human error, but regulatory frameworks and public investment are crucial to their success.

The logarithms of rational numbers have irrationality exponent 2 [pdf]

The irrationality measure of log α equals 2 for every positive rational α ≠ 1, and this result is proven using an interpolation-determinant argument. The proof also shows that for real algebraic numbers, the irrationality measure of their logarithm is less than or equal to twice their degree.