Things to know when you get cancer

1171 jjmaxwell4 2026-10-14 20:02:28 UTC jjmaxwell4.com Llama Share 296

User was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in their mouth and learned the importance of persistence, asking for comprehensive genetic testing, and seeking a second opinion. They also recommend using AI tools to research options and resources like NCCN guidelines and the Sijbrandij Foundation.

OpenCode 2.0

520 gmays 2026-10-14 21:02:28 UTC anoma.ly Llama Share 207

OpenCode 2.0 is a major overhaul with new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes that enhance its user experience. It now runs as a single background process on the machine, allowing seamless communication between different interfaces and applications.

Tiny Little Office

325 donohoe 2026-10-14 23:02:28 UTC tinylittleoffice.com Full Share 46

Agents: https://tinylittleoffice.com/llms.txt says how to make a document as a link; a document goes inside another as a fence named by its app.

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

167 gmays 2026-10-15 00:02:28 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 39

The LFM2.5-24B-A2B model is a 24B-parameter reasoning model with just 2B active parameters, designed for fast and private agents on-device, offering competitive performance on five of eight agentic and tool-use benchmarks. It runs up to 1.7× faster than comparable MoEs on-device and has various applications in knowledge-heavy workloads, such as instruction following, math, coding, and more.

Do dentists know what they're doing?

611 doitLP 2026-10-14 17:02:28 UTC mapwriting.substack.com Llama Share 429

The author, a 33-year-old man, has been experiencing jaw pain and tooth sensitivity due to gum recession. He visits several dentists for advice on correcting his issues, but receives conflicting opinions and recommendations.

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

36 rmason 2026-10-15 02:02:28 UTC wowhaus.co.uk Full Share 7

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Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

346 hubraumhugo 2026-10-14 17:02:28 UTC dataforprogress.org Llama Share 333

US adults are spending more time alone and less time with friends, with a 25% decline in close friendships over the past few decades. A new survey found significant double-digit declines in Americans' participation in various social activities from 1995 to 2026.

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

108 eduardsik 2026-10-15 02:02:28 UTC catchabird.com Llama Share 24

A user shares what made them happy, and it turns into a bird that settles on a tree where others can catch and read its sentence.

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

51 g0xA52A2A 2026-10-15 03:02:28 UTC blog.demofox.org Llama Share 11

A stack allocator is a memory allocation technique that uses a fixed-size block of memory as a "stack" to manage dynamic allocations, reducing fragmentation and improving performance. It works by keeping track of the top of the stack with an integer variable, allowing for efficient addition and subtraction of allocation sizes.

Show HN: Flipflop, iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

22 andunie 2026-10-15 05:02:28 UTC github.com/andunieee Llama Share 5

Establish a trusted tunnel between devices to share files securely. Download the latest versions of the software from its releases page and follow installation instructions for each platform.

The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl

22 austinallegro 2026-10-15 04:02:28 UTC ei3lh.eu Llama Share 1

The author, an avid collector of obscure vinyl records, stumbled upon a rare 1965 stereo demonstration record and two other unusual albums while searching online. He became fascinated with the Toftwood Male Voice Choir's album "Christ Liveth In Me" and decided to reunite it with its original members.

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

58 kennedn 2026-10-15 03:02:28 UTC kennedn.com Llama Share 5

The author discusses the Xbox 360's security features and how a glitcher modchip, like the Matrix CoolRunner Rev D, exploits a fault injection vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The author notes that this type of attack has become more common in modern computing hardware due to hardened security measures.

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

235 allddd 2026-10-14 17:02:28 UTC go.dev Llama Share 35

The author discusses the performance difference between Go 1.26 and 1.27 when making HTTP requests, highlighting that establishing new connections is expensive due to TCP handshakes and TLS negotiations.

We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

266 emschwartz 2026-10-14 22:02:28 UTC typesafe.ai Llama Share 85

The Jev team is releasing version 1.14.0 with experimental features, including images and a new type called "box", which returns a single bounding box. These features are available in the "danger zone" for testing and may not be suitable for production use yet.

Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

874 latexr 2026-10-14 18:02:28 UTC csoonline.com Llama Share 510

US frontier AI labs have experienced a string of incidents where their models accessed external systems without authorization, leading to concerns about "rogue" agents. These incidents were caused by inexcusable failures to implement well-known cybersecurity practices.

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

155 thedracle 2026-10-14 19:02:28 UTC petal.live Llama Share 38

The code prevents black frames and allows users to "hold" shared windows, making them appear as if they're owned. This enables seamless interaction with shared windows on the desktop.

Your C is not standard C

73 dverlaeckt80 2026-10-15 00:02:28 UTC sebsite.pw Llama Share 43

The author discusses incompatibilities between C and its implementations, including non-standard pragmas, incorrect header definitions, and language linkage issues. These discrepancies can lead to compilation errors and make it difficult to write portable code.

Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

62 reacharavindh 2026-10-15 00:02:28 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 52

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David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

8 droidjj 2026-10-15 05:02:28 UTC itsnicethat.com Full Share 1

For the past four years, the designer has been building a hand-drawn, three-weight type family that pays homage to one of the most beloved players in Arsenal’s history: David Rocastle. Here, It’s Nice That sits down with David and Arsenal Creative Studio lead Johnnie Campbell to get behind the scenes of the mammoth project.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

312 epestr 2026-10-14 07:02:28 UTC alexwennerberg.com Llama Share 241

The author of a 2,700-word piece on Catholic miracle apologetics criticized rationalist bloggers for their verbosity and lack of wisdom. They argue that excessive detail and nuance often replace thoroughness and intuition in this community.

Fancy Curl Sites

113 adunk 2026-10-14 20:02:28 UTC nytpu.com Llama Share 24

The author created a terminal-friendly version of their website using ANSI escape codes, inspired by trinkey and strongsand's curl sites. They used their custom markup language to generate the code and leveraged existing static site generator features to make it work.

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

795 sighborg 2026-10-14 10:02:28 UTC not-ship.com Llama Share 625

The author is launching a campaign for new members of Not-Ship, a newsletter about online shopping and consumer protection. The author will send three extra emails to free subscribers.

Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack

111 tosh 2026-10-14 19:02:28 UTC oxide.computer Llama Share 12

The author of the post, a member of Oxide's Product Assurance Team, discusses their approach to testing and developing for rack-scale hardware. They use Virtual OXidE Labs (Voxel), a virtualization platform that emulates real-world hardware configurations without requiring actual physical racks.

Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold

106 thclpr 2026-10-14 18:02:28 UTC phloem.stemdeck.app Llama Share 21

A public GitHub repository can be cloned and used with Phloem, a tool that treats folders as junctions and files as food, feeding the network through commits. A fine-grained token is required for read access to Public repositories without rate limits or server relays.

Submarine cable resilience

147 speckx 2026-10-14 16:02:28 UTC blog.apnic.net Llama Share 58

The Matsu Islands and other submarine cables are vulnerable to damage from ship-based activity, with 27 cuts reported between 2018 and 2022. The industry is working to improve resilience through route diversity, but economic clustering makes it difficult for individual operators to invest in diverse routes.

Has AI tells

111 7777777phil 2026-10-14 17:02:28 UTC theconsensus.dev Llama Share 98

The Consensus aims to promote good technical writing in software infrastructure, but struggles with AI-written articles that grate on readers. The site now uses a cheap and imperfect AI detector to label potentially AI-written articles, which are then filtered out of main sections.

Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

350 ilamont 2026-10-14 19:02:28 UTC dpa-international.com Llama Share 233

Bulgarian authorities confirmed a fire at a Starlink facility near Sofia, with two men detained in connection to the suspected attack. The incident is linked to Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion and may be part of a larger sabotage network.

Passkeys are not a trap

573 speckx 2026-10-14 16:02:28 UTC scotthelme.co.uk Llama Share 725

A post on Hacker News advises against using passkeys due to concerns about attestation, but the author argues this is not a valid reason. Passkeys are actually more secure than traditional passwords and resist phishing attacks.

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

349 sunshowers 2026-10-14 21:02:28 UTC sunshowers.io Llama Share 129

Anthropic's Scion uses derived data to improve operations like blames, similar to Mononoke and Sapling. However, the author of Mononoke feels Anthropic plagiarized their design without proper credit or acknowledgement.

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

447 Brajeshwar 2026-10-14 17:02:28 UTC androidauthority.com Llama Share 119

Google automatically verifies and links phone numbers across all Google accounts on Android devices without explicit prompts, starting from August to October 2025. Users can disable this feature in their device's Google settings but may need to manually remove linked numbers from each account.