Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

50 jumploops 2026-10-25 18:26:24 UTC imaginationlibrary.com Llama Share 10

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifts free books to children worldwide, promoting early childhood literacy and inspiring a love of reading. The program, launched in 1995, has expanded to five countries and aims to reach every child with access to quality books.

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

151 Tomte 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC talkweb.eu Llama Share 57

The Digital Dissident Devroom brings together developers to build tools for digital freedom, focusing on end-to-end chain protection for those under threat. It complements other devrooms and aims to advance interoperability, shared threat models, and engineering practice in circumvention, anonymity, messaging, publishing and whistleblowing tools.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

144 sungam 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC lynchlab.net Llama Share 77

Two AI models, a CNN and two LLMs, were tested on 200 skin lesions with varying accuracy in diagnosing benign or malignant conditions. The CNN outperformed the LLMs in most cases, especially for melanomas and actinic keratoses.

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

86 tdeck 2026-10-25 18:06:24 UTC theintercept.com Llama Share 12

The Eugene Police Department is charging $2.5 million for public records about police officer Justin Peckels, who punched a resident in the face during a traffic stop, citing it would take 44,816 hours to process the request. The city's response has been criticized as an attempt to intimidate journalists and stifle oversight of police misconduct.

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

37 jumploops 2026-10-25 17:01:24 UTC oligarchwatch.substack.com Llama Share 39

Amazon released new tablets for toddlers despite concerns over developmental problems and emotional dysregulation linked to screen time. The company's marketing claims do not align with studies showing increased screen time is associated with poorer learning outcomes in children.

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

21 zdw 2026-10-25 17:01:24 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 5

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

53 greenchair 2026-10-25 14:01:24 UTC dreamhoststatus.com Llama Share 18

DreamHost is resetting passwords for affected email and FTP/SFTP users due to a system issue, with instructions sent via email. Account owners can set new passwords in the DreamHost control panel at panel.dreamhost.com without waiting for an email notification.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

666 ltratt 2026-10-24 22:01:24 UTC danluu.com Llama Share 631

The author discusses the potential for ambitious software projects, citing examples of successful projects like pgrust and Azul AI. They argue that with advancements in capabilities, it's now possible to build more complex and high-quality software without requiring extensive expertise or resources. The author also notes that while some people may be able to achieve impressive results with ...

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

73 romanhn 2026-10-25 17:01:24 UTC dailycal.org Llama Share 104

Professor Richard Borcherds, a Fields medalist, no longer grades students' homework due to AI use. He believes AI will surpass human mathematicians in the near future and is uncertain about advising students on math careers.

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

9 Brajeshwar 2026-10-25 17:01:24 UTC raspberrypi.com LocalLLM Share 0

A maker recreates the Apollo Guidance Computer using a Raspberry Pi and 3D printing, offering hands-on experience with space history. The project emulates the original AGC's unique hardware and software, including its 1.024MHz clock speed and 15-bit data blocks.

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

321 gmays 2026-10-25 02:01:24 UTC cerebras.ai Llama Share 113

Cerebras wafer-scale chips are used to deploy large models, with a single chip having 44 GB of on-chip memory. The model Kimi K3, with ~3 trillion parameters, is split across multiple wafers to run at 1000-2000+ tokens per second.

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

139 vfxGer 2026-10-25 16:01:24 UTC bigwhalehunting.com Llama Share 44

The bubble chart displays S&P 500 companies by market capitalization, with employee density indicating value per worker. Companies with at least employees and a market cap of are shown, along with some exceptions like Palantir and Welltower.

Sabre Wulf Remastered

40 adunk 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC gp-64.com Full Share 5

Sabre Wulf Remastered: Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze rebuilt for the Commodore 64 by Genesis Project. New graphics, new music, a map, screenshots, instructions and download.

Root shell on Samsung TV

638 testing22321 2026-10-24 19:01:24 UTC twitter.com/log4j Full Share 503

i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

176 tosh 2026-10-25 12:01:24 UTC github.com/ihhub Llama Share 62

This open source project recreates the addictive turn-based strategy game with improved gameplay, graphics, and logic. The original rights belong to Ubisoft, and users are encouraged to purchase or download a demo version instead of using this unofficial reproduction.

Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

47 surprisetalk 2026-10-25 14:01:24 UTC scabshack.lol Llama Share 11

The 6th generation of consoles had unique save file screens, each with its own charm. These nostalgic features have been lost in modern gaming, but still hold a special place in many gamers' hearts.

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

10 bootlegbilly 2026-10-25 18:14:24 UTC isburmistrov.substack.com Llama Share 3

The author criticizes the complexity of observability systems, blaming Open Telemetry for creating confusion among users. They argue that a simpler approach using Wide Events can achieve similar results without the need for separate logs, metrics, and traces.

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

162 bookofjoe 2026-10-25 06:01:24 UTC kottke.org Llama Share 41

A Japanese workshop founded in 1882 still uses a traditional method to make dried bonito flakes, called katsuobushi. The tebiyama hand-fired smoke-drying method involves smoking and drying the fish over a wood fire for months.

The Goose Programming Language

533 bobbydigitales 2026-10-24 20:01:24 UTC aardappel.github.io Llama Share 331

Goose is a memory-safe systems language that runs faster than C++ and Rust while using less memory, with syntax familiar to C and Rust programmers. It has no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations.

Fuck Nuance (2015)

16 bariumbitmap 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC crookedtimber.org Llama Share 2

A colleague, Steve Vaisey, asked for a paper titled "Against Nuance" at the American Sociological Association Meetings. The author presented a paper with that title last week in Chicago after jokingly suggesting it earlier.

A Mathematician Reads the AI Future

36 artninja1988 2026-10-25 17:01:24 UTC theatlantic.com Full Share 37

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Show HN: ReVault – new secure archive format

8 bsutto 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 2

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I made a virtual pet fruit fly that Twitch chat can interact with

4 imfinn 2026-10-25 18:26:24 UTC twitch.tv Full Share 2

Little Fly Pip | Live virtual pet • !treat !dew !toy !pet !pollen | First Mac stream test | Streaming science & technology.

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

59 mimasama 2026-10-25 09:01:24 UTC rec98.nmlgc.net Llama Share 38

The author of Shuusou Gyoku has successfully created a headless game logic library, Hatoyama, which provides a clean and modular API for replay validation. The library is designed to be freestanding and can run on any Windows version since 95 without relying on the C runtime or SDL.

SpeedCrunch 1.1

208 LordNibbler 2026-10-24 20:01:24 UTC speedcrunch.org Full Share 47

SpeedCrunch is a free, open-source scientific calculator for Windows, macOS and Linux, with 50-digit precision, complex numbers and unit conversion.

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

1648 sohkamyung 2026-10-23 19:01:24 UTC edjefferson.com Full Share 252

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.

Small Programs and Languages

171 andsoitis 2026-10-24 22:01:24 UTC ratfactor.com Llama Share 27

The author discusses the appeal of tiny programming languages and implementations, citing examples such as Forth, Lisp, and Lua. These small programs can be more accessible and easier to understand than larger ones.

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

13 teleforce 2026-10-25 18:01:24 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 2

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have successfully replicated a 1,600-year-old Roman glass masterpiece, the Lycurgus Cup, which changes color depending on lighting. The team used an ancient recipe to create nanoparticles of gold and silver that block certain colors when light passes through.

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

111 thunderbong 2026-10-25 10:01:24 UTC techspot.com Llama Share 44

TechSpot reports that a winner of the Small World in Motion contest was stripped of his title after using AI-generated content, and Nikon plans to revisit rules for future competitions. The incident highlights ongoing concerns about AI-generated images being entered into scientific and art competitions.

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

362 rramadass 2026-10-24 19:01:24 UTC southampton.ac.uk Full Share 289