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Tesla Roadster

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Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

Big fish. Small counter. Root shell.

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Monte-Carlo Simulations

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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private…

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Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

StarSkirmish: where LLMs write code to play StarCraft.

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C++26: The New Debugging Header

If you’ve ever needed to hit a breakpoint programmatically in C++, you’ve probably written something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 #if defined(_MSC_VER) __debugbreak(); #elif defined(__clang__) __builtin_debugtrap(); #elif defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)) __asm__ volatile("int3"); #else raise(SIGTRAP); #endif Every major C++ project reinvents this wheel. Boost.Test has debugger_break(), Catch2 has CATCH_BREAK_INTO_DEBUGGER, Dear ImGui has IM_DEBUG_BREAK() and Unreal has UE_DEBUG_BREAK. The platform knowledge required is arcane but well-known to tooling implementers — it just wasn’t standardized. C++26 fixes this with P2546R5 and its companion P2810R4 thanks to Rene Ferdinand Rivera Morell. A new <debugging> hea

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Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

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Waymo in Toronto

Waymo is officially heading to Canada! We’re laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto, investing in local facilities and jobs, with the goal of welcoming our first riders in 2028.

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FLUX 3 Image Klein

Frontier image quality with the customization and speed of open weights: 5.6B parameters, first in text-to-image, multi-reference generation and editing.

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You could have invented transformers from memory

Every layer is a memory store

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Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart

Hopkins engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart

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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

The US Benchmark Map places AI benchmarks across the American economy, measuring which parts of the labor force are covered by unsaturated, public, agentic benchmarks.

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How the Claude Code team does code review

How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.

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eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

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Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console, starting with Qwen 3.8 - cobanov/PS5LM

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/dev/null: social network for developers

A social network for developers. Sign in with GitHub, follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.

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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

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Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

Working largely on its own, Claude designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published versions, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more.

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I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

Type of issue Other (issue in content formatting, broken link or image, non-working widget) Problem description This is a pretty severe invasion of privacy. I never authorized any integrations or plugins for scanning secrets and sending ...

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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

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On this day

Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Tesla Roadster

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

Monte-Carlo Simulations

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

C++26: The New Debugging Header

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

Waymo in Toronto

FLUX 3 Image Klein

You could have invented transformers from memory

Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

How the Claude Code team does code review

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

/dev/null: social network for developers

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

On this day

Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

The magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.

Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.

The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.

George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.

Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.

Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.

Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.

Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.

The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.

Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.

Holocaust in Italy: Raid on the Roman Ghetto.

Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.

Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.

Háry János, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály is premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.

Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company.

Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.

A diplomatic incident between the United States and Chile occurred after U.S. sailors were attacked in Valparaíso, nearly leading to war.

The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

Origins of the American Civil War: Abolitionist John Brown and his supporters launch a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).

William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.

William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.

Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.

Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.

Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.

Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.

The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the four-day Battle of Leipzig.

War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.

French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.

War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.

American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.

The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.

Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.