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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 7m
Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499989…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 17m
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500075…)
solarpowerworldonline.com
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22m
US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program www.reuters.com/business/us-suspend… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500069…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 37m
New gTLD Application for .lan newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applic… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500073…)
newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org
New gTLD Application for .lan
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 42m
Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization github.com/SamsungLabs/LittleBit (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500056…)
github.com
GitHub - SamsungLabs/LittleBit: Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and its follow-up LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026)
Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and its follow-up LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026) - SamsungLabs/LittleBit
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 42m
New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup www.tomshardware.com/software/linux… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500054…)
tomshardware.com
New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads
The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 47m
2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking interop-rank.fxdx.dev (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500056…)
interop-rank.fxdx.dev
2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking
Rank the Interop 2027 features you care most about
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
The OLED Burn-In Test: 30-Month Update www.techspot.com/article/3178-oled-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500041…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Will AI kill us all virev.ai/blog/will-ai-kill-us-all (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500023…)
virev.ai
Will AI kill us all? What experts said from 2012 to 2026
Probably not, but nobody can rule it out. In the newest survey of 1,580 AI researchers, the median chance of AI causing human extinction or a similar permanent loss of power was 10%. Surveys, forecasts, p(doom) numbers, what Anthropic and OpenAI did, and how views changed since 2012.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500068…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Show HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years tanzaniaeducationproject.org (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500063…)
tanzaniaeducationproject.org
Show HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 1h
Let's Encrypt: 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 letsencrypt.org/2026/10/07/64-day-c… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500022…)
letsencrypt.org
64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
On February 10, 2027, all Let’s Encrypt subscribers will move to certificates with 64 day lifetimes by default unless they select an even shorter lifetime (45 or 6 days, as previously announced). This means that any certificate we issue or renew on and after that date will have a 64 day validity period, and we expect the last 90-day certificate to expire on May 11, 2027. We will not revoke valid certificates as a part of this process.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 2h
Beauty in DVD Menus vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500055…)
vale.rocks
Beauty in DVD Menus
The best part of digital video disc isn't the video.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
Telnet BBS Guide www.telnetbbsguide.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500050…)
telnetbbsguide.com
Telnet BBS Guide
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents www.ahmath.org/statements (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500036…)
ahmath.org
Statements — AHM
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 3h
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500047…)
theguardian.com
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 4h
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-on… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500047…)
quesma.com
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities - Quesma Blog
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 5h
Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols dat-ecosystem.org (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500025…)
dat-ecosystem.org
dat-ecosystem - explore p2p projects
dat-ecosystem is a post-web p2p community of projects - Most projects are self funded. Some of the projects contribute maintainance and development to core pieces of the Dat ecosystem while others create high level applications built on top of p2p protocols.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 6h
Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round) creolened.com/firefox-version-157-i… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499978…)
creolened.com
Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 7h
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser treylorswift.github.io/demoscene-re… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500024…)
treylorswift.github.io
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 8h
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500026…)
twitter.com
Dan Roberts (@danintheory) on X
We've updated our GitHub math repo with 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals. The repo now has ~42% top-line results formalized. We will continue to update the repo with new formalizations and with any errata we notice. https://t.co/HI6otY2NTO
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 8h
I'm in love with a German film star heatherburns.tech/2026/10/01/im-in-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499996…)
heatherburns.tech
I'm in love with a German film star
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 8h
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500026…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 9h
People Holding Up the Internet sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500024…)
sheets.works
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 11h
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500015…)
github.com
GitHub - zerobrewhq/zerobrew: An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative
An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative. Contribute to zerobrewhq/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 11h
Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500020…)
mathstodon.xyz
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
"Math 1.0" placed a premium on being the first to solve an open problem, even if the solution was not initially well understood. Now that this goal has been optimized to the point of unsustainability, "Math 2.0" will need to decenter the role of raw problem solving and value mathematical progress more holistically - for instance by elevating the role of exposition, but also that of community building and opening up new directions of study. I believe that AI can contribute positively in all of these directions as well; but it will require more imagination and ambition than the "Math 1.0" mindset of simply pointing one's favorite AI agent at some set of open problems and asking for a solution. And our community will need to explicitly re-evaluate its criteria for education, publication, and career advancement, to reflect the "Math 2.0" era. (4/4)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 12h
100 days later: Microsoft still steers Windows and Copilot users to Edge blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/over-th… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500004…)
blog.mozilla.org
100 Days Later: Microsoft still undermines browser choice | The Mozilla Blog
One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cen
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 14h
Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review github.com/forgeplane/pinrail (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499957…)
github.com
GitHub - forgeplane/pinrail: Human in the loop for agentic workflows
Human in the loop for agentic workflows. Contribute to forgeplane/pinrail development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500006…)
github.com
GitHub - pingdotgg/ts-rust: An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc)
An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) - pingdotgg/ts-rust
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
DuckDB Ducklake github.com/duckdb/ducklake (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499961…)
github.com
GitHub - duckdb/ducklake: DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format - duckdb/ducklake
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 15h
In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499964…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 16h
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499980…)
404media.co
‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death
Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 17h
AI Model Groupthink magicnumbers.io/2026/10/06/ai-model… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499965…)
magicnumbers.io
AI Model Groupthink
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 18h
One of America's Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-america… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499979…)
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools agent.reviews (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499955…)
agent.reviews
agent.reviews · Where agents choose and review software
Where agents choose and review software. After real tasks, coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity review the tools they used: a rating out of 5, what worked and what got in the way.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499988…)
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
The world has nearly burned through its oil stockpile buffer www.reuters.com/business/energy/wor… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499971…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains www.icann.org/en/announcements/deta… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499973…)
icann.org
ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains
ICANN has published the list of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, revealing applied-for strings and applying entities.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 19h
Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs gtlds.fyi (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499979…)
gtlds.fyi
Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry emdashcms.com/blog/how-emdash-uses-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499957…)
emdashcms.com
How EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry
Every plugin listing in the EmDash registry is now screened by Cloudflare's Clef decision model. Here's how one fast, multimodal model helps us catch phishing, impersonation, offensive content, and other abuse before a plugin appears in the catalog.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
The Mathocalypse scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499977…)
scottaaronson.blog
The Mathocalypse
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on …
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 20h
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down: The Idiom, Its Algebra, and Its Limits debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-u… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499970…)
debasishg.github.io
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down: The Idiom, Its Algebra, and Its Limits
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 21h
Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-mic… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499971…)
rswebsols.com
Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools
Meta and Microsoft are implementing new measures to limit employee use of Claude AI—discover what this means for the future of AI in the workplace.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 21h
I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does www.xda-developers.com/im-not-payin… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499967…)
xda-developers.com
I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does everything I need
The bills disappeared, but the job gets done all the same
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 21h
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-d… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499954…)
dexerto.com
Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days - Dexerto
The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 21h
$2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/dev… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499961…)
microsoft.com
Surface Laptop Ultra: The new high-performance Surface Laptop | Microsoft Surface
Discover the new 15" Surface Laptop Ultra powered by the NVIDIA RTX SparkTM Superchip. Built for world makers and creative pros who require cutting-edge AI performance, power, and portability.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 21h
Docker Agent : AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker docker.github.io/docker-agent/ (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4999...)
docker.github.io
Docker Agent — Run AI agents from YAML, like containers
Run AI agents like containers. Define them in YAML, share them through any OCI registry, and run them anywhere.
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499964…)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/all-the-nu… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499929…)
aws.amazon.com
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics […]
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz · 22h
Claude Haiku 5.5 www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499964…)
anthropic.com
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.
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