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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 3m
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500190…)
jessewaites.com
I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Historical Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorite, Lost Rhinos, and Unrecorded Volcanic Eruptions.
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 48m
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded carrierexplode.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500244…)
carrierexplode.com
iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings, decoded · carrier-explode
Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 1h
M7.6 Earthquake in Panama earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eve… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500246…)
earthquake.usgs.gov
M7.6 Earthquake in Panama
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 1h
'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone animationobsessive.substack.com/p/w… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500205…)
animationobsessive.substack.com
‘Wallace and Gromit,’ 90% Alone
Plus: learning by doing, newsbits.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 1h
Triple-A Minesweeper minesweeper.mikelacher.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500222…)
minesweeper.mikelacher.com
Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 3h
The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI bsky.app/profile/opin... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002...)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 3h
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998...
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? | Hacker News
I'm a Linux guy and have on many points of my life have a personal server. So I like the idea of having something always on, but I’m not sure the maintenance is worth it when most things can just run…
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4h
Germany turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes, becoming artificial wetland timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002...)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4h
Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2502… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500197…)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4h
Once: Cache CLI Commands github.com/alex0ptr/once (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500182…)
github.com
GitHub - alex0ptr/once: Run a command once, reuse its output for a while.
Run a command once, reuse its output for a while. Contribute to alex0ptr/once development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4h
Python 3.15.0 www.python.org/downloads/release/py… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500211…)
python.org
Python Release Python 3.15.0
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4h
US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sa… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500210…)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 5h
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ya… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500209…)
united24media.com
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours—Now Its Biggest Russian Site Is Damaged
A UAV attack disabled several modules at the largest Yandex data center in Kaluga, reducing service and impacting a facility with 3,800 server racks.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 5h
The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview www.hetzner.com/blog/the-hetzner-cl… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500194…)
hetzner.com
The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack
Learn how the Hetzner Cloud network stack has evolved and what role Open vSwitch, Private Networks, and Cloud Firewalls play.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 6h
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500194…)
washingtonpost.com
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 6h
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-ope… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500183…)
techcrunch.com
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect | TechCrunch
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 6h
Our $445M Series D oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500200…)
oxide.computer
Our $445M Series D | Oxide Computer Company
Our Series D round of financing.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 6h
US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500190…)
nature.com
US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 6h
I'm in a Meeting iminafleeting.com (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500180…)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 7h
Deno Is Joining Cloudflare deno.com/blog/cloudflare (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500199…)
deno.com
Deno is joining Cloudflare | Deno
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 8h
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arro… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500188…)
github.com
GitHub - franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT.
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT. - franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 8h
OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-nat… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500169…)
opentelemetry.io
OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
With contributions from Dan Gomez Blanco (New Relic). If you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack, whether to satisfy compliance, manage costs, or centralize all their observability data in one place. Locking them into your built-in dashboards or limiting exports to certain vendors creates unnecessary friction. Instead, supporting export to any OpenTelemetry (OTel)-compatible backend is a vendor-neutral, future-proof practice that gives users the freedom to choose their observability stack.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 9h
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/202… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500184…)
nobelprize.org
Nobel Peace Prize 2026
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 9h
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system github.com/microsoft/mxc (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500164…)
github.com
GitHub - microsoft/mxc: Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment
Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment . Contribute to microsoft/mxc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 11h
Programming Isn't Special blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-i… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500173…)
blog.glyph.im
Programming Isn't Special
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 13h
Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment www.themirror.com/news/world-news/a… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500154…)
themirror.com
Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment
The comment was reportedly screenshotted and passed to Saudi authorities and to his employer, which led to his arrest
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 14h
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser quake-srp.pages.dev (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500163…)
quake-srp.pages.dev
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 14h
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-key… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500155…)
unsung.aresluna.org
Deeper dive: Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 15h
Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man opper.ai/jevman-benchmark (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500079…)
opper.ai
jevman: a Pac-Man benchmark for decision models | Opper AI
Six AI decision models played Pac-Man in real time against the classic arcade ghosts. See the leaderboard, watch their games, or play against them.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 15h
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language lwn.net/Articles/1095811 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500150…)
lwn.net
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language
As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a t [...]
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 16h
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xy… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500136…)
bbc.com
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
The US Defence Secretary says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 16h
Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5000...)
dgt.is
Why Isn't The Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 16h
What should we tell our students? terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/w… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500152…)
terrytao.wordpress.com
What should we tell our students?
[This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I wo…
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 17h
Bevy 0.20 bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20 (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500136…)
bevy.org
Bevy 0.20
Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.i…
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 19h
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics karagila.org/2026/openai-pp (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500139…)
karagila.org
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 20h
AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-ini… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500119…)
biohub.org
Open data for predictive AI models of biology: $1.8 billion committed
Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 21h
I think we might lose public key cryptography twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500120…)
twitter.com
Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) on X
I’ve had a few people write to ask me to follow up on a (reply!) tweet I wrote that’s gotten a lot of retweets. I considered deleting it just to avoid the headache, but I think that would make people more paranoid. So let me share my thoughts.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 21h
Yes, and htmx.org/essays/yes-and (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500037…)
htmx.org
Yes, and
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 22h
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychi… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500119…)
frontiersin.org
Frontiers | ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy
Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 22h
Serverless Horrors $10,811.41 serverlesshorrors.com/all/cloudflar… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500096…)
serverlesshorrors.com
ServerlessHorrors | $10,811.41
Stories you never want to feel on your own skin
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 22h
Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances cointelegraph.com/news/justin-drake… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500106…)
cointelegraph.com
Ethereum Researchers Warn AI Could Crack Crypto Before Q-Day
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 22h
US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-pr… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500009…)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 22h
Theranos.world www.theranos.world (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500092…)
theranos.world
Theranos World
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 23h
The value of not getting to the point (2015) ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500104…)
ken.arneson.name
The value of not getting to the point (2015)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 23h
Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) github.com/p10node/k10s (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500099…)
github.com
GitHub - p10node/k10s: Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary.
Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary. - p10node/k10s
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 23h
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 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 23h
Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/mak… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500080…)
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 08/10/2026
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500077…)
openrouter.ai
Step 5 Preview - API Pricing & Providers
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.
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Hacker News 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 08/10/2026
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 50 @betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 08/10/2026
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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