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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 1h
Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics #HackerNews ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/…
Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 1h
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool #HackerNews yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-a…
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 2h
The AI Race Just Got Awkward #HackerNews insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-…
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 3h
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal #HackerNews spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 3h
I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records #HackerNews blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accesse…
I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 5h
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering #HackerNews alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-sl…
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 6h
Mathematical Origami #HackerNews mathigon.org/origami
Mathematical Origami
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 6h
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use #HackerNews nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-…
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 8h
Built Dental Scope #HackerNews dental-scope.com
Built Dental Scope
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 8h
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence #HackerNews artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gpt-…
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 9h
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP #HackerNews earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 11h
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy #HackerNews tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/sept…
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 11h
Solving Factorio Quality #HackerNews exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-qual…
Solving Factorio Quality
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 13h
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics #HackerNews agmai.org/general-sep29
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 14h
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing #HackerNews hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedi…
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 15h
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust #HackerNews github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 17h
America.gov #HackerNews america.gov
America.gov
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 17h
I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box #HackerNews voidnullvalue.github.io/DIRECTV-HR5…
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 18h
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries #HackerNews www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928…
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 19h
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like #HackerNews www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 19h
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart #HackerNews aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-p…
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 19h
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? #HackerNews github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 20h
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it #HackerNews railcode.dev/blog/vibe-coded-website
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 21h
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates #HackerNews somethingbig.ai/computer
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 22h
U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels #HackerNews postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026…
U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 23h
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far) #HackerNews statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026…
Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released #HackerNews github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released #HackerNews www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1…
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price #HackerNews openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-…
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dots: Always-on agents #HackerNews openai.com/index/introducing-dots
Dots: Always-on agents
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers #HackerNews www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draft…
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess #HackerNews www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/m…
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Claude partial outage #HackerNews status.claude.com/incidents/4xvtc2g…
Claude partial outage
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Without the Hot Air #HackerNews www.withouthotair.com
Without the Hot Air
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent #HackerNews spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity…
Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive #HackerNews www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models #HackerNews github.com/PostHog/jeeves
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner #HackerNews www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-o…
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf] #HackerNews jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i…
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Using any C++ library in Godot #HackerNews blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/god…
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) #HackerNews www.computerworld.com/article/16730…
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The systems that no one will test #HackerNews blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/th…
The systems that no one will test
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops #HackerNews www.kqed.org/news/12101534/californ…
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tank Body Problem #HackerNews www.jimsitu.com
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display #HackerNews jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops #HackerNews lolchat.rip
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery #HackerNews arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/sci…
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones #HackerNews archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklit…
12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? #HackerNews blog.greenpants.net/ai-accountabili…
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?
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HackerNewsTop5 @hackernewstop5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs #HackerNews www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nm4ewbYovtj…
Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
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