Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Anthropic S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50242939

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251344

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245138

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

CSS-Tricks has a new owner
https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245831

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248055

Websites Should Be Printable
https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241664

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200152

Type Server Protocol
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248371

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234474

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197108

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
https://titleart.dvy.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238708

Why I Am a Programmer
https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017

Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185534

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
https://stealmybitcoin.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
https://danluu.com/ambitious/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695

The Goose Programming Language
https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450

FreeDNS
https://freedns.afraid.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212065

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474

Apple Music 404 Not Found
https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-surveillance-bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202114

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
https://block.xyz/dessa
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925

The Real Kevin Bacon
https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169499

Twelve years of distributed SQLite
https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500

CVE Tracker
https://cve.0xosprey.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215530

Bringing uv and ty together
https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172962

UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211746

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Quad9 to exit France
https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195959

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195110

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193416

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50190363

Docker is weird
https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-10-22-docker-is-weird
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202681

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196718

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197313

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198675

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202217

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 22, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184820

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181114

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189232

Security Disclosure
https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188228

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181136

Claude Duet
https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186037

GitLab critical patch release
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185869

PingCap TiDB Leaks
https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173716

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 21, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163277

eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172041

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
https://permit.petercai.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170593

Voxtral 3
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168396

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165208

What shall I teach my son?
https://stevekrouse.com/ends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169707

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167028

The Future of CSS
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175070

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169053

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

It's still ok to enjoy programming
https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134472

Wine ported to OpenBSD
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152307

I built a drone with only one motor [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150089

MiniMax M3.1 Flash
https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154540

Starcraft: Ashfall
https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147233

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159341

OpenBSD 8.0
https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50160494

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-hexacopter-rcna604310
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153664

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141581

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 19, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Someone behind the software
https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142573

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145337

RepRapMicron
https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136150

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141909

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136979

Linux 7.3 Released
https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149392

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135762

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140001

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 18, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126253

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
https://pele.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132193

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
https://furifont.antfu.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100994

Gold is now the top U.S. export
https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131213

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware
https://llmspeed.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136536

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-northeastern-united-states-striking-down-one-tiny-barrier-at-a-time-180989679/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126312