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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1

(www.openttd.org)untilted

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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

(openai.com)minimaxir

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Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off

(www.economist.com)edward

11

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

(www.sfwriter.com)droidjj

75

Is America Becoming a Gerontocracy?

(www.economist.com)littlexsparkee

21

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

(physics.stackexchange.com)ProxyTracer

228

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

(www.fosslinux.com)tapanjk

15

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

(github.com)userbinator

19

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

(www.semafor.com)bobrenjc93

412

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

(spectrum.ieee.org)rbanffy

114

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

(aws.amazon.com)justincormack

323

Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression

(kirill.korins.ky)zX41ZdbW

51

Fusion Programming Language

(fusion-lang.org)efrecon

61

Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board

(popflame.quickish.space)PaybackTony

66

SCC Technical Assistance Program

(nerocam.com)luu

13

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

(www.washingtonpost.com)alain94040

1007

Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

(github.com)KraftyOne

58

Om

(daringfireball.net)throw0101a

346

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

(www.eff.org)hn_acker

382

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

(blog.doubleword.ai)kkm

194

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

(alephneuro.com)rossant

275

Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research

(news.mccombs.utexas.edu)hhs

68

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

(github.com)gjvc

90

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

(grack.com)signa11

47

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

(github.com)adchurch

167

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

(lefakkomies.github.io)Eridanus2

113

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

(acoup.blog)jfoucher

92

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

(hightouch.com)joshwget

1

Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf]

(www.foster77.co.uk)surprisetalk

37

A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels

(healeycodes.com)healeycodes

41

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

(ngrok.com)EndEntire

65

Software Is Becoming Marketing

(www.terezatizkova.com)tylerdane

14

Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial

(evmar.github.io)joecobb

40

The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum

(svpow.com)surprisetalk

73

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

(kotaku.com)ortusdux

261

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)speckx

188

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

(www.swiftlatex.com)theanonymousone

102

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

(mlc.ai)crowwork

75

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

(scrollprize.org)verditelabs

1652

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

(gossamer-lang.org)mwheeler

79

Om Malik has died

(om.co)minimaxir

1310

Show HN: Turn images into audio that can be decoded with a spectrogram

(nsspot.herokuapp.com)jupr

6

Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification

(github.com)leschak

21

Bipartite Matching Is in NC

(scottaaronson.blog)amichail

118

NLNet Labs LLM Policy

(nlnetlabs.nl)birdculture

5

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

(github.com)ddecoene

89

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

88

Kamod Hooks – a Preact hooks library ported from ahooks

(kamod-ch.github.io)zahir777

5

AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails

(www.agent-kits.com)stoicstoic

24

Jolla Phone (October 2026)

(commerce.jolla.com)mrbn100ful

291

OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO

(www.nytimes.com)mfiguiere

165

Lippmann Photography

(www.jonhilty.com)andsoitis

23

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM

(nesbitt.io)mooreds

542

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

(www.science.org)adharmad

369

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

(github.com)stevekemp

62

We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

(akrites.org)dhruv3006

448

Data centers trigger voter backlash

(www.newsweek.com)randycupertino

184

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

(www.fernandoi.cl)cuchoi

361

Libre Barcode Project

(graphicore.github.io)luu

279

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

(www.jeffgeerling.com)Alupis

316