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1. 6 Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

   41 points · 20 comments · best #6 · trajectory · first observed 1789374455

2. 18 'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit

   14 points · 1 comments · best #18 · trajectory · first observed 1789373238

3. 27 Airbnb Preventing the Use of BnB

   35 points · 9 comments · best #27 · trajectory · first observed 1789371199

4. 18 Five Words from Vanishing Fleece

   15 points · 1 comments · best #16 · trajectory · first observed 1789369555

5. 5 Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)

   33 points · 61 comments · best #2 · trajectory · first observed 1789368333

6. 18 Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

   56 points · 46 comments · best #12 · trajectory · first observed 1789365901

7. 13 Who gets to define the rules for AI?

   46 points · 36 comments · best #6 · trajectory · first observed 1789364272

8. 29 OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

   104 points · 63 comments · best #12 · trajectory · first observed 1789363872

9. 19 Review a pull request by booting it

   3 points · 0 comments · best #19 · trajectory · first observed 1789362250

10. 29 Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

    86 points · 26 comments · best #25 · trajectory · first observed 1789361033

11. 17 Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

    46 points · 20 comments · best #13 · trajectory · first observed 1789358612

12. 27 Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

    316 points · 445 comments · best #17 · trajectory · first observed 1789356166

13. 25 AI Robots – When will they be in our homes

    42 points · 47 comments · best #20 · trajectory · first observed 1789355347

14. 18 Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

    118 points · 56 comments · best #6 · trajectory · first observed 1789354933

15. 21 The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

    85 points · 24 comments · best #7 · trajectory · first observed 1789353272

16. 24 Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

    16 points · 2 comments · best #18 · trajectory · first observed 1789353272

17. 9 Show HN: Is It Greg?

    65 points · 18 comments · best #5 · trajectory · first observed 1789351991

18. 21 AI is not a normal technology

    40 points · 85 comments · best #9 · trajectory · first observed 1789351991

19. 23 Apple's Dimensional Drawings

    421 points · 134 comments · best #5 · trajectory · first observed 1789351991

20. 28 Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)

    84 points · 65 comments · best #9 · trajectory · first observed 1789351991

21. 30 “Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

    32 points · 23 comments · best #21 · trajectory · first observed 1789351991

22. 19 Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

    388 points · 70 comments · best #2 · trajectory · first observed 1789351576

23. 9 The case against JPEG XL

    277 points · 386 comments · best #3 · trajectory · first observed 1789348659

24. 6 Open-source AI and open models reading list

    158 points · 30 comments · best #5 · trajectory · first observed 1789348242

25. 19 Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

    35 points · 21 comments · best #19 · trajectory · first observed 1789347827

26. 12 Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

    274 points · 385 comments · best #7 · trajectory · first observed 1789346135

27. 15 The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

    121 points · 45 comments · best #11 · trajectory · first observed 1789345290

28. 19 I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

    19 points · 9 comments · best #13 · trajectory · first observed 1789344443

29. 9 Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

    393 points · 214 comments · best #3 · trajectory · first observed 1789341916

30. 21 Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

    61 points · 64 comments · best #18 · trajectory · first observed 1789341916

31. 22 Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)

    74 points · 41 comments · best #8 · trajectory · first observed 1789341916

32. 30 It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

    18 points · 6 comments · best #27 · trajectory · first observed 1789341497

33. 8 The contagion of fear

    272 points · 193 comments · best #2 · trajectory · first observed 1789340678

34. 19 The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

    116 points · 70 comments · best #8 · trajectory · first observed 1789340678

35. 27 Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?

    26 points · 20 comments · best #22 · trajectory · first observed 1789339036

36. 30 A computational constitution to stop LLM agents from bricking servers

    3 points · 1 comments · best #30 · trajectory · first observed 1789338195

37. 20 Why a dispute costs $229 on a $129 pair of shoes

    6 points · 9 comments · best #20 · trajectory · first observed 1789336943

38. 17 AI Is Destroying the World

    25 points · 5 comments · best #11 · trajectory · first observed 1789336111

39. 5 Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

    1218 points · 571 comments · best #1 · trajectory · first observed 1789335694

40. 14 Bad code is kudzu

    65 points · 20 comments · best #7 · trajectory · first observed 1789333578

41. 9 Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

    105 points · 15 comments · best #5 · trajectory · first observed 1789332302

42. 30 US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’

    63 points · 27 comments · best #28 · trajectory · first observed 1789331874

43. 6 Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

    314 points · 148 comments · best #1 · trajectory · first observed 1789331035

44. 6 There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier

    78 points · 110 comments · best #2 · trajectory · first observed 1789330174

45. 18 Julia 1.13 highlights

    270 points · 47 comments · best #3 · trajectory · first observed 1789329745

46. 27 AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

    81 points · 84 comments · best #21 · trajectory · first observed 1789327635

47. 21 Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

    225 points · 214 comments · best #2 · trajectory · first observed 1789326790

48. 17 Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

    107 points · 23 comments · best #10 · trajectory · first observed 1789326351

49. 20 Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing?

    126 points · 84 comments · best #9 · trajectory · first observed 1789326351

50. 22 Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562

    45 points · 3 comments · best #13 · trajectory · first observed 1789326351

51. 27 Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code

    17 points · 4 comments · best #27 · trajectory · first observed 1789323768

52. 30 Making Startups Powerful

    15 points · 5 comments · best #20 · trajectory · first observed 1789323768

53. 3 I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

    458 points · 119 comments · best #1 · trajectory · first observed 1789323326

54. 13 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

    962 points · 404 comments · best #1 · trajectory · first observed 1789322473

55. 19 Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)

    97 points · 30 comments · best #7 · trajectory · first observed 1789322473

56. 11 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

    381 points · 1235 comments · best #8 · trajectory · first observed 1789321614

57. 18 Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them

    19 points · best #16 · trajectory · first observed 1789321614

58. 19 Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?

    24 points · 38 comments · best #17 · trajectory · first observed 1789320336

59. 21 Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

    123 points · 73 comments · best #10 · trajectory · first observed 1789320336

60. 25 David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

    331 points · 261 comments · best #7 · trajectory · first observed 1789319494

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