Hacker News with Generative AI

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)

461 points by u1hcw9nx 5 hours ago | 189 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)

586 points by iamflimflam1 8 hours ago | 274 comments

The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)

22 points by contact9879 44 minutes ago | 9 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (signalusers.org)

76 points by Cider9986 4 hours ago | 38 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)

154 points by eigenspace 4 days ago | 12 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)

379 points by Levitating 11 hours ago | 177 comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (interconnects.ai)

16 points by simonpure 1 hour ago | 0 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)

307 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 159 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (cs.wisc.edu)

60 points by walrus01 5 hours ago | 7 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire (katjahoyer.uk)

27 points by NaOH 3 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (ycombinator.com)

85 points by david927 8 hours ago | 162 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)

40 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | 78 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011) (wikisource.org)

43 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | 9 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust (bensimms.moe)

378 points by vinhnx 4 days ago | 90 comments

Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

159 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 73 comments

I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant (medium.com)

174 points by ichacas 4 days ago | 84 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears (myday24.com)

13 points by tomasslavicek 3 days ago | 4 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (microsoft.com)

204 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 47 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com/Speedstu)

141 points by chiassedu80 11 hours ago | 71 comments

Why is privacy so hard? (cacm.acm.org)

27 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 19 comments

The contagion of fear (dtrace.org)

134 points by elffjs 3 hours ago | 90 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)

57 points by rzk 3 days ago | 13 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" (zenodo.org)

5 points by akkartik 2 days ago | 1 comments

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

77 points by binyu 3 days ago | 18 comments

Bad code is kudzu (vickiboykis.com)

38 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 11 comments

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)

357 points by TheJCDenton 10 hours ago | 190 comments

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)

276 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 117 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)

58 points by kevvok 3 days ago | 52 comments

JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)

527 points by taubek 18 hours ago | 213 comments

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)

257 points by kolanos 9 hours ago | 191 comments