Hacker News with Generative AI

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

70 points by epestr 2 hours ago | 14 comments

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)

167 points by aanet 2 days ago | 30 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

610 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 367 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)

225 points by moelf 11 hours ago | 77 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

626 points by RickJWagner 20 hours ago | 697 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

338 points by piotrgrabowski 15 hours ago | 83 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)

223 points by wglb 7 hours ago | 40 comments

Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers (ai-updates.net)

4 points by ashurandi 1 hour ago | 0 comments

SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)

98 points by zdw 7 days ago | 19 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)

204 points by aagha 14 hours ago | 63 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)

285 points by Meleagris 8 hours ago | 134 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)

233 points by moonikakiss 15 hours ago | 201 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)

7 points by csmantle 6 days ago | 0 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)

14 points by denismenace 4 days ago | 0 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)

70 points by yk 4 days ago | 29 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)

352 points by inigyou 1 day ago | 313 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)

166 points by MarcoDewey 18 hours ago | 37 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)

182 points by artninja1988 17 hours ago | 175 comments

Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)

162 points by cckolon 7 days ago | 20 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)

465 points by delduca 16 hours ago | 323 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)

139 points by jnord 20 hours ago | 99 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)

285 points by poly2it 22 hours ago | 136 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

69 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 4 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)

191 points by m3h 22 hours ago | 50 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)

188 points by Bender 12 hours ago | 125 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

69 points by birdculture 5 days ago | 6 comments

Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (gingerbeardman.com)

32 points by msephton 6 days ago | 9 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)

758 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 405 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)

73 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 10 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (archive.org)

60 points by dnnehgf 5 hours ago | 17 comments