hcker.news — day · include: Small Web

Beauty in DVD Menus

2026-10-08T13:22:01Z

312 points by speckx | 166 comments

Article: https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50005527
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005527

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

2026-10-09T03:08:05Z

182 points by sohkamyung | 157 comments

Article: https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015515
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015515

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

2026-10-08T23:29:43Z

136 points by md224 | 204 comments

Article: https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50013902
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013902

What should we tell our students?

2026-10-09T02:27:45Z

127 points by sajid | 165 comments

Article: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015236
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015236

Programming Isn't Special

2026-10-09T07:44:36Z

58 points by ingve | 60 comments

Article: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50017357
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017357

Calling a function in C without naming it

2026-10-08T13:42:16Z

41 points by birdculture | 10 comments

Article: https://wiro.world/posts/calling-c-func-without-naming-it/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50005719
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005719

License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics

2026-10-08T19:43:59Z

39 points by frizlab | 24 comments

Article: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50011028
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011028

What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe

2026-10-08T18:44:29Z

29 points by speckx | 64 comments

Article: https://tedium.co/2026/10/08/artcraft-vibe-coding-creative-cloud-remake/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50010170
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010170

Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives

2026-10-09T02:17:18Z

18 points by alexfortin | 16 comments

Article: https://a.l3x.in/blog/use-the-unshittified-alternatives/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015169
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015169

Model Collapse Isn't New, nor Is It Specific to AI

2026-10-08T20:26:28Z

14 points by hovhannesian | 4 comments

Article: https://rulr.dev/blog/model-collapse-isnt-new/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50011694
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011694

Bitmaps in the Linux Kernel

2026-10-08T23:16:09Z

11 points by matt_d | 5 comments

Article: https://0xax.dev/books/linux-inside/linux-datastructures-2
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50013765
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013765

Software developers are not okay

2026-10-08T17:46:10Z

7 points by pavel_lishin | 2 comments

Article: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/#software-developers-are-not-doing-well
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50009177
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009177

AI scrapers are hiding behind referrer spam

2026-10-08T14:45:41Z

7 points by speckx | 2 comments

Article: https://disassociated.com/ai-scrapers-hiding-behind-referrer-spam/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50006438
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006438

I predict Apple will open their platforms within the next five years

2026-10-09T02:28:45Z

6 points by jarbus | 3 comments

Article: https://jarbus.net/blog/apple-prediction/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015242
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015242

AI has made it easier than ever to make apps nobody asked for

2026-10-09T08:32:00Z

6 points by padraic7a | 2 comments

Article: https://boakandbailey.com/2026/09/ai-has-made-it-easier-than-ever-to-make-apps-nobody-asked-for/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50017678
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017678

AI Makes Your DRM Irrelevant

2026-10-08T18:52:29Z

6 points by cpu0 | 2 comments

Article: http://fantaize.net/posts/drm/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50010284
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010284

Thinking Will Become a Hobby

2026-10-09T02:48:02Z

6 points by vinhnx | 0 comments

Article: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015388
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015388

Faster Python startup with lazy imports

2026-10-09T03:16:39Z

5 points by smilelamp | 1 comments

Article: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/09/faster-python-startup-with-lazy-imports/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015571
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015571

I've Been Deindexed by Google

2026-10-09T09:32:08Z

5 points by birdculture | 0 comments

Article: https://kennyqin.com/deindexed-by-google/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50018155
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018155

Tips for Startup Companies (2007)

2026-10-09T02:04:02Z

5 points by mosesk | 0 comments

Article: http://philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015083
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015083

When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job

2026-10-08T17:22:54Z

4 points by rcardo11 | 1 comments

Article: https://swizec.com/blog/when-code-is-cheap-judgement-becomes-the-job
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50008797
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008797

Thinking Will Become a Hobby

2026-10-08T16:08:15Z

4 points by DSpinellis | 1 comments

Article: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?hn261008
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50007592
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007592

Giving and taking credit in big tech companies

2026-10-09T06:22:05Z

4 points by gfysfm | 0 comments

Article: https://www.seangoedecke.com/giving-and-taking-credit/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50016698
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016698

AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

2026-10-09T01:23:24Z

4 points by doppp | 0 comments

Article: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50014827
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014827

Europe changes time forward soon, North America next, for the last time?

2026-10-09T01:09:09Z

4 points by lumpa | 0 comments

Article: https://anarc.at/blog/2026-10-08-dst-warning/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50014738
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014738

Once the Cheat Code Is There

2026-10-08T15:35:06Z

4 points by evakhoury | 0 comments

Article: https://blog.veitheller.de/cheats.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50007102
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007102

On abuse towards models and Anthropic's new usage policies

2026-10-08T23:18:56Z

3 points by thepasch | 2 comments

Article: https://blog.pascalschuster.de/article/on-model-welfare-and-usage-policies
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50013793
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013793

--help on your CLI is all you need for LLM context until you don't

2026-10-09T07:13:40Z

3 points by ghuntley | 1 comments

Article: https://ghuntley.com/tier/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50017124
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017124

Who are we Now? – Jessitron

2026-10-09T03:05:58Z

3 points by pavel_lishin | 1 comments

Article: https://jessitron.com/2026/08/30/who-are-we-now/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50015499
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015499

Italo Calvino's invisible cities, by ChatGPT Astra

2026-10-08T21:11:45Z

3 points by simonebrunozzi | 1 comments

Article: https://p.migdal.pl/invisible-cities-astra/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50012364
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012364

Partner in multiple Google adventures (Luis Barroso)

2026-10-08T21:02:13Z

3 points by brandonb | 1 comments

Article: https://allen.hutchison.org/2026/10/08/partner-in-multiple-google-adventures/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50012216
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012216

Error sets with eros: the missing piece in Rust error handling

2026-10-08T20:42:06Z

3 points by fanf2 | 1 comments

Article: https://mcmah309.github.io/posts/the-missing-piece-in-rust-error-handling/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50011923
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011923

Don't run your own mailserver

2026-10-08T19:34:49Z

3 points by speckx | 1 comments

Article: https://iter.ca/post/mailserver-bad/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50010875
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010875

You are better than me

2026-10-09T08:31:53Z

3 points by taubek | 0 comments

Article: https://antejavor.github.io/blog/2026/you-are-better-then-me/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50017677
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017677

The future is glitching

2026-10-09T07:45:30Z

3 points by kennedn | 0 comments

Article: https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50017365
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017365

Refueling an EV Be Like

2026-10-09T06:34:42Z

3 points by tomayac | 0 comments

Article: https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/10/08/refueling-an-ev-be-like/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50016798
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016798

AI and Chiral Fermions

2026-10-08T23:08:21Z

3 points by jjgreen | 0 comments

Article: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15915
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50013704
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013704

Top Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: Won't Destroy nor Save Us

2026-10-08T22:54:17Z

3 points by B1FF_PSUVM | 0 comments

Article: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/62236/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50013579
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013579

Solving problems is still the fun part of software development

2026-10-08T20:47:56Z

3 points by gsky | 0 comments

Article: https://lord.technology/2026/10/06/solving-problems-is-still-the-fun-part-of-software-development.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50012029
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012029

I bought my own TLD (well not really)

2026-10-08T16:37:17Z

3 points by hosolmaz | 0 comments

Article: https://solmaz.io/i-bought-my-own-tld-well-not-really
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50008041
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008041

The Science and Engineering of Machine Consciousness

2026-10-08T16:35:06Z

3 points by KeyurRamoliya | 0 comments

Article: https://keyurramoliya.com/posts/Machine-Consciousness/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50008003
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008003

Don't 'meet them where they are' and leave them there

2026-10-08T16:32:47Z

3 points by speckx | 0 comments

Article: https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/don-t-meet-them-where-they-are-and-leave-them-there
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50007969
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007969

Faster Fourier Transform

2026-10-08T15:08:58Z

3 points by ColinWright | 0 comments

Article: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/07/faster-fourier-transform/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50006763
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006763

What should we tell our students?

2026-10-08T14:44:36Z

3 points by smilelamp | 0 comments

Article: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50006422
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006422

Is Google limiting -AI Searches

2026-10-08T13:56:38Z

3 points by speckx | 0 comments

Article: https://musings101.bearblog.dev/is-google-limiting-ai-searches/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50005858
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005858

C for Rust Programmers

2026-10-08T13:44:36Z

3 points by xyproto | 0 comments

Article: https://bd103.dev/blog/2026-10-07-c-for-rust-programmers/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50005743
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005743

SSHing to my reMarkable from anywhere

2026-10-08T12:22:04Z

3 points by nathell | 0 comments

Article: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/connecting-to-remarkable/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50004952
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004952

Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions

2026-10-08T12:19:59Z

3 points by sebg | 0 comments

Article: https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/distilling-stockfish/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50004937
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004937

The return of phones with physical keyboards?

2026-10-08T14:13:39Z

2 points by rpgbr | 2 comments

Article: https://manualdousuario.net/en/clicks-minimal-phones-physical-keyboards/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50006055
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006055

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

2026-10-08T16:54:05Z

2 points by utiiiD | 1 comments

Article: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=50008334
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008334