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The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

Article URL: https://datagubbe.se/crt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768336 Points: 177 # Comments: 55…
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I am often wrong

I am often wrong

Article URL: https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777467 …
Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Article URL: https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780064 Poi…
Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator

Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator

Article URL: https://agentexecutor.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797 Points: 196 # Comments: 85…
What happened to the Snowden archive

What happened to the Snowden archive

Article URL: https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820 Points: 164 # …
Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

Article URL: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775104 Points: 149 # Comments: 234…
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

Article URL: https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776627 Points: 158…
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

Article URL: https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

Article URL: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history

No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history

In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two …
You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

Article URL: https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770256 Points: 157 # Comments: 94…
Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble

Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble

After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to …
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Article URL: https://pirateface.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776699 Points: 164 # Comments: 52…
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

Article URL: https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768833 Points: 158 # Comments: 152…
Science Is Open Software

Science Is Open Software

Article URL: https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762687 Points: 158 # Comments: 72…
Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775499 Points: 175 # Comments: 74…
RSA-896

RSA-896

Article URL: https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771966 Points: 178 # Comments: 72…
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

Article URL: https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-director-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-hu…
All roads lead to cable

All roads lead to cable

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and t…
A great new video game movie

A great new video game movie

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 144, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is …
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770293 Poin…
Don't call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review

Don't call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review

Unlike previous Ferrari four-seaters, this one is better for humans than cargo.…
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang

An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang

Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.…
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant

T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant

Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.…
What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That

What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That

Understanding how ChatGPT’s latest memory upgrade works will help you get even more out of OpenAI’s productivity tool.…
Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis

Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis

“You know ‘Bang Bus’? We don’t want that.”…