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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Article URL: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921 Points: 149 #…
The lamps in my house

The lamps in my house

Article URL: https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965152 Points: 148 # Comments: 7…
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667 Points: 17…
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.…
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state c…
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.…
Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their…
Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary

Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long Musk paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even towar…
Apple and a Hacker's Future

Apple and a Hacker's Future

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962857 Points: 163 # Commen…
Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963385 Points: 196 # Comments: 10…
Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel

Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel

The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.…
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27

The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.…
All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics

All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing …
Apple’s new M6 Mac Mini is over $100 off

Apple’s new M6 Mac Mini is over $100 off

Really the only negative associated with the new M6-powered Mac Mini is its high price. While the last-gen model debuted at just $599, the faster, but…
Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Nvidia's Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digita…
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. Mor…
Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

Article URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958569 Points: 165 # Comments: …
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches

Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches

Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.…
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …
We ported the original Doom to SQL

We ported the original Doom to SQL

Article URL: https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948300 Points: 162 # Comments: 22…
In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957812 Points: 161 # Comments: 19…
TCL’s paperlike OLED phone made me more excited for the iPhone Duo

TCL’s paperlike OLED phone made me more excited for the iPhone Duo

I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone with one amazing feature: a matte OLED display. That …
Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

Article URL: https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger Comments URL: https://news.yc…
Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight

Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight

After months of testing, this high-end smart scale has made me rethink how much a bathroom weigh-in can tell me.…
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has b…
Staples Print and Marketing Services Review: Fast Holiday Gifts

Staples Print and Marketing Services Review: Fast Holiday Gifts

Staples’s printing service offers fast pickup and in-store experts who can help you get your family photos, novelty gifts, and business documents look…
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

Article URL: https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947472 Points: 1…
Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

Article URL: https://github.com/allenv0/SCM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952111 Points: 146 # Comments: 66…
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

Article URL: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681 Points: 147 # Comments: 52…
Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

Article URL: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/ …