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From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

Article URL: https://dwarfstar.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936575 Points: 266 # Comments: 69…

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

Article URL: https://www.newgrounds.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940394 Points: 266 # Comments: 71…

3D movies are finally worth watching

3D movies are finally worth watching

Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? The technology's finally ready for …

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.…

How to Collect CDs

How to Collect CDs

Fed up with paying to stream music you’ll never actually own? Give the little silver disc a spin. Here’s how to start a CD collection or get more out …

Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)

Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)

After years of testing repellents, traps, and sprays, I found a few ways to keep the bugs at bay—and plenty that aren’t worth the effort.…

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

Article URL: https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941114 Points: 281 # Comments: 61…

A Decade-Long Experiment Is Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ocean’s ‘Deep Reefs’

A Decade-Long Experiment Is Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ocean’s ‘Deep Reefs’

Scientists left structures up to 100 meters under the surface. Here’s what they found when they retrieved them 10 years later.…

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

Article URL: https://stillwet.art/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928566 Points: 238 # Comments: 76…

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932147 Points: 244 #…

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.…

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.…

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.…

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/using-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926917 …

The death of web development education

The death of web development education

Article URL: https://molily.de/web-dev-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927100 Points: 226 # Comments: 182…

Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like David Fincher a…

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as re…

How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.…

科学速递:暗物质线索、纠缠Z玻色子等九月六大冷知识盘点

科学速递:暗物质线索、纠缠Z玻色子等九月六大冷知识盘点

Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.…

Nacon’s new PS5 controller can mix audio from your phone and console

Nacon’s new PS5 controller can mix audio from your phone and console

Nacon announced what the company is claiming is the world's first officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a built-in screen for adjusting se…

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

The NHL Is Releasing Its Own ‘Hot’ Fanfic. Romance Lovers Hate It

The league is releasing romance-style audio stories to promote games. Critics say it’s cheap pandering that doesn’t address toxic masculinity in the s…

Rivian’s sales pop as the company’s big R2 bet starts to pay off

Rivian’s sales pop as the company’s big R2 bet starts to pay off

Rivian had high hopes for its more affordable R2 vehicle - and so far, those hopes appear to be paying off. The company released its third-quarter pro…

Home Assistant says ‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

Home Assistant says ‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

The open-source smart home platform Home Assistant is kicking the cloud to the curb - in name at least. "We are renaming Home Assistant Cloud to Home …

Tesla’s recovery hits a speed bump

Tesla’s recovery hits a speed bump

Tesla sold fewer vehicles in the third quarter than it did a year ago, when consumers rushed to cash in on expiring federal tax credits for electric v…

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors,…

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words

Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Spee…

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inv…

A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I recently turned 40, and I don’t need…

SvelteKit 3

SvelteKit 3

Article URL: https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926536 Points: 250 # Comments: 86…

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921923 Points: 220 # Comments: 89…