Sanity’s Edge – A voice BBS from 1994
Article URL: https://sanitys-edge.shouden.us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146966 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Hackaday Links: October 17, 2026
While Hackaday doesn’t maintain a crime blotter, we couldn’t help but start this week’s post off with a bit of civil disobedience — a retired professor from the University of Pennsylvania was arrested earlier this week for standing in front of a delivery robot....
What do all the lights on your Netgear router mean, and which ones actually matter?
Some router symbols are obvious, while others take a bit of work to decipher. Their lights can vary, too.
What does the orange dot on your Samsung Galaxy Watch mean?
You might sometimes see an orange dot on the left side of your Galaxy Watch's screen. Here's what is tells you.
Why you should never point a laser pointer at a security camera
Laser pointers are known to damage security cameras, but do they really? Here's what damage can actually be done.
William Gibson and the Trademarking of Cyberspace
William Gibson and the Trademarking of Cyberspace Go to Source Article URL: https://colo.to/cyberspace.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Off-Grid Refrigeration Using Fire and Salt
Refrigeration has been a challenge for humanity since the start. Ancient civilizations in dry climates like Persia and Egypt could use evaporative cooling on a large scale with specialized architecture, and with easy access to electricity modern civilization can cool...
How to use Google’s SynthID AI detection website
It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats.
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug
The Time Lords at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (GCPM)* have decided to stop introducing leap seconds, citing the likelihood they could cause problems with internet of things devices – and therefore a Y2K scale remediation effort – as a reason for the...
Time Lords kill leap seconds, which they warn could become the new Y2K bug
The Time Lords at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (GCPM)* have decided to stop introducing leap seconds and cited the likelihood they could cause problems with internet of things devices – and therefore a Y2K scale remediation effort – as a reason for...
An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there’s a catch
The idea of PS5 games running on an Xbox Series X -- made possible by how both consoles were built around closely matched hardware -- is certainly exciting.
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on.I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare and with my personal WhatsApp account, so I built...
Starlink has two $55 plans that are wildly different — here’s how
It's a trade-off between download speeds and data caps.
Router and modem or gateway: What’s actually in your home network?
A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power.
Adversarial Testing for Browser E2EE: Authentication, Replay, and State Recovery
An end-to-end encryption test should do more than prove that one browser can decrypt what another browser encrypted. It should impersonate an active relay, change authenticated metadata, move ciphertext into the wrong context, attempt a downgrade, interrupt state...
A Three-Checkpoint Framework for Testing Website Contact Forms
A visitor submits a contact form and sees “Success.” What has the website owner learned?Only that the visitor-facing page displayed a confirmation. The owner has not yet established whether the corresponding inquiry can be found where the business expects to receive...
51 Blog Posts To Learn About Hacker
Let's learn about Hacker via these 51 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. An individual who uses their technical skills to overcome a...
What is Apple’s Image Playground app for and how do you use it?
Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall.
Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
Article URL: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145295 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
https://x.com/Jiaru_Zou/status/2110400256647340476https://github.com/togethercomputer/HybridAgenthttps://huggingface.co/collections/togethercomputer/hybridag...Evaluations: https://arxiv.org/html/2610.18861v1#S5 Comments URL:...
Hybrid Reasoning Agents: 35–55% fewer tokens and up to 2.6× faster inference
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145337 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.
Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it’s on Steam
Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5426130/Tiny_Brutalism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144144 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile
The studio celebrated Inscryption's five-year anniversary with a Twitch stream.
The New Phobos Martian Moon Rover that Weighs in at Only 15 Grams
Although for many decades the planet Mars has been prodded, poked, driven upon, flown over and especially orbited by various spacecraft, landers and rovers sent over by a certain humanoid species on Earth, the two moons that orbit Mars have featured significantly more...
Personal software factories are a waste of time
Personal software factories are a waste of time Go to Source Article URL: https://www.peterp.me/articles/personal-software-factories-are-a-waste-of-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144175 Points: 5 #...
Free Pascal Compiler Now Supports Dynamic Packages
Article URL: https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144066 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions Go to Source Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/d1e28d93-8574-4a46-946a-b261c401d6fa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144405 Points: 12 # Comments: 5
HOA’s are making the home crisis worse
HOA's are making the home crisis worse Go to Source Article URL: https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144005 Points: 32 # Comments: 5