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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
• Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
• Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
• Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
• The case against JPEG XL
• Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List
• Apple's Dimensional Drawings
• Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
• The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Julia 1.13 highlights
• Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
• Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
• Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
• Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi
• Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
• The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
• Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents
• Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
• Making Startups Powerful
• "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts
• Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media
• CUDA for AMD on Windows
• The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
• Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
• Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace
• Bad code is kudzu
• Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"
• Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
• Show HN: Dllog – Replay debug logs when an operation fails