Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
• Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have
• Web Search API
• OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
• The future of independence is interdependence
• Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
• How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't
• Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
• Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
• Linux containers in 500 lines of code
• Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
• Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
• Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement
• Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses
• The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
• The designer lamps in my house
• Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`
• Beating the Compiler
• US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
• One person is now a quorum at the SEC
• Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
• Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
• 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel
• AI Companies Are Parasites
• Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
• Martian chaos terrain
• Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)
• In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
• Mystery Function
• A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE