Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent
• AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
• You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
• Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
• Without the Hot Air
• 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
• Using any C++ library in Godot
• US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
• Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
• The new Firefox design is here
• Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
• Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
• The systems that no one will test
• Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
• 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
• California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
• Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second
• Software occlusion culling in Block Game
• Pirating the Pirates
• The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines
• Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
• Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
• Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
• Tank Body Problem
• MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
• ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
• Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World
• 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
• Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
• Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah