Hacker News Daily — October 2, 2026
30 stories · October 2, 2026
In this issue
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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
eff.org · 369 points · Discussion
When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. That’s why we were happy to see that a court…
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FLUX 3 Image
bfl.ai · 222 points · Discussion
Compose images from scratch. …
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The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
gwern.net · 218 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Apple Pass Designer
developer.apple.com · 184 points · Discussion
Introducing Pass Designer Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview…
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Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
stillwet.art · 155 points · Discussion
Between Customers Round 20 · GPT-6.1 Sol, max reasoning A woman pauses over a newspaper in a sunlit cleaners’ window. The unused chair, hanging coats, and empty pavement make the afternoon feel…
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Sites in ChatGPT
chatgpt.com · 146 points · Discussion
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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
nytimes.com · 112 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/Kv6yS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/01/mike-tomlin-mi...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
youtube.com · 111 points · Discussion
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Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
erictopol.substack.com · 101 points · Discussion
Two new papers, one published today in Nature by Vadim Gladyshev and colleagues at Harvard, and a recent o ne in Cell by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and his team at Altos Labs, have provided a new…
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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
arstechnica.com · 98 points · Discussion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07312
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A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
bsky.app · 94 points · Discussion
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From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
dwarfstar.sh · 66 points · Discussion
DS4 · LOCAL FRONTIER INFERENCE Run frontier open weights locally with ds4. DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines. It supports DeepSeek V4 and V4.1…
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One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
wagtail.org · 59 points · Discussion
Zooming in on the models split specifically: The goal was to spend the whole month on GLM 5.3 Flash pictured in teal. Here’s what went well: Successfully spent the first half of the month on just that…
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GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression
discuss.grapheneos.org · 57 points · Discussion
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Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market
bigthink.com · 41 points · Discussion
Excerpted from A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World by Robin Wigglesworth, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin…
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Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers
agostbiro.net · 41 points · Discussion
[Contents] Intro Background: DFAs & Regular Languages Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) Regular Languages The Problem The Solution Adder Arithmetic Adder DFA Example 1 Example 2 The Lean Proof The…
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Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors
github.com · 38 points · Discussion
Hi HN, I'm the creator of Pyxel, a free, MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python. I've been developing it since 2018, and it recently passed 18,000 stars on GitHub. Pyxel includes pixel art,…
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How accurately calibrated is Jev?
maximumeffort.substack.com · 37 points · Discussion
Jev is TypeSafe’s new “System One” classifier model. The name is inspired by Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow, in which he distinguishes between fast, instinctive, System One thinking…
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Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit
blog.google · 31 points · Discussion
Today, our prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX. Our team has confirmed contact…
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Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc
byzantine-systems.github.io · 30 points · Discussion
I’ve stumbled across a method of composing programs that excites me very much. In fact, my enthusiasm is so great that I must warn the reader to discount much of what I shall say as the ravings of a…
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Muse Gadgets
gadgets.muse.ai · 26 points · Discussion
Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself. Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators,…
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Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
github.com · 26 points · Discussion
Hi there:-) New on HN, first time posting. Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and Claude generate source code in LDraw language. This LDraw is literally an…
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The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's
onlineonly.christies.com · 21 points · Discussion
[WAITZMAN, David and the BERGEN LINUX USER GROUP.] One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149. Small scroll of paper, 41 x 210 mm. Rolling creases visible from when attached…
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What if we stopped using GPUs? [video]
youtube.com · 20 points · Discussion
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"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)
greenend.org.uk · 19 points · Discussion
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned. This is usually attributed to one Bruce Ediger (though at least one person thought it was originally said by Steve Jobs, a…
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STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)
en.wikipedia.org · 19 points · Discussion
Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing its flight path in real time in response to an engine failure during ascent). The…
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Everyone's Packing Up
widdershins.verja.net · 9 points · Discussion
Thoughts 💭 of Widdershins Home Blog Ethos RSS 01 Oct, 2026 I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others…
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Zig v0.17.0
ziglang.org · 7 points · Discussion
Download & Documentation Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. Zig development is funded via Zig Software Foundation, a…
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Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web
royapakzad.substack.com · 6 points · Discussion
I’m a technology and human rights researcher. For the past few years, one of my focuses has been the question of how language shapes the ways we benefit from, or are harmed by, AI. I developed an…