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Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

misterchocolat — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973598

Points: 130

# Comments: 170

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

jgx0 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971921

Points: 189

# Comments: 106

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

rdmuser — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:46:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846

Points: 391

# Comments: 285

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

ibobev — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:30:02 +0000

Article URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971719

Points: 136

# Comments: 67

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

01-_- — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:05:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971523

Points: 183

# Comments: 28

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

ishan0102 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:40:50 +0000

Article URL: https://flattensf.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971230

Points: 172

# Comments: 58

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

E-Reverance — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:15:07 +0000

Article URL: https://qlabs.sh/research/dust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970871

Points: 154

# Comments: 36

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

outlier99 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:00:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970667

Points: 311

# Comments: 203

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

Philpax — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:16:35 +0000

Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183

Points: 410

# Comments: 127

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

Vosporos — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:23:47 +0000

Article URL: https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965308

Points: 152

# Comments: 39

The lamps in my house

farslan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:12:14 +0000

Article URL: https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965152

Points: 177

# Comments: 82

Web Search API

tosh — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963171

Points: 528

# Comments: 241

Apple and a hacker's future

maguay — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:05:02 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962857

Points: 244

# Comments: 213

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

0xedb — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:46:10 +0000

https://archive.ph/Axpbl

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961861

Points: 187

# Comments: 124

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

emptybits — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html