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| 31. | Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com) | |
| 446 points | 2026 | author kslambert showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for the comments everyone! There are many comments on the price point. I would like to comment on one thing. "$20k is too much" I agree $20k is an investment.…” | ||
| 32. | Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io) | |
| 423 points | 2026 | author popzxc showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 33. | Mac at any scale (namespace.so) | |
| 421 points | 2026 | author nichtverstehen showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 34. | Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author wanick showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog. Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4),…” | ||
| 35. | How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed (kaba.cx) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author kabakabakaba showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“TLDR: on Oct 2, 333 exits (~10% of Tor exits) started redirecting port 22 to 12 interception servers running a paramiko-based MITM that stole passwords and tried to drop…” | ||
| 36. | Websites Should Be Printable (brennenputh.me) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author bagatelle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't personally use my phone to access websites often, so I forget to check on things like this. My bad! I'll take a look into it when I get a chance.” | ||
| 37. | I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com) | |
| 401 points | 2026 | author meliz242 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just discovered this thread after wondering why Hacker News was a linked views source to my silly little freezergate braindump. Wanted to offer a few clarifications: I’m…” | ||
| 38. | I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is) | |
| 399 points | 2026 | author pantelisk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was intentionally a little vague about this because this is kind of the thing that makes the whole approach work. An LLM predicts the next token. If you're trying to…” | ||
| 39. | 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com) | |
| 374 points | 2026 | author shahidhussain showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I bought this CD in 2011 and spent 15 years failing to find out who made it. The band charted at #47 on the UK Independent Singles Chart in June 2006, so it was a real,…” | ||
| 40. | Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com) | |
| 364 points | 2026 | author michaelmure showed up | their comment | thread
“nice to see some interest :-) FYI, this is my near-term roadmap: - have the webui accept external auth (like github oauth) so that it can be a public portal and accept…” | ||
| 41. | I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev) | |
| 359 points | 2026 | author Aeroi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah the System Files are in the ios app, but what it sent me was the entire runtime as well. from the root.” | ||
| 42. | Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio) | |
| 354 points | 2026 | author jagiii showed up | their comment | thread
“good digging! I added the MIT license. Getting 5-fold symmetry to work was tricky, but the repo you found has the processing sketch where I figured it out. I basically…” | ||
| 43. | Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com) | |
| 353 points | 2026 | author casualphysics showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“i have no view on the toxicity of tartrazine other than its declared food safe. its important to note though that there is no mystery or chemical nastiness behind the…” | ||
| 44. | AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com) | |
| 352 points | 2026 | author PaulMorel showed up | their comment | thread
“I like your comment. I wanted to answer your question. I wrote a tool at Meta to use AI to solve all those issues at scale. I don't necessarily think it really solves…” | ||
| 45. | How to write an effective software design document (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 351 points | 2026 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any feedback about this post. I learned to write design docs at Microsoft and Google, and I thought they both had good culture around docs that hasn't…” | ||
| 46. | I am often wrong (borischerny.com) | |
| 345 points | 2026 | author bcherny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This isn’t the one true framework, but it is the one I use. The goal of this post was to communicate to the team the way I think. There are many ways to think and there…” | ||
| 47. | My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com) | |
| 341 points | 2026 | author jakeasmith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. I never imagined a polyfill for http_build_url would gain so much traction. After 12 years, deprecating it feels like the right move,…” | ||
| 48. | The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr) | |
| 340 points | 2026 | author megalomanu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. This post isn't meant as a lesson or a judgment, something to tell "just shut up and adapt like my ancestor did". The situation is hard, and…” | ||
| 49. | My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini (lws.io) | |
| 336 points | 2026 | author phazonoverload showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“hello! I talk about it in the blog post - knowing what's being run, knowing where it's being run, and not having anyone else control it.” | ||
| 50. | Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap (blog.liampwll.com) | |
| 327 points | 2026 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“Bend1 indeed has no significant active userbase I don't think that means it was "unsuccessful" in the sense you imply, though, because the project was never meant to be…” | ||
| 51. | Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs) | |
| 318 points | 2026 | author nullpt_rs showed up | their comment | thread
“hi! author here, please let me know if you have any questions :-)” | ||
| 52. | Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) (github.com) | |
| 317 points | 2026 | author costco showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I submitted this a few days ago but seems like it was added to the second chance pool so now it’s on the front page. Anyways, I have received a report from a user that…” | ||
| 53. | An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights (jacob.gold) | |
| 308 points | 2026 | author jacobgold showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a law, so nobody has to agree to anything. If want to sell access to a model, you have to open the weights. It's Dario's plan that depends on every lab in the world…” | ||
| 54. | Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (blog.cloudflare.com) | |
| 297 points | 2026 | author necubi showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 55. | First Principles Thinking (sunilsadasivan.com) | |
| 288 points | 2026 | author sunils34 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Original author here. ^ bingo.” | ||
| 56. | A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com) | |
| 287 points | 2026 | author westsmith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this after a few weeks of experimenting with image models through APIs, mostly to work out what’s actually cheap and reliable. Every image in it came from those…” | ||
| 57. | Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com) | |
| 286 points | 2026 | author stared showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“with AI for proofreading (typos and grammar, but not style). There were a few singular sentences for which I had a writer's block, but not much besides that. So, if…” | ||
| 58. | Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model (strandsagents.com) | |
| 286 points | 2026 | author mjb showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yes, at this size (2B) you can get better performance and calibration fine tuning on your questions. You can also improve calibration on your problem type just be…” | ||
| 59. | I built a programming language that LLMs can't use (blog.picheta.me) | |
| 284 points | 2026 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post so that more people would see the language and benchmark. The goal was to create a language that would trick LLMs and I was genuinely curious how…” | ||
| 60. | GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 281 points | 2026 | author hermitcrab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I initially reported it as an imitation. A few days later I added evidence that it was malware.” | ||
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