It's 2026-10-05. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model | comment
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects | comment
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons | comment
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists | comment
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates | comment
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia | comment
Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have | comment
Gemini 4 Argon | comment
Pi 1.0 | comment
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | comment
Extra Big Ass Intelligence | comment
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back | comment
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP | comment
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art | comment
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows | comment
Apple Pass Designer | comment
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' | comment
Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data | comment
RIP, vector database | comment
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta | comment
Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch | comment
Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague | comment
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage | comment
Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones | comment
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields | comment
Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation | comment
Pi Durable | comment
A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal | comment
We ported the original Doom to SQL | comment
Shimano Bicycle Museum Review | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Claude Opus 5.5 | comment
GPT-6 Sol and Luna | comment
Gemini 4 Argon | comment
F-Droid 2.0 | comment
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock | comment
When did Google get so weird? | comment
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | comment
Pi 1.0 | comment
Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS | comment
Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy | comment
Sonnet 5.5 | comment
I said no and Apple said yes | comment
DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers | comment
OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News | comment
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats | comment
Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard | comment
Dots: Always-on agents | comment
Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta | comment
I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband | comment
Windows 11½ | comment
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | comment
Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school | comment
Jev in 25 Lines of Python | comment
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | comment
Pirating the Pirates | comment
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees | comment
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner | comment
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity | comment
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk | comment
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock | comment
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