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I post trained a model on Demoscenes

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

A blog writeup describing how the author post-trained an autoregressive language model to autocomplete and remix 140-character JavaScript 'Dweets' from Dwitter.net, inspired by classic demoscene sizecoding effects like HellMood's 'Memories'.

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Show HN: Jointter – A daily word puzzle using dots and lines

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Show HN: Jointter is a daily web-based word puzzle where players deduce a 7-letter word hidden in a pattern of dots and lines, with 5 attempts and difficulty scaling from Monday to Sunday.

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Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Enlightenment 0.28 已发布,带来近两年积累的改进,包括初步 NetBSD 支持、NetworkManager 模块、原生 PipeWire 混音支持,以及大量窗口管理和底层修复。

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A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

A/SIDE 是一款主打私密的社交应用,提供好友间的照片分享、无算法的按时间排序信息流以及端到端加密的私信,代码开源并采用独立托管,免费版含30天历史,Pro 版每年20美元。

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What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, will become the first human-made object to travel one light-day (about 16 billion miles) from Earth on Nov. 18, 2026. The article explains light-distance measurements and notes Voyager 1 is headed toward star AC+79 3888, passing within 1.7 light-years in 40,000 years.

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Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

An open-source USB-C LTE modem board that gives a computer its own phone line — LTE data, SMS, and voice calls with call audio over USB — designed by Koppar from a one-page spec and fully documented with KiCad files, gerbers, and assembly instructions.

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Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

前Meta研究员Stephen Roller在法庭证词中承认在职期间通过BitTorrent下载并分发了盗版Books3数据集,该数据集被用于训练Llama模型,尽管Meta此前否认通过BitTorrent获取该数据集。Meta回应称该下载可能是为个人用途,而原告计划要求法院进一步查明Meta获取和使用该数据集的详情。

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Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Cisco Talos researchers detail VOLTA-AUTODOXER, a self-deleting Windows infostealer that uses LLMs via OpenRouter to analyze stolen credentials and rank victim assets by monetization value, with a multi-model failover chain (Claude Opus 4.6, Kimi K2, Gemini 2.5 Flash) to bypass model guardrails.

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Gemini Code vs. Claude Code – A cautionary post-mortem ($800 in 12h)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31

A cautionary post-mortem comparing Gemini Code and Claude Code, detailing how usage costs spiraled to $800 in just 12 hours and what went wrong during real-world agent use.

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Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31

A retired professor was arrested for blocking a delivery robot's path and says they will repeat the act, highlighting growing public friction over sidewalk robots in cities.

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Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

bootgpt 是一个完全容纳在 510 字节 MBR 中的神经网络运行时,加载下一扇区的 11.5KB int8 量化字符级模型,在 386 的 16 位实模式下无操作系统运行,用于在开机时生成虚构的 Linux 启动日志。

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Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

nullprogram 介绍并开源了 Prospero——一个用 C++ 和 Dear ImGui 编写的轻量级 AI 编码 harness,资源占用比现有方案低约两个数量级,支持子代理、无头部署与桌面控制能力。

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French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

French lawmakers debated and approved a proposed €0.055 per gigabyte tax on digital data flows emitted by content providers, estimated to raise €10 billion, aimed at major US and Asian tech giants while proponents claim it respects net neutrality.

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We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Parameter Labs researchers disclosed a cross-frame message passing flaw that chained ChatGPT's HTML Preview sandbox with MathLive's unvalidated postMessage listener, letting a shared conversation run attacker JavaScript in a victim's signed-in session and take over their account. OpenAI fixed the P1 issue on October 26, and no user action beyond opening the link was required.

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Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

The Molly fork of Signal has not been updated in three months and remains vulnerable to security flaws already patched in mainline Signal, prompting recommendations to switch back to the official Signal app.

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One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

A Nature Energy paper examining one-minute frequency disturbances arising from synchronization in power systems.

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Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31

A developer rebuilt their old canvas-based 3D library as phoria2, a small WebGL 2 library for 3D rendering in the browser, shared as a Show HN project.

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How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

OSnews discusses Raymond Chen's blog post about how long a PC power button must be held to force a shutdown, questioning why Microsoft's 8-second kernel dump timing seems inconsistent with the typical 4-5 second ATX force-off behavior.

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Digital Minimalism

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Vitalik Buterin reflects on the toxicity of social media platforms like X and argues for "digital minimalism" — being intentional about how we engage with digital technology rather than being sucked in by default — while sharing personal experiments in reducing his digital consumption.

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First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-31 Cached

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite has returned its first-ever AI response from a data-center-class TPU in orbit, successfully generating a haiku using the onboard Gemma 4 open model during a ground-station pass. The milestone is a step toward evaluating TPU performance under space conditions ahead of a planned twin-satellite mission in 2027.

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