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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Google▲ 1215

Gemini 4 Argon

Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.

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• Quantamagazine▲ 159

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

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• 56k.rip▲ 133

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

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• Matt Keeter▲ 108

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

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• EDG C++▲ 193

EDG C++ front-end goes public

On September 30, 2026, EDG

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• The Space Review▲ 186

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

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• Netlify▲ 143

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

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• Cryptography Engineering▲ 5

Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic…

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• GitHub17d ago

Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++

Yantra is a C++ parser generator: lexer, parser, and AST walker all generated from one tool. It builds the whole AST first, then walks it.Most LALR parser generators (Yacc, Bison, Lemon)…

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• Magnitude17d ago

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on your hardware. It works on Mac, Linux, and Windows…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Google▲ 1170

Gemini 4 Argon

Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.

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• GitHub (author unknown)▲ 888

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf

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• You said no MCP (author unknown)▲ 626

You said no MCP

Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.

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• Tom Wojcik▲ 487

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 382

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Funny how quiet everyone got.

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• Singapore government (author unknown)▲ 300

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏 FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and…

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• Sam Altman (author unknown)▲ 251

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

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