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Score 60."},{"id":"877b6a2d3449","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Hypit (≈ YouTube)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Ahypit-ai%2Fhypit","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source tool that clones popular YouTube ranking videos by analyzing their structure and letting users swap in new content. Score 45."},{"id":"43a788ec700b","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: WinMemoryCleaner (≈ Memory cleaner utilities)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116721474900017530","d":1793534400000,"s":"A lightweight Windows memory cleaner that calls built-in system APIs to trim memory with optional automatic thresholds. Score 54."},{"id":"f547607c9607","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: XDM (≈ Xtreme Download Manager)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116714391517499624","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source download manager offering multi-threaded downloads, resume, and browser takeover as a replacement for a paid tool. Score 54."},{"id":"d36d0643a01b","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: FluentCleaner (≈ CCleaner)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Abuiltbybel%2Ffluentcleaner","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source, transparent Windows system cleaner positioned as a modern take on CCleaner without spyware, upsells, or dark patterns. Score 50."},{"id":"9422f36684e9","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Nutlope/bygga (≈ IKEA assembly instructions)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116677095703142831","d":1793534400000,"s":"An interactive 3D assembly guide that replaces IKEA's paper manuals, with step-by-step instructions by product name or article number. Score 48."},{"id":"4951102b2643","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: OpenCursor (≈ Cursor)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Anoah-thing%2Fopen-cursor","d":1793534400000,"s":"🆕 New & untested → ⭐ Proven on GitHub. A reverse-engineered, open-source rebuild of Cursor that supports 18 built-in free models or the user's existing AI tools. Score 31."},{"id":"11da8a97be37","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Carboxyl (≈ Carbonyl)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116642454606913754","d":1793534400000,"s":"A community fork of Carbonyl that renders web pages in the terminal, now built on Servo instead of patched Chromium. Score 49."},{"id":"1154a5eac14e","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: gamesexplained/gamesexplained (≈ Commodore 64 games)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2103097766234759345","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → 😐 Mixed. An open-source project to reverse-engineer every game, starting with the Commodore 64, so games can be recreated. Score 34."},{"id":"f0bd7e36488e","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: Orazio (≈ TradingView)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2104108483994128471","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → 😐 Mixed. A local, private, open-source TradingView alternative for Indian markets called Orazio was built. Score 32."},{"id":"7448d8786d1f","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: OSPK/Dockman (≈ macOS Dock)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2064763960683909550","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → 😐 Mixed. The author vibe-coded a replacement dock for macOS that works better on multi-monitor setups. Score 30."},{"id":"6166d75342bf","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: rishiteja21/ByTune (≈ Spotify)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2114776457973297400","d":1793534400000,"s":"🆕 New & untested → ⭐ Proven on GitHub. An open-source Spotify alternative that streams music and plays local files with synced lyrics and no ads. Score 28."},{"id":"decf901bf565","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: satyam7409/purplexity (≈ Perplexity)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2069361046079549506","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → 😐 Mixed. A Perplexity-style AI search clone built in two hours with a self-designed backend and vibe-coded frontend. Score 27."},{"id":"25312454d835","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: mjonrdgcms/classic-image-editor (≈ Adobe Photoshop)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2113895818105376812","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → 😐 Mixed. A free Photoshop alternative with versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. Score 24."},{"id":"59b116b66383","f":"5f404632","t":"☠️ Don't touch: debpalash/VoiceStudioIts (≈ ElevenLabs)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116739220102345131","d":1793534400000,"s":"A shared open-source tool that runs voice cloning, voice design, and dubbing locally as an alternative to ElevenLabs. Score 0."},{"id":"863a5d62fb36","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Kdenlive (≈ Adobe Premiere Pro)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Akde%2Fkdenlive","d":1793534400000,"s":"Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks Score 68."},{"id":"b67c8ade85e9","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Shotcut (≈ Adobe Premiere Pro)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Amltframework%2Fshotcut","d":1793534400000,"s":"cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor Score 77."},{"id":"667fe004d855","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: OBS Studio (≈ XSplit Broadcaster, Streamlabs)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Aobsproject%2Fobs-studio","d":1793534400000,"s":"OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording Score 86."},{"id":"4be9cb0105c3","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Audacity (≈ Adobe Audition)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Aaudacity%2Faudacity","d":1793534400000,"s":"Audio Editor Score 78."},{"id":"e0d6db6e2b58","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: LMMS (≈ FL Studio)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Almms%2Flmms","d":1793534400000,"s":"Cross-platform music production software Score 67."},{"id":"6f1440624c85","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: MuseScore (≈ Sibelius)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Amusescore%2Fmusescore","d":1793534400000,"s":"MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests! Score 73."},{"id":"47bb844e652d","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Jellyfin (≈ Plex Pass)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Ajellyfin%2Fjellyfin","d":1793534400000,"s":"The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API Score 80."},{"id":"ac1b3caaae14","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: GIMP (≈ Adobe Photoshop)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Agnome%2Fgimp","d":1793534400000,"s":"Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp Score 69."},{"id":"8b89ee1b6a66","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Krita (≈ Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Akde%2Fkrita","d":1793534400000,"s":"Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks. Score 71."},{"id":"620ac464ab7e","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Graphite (≈ Adobe Illustrator)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Agraphiteeditor%2Fgraphite","d":1793534400000,"s":"Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine Score 76."},{"id":"7c649c089c33","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Blender (≈ Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Ablender%2Fblender","d":1793534400000,"s":"Official mirror of Blender Score 75."},{"id":"bba6cd0a8fd0","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: darktable (≈ Adobe Lightroom)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Adarktable-org%2Fdarktable","d":1793534400000,"s":"darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer Score 73."},{"id":"5fde0925c7d5","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Penpot (≈ Figma)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Apenpot%2Fpenpot","d":1793534400000,"s":"Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration. Score 81."},{"id":"d6a2ca06394b","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: FreeCAD (≈ Autodesk Fusion, SolidWorks)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Afreecad%2Ffreecad","d":1793534400000,"s":"Official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Score 78."},{"id":"47abe612847f","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: KiCad (≈ Altium Designer)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Akicad%2Fkicad-source-mirror","d":1793534400000,"s":"This is an active mirror of the KiCad development branch, which is hosted at GitLab (updated every time something is pushed). Pull requests on GitHub are not accepted or watched. Score 65."},{"id":"eb9c66f44168","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: LibreOffice (≈ Microsoft Office)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Alibreoffice%2Fcore","d":1793534400000,"s":"Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead Score 67."},{"id":"4dc46e3c90b5","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Stirling-PDF (≈ Adobe Acrobat)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Astirling-tools%2Fstirling-pdf","d":1793534400000,"s":"#1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere Score 83."},{"id":"4293fdfb8dba","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: AppFlowy (≈ Notion)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Aappflowy-io%2Fappflowy","d":1793534400000,"s":"Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative. Score 78."},{"id":"b0c1b876d660","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Joplin (≈ Evernote)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Alaurent22%2Fjoplin","d":1793534400000,"s":"Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Score 80."},{"id":"fddc0e787b52","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Logseq (≈ Roam Research)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Alogseq%2Flogseq","d":1793534400000,"s":"A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV Score 79."},{"id":"42cb55635787","f":"5f404632","t":"🏛️ Established open-source: Zotero (≈ EndNote)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=est%3Azotero%2Fzotero","d":1793534400000,"s":"Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources. Score 73."},{"id":"91c7c980e826","f":"5f404632","t":"❤️ Loved: Duodesk (≈ TeamViewer/AnyDesk)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3A0xcodez%2Fduodesk","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → ❤️ Loved. A free, open-source tool that shares one mouse and keyboard and clipboard across a Windows PC and a MacBook, reverse-engineering the features of TeamViewer and AnyDesk. Score 65."},{"id":"51cb77b033be","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: 1Remote (≈ Remote Desktop Manager)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116775292928950759","d":1793534400000,"s":"A free portable connection manager for RDP, SSH, VNC and other protocols with encrypted credential storage. Score 45."},{"id":"e03f391555e8","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: KillerPDF (≈ Adobe Acrobat)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116795676155953261","d":1793534400000,"s":"A free open-source Windows PDF editor offering text editing, OCR, conversion, and compression. Score 44."},{"id":"2e69a7b5fce0","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: qView (≈ IrfanView)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116801211131465804","d":1793534400000,"s":"A minimal open-source image viewer supporting many formats with zoom, page navigation, and archive browsing. Score 43."},{"id":"3a184a0b3c49","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: TomatoBar (≈ Pomodoro timer apps)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116788885586145747","d":1793534400000,"s":"A free open-source macOS menu bar Pomodoro timer with customizable intervals and notifications. Score 43."},{"id":"d4b4a417a485","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: DeskHop (≈ KVM switches)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116783344793063499","d":1793534400000,"s":"A low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico setup that shares one mouse and keyboard across two computers with clipboard sync. Score 45."},{"id":"c4546553d7f0","f":"5f404632","t":"❤️ Loved: Supernova Launcher (≈ Nova Launcher)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Atanujnotes%2Fsupernova","d":1793534400000,"s":"😐 Mixed → ❤️ Loved. An open-source alternative to Nova Launcher in development. Score 51."},{"id":"73c147f26a66","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: qwerty-learner (≈ Baicizhan (百词斩))","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116804243676086296","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source web version of a vocabulary-learning app with typing practice, review queues, and imported word lists. Score 45."},{"id":"f2a8961b2464","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: markmap (≈ MindManager)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116780579568201882","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source tool that renders Markdown outlines as interactive mind maps. Score 45."},{"id":"1e49fce5ac48","f":"5f404632","t":"☠️ Don't touch: luci-theme-dashboard (≈ LuCI)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Asoftstaticx%2Fluci-theme-dashboard","d":1793534400000,"s":"🆕 New & untested → ☠️ Don't touch. A from-scratch LuCI theme with a live dashboard for OpenWrt 25.12, featuring an icon rail, tabs, Ctrl+K search, and light and dark modes. Score 0."},{"id":"57be08503bf5","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Sunshine (≈ Steam Link / Moonlight game streaming boxes)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116763211374698740","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source game streaming server paired with Moonlight clients for low-latency 4K/HDR streaming. Score 45."},{"id":"23998e81832e","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: KeymouseGo (≈ Key mapping / macro recorders (Key Ninja style))","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116757675304452593","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source mouse and keyboard macro recorder with adjustable speed, repeat counts and editable text scripts. Score 45."},{"id":"63724dffbc3a","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: P2P (≈ TeamViewer)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116747356238692808","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source, single-file remote desktop tool with direct peer-to-peer connections as an alternative to commercial remote access software. Score 44."},{"id":"010209fca400","f":"5f404632","t":"❤️ Loved: joeblau/subvox (≈ subvocal)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Ajoeblau%2Fsubvox","d":1793534400000,"s":"The author recreated the subvocal app for AirPods Pro 3 in nine minutes using a single prompt. Score 56."},{"id":"e4a47f6115c4","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: MouseClickTool (≈ Auto clicker tools)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116761702712983922","d":1793534400000,"s":"A lightweight portable auto-clicker with millisecond intervals, hotkeys and fixed or cursor-following positions. Score 38."},{"id":"c0c4377a9acd","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: Lightpanda (≈ Google Chrome headless)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=name%3Alightpanda","d":1793534400000,"s":"🆕 New & untested → 😐 Mixed. Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation, not a Chromium fork. Score 55."},{"id":"ceda97deb6e1","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: amazing-qr (≈ Online QR code generators with watermarks)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116770511883755897","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source QR code generator supporting logos, animated GIF codes and local output without watermarks. Score 45."},{"id":"688e9877e519","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: FreshRSS (≈ Feedly)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116754657347502406","d":1793534400000,"s":"A self-hostable PHP RSS reader with unlimited feeds, multi-user support and OPML import/export. Score 45."},{"id":"27fb5daa87e2","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: OpenIDEA (≈ IDE)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=repo%3Al0ng-ai%2Fopenidea","d":1793534400000,"s":"An IDE rebuilt in Rust, keeping the familiar IDE experience. Score 67."},{"id":"bb4421a6861b","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: eSearch (≈ Snipaste)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116861360583954763","d":1793534400000,"s":"An open-source, free screenshot tool for Windows, Mac and Linux with OCR, translation, image search, pinning and screen recording in one window. Score 54."},{"id":"4ce54a4c549e","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Cardinal (≈ Spotlight)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116862099662205200","d":1793534400000,"s":"A file search tool for Mac offering fuzzy, wildcard and regex matching with extension and size filters and a global hotkey. Score 51."},{"id":"5a4238020f09","f":"5f404632","t":"⭐ Proven on GitHub: Folio-OCR (≈ Adobe Acrobat OCR)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116854582861337063","d":1793534400000,"s":"Score 42."},{"id":"9f6047ecd4e9","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: BBRouter (≈ Ben Eater's 8-bit computer breadboard build)","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=hn%3A50321522","d":1793534400000,"s":"🆕 New & untested → 😐 Mixed. A browser-based 3D virtual breadboard editor for simulating and building Ben Eater's 8-bit computer. Score 37."},{"id":"321a03a28080","f":"5f404632","t":"😐 Mixed: HarmonyRecomp (≈ Castlevania (Xbox 360))","l":"https://flattery.sala.company/#p=2116859044895805938","d":1793534400000,"s":"A tool that translates the Xbox 360 Castlevania game's PowerPC code into native x86-64 C++ so it runs on PC with online co-op. Score 35."},{"id":"c576a420362c","f":"3f05af4b","t":"Shops looted as German cost-of-living protests turn violent","l":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj34gnd3n30o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss","d":1793534268000,"s":"The protests in cities across Germany - including Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt - came on the same day hundreds of thousands also protested in France.","i":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/0ace/live/3e4ef120-d5d4-11f1-8629-7b9503d639be.jpg"},{"id":"e5f2f0964c6e","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M","l":"https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-french-electronics-retailer-fnac-darty-fined-eu7-million","d":1793531835000,"s":"Article URL: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-french-electronics-retailer-fnac-darty-fined-eu7-million Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324533 Points: 37 # Comments: 5","a":"latexr"},{"id":"f3fd5c4ecb1d","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes","l":"https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/","d":1793530078000,"s":"Article URL: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324388 Points: 591 # Comments: 330","a":"giuliomagnifico"},{"id":"abe120150b7e","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)","l":"","d":1793529860000,"s":"Article URL: https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324371 Points: 32 # Comments: 25","a":"n_plus_1_acc"},{"id":"37cfe4fbcdaf","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers","l":"https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization","d":1793528902000,"s":"Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324267 Points: 26 # Comments: 21","a":"78"},{"id":"7701dde07449","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income","l":"https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/10/29/a-tiny-pacific-country-rolls-out-universal-basic-income","d":1793527509000,"s":"Article URL: https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/10/29/a-tiny-pacific-country-rolls-out-universal-basic-income Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324118 Points: 85 # Comments: 72","a":"motionlessveloc"},{"id":"7f3ead22e2a1","f":"3f05af4b","t":"India's opposition holds mega rally seeking election chief's resignation","l":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60qk92dvlwgo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss","d":1793516455000,"s":"Thousands gathered in the heart of delhi, calling for the chief election commissioner to step down.","i":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/ab52/live/e490a850-d5d2-11f1-8629-7b9503d639be.jpg"},{"id":"394f963064db","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Pac-Man's Siren Call","l":"https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/","d":1793514589000,"s":"Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323187 Points: 9 # Comments: 3","a":"tobr"},{"id":"48e94bcef4cf","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks","l":"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/","d":1793513179000,"s":"Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088 Points: 178 # Comments: 118","a":"luu"},{"id":"8c5c04456195","f":"3f05af4b","t":"Democrats are used to heartbreak in Texas - 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Some of the nice features are side-by-side diff, scope, schematics auto-sync, auto-router (BBRouter stands for breadboard router), and my favorites: upload from the real Ardui","a":"creack"},{"id":"6feac0821b9a","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem","l":"https://emarzion.github.io/KSRT/","d":1793490921000,"s":"Article URL: https://emarzion.github.io/KSRT/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321436 Points: 15 # Comments: 1","a":"mkckto"},{"id":"37669d9a6045","f":"d1c587ec","t":"How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/31/how-we-took-over-chatgpt-accounts/","d":1793488522000,"s":"How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this \"Canvas\" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML previews ), where interactive custom HTML apps are dis"},{"id":"94c5eeca4858","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"When electric cars were for women","l":"https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles","d":1793488092000,"s":"Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/early-electric-vehicles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321130 Points: 57 # Comments: 39","a":"dverlaeckt80"},{"id":"523919ea2b78","f":"3f05af4b","t":"I've been stuck on a tiny Pacific island for years and can't get a transit visa to fly home","l":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq5npz5l5geo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss","d":1793487973000,"s":"Ruchira Ranasingha, 50, has been stranded in the Cook Islands since 2023 and wants to return to Sri Lanka.","i":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/ef77/live/2c7e9f50-d5ec-11f1-bfdd-73f39e6db31d.jpg"},{"id":"cf749945c411","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Altoids Project","l":"https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/","d":1793487295000,"s":"Article URL: https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321048 Points: 136 # Comments: 7","a":"uvdn7"},{"id":"d39fa8eb6bd5","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard","l":"https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve","d":1793486772000,"s":"Article URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Points: 334 # Comments: 165","a":"guregodevo"},{"id":"a2371cad7a8a","f":"e3d7bc9a","t":"An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them","l":"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/","d":1793486466000,"s":"Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 590 # Comments: 173","a":"ecares"},{"id":"98ec6b26df42","f":"d1c587ec","t":"datasette-llm 0.1a9","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/31/datasette-llm/","d":1793484601000,"s":"Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. 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Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brie","i":"https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/cds/apod/apod/2026/october/CepheusFlare_Tondinelli.jpg?w=2048&h=1391&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"},{"id":"10af230b57fa","f":"91cfba51","t":"Vega Island Frozen in Fright","l":"https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/vega-island-frozen-in-fright/","d":1793332860000,"s":"Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Vega Island Frozen in Fright Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Co","i":"https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/esd/eo/images/iotd/2026/vega-island-frozen-in-fright/vegaislandzm_oli2_20250322.jpg"},{"id":"e2eea87da884","f":"91cfba51","t":"Map Showing Potential Origins of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001","l":"https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/map-showing-potential-origins-of-martian-meteorite-teghaza-001/","d":1793318859000,"s":"1 Min Read Map Showing Potential Origins of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 PIA26802 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Map Showing Potential Origins… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Download","i":"https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/psd/photojournal/pia/pia26/pia26802/PIA26802.jpg?w=1536&h=770&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"},{"id":"9d79c90d46cc","f":"8c469fd3","t":"Earth Sized Planets","l":"https://xkcd.com/3318/","d":1793318400000,"s":"","i":"https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_sized_planets.png"},{"id":"1405955178dc","f":"91cfba51","t":"Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001","l":"https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/slice-of-martian-meteorite-teghaza-001/","d":1793316755000,"s":"1 Min Read Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 PIA26801 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Slice of Martian Meteorite… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads Slice of Martian Meteorite Teg","i":"https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/psd/photojournal/pia/pia26/pia26801/PIA26801.jpg?w=1536&h=1186&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"},{"id":"8a680e5d4fe9","f":"d1c587ec","t":"API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/api-credits/","d":1793314109000,"s":"API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic "},{"id":"43fa9fc5c615","f":"09cc00c5","t":"Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says","l":"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-eventually-ceo-confirms/","d":1793310477000,"s":"In the future, you won’t be able to use Reddit without logging in. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the impending change in a letter (PDF) to shareholders today about Q3 performance. He said that Reddit is shifting “to a logged-in-only experience,\" adding: Moving to primarily l","i":"https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/reddit-icon-1152x648-1752522571.jpg","a":"Scharon Harding"},{"id":"5bbc922f84bb","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/how-i-built-the-most-ai-pilled-company-in-the-world/","d":1793293226000,"s":"How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier model","i":"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-10-29/IMG_9406.webp"},{"id":"d92baec554a4","f":"5eea3e83","t":"How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?","l":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/","d":1793286717000,"s":"Black holes are one of the universe&rsquo;s most exotic and elusive objects. When nothing, not even light, can escape their powerful gravitational grasp, taking a picture of one seems unimaginable. But an image of a black hole, or more accurately its shadow, could offer insights ","i":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/JOW-S5-E11-cr.Chanelle-Nibbelink-Default-NO-LOGO.webp","a":"Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz"},{"id":"2fe6dff071d9","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Quoting Ben Hylak","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/ben-hylak/","d":1793282787000,"s":"every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're special that way. &mdash; Ben Hylak Tags: mode"},{"id":"5794a156e6dd","f":"33e64987","t":"Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4-1-1","d":1793281027000,"s":""},{"id":"6fd71ace9273","f":"33e64987","t":"Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/announcing-project-protostar","d":1793232000000,"s":""},{"id":"79f1520c2291","f":"33e64987","t":"Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/mistral-large4","d":1793232000000,"s":""},{"id":"0b3fca63e14b","f":"33e64987","t":"Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/anydecisionmodel","d":1793232000000,"s":""},{"id":"58b68fea2ca6","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Quoting Ted Sanders","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/28/ted-sanders/","d":1793229801000,"s":"In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a single variable: "},{"id":"be1779424ecd","f":"d1c587ec","t":"GitHub Octoverse 2026","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/28/github-octoverse-2026/","d":1793205923000,"s":"GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their \"GitHub Stars\" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the impact of ","i":"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/github-numbers.jpg"},{"id":"c6671a517fd7","f":"5eea3e83","t":"How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material","l":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/","d":1793203458000,"s":"A spider, when knocked off a wall, doesn&rsquo;t fall for long. Within milliseconds, it spins a soup of proteins into sturdy climbing gear. Using a thin, shimmering strand of silk, the spider hauls itself back up. 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In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer use: We’re introducing GPT-6.1 Terra , a fast, efficient model that combines detaile","i":"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-10-26/terra-max.webp"},{"id":"a61a25cf5019","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Quoting Jason Koebler","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/26/jason-koebler/","d":1793041225000,"s":"Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have normal tech support"},{"id":"db9f5c667adf","f":"d1c587ec","t":"webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/26/webframe-evaluation/","d":1793031300000,"s":"Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you \"run a web page like a program\" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs console.log() to standard outpu"},{"id":"8c55d19ed18a","f":"5eea3e83","t":"How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle","l":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-voting-is-like-a-klein-bottle-20261026/","d":1793026469000,"s":"Mathematically speaking, democracy is next to impossible. That may sound like the premise of a Silicon Valley billionaire&rsquo;s six-hour podcast, but it&rsquo;s actually a statement about a remarkably stubborn problem: How do you translate a group of individual preferences into","i":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CondorcetTopology-crKristinaArmitage-Default.webp","a":"Alex Stone"},{"id":"9e00fe51dd9d","f":"8c469fd3","t":"Siege Engine","l":"https://xkcd.com/3316/","d":1792972800000,"s":"","i":"https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/siege_engine.png"},{"id":"14df42c4a57c","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Seam Cutter","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/25/seam-cutter/","d":1792941019000,"s":"Tool: Seam Cutter I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effectively it lets you crop out a section in the middle of an image. 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Via flir on Hacker News Tags: music , ai , generative"},{"id":"5680a396ed01","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills/","d":1792692596000,"s":"Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founde"},{"id":"26c09cbaf6ef","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Quoting Armin Ronacher","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/armin-ronacher/","d":1792683253000,"s":"As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. &mdash; Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms"},{"id":"141dc5592029","f":"33e64987","t":"Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/granite-timeseries-ensemble-r1","d":1792655491000,"s":""},{"id":"3c76dd9d0377","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/php-security-release/","d":1792608113000,"s":"Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there have been exploits circulating since last night, t"},{"id":"3abc2146b447","f":"33e64987","t":"How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/vocabx-vocabulary-specialization","d":1792604136000,"s":""},{"id":"e211064d71ca","f":"d1c587ec","t":"Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/panache/","d":1792599916000,"s":"Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork by Gabriel Turpin which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an animated intro! P","i":"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/battledrones-french.jpg"},{"id":"72d911cc4e8f","f":"33e64987","t":"Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.","l":"https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/profiling-torchneuron-part-1","d":1792598683000,"s":""},{"id":"4004d73d17f6","f":"d1c587ec","t":"eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise","l":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/emudhra-certificates/","d":1792540225000,"s":"eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores. 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