507 Mechanical Movements

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The website has some working animations, but not all 507 are complete. Users can browse completed animations by color thumbnails and subscribe to updates on progress.

Software engineering is about managing complexity

AI is being used to confuse software engineering with writing code, but they are distinct concepts. Building software requires deciding on instructions, interactions, constraints and tradeoffs that affect the system's evolution.
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Uefa is preparing criminal charges against Fifa president Gianni Infantino over a scrapped plan to sell World Cup stakes to private investors. Uefa accuses Infantino of "criminal mismanagement" and claims he would have profited from the deal at the expense of football's governing body and its members.

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

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A 25 cm open-source biped robot is being pre-ordered for $399, shipping before Christmas 2026. The robot's source code and training data are available on GitHub, allowing users to customize and retrain it.

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face, a popular AI platform, for over $13 billion. The deal could give Nvidia a bigger foothold with developers and drive more workloads onto its chips.

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

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Emacs 31 has released a new markdown-ts-mode, an experimental mode that covers the CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown specs. The mode is feature-rich but still evolving, requiring users to opt-in by loading the library manually.

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem

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CoMaps is a free and open-source app that allows users to access navigation data on their smartwatches. It integrates with other FLOSS apps like Gadgetbridge and OpenVitals, respecting user privacy.

Launching Route 53 Files

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Route 53 Files is a new file system that connects AWS compute resources with Amazon's highest-availability database, allowing seamless editing of DNS records without additional steps. It enables shared access to hosted zones across teams and integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control.

Yayoi Kusama has died

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Yayoi Kusama, a renowned Japanese avant-garde artist known for her colorful polka dot-covered sculptures and installations, has died at 97. She was celebrated for her vibrant works that fetched high prices and drew large crowds worldwide.

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

Salem Robotics develops task-specific intelligence for mobile robots to carry out surveys and inspections in hazardous industrial facilities. They aim to automate repetitive physical execution tasks, combining AI and classical robotics approaches.

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

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The author argues that the current AI boom is similar to the 2006 housing market, where a large number of subprime mortgages were issued with adjustable interest rates that reset to much higher payments after an initial teaser period. The AI industry is now underwriting massive compute contracts with take-or-pay terms, which will reset in 2027-28 and may not be covered by revenue growth. This ...

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research recommends eight guiding principles to navigate the challenges and opportunities of generative AI. The committee emphasizes the importance of preserving human presence, collaboration, mentorship, and shared intellectual life in residential education.

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

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Suica, a Japanese IC card, was developed by Sony and JR East in the 1990s to improve train station efficiency. It uses FeliCa technology to process transactions locally on the card itself.

Trade (and Tariffs)

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Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

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Adentris, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring for a technical lead role to build an AI-powered compliance and revenue integrity infrastructure for behavioral health providers. The successful candidate will own the technical direction of the platform end-to-end and work closely with three founders daily.

Small Models Have Arrived

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The user discusses the capabilities and costs of gpt-5.6-luna, noting its speed and efficiency despite high costs. They highlight the shift in AI usage from expensive models to faster, cheaper alternatives for everyday tasks.

Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize

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Machines are now the majority of web content consumers, and AI agents will soon be the largest search engine users. A new benchmark called NEEDLE measures search engine quality for agentic traffic, which is different from human search queries.

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

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Restoredrill is a tool that proves PostgreSQL backups actually restore, providing a timestamped JSON report with checks for row counts, data freshness, and SQL assertions. It runs on schedule set by the recovery policy and can be used to demonstrate compliance with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 standards.

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days

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The original Snowboard Kids game has been fully decompiled, with all functions having matching C implementations that produce identical machine code to the original game. This was achieved through a collaborative effort involving several individuals and AI models.

French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

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The author is creating a Mitra-15 simulator in C, aiming to preserve computing history by emulating the 16-bit minicomputer's features and addressing modes. The project involves implementing RD, WD instructions for device communication and DRI disks using the suspension system.

Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration

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Spacecraft have historically relied on processors that prioritize survivability over performance. Engineers have long accepted this trade-off because space is an unforgiving environment. Radiation, extreme temperatures, vibration, and multi-year missions demand reliability levels commercial processors cannot provide. In May 2026, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

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MTurk is suitable for simple and repetitive tasks, freeing up internal staff to focus on higher-value activities. It offers a flexible platform to access thousands of on-demand workers, enabling businesses to efficiently manage labor and overhead costs.

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT

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View the live demoView the live demo Confession: I did not care much about football as recently as May. But by the time España lifted the trophy last month, I was watching matches I had no stake in, still unable to explain offside. Somewhere in one of those matches, I noticed what the picture on the screen sometimes did: the grassy pitch slides into one corner and scales down, and the space ...

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

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RealDiff is a tool that analyzes code changes by running base and proposed revisions, learning noise baselines, and reporting the first changed behavior in each call tree. It provides detailed findings on edited files, untested call sites, and assertion reactions.

Harness Engineering

Harness engineering is a practice surrounding AI-assisted code generation with deterministic tooling, agent-based review, and periodic entropy checks to maintain correct and coherent code over time. This framework helps teams enforce architectural constraints, detect mistakes, and improve the overall quality of their codebase.

Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food

With billions of people experiencing hunger in 2025 and unable to afford a healthy diet, food insecurity remains a critical global challenge…

Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85

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Canadian voice actor Peter Cullen, known for his roles as Optimus Prime and Eeyore, has died at 85. He had a long career in film, TV, and video games before passing away peacefully surrounded by family.

Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens

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Nvidia forecasts 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, projecting $673 billion in sales, driven by expanding AI demand beyond hyperscalers. The company highlights a broader customer base and strategic investments in financing and infrastructure to sustain growth.

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

PayPal's app has stopped working on GrapheneOS due to security policy violations, likely related to the use of NFC payments. The issue may be a result of PayPal's inability to verify and implement checks for custom ROMs like GrapheneOS.